New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

The human-neuroscience N2pc marker of covert and internal attention co-occurs with spatial biases in microsaccades, 200-300 ms after prompted to shift attention. (How) are these empirical phenomena related? Check it out in the latest work led by @baiweiliu.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Our latest study showing how humans look into working memory to verify potential search targets - literally. Now out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social. Check out the article here:
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...

In 2023, I proposed that microsaccades may predominantly track shifting but not maintaining covert visual-spatial attention: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... In a project led by Anna van Harmelen, we now provide empirical support for this: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Looking for a summer read? Look no further! ☀️

Our most recent paper with Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social and @kianobre.bsky.social is out @plosbiology.org! 🪩

Sensory and motor working-memory contents are both prioritised dynamically, but their prioritisation can be temporally decoupled 🧠

📢 New paper out in JoN [@sfnjournals.bsky.social]! With Larissa, Freek [@freekvanede.bsky.social], Kia [@brognition.bsky.social] and Sage [@dynacog-lab.bsky.social], we ask which and when WM contents get reselected after an interrupting external-attention task. 🧵 below (1|9) doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

⏰Finally out in final form:
elifesciences.org/articles/100...

A huge honour to be among the 2025 Ammodo Science Awardees for Fundamental Research. Vital credit is due to my mentors and to the past and current members of my team. www.ammodo-science.org/story/ammodo...

Handing out this year's Young Investigator Awards at CNS2025, on behalf of the committee, was a true pleasure and honor - and such fantastic awardees and talks, as well as a truly stimulating meeting once again. Thanks @cogneuronews.bsky.social

Bringing together our findings on microsaccade biases during rehearsal and selection in visual working memory, suggesting a 'silent spatial scaffold' for working memory whereby spatial organisation stays preserved even if active space-based rehearsal has ceased

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our latest findings showing how internal and external visual selection do not necessarily ‘take turns’ but can run in parallel, led by @baiweiliu.bsky.social.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest insights into the important role of 'action' in the study of visual working memory: set-size effects driven by changes in action readiness, not visual accessibility. Work led by Rose Nasrawi now out in Progress in Neurobiology: doi.org/10.1016/j.pn...

Our latest findings help appreciate why microsaccades and attention shifts are often correlated but not obligatorily linked: attention shifts do not cause new microsaccades but exclusively bias the direction of microsaccades that happen to be made when shifting attention. rdcu.be/dXNoW

📜Preprint alert: our latest EEG findings reveal the foreground role action-readiness plays in visual-memory-guided behaviour. Take-home-message: working-memory load affects memory readiness, not accessibility per se. Led by Rose Nasrawi: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are also thrilled this work made it to the Editor's pick at
@eNeuro: blog.eneuro.org/2024/01/edit...

Over the past years, we have repeatedly shown how microsaccades are a powerful index for selection in visual working memory. We now show that microsaccades also track multi-item rehearsal through memorised locations: doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...