Out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social now! Kia and I argue that attention research would benefit from a stronger focus on how the brain shifts between external and internal attention. We outline competing hypotheses, review existing behavioral and neural findings, and highlight open questions.

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 🧠

Attention was paid and memories were made at the wonderful lab retreat in Oxford this week with @brognition.bsky.social and @dynacog-lab.bsky.social - serious punting, tasty BBQs, great conversations, and even better company 😀🧠

First post on Bluesky! Check out our new paper (w/ @abclab.bsky.social @brognition.bsky.social) in Nature Communications @natcomms.bsky.social (featured in Editors' Highlights🌟)!

We investigated how attention operates differently within WM and LTM:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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📢 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...

When we search for a target object, our attention is often captured by other, similar-looking items in our environment. We investigated how this attentional capture (and other aspects of search behaviour) evolve over time in dynamic environments where we can predict when our target will appear.

🎉 Excited to share the first preprint from my PhD research!

Huge thank yous to Sage Boettcher (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social) and Kia Nobre (@brognition.bsky.social) and everyone else that supported this work!

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