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Alex J. Hoogerbrugge

@ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Utrecht University | Interested in memory, attention, visual search, eye movements | he/him

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 Apply: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...
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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience
Join the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) as Assistant Professor in cognitive neuroscience.
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Here is to another great year at VSS from the Visual Attention Lab!
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Alex J. Hoogerbrugge @ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Investigations into whether we can search for multiple targets in a simultaneous fashion have led to mixed findings. In this new PsychScience article, we report that people CAN search concurrently, but don't always DO so... 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Results figure, showing that, when instructed, participants can either search sequentially or concurrently for multiple items
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Alex J. Hoogerbrugge @ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I try to reconcile Guided Search (Wolfe) and “item-free” (e.g., Hulleman & Olivers) models of visual search. How lucky am I to have both Jeremy Wolfe and Johan Hulleman as co-authors for that?! Poster on Sunday afternoon, drop by! #VSS2026
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Here we come VSS 2026! We have an amazing group of people presenting some great vision science! Please see our schedule below. See you there!!
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Zurich Cognition Lab @cognition-zurich.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We're looking for a postdoc starting this summer to join our efforts in understanding the capacity limits of cognition: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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UZH: Postdoctoral Position
Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental, individ...
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe! Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...
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Postdoctoral Fellow Visual Attention Lab
Site: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts t...
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Christoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Synesthetes claim sensory experiences, such as seeing color when reading or hearing a (black) number. 
But how genuine are these reports and sensations? We introduce a rather direct measure of synesthetic perception: Synesthetes’ pupils respond to evoked color as if it was real color #vision! 👁️🎨🧪
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Sebastiaan Mathôt @cogsci.nl · 08/08/2025
#EenWereldVolDenkers is een reis door de gedachtewerelden van mens, dier, plant en AI! Als je hem nu voorbestelt, ontvang je direct gratis de onderstaande verhalenbundel (Undercurrents) als e-book + kans op een uniek, handgemaakt exemplaar! forms.gle/bEJz4Spk2p72... #psychologie #biology #wetenschap
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Lea Bartsch @leabartsch.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓
Applications are invited for a
Postdoctoral Position (80%)
at the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich. The ideal
start date would be January 1st, 2026 but could be somewhat earlier or later. The position is for
initially 3 years, with possible renewal for another 1.5 years.
The successful applicant will work with the head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Prof. Dr. Klaus
Oberauer, and the Cognitive Psychology team. The post involves research and teaching (one course
per semester).
Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular
working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental,
individual-differences and aging studies and computational modeling. For further information see:
https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec/allgpsy.html
We offer:
- An attractive research environment with close collaboration within the team
- Excellent lab infrastructure
- Salary according to Cantonal regulations
We expect:
- a PhD in psychology or a related discipline
- experience with experimental research
- excellent method knowledge and skills
- very good command of English
- interest in pursuing an academic career in cognitive psychology
In addition, it would be desirable if you had:
- experience with publishing in international journals
- programming skills
- experience with mathematical / computational modeling
Please send applications including your CV and motivation letter
no later than September 10, 2025
electronically as a single PDF to: Michaela Oestmann, michaela.oestmann@psychologie.uzh.ch
For questions about the position please contact Klaus Oberauer, k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch
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Christoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Gaze heatmaps (are popular especially for eye-tracking beginners and in many applied domains. How many participants should be tested? Depends of course, but our guidelines help navigating this in an informed way. Out now in BRM (free) doi.org/10.3758/s134... @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
data saturation for gaze heatmaps. Initially, any additional participant will bring the total NSS or AUC as measures for heatmap similarity a lot closer to the full sample. However, the returns diminish increasingly at higher n.
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Elkan Akyurek @elkanakyurek.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project! www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
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Vacatures bij de RUG
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Evie Vergauwe @evievergauwe.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Postdoc position open in our #workingmemory lab! See here for more info: www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...
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Job Opening
Annonce d'ouverture de poste
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Alex J. Hoogerbrugge @ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Just added a few thousand new search datasets, bringing the total up to almost 6k museum visitors 😮‍💨 Updated preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... Data: osf.io/kf4sb/
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Alex J. Hoogerbrugge @ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thrilled to share that I successfully defended my PhD dissertation on Monday June 16th! The dissertation is available here: doi.org/10.33540/2960
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Damian Koevoet @dkoevoet.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Now published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Open Access link: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Reappearing sensory input guides visual working memory prioritization - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Adaptive behavior necessitates the prioritization of the most relevant information in the environment (external) and in memory (internal). Internal prioritization is known to guide the selection of ex...
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3
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Damian Koevoet @dkoevoet.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Attending @vssmtg.bsky.social? Come check out my talk on EEG decoding of preparatory overt and covert attention! Tomorrow in the Attention: Neural Mechanisms session at 17:15. You can check out the preprint in the meantime:
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Damian Koevoet @dkoevoet.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We previously showed that affordable eye movements are preferred over costly ones. What happens when salience comes into play? In our new paper, we show that even when salience attracts gaze, costs remain a driver of saccade selection. OA paper here: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Andre Sahakian @andresahakian.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
About time our latest project about time got out! How do self-paced encoding and retention relate to performance in (working) memory-guided actions? Find out now in Memory and Cognition: doi.org/10.3758/s134... (or check the short version below)🧵
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The rise and fall of memories: Temporal dynamics of visual working memory - Memory & Cognition
Visual working memory (VWM) is a cognitive system, which temporarily stores task-relevant visual information to enable interactions with the environment. In everyday VWM use, we typically decide how l...
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Damian Koevoet @dkoevoet.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Preparing overt eye movements and directing covert attention are neurally coupled. Yet, this coupling breaks down at the single-cell level. What about populations of neurons? We show: EEG decoding dissociates preparatory overt from covert attention at the population level: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Alex J. Hoogerbrugge @ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Thrilled to share that, as of May 1st, I have started as a postdoc at The University of Manchester! I will investigate looked-but-failed-to-see (LBFTS) errors in visual search, under the expert guidance of Johan Hulleman and Jeremy Wolfe. Watch this space!
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Damian Koevoet @dkoevoet.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
In our latest paper @elife.bsky.social we show that we choose to move our eyes based on effort minimization. Put simply, we prefer affordable over more costly eye movements. eLife's digest: elifesciences.org/digests/9776... The paper: elifesciences.org/articles/97760 #VisionScience
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Christoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We show that eye-movements are selected based on effort minimization - finally final in @elife.bsky.social eLife's digest: elifesciences.org/digests/9776... & the 'convincing & important' paper: elifesciences.org/articles/97760 I consider this my coolest ever project! #VisionScience #Neuroscience
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A move you can afford
Where a person will look next can be predicted based on how much it costs the brain to move the eyes in that direction.
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Alex J. Hoogerbrugge @ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New preprint! We present two very large eye tracking datasets of museum visitors (4-81 y.o.!) who freeviewed (n=1248) or searched for a +/x (n=2827) in a single feature-rich image. We invite you to (re)use the dataset and provide suggestions for future versions 📋 osf.io/preprints/os...
Heat map of gaze locations overlaid on top of a feature-rich collage image. There is a seascape with a kitesurfer, mermaid, turtle, and more.
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Alex J. Hoogerbrugge @ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
PI @cstrauch.bsky.social dragged me to a “German” conference – turned out to be an absolute blast (and very international)! Great science, even better people :)
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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Our paper on how we use hearing and vision to localize(multimodal) objects, is now out in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0...)! See @yichen-yuan.bsky.social's thread below for a thread! #MultisensoryPerception #MotionTracking #MotionPrediction #WorkingMemory
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APA PsycNet
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luzixu.bsky.social @luzixu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🎉New paper out in JEP:HPP with@andresahakian.bsky.social @suryagayet.bsky.social @chrispaffen.bsky.social and Stefan Van der Stigchel. We asked whether memory traces are formed for items that have not yet been selected for immediate action, while we are actively sampling targets for imminent action.
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Christoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New popscience piece on why pupil size changes are so cool. psyche.co/ideas/the-pu... Included: an assignment that lets you measure pupil size. In my classes, this replicates Hess & Polt's 1964 effort finding without an eyetracker. Feel free to use it! #VisionScience #neuroscience #psychology 🧪
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Psyche | on the human condition
Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.
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Damian Koevoet @dkoevoet.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
In a dynamic world, items appear, disappear, and reappear within seconds. In our latest preprint (now with an additional experiment) we show: the reappearance of maintained items guides the prioritization of non-reappearing memory items. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sensory Input Matching Visual Working Memory Guides Internal Prioritization
Adaptive behavior necessitates the prioritization of the most relevant information in the environment (external) and in memory (internal). Internal prioritization is known to guide the selection of ex...
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Christoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We often rely on the external world rather than fully loading memory- if it's easy to access external information at least. @tianyingq.bsky.social's new PBR metaanalysis across 28 exp shows: increases in access cost reliably push toward internal WM use. doi.org/10.3758/s134... #VisionScience 🧪
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
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Alex J. Hoogerbrugge @ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I made a thing for the lab! The list should grow a bit longer in due course.
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