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Gwen(llian) Williams

@gwenlliams.bsky.social
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Postdoc in Design & Visual Interaction 🌞 Researching design visibility, eye movements & visual attention PhD Experimental Psychology

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📣 Check out our latest preprint with @kianobre.bsky.social, spearheaded by the incredible @dxywei.bsky.social! Across four experiments, we compare the behavioural and neural signatures of selecting real-world objects in perception and working memory. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Searching across working memory and perception
Searching for objects of interest is an essential and pervasive activity in adaptive cognition. In everyday situations, we often search for relevant content in our surroundings and in mind at the same...
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Gwen(llian) Williams @gwenlliams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Since finishing my PhD I've been in Copenhagen applying my cog psy research skills to a new topic I'm super passionate about: visual design! ✨ Sharing here my new page which says more about what we're up to at the Centre for Visibility Design: royaldanishacademy.com/en/profile/4...
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Gwenllian Williams | Royal Danish Academy
I investigate how our eyes and minds work together to navigate the visual demands of everyday life. Trained in cognitive psychology, I use…
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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🌈 New preprint! With Sage, Melissa, and Kia (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social, @scenegrammarlab.bsky.social, @kianobre.bsky.social), we explore how attention is divided across external perception and internal working memory - revealing a dynamic trade-off between these two domains. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Gwen(llian) Williams @gwenlliams.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
woohoo, have a gander! 👀 🔎⏳ Fun to be involved in putting this together, and v satisfying to see some of the things we've been chatting about over the past few years down on paper together
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Adaptive Behaviour & Cognition Lab @abclab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Our new tutorial for converting lab-based VR studies into remote deployments is out! link.springer.com/article/10.3... i
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Running virtual reality experiments online: A brief introduction and tutorial - Behavior Research Methods
Achieving meaningful and representative findings in cognitive/behavioural research requires both externally valid experimental settings and representative participant samples. Virtual reality (VR) has...
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Gwen(llian) Williams @gwenlliams.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New paper (first from my PhD!) out in Visual Cognition ✨ @tandfresearch.bsky.social With the wonderful Sage Boettcher @dynacog-lab.bsky.social & Kia Nobre @brognition.bsky.social We ask how temporal expectations can help us find targets in dynamic, cluttered environments when location is unknown.
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Gwen(llian) Williams @gwenlliams.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
yay Sage!
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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
📣 Out in TINS (@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social): Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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.
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How the brain shifts between external and internal attention
Focusing on relevant contents to guide adaptive behavior is a core property of the brain. For decades, scientists have investigated mechanisms to anti…
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Irene Echeverria-Altuna @irenetxeberria.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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 🧠
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Sensory and motor contents are prioritized dynamically in working memory
Attention flexibly modulates sensory contents in working memory, but the dynamics of motor content modulation in working memory remain unclear. This study shows that brain representations of both sens...
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Adaptive Behaviour & Cognition Lab @abclab.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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 😀🧠
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Dongyu Gong @dongyugong.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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... (1/6)
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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
📢 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...
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Neural Dynamics of Reselecting Visual and Motor Contents in Working Memory after External Interference
In everyday tasks, we must often shift our focus away from internal representations held in working memory to engage with perceptual events in the external world. Here, we investigated how our interna...
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Gwen(llian) Williams @gwenlliams.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🎉 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...
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Feature-temporal predictions dynamically modulate performance, feature-based attentional capture, and motor response activity during visual search
Recent research has investigated visual search in dynamic environments and considered how temporal predictions modulate behaviour over time. Spatiotemporal predictions have been shown to adaptively gu...
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