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...

Memory and perception both require selecting behaviorally relevant information. Here, the authors show that more distinct hippocampal memories are linked to precise anticipatory signals in visual cort...

Department of Psychology is seeking to recruit a Doctoral Researcher to work in the RCF project starting 1 November 2026, or as soon as possible after that for three years. The fixed-term position is ...

Are you interested in understanding how attention shapes what we see? Would you like to combine behavioural experiments, psychophysics, and eye tracking to uncover how the brain selects and prioritise...

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

Humans adapt learning rates on both a fast and a slow time scale, and the central orbitofrontal cortex may represent the slow time scale.

Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

Abstract. Memories for temporally extended sequences can be used adaptively to predict future events on multiple timescales, a function that relies on the

The 2010 novel “Super Sad True Love Story” foreshadowed our current world. So I asked its author, Gary Shteyngart, how he sees the world today and how we might find pleasure in it.

Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab at Sabancı University - Eren Günseli. We study how memory and attention interact, how humans control what to remember, what to forget, what to attend to, and...

Vividness judgements are intended to capture variance in the axis that uniquely separates the experience of a mental image from other unambiguously sensory perceptual experiences, and from a completel...

Nature Reviews Psychology - Attention can be flexibly directed to information that is on- or off-task and internal or external to the individual. In this Perspective, Verschooren and colleagues...

Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led.

Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions

Flexible prioritization in working memory (WM) is supported by neural oscillations in frontal and sensory brain areas, but the roles of different oscillations remain poorly understood. Recordings in h...

Breathing shapes perception: Inspiration upregulates arousal and excitability, sharpening sensitivity to visual signals. By aligning respiration with task timing, people improve performance via neural...

Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.

Wanna know what your participants really feel when watching movies? Current affective science often relies on static summary ratings that miss the rich temporal dynamics of our emotions. To bridge th...