Visual imagery refers to the mental generation of visual representations of stimuli, while visual working memory involves retaining visual information…

Attention prioritizes relevant information from the environment, but does not do so consistently over time. Instead, we sometimes experience poor attentional states which are characterized by a higher...

Expectations—prior knowledge of environmental statistics—support adaptive behavior by reducing uncertainty during inference. However, the questions of where expectations come from and how that ought t...

Abstract. Space and time play a critical role in working memory formation and maintenance relative to other object features. Particularly, covert spatial attention spontaneously tracks object…

Abstract. How does long-term memory (LTM) support working memory (WM) performance? Proposed mechanisms include “boosting,” where LTM enhances WM representations through additional activation but does…

The Memory and Attention Laboratory at the University of South Dakota is part of the Human Factors & Applied Cognition  program in the Department of Psychology . We study memory, attention, and...

Job #AJO32753, Professor (tenured), Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

Eleven live, adjustable visual-illusion demonstrations for outreach events.

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Abstract. Event segmentation is the cognitive process of dividing continuous experiences into meaningful units. Although working memory (WM) is believed to play an instrumental role in event segmentat...

Yesterday, I presented my first scientific poster at the 11th European Working Memory Symposium in Lyon 🥳. On this poster, I presented for the second time the results of our study on the emergence of ...

Typical visual working memory tasks involve many trials of rapid presentations of simple stimuli to be remembered across short delays. This is rarely …

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

Over the past several years, I have had the opportunity to teach a national virtual workshop on R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience. Supported by the National Science Foundation and hoste…

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By Nick Gaspelin and Yue Zhang Zhang, Y. & Gaspelin, N. (2026a). From capture to control: Initial capture increases learned suppression. Psychological Science. 37(4), 2…

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Using a Snake-inspired working memory task, this study shows that people dynamically reprioritize memorized goals after distraction, demonstrating how working memory supports flexible planning in dyna...