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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

is largely task-independent. We also provide novel evidence for task preparation and task inertia in task switching. Together, these findings highlight the value of examining phenomena from different literatures within a single paradigm. 3/4

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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

(1) The attentional bias toward previous target locations is better explained by an episodic retrieval mechanism than by an activation-boost account, challenging the widespread view of this bias and (2) while the retrieval mechanism influencing attentional guidance is 2/4

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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

🚨 Excited to share our new paper in JEP: General w/ Tamar Alkalai & Dominique Lamy! 🚨 We examined sequential effects from the visual search, task-switching, and action-control literatures within a single paradigm. We report two key findings: 🧵 1/4

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2027-72199-001.html

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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I’m presenting our research on how gaze is biased toward previous target locations in naturalistic scenes today at #VSS2026. Poster 36.450 in the Pavilion from 2:45 – 6:45 pm - join me if you want to chat!

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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🚨 🚨 🚨 Some irrelevant features of a previous target guide attention during search, but others don't. Are they not encoded, or do they not guide attention? In our new paper (with Nitzan Micher & Dominique Lamy), we show that features that didn't guide attention were... 1/2

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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

frequency, and task predictability. Participants were biased to report letters from the previous target location - and visual context didn’t affect this bias at all. However, advance knowledge of the upcoming task strongly reduced it! 5/

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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

So, we ran 4 experiments to test whether the bias toward previously selected locations is truly inflexible. On each trial, participants either searched for a target or reported briefly shown letters—randomly intermixed (capture-probe paradigm). Importantly, we manipulated visual context, task.. /4

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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

But many environments are dynamic - like in the supermarket, where we move quickly from aisle to aisle (or virtual environments). If this bias is inflexible, it would be maladaptive in such situations. 3/

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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Current theories see this bias as "primitive" – attending to a location automatically and inflexibly boosts its priority. In most real-world cases that's adaptive because the environment is stable: a pilot needs to keep attending to the altitude gauge, which is fixed. 2/

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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🚨Proud to share our new paper in JEP:LMC (w/ Dominique Lamy)🚨 Attention is strongly biased towards recently selected locations, but while current theories assume this bias is inflexible, we show that it is actually flexible, but proactive. A🧵: 1/

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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Excited to share our new chapter (w/ @ani-ramgir.bsky.social & Dominique Lamy) on the priority map! We all use this concept, but how did it emerge? How are the factors that influence it organized? And what's missing? (hint: temporal dynamics) Find out our answers here: dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

#ISCOP is always fun. Thanks to everyone who dropped by!

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