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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

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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

still bound to previous responses, suggesting they were encoded. Check it out: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... @apajournals.bsky.social 2/2

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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

These results suggest that we need to modify the current view of the bias towards the previous target location. Crucially, it suggests that this bias isn't maladaptive in dynamic environments, as long as we know what we are about to do next. 7/

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

We conclude that the attentional bias toward the previous target location is flexible but proactive - you need to know your next task to reduce it. We propose two possible mechanisms for these findings: proactive attenuation and proactive retrieval (details in the paper!). 6/

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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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Journal of Cognition @jcgntn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

New content: Micher, N., Mazenko, D., & Lamy, D. (2024). Unconscious Processing Contaminates Objective Measures of Conscious Perception: Evidence From the Liminal Prime Paradigm. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 71, pp. 1–16. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

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Unconscious Processing Contaminates Objective Measures of Conscious Perception: Evidence From the Liminal Prime Paradigm | Journal of Cognition

The Journal of Cognition, the official journal of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, publishes reviews, empirical articles (including registered reports), data reports, stimulus developmen...

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