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Viola Störmer

@violastoermer.bsky.social
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I'm a cognitive neuroscientist and professor of psychology at Dartmouth College. My lab studies perception across modalities, attention, and memory.

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Viola Störmer @violastoermer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Hello to everyone coming to @vssmtg.bsky.social: Come see what our lab and collaborators have been working on this past year. - Lots of interesting new work on visual working memory, feature- and object-based attention, cross-modal attention, ensemble perception!
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Yong Hoon Chung @yonghoonchung.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
New paper with @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in JoCN! "Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects" doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
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Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects
Abstract. Visual working memory is a core cognitive function that allows active storage of task-relevant visual information. Contrary to the common assumption that the capacity of this system is fixed...
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Yong Hoon Chung @yonghoonchung.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
New preprint with @SamJung @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/
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Yong Hoon Chung @yonghoonchung.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
New paper with NicoleAnayaSosa and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in Perception! "Testing location invariance of the flashed face distortion effect" journals.sagepub.com/eprint/WVUFW...
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Testing location invariance of the flashed face distortion effect - Yong Hoon Chung, Nicole C. Anaya Sosa, Viola S. Störmer, 2025
Spatially aligned faces presented in a continuous stream in the periphery appear distorted and grotesque. This flashed face distortion effect (“FFDE”) was first...
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I am leading a workshop tonight for students in my department on how to apply for the NSF GRFP, but have not received answers from NSF to my questions about whether they are still funding applications in neuroscience and cognitive science, etc. If anyone has info please let me know. (continued)
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Viola Störmer @violastoermer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Excited to see everyone at #VSS2025 - Come check out what my lab has been up to over this past year:
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Yong Hoon Chung @yonghoonchung.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
New Preprint with @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here we show increased neural delay activity associated with remembering features as part of real-world objects. 1/
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Real-world objects scaffold visual working memory for features: Increased neural delay activity when colors are remembered as part of meaningful objects
Visual working memory is a core cognitive function that allows active storage of task-relevant visual information. While previous studies have postulated that the capacity of this system is fixed with...
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Viola Störmer @violastoermer.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
Looking forward to seeing everyone @VSS. Come see what our lab has been up to over this past year:
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 08/02/2024
'Noisy and hierarchical visual memory across timescales', a new Review by Timothy F. Brady (@timbrady.bsky.social), Maria M. Robinson & Jamal R. Williams (@jamalamal.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/42Bhac0 PDF: rdcu.be/dyb6G #psychology #psychscisky #cogpsyc
Categorical and continuous reproductions in memory
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Adam Steel @neurosteel.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
New paper out in Nature Neuro, wherein we ask: How do perceptual and mnemonic brain networks share information? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Massive work with Ed Silson, Brenda Garcia, and @carolinerobertson.bsky.social
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A retinotopic code structures the interaction between perception and memory systems - Nature Neurosc...
The authors show that functionally paired visual and memory brain areas share a common neural code, which structures their communication. This code is visual in nature and uses a push–pull dynamic t...
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Viola Störmer @violastoermer.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Our lab is recruiting a PhD student and postdoc! Check our our website to learn more about what we do: sites.dartmouth.edu/stoermerlab/ Applications for PhD students are due Dec 1st.
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