Serences Lab @ UCSD

Welcome to the Perception and Cognition Lab at the University of California, San Diego. 

We are based in the Department of Psychology and participate in the Neuroscience Graduate Program.

Our research focuses on understanding how behavioral goals influence perception, decision making, and memory. To investigate these questions, we employ a combination of psychophysics, modeling, and neuroimaging techniques (fMRI and EEG) in human subjects. 

Recent publications

• Maggie and Nuttida show that dynamic modulations in early visual cortex play a role in complex shape categorization tasks (in press at Nature Communications) [pdf]

• Janna's paper suggests that more perceptual similarity during encoding leads to more interference, but retaining perceptual information in WM incurs little cost (consistent with predictions from modelling work) [Attention, Perception and Psychophysics][pdf]

• Sirawaj has a new paper on the relationship between attention, visual appearance and response bias [Journal of Neuroscience][pdf] 

• Sawetsuttipan et al (from Sirawaj's group in Thailand) systematically examine interactions between task difficulty and attentional modulations of visually evoked response [Journal of Neuroscience][pdf])  

• Tim's paper on serial dependence effects in visual cortex accepted at PLoS Biology - attractive biases in behavior despite repulsive adaptation in visual cortex [journal website (open), osf data and code]. Accompanying primer by David Whitney, Mauro Manassi and Yuki Murai [here].  

• Maggie and Rosanne's paper on the strategic reconfiguration of working memory representations from sensory to motor-like codes accepted at eLife [journal website (open), OSF data & code]

Resources

• LAB WIKI (login required)