News

• Holly’s other new preprint out on biorxiv showing that interactions between visual memories and new sensory inputs scale with memory strength and behavioral relevance.
• Super fun writing with (and learning from) Anastasia Kiyonaga. New review paper about the flexible use of early sensory areas to support working memory [Trends in Cognitive Sciences].
• Holly’s new preprint is out on arxiv. She uses continuous time RNNs to argue that exploiting biases in training data is a key element of efficient coding, and that top-down feedback evolves during training so that models can take advantage of biases but can still handle unexpected inputs.
• Sunyoung uses a spiking neural network model to show that near random connections between ‘control’ regions (e.g., PFC) and visual cortex can simultaneously prevent spurious feedback while supporting spatially global feature-based attentional modulations [PLoS Computational Biology][pdf].
• Maggie and Nuttida show that dynamic modulations in early visual cortex play a role in complex shape categorization tasks [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].

For the complete publication list, see the Publications page.