Postdoc in Psychology - ERC project 'HOMEOSTASIS: The dynamics of visual working memory' (1.0 FTE)
A three-year postdoc position will be available at Attentionlab! You will work directly with Stefan van der Stigchel, head of the lab, principal investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator project HOMEOSTASIS and Professor in Cognitive Psychology at Utrecht University.
Stefan shares 49 advices to achieve optimal concentration. What are the basics? What is 'flow' and how do you get there?
The book covers all ins and outs and do's and don't with regards to concentration. A practical guide (with exercises) on why scrolling through your phone does not count as break, how you can use drinking coffee to strengthen your concentration and why daydreaming is for the good cause.
The European Research Council has awarded seven ERC Consolidator Grants to Utrecht University and University Medical Centre Utrecht. One of those was awarded to Stefan for his topic of 'The mental economy: Testing a dynamic trade-off between internal storage and external sampling'. The ERC Consolidator Grant is worth two million euros. The grant enables Stefan's Attentionlab to conduct research for a duration of five years.
Our subjective experience our visual surroundings seems continuous, contradicting the erratic nature of visual processing due to saccades. One of the ways the visual system constructs a continuous experience is by integrating pre-saccadic and post-saccadic visual input.
In this paper we provide evidence that sensory memory, a pre-attentive, high-capacity form of visuospatial working memory is updated across eye movements. This less well researched memory form is typically assumed to be destroyed during saccades.
In this paper we provide evidence that sensory memory, a pre-attentive, high-capacity form of visuospatial working memory is updated across eye movements. This less well researched memory form is typically assumed to be destroyed during saccades.