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New in JOV: the ability to combine visual evidence across gaze fixations depends on a limited but flexible memory resource jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?a…

🚨 New from me, Jess McMaster, and Paul Bays. Are you interested in working memory? Ensemble statistics? Well you're in for a treat! Out now at Cognition: "Limited memory for ensemble statistics in visual change detection". Open access: bit.ly/3fUXjOj and thread here 👇

Views of an object before and after a saccade may be combined even if you are aware the object has changed - new with Garry Kong, David Aagten-Murphy and Jess McMaster. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?a…

We have an opening for a post-doc (or potentially a talented graduate RA) to research computational mechanisms of visual perception/memory using online and offline experiments - note deadline 11 Aug jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/30738/

New in Psych Review with Sebastian Schneegans & Jess McMaster: comparing the roles of time and space in binding features in working memory pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35099211/

New work with Jess McMaster & others: we show swap errors (item confusions) in cued recall are not a strategic response to forgotten items, but instead occur at exactly the rate predicted by variability in recall of the cue features sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New review on visual working memory with Paul Bays, Tim Brady, and Sebastian Schneegans: psyarxiv.com/kubr9/ I was surprised by how much news there was since my 2014 review with Paul Bays and Masud Husain. Comments/excoriations are welcome and may get incorporated.

A critique of the psychological similarity account of working memory errors: work with @ivntmc now out in JEP:LMC biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The difference between saccades and smooth pursuit eye movements, as demonstrated by sticking gross plastic thingies on your eyeballs tiktok.com/t/ZTRgxwHJG/

We measured how effectively observers can reallocate working memory resources to new visual items when old ones become obsolete - people are surprisingly good at it! New paper with @ivntmc @dataforyounz David Aagten-Murphy link.springer.com/article/10.375…

“Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request.” psyarxiv.com/jbu9r/

1/ 🔥 Hot off the press: my latest paper in collaboration with Paul Bays and Reuben Rideaux. Ever wondered how Bayes' theorem is implemented by the brain? We think we have an answer, for visual orientation estimates at least. 🧵 Open access: nature.com/articles/s4146…

The size-weight illusion is a by-product of efficient sensory coding adapted to the combinations of volume and mass found in everyday objects. New preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nice commentary from Emilio Salinas and Bashirul Sheikh on our new eLife paper doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

A systematic dissection of the analogue report methodology and comparison with "gold-standard" 2AFC. Key findings: motor noise is negligible; analogue report error is a robust measure of memory fidelity, but may underestimate perceptual precision doi.org/10.3758/s13428…

👀Claude handles an insane request: “Remove the squid” “The document appears to be the full text of the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It doesn't contain any mention of squid that I can see.” “Figure out a way to remove the 🦑​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“

We have an opening for a postdoc to work on a collaborative project with Máté Lengyel (UCambridge Engineering) combining machine learning methods with human experiments on visual perception and memory jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49299/

Now out in Comms Psych: the "anti-Bayesian" size-weight illusion is a consequence of the brain focusing resources on encoding typical combinations of size and weight (i.e. "efficient coding"). Explains the material-weight illusion too nature.com/articles/s4427…