Tobias Egner

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New paper out: Led by super grad student Jim Zhang and in collaboration with @CoganLab, we review and synthesize Insights into the neural mechanisms supporting cognitive stability and flexibility from human intracranial electroencephalography.
Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nRYWY3M3pgbV

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres: We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual working memory against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference
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New review/theory paper out in PBR with Julie Bugg, Chris Nuno, and Changrun Huang. We muse about the "puzzle of profitless pre-cues" - why is it so hard to get people to engage proactive control from trial-to-trial? We hope it stimulates more research!
link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758/s…

New paper from the lab now out online. Changrun Huang asked whether people use informative pre-cues to up-regulate cognitive control in the spatial Stroop task. Surprisingly, they do not, and we rule out some possible reasons for this:
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