Freek van Ede
@freekvanede
Cognitive Neuroscientist in Amsterdam
Our latest insights into the important role of 'action' in the study of visual working memory: set-size effects driven by changes in action readiness not visual accessibility. Work led by @NasrawiRose now out in Progress in Neurobiology: doi.org/10.1016/j.pneu…
📢 Check out our (Larissa Behnke, @freekvanede, Kia Nobre, Sage Boettcher) latest preprint on the neural dynamics of returning to an internal focus in working memory after engaging with an interrupting external-attention task. 🧵 below (1|5) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Thrilled to have been a part of this cool study led by @DanielaGresch targeting the remarkably under-explored processes by which the human brain shifts attention between internal information 'in mind' and external information in the world around us:
📢 Check out our (Sage Boettcher, @Chetan_Gohil, @freekvanede, @KiaNobre) latest publication in @PNASNews on the neural dynamics associated with shifting attention within vs. between external and internal attention. (🧵 below) (1|6) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Putting the 'spotlight' on high-level visual cognition deep down in the brain @TrendsCognSci: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k1P04sIRvTB… A pleasure to highlight this exciting study by @b_peysakhovich et al., that can be found here: doi.org/10.1038/s41593…
🚨Two new preprints from the lab! (part 2) Preprint 2: doi.org/10.1101/2024.1… In this work led by @BaiweiLiu, we studied the relation between microsaccades and the N2pc EEG marker of spatial attention, showing how microsaccades strongly modulate but do not cause the N2pc.
🚨Two new preprints from the lab! (part 1) Preprint 1: doi.org/10.1101/2024.1… In this work led by @wangsisi2017, we uncover an underexplored component of visual search by studying how people “look into their memory” to verify (confirm/dismiss) potential visual targets.
Our latest findings that help appreciate why microsaccades and attention shifts are often correlated but not obligatorily linked: attention shifts do not cause new microsaccades but exclusively bias the direction of microsaccades that happen to be made when shifting attention.
Microsaccades are modulated by covert shifts of attention. A new Article by @BaiweiLiu, Zampeta-Sofia Alexopoulou & @freekvanede shows how shifts in attention bias microsaccade direction without causing new microsaccades. nature.com/articles/s4427…
Really nice to see our findings covered by this Journal (of Neuroscience) Club at @SfNJournals. Captures the original work well.
New article w/ @arora__borealis! A recent paper (@freekvanede @KiaNobre) found a neural correlate of sampling from memory representations to guide decision-making. We discuss the findings and provide future steps. Now in Journal of Neuroscience jneurosci.org/content/44/39/…
Huge honour to be featured on the SN10 list by @ScienceNews: sciencenews.org/article-type/s… A shout out also to my mentors, team members, and colleagues across the globe, with particular mention of @KiaNobre, @DondersInst, @OxfordWIN, @WuTsaiYale, and @VUamsterdam.
Job alert: PhD positions in the lab of Chris Olivers in Amsterdam, to study the effects of interruptions on visual attention. academictransfer.com/nl/344841/phd-…
Check out our latest publication spearheaded by @wangsisi2017 on *re*focusing visual working memory during expected and unexpected memory tests – and how we were able to track this through human gaze and EEG signals. Now online at @eLife: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…
Here are some findings we have been working on, and excited about, for some time now – with a brand-new storyline thanks to valuable reviewer feedback: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
🚨 New preprint! 🚨 osf.io/preprints/psya… Excited to share the last preprint of my PhD with @HeleenASlagter and @freekvanede. We explored if statistical learning biases internal attention in visual working memory. The results were surprising! 🧵 (1/7)
A real joy to have been a part of this, and already curious about the post-PhD science that awaits us. Congratulations also on behalf of your second scientific family in amsterdam. We are all proud of you @DanielaGresch!
Last day of my PhD ✅ I would like to thank my assessors @GaiaScerif and @juliedgolomb, my supervisors @SageBoettcher, @freekvanede, and @KiaNobre, the @brognition lab, and my friends and family for making this day (and the last 3.5 years) such an amazing and memorable experience
🚨Preprint alert: delineating the dynamics of attentional *re*orienting in visual working memory following expected and unexpected memory tests using EEG and microsaccades, led by @wangsisi2017: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Deciding how to use your working memory? Now out in @SfNJournals: our EEG findings with @KiaNobre suggesting a decision process underlying internal sampling from visual working memory jneurosci.org/content/44/19/…
Finally out: our EEG study with @postlelab on voluntary and involuntary influences over the focus of attention in visual working memory, in @JOCN_Journal: doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a…
What a fantastic day and evening @CNSmtg. The talk by @KiaNobre was amazing, as anticipated.
.@freekvanede introduces @KiaNobre, presenting her with the Distinguished Career Contributions Award at #CNS2024. Congratulations! Exciting to see a special award from her students!
Preprint alert👇: @wangsisi2017 and I studied how attentional focusing in working memory benefits long-term memory. Take-home: we show that faster attentional allocation during working memory instils stronger long-term memories, as revealed through gaze: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
☝️Preprint alert: our latest EEG findings reveal the foreground role action-readiness plays in visual-memory-guided behaviour. Take-home-message: working-memory load affects memory readiness, not accessibility per se. Led by @NasrawiRose
Why are responses slower with higher working memory load? In our (Mika Mautner-Rohde, @freekvanede) preprint, we show that memory load affects the preparedness to act on visual representations in working memory without affecting their accessibility! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…