This study tested the hypothesis that even the simplest cognitive tasks require the storage of
information in working memory (WM), distorting any information that was previously stored in …

We perform mental rotations in many everyday situations, such as reading a map or
following furniture assembling instructions. In a classical mental rotation task, participants …

When a target and a distractor that share the same response dimension appear in rapid
succession, participants often erroneously report the distractor instead of the target. Using …

Starting in early infancy, our perception and predictions are rooted in strong expectations
about the behavior of everyday objects. These intuitive physics expectations have been …

To accomplish even rudimentary tasks, our cognitive system must update its representation
of the changing environment. This process relies on visual working memory (VWM), which …

Visual short-term memory (VSTM) is an important resource that allows temporarily storing
visual information. Current theories posit that elementary features (eg, red, green) are …

Visual working memory has severe capacity limits, creating a bottleneck for active
processing. A key way of mitigating this limitation is by chunking, ie compressing several …

Is Facebook usage bad for mental health? Existing studies provide mixed results, and direct
evidence for neural underlying moderators is lacking. We suggest that being able to filter …

Visual working memory (VWM) can hold a limited amount of visual information and
manipulate it. It encodes this information and forms representations of each one of the …

The contents of visual perception are inherently dynamic—just as we experience objects in
space, so too events in time. The boundaries between these events have downstream …