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Welcome to the website of the CAP-Lab, a group of researchers studying the cognitive (neuro)science of consciousness, attention, perception, and working memory.

 

The head of the CAP-Lab (pun intended) is Surya Gayet, assistant professor in Experimental Psychology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.


 

 

 

 

From left to right: Sam, Luzi, Dan, Xiaohua, Femke, Surya, Kabir, Yichen, Liangyou, Andre.

News

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December 4th, 2024

New paper by Yichen!

Yichen's paper  "Using hearing and vision for motion prediction, motion perception, and localization" is accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

 

Here, we show that we combine auditory and visual input to localize static objects, but rely on a single modality when tracking moving objects, or predicting the location of occluded objects.

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December 3rd, 2024

Book contract

Surya signed a book contract at Unieboek | Het Spectrum (section: non-fiction) to write a popular science book about consciousness, our perception of the world around (and within) us, and how these depend on our goals, knowledge, and expectations.

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September 3rd, 2024

New paper by Luzi

The paper "Statistical learning facilitates access to awareness", spearheaded by Luzi, is published in Psychological Science!

 

Here, we show that probable visual objects gain preferential access to consciousness over improbable objects; you don't perceive what you don't expect.

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September 2nd, 2024

New preprint by Kabir

Using a novel set-up combining EEG and Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT), Kabir investigated the differences and similarities between external attention (to objects in the world) and internal attention (to objects in visual short-term memory).

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