Cognitive Neuroscientist. Interested in oscillatory dynamics, working memory and attention. Assistant Professor at the University Utrecht.
Utrecht
Joined April 2020
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Samson Chota retweeted
In a dynamic world, items appear, disappear, and reappear within seconds. In our latest preprint we show: the reappearance of maintained items guides the prioritization of non-reappearing memory items.
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Samson Chota retweeted
How can you study each phase of visual working memory using pupillometry? In our new review, we outline how encoding, maintenance and prioritization are reflected in pupil size.
Open access:
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Samson Chota retweeted
🚨Hi Tweeps, please allow me proudly present the CAP-lab website: cap-lab.net/
Where CAP stands for Consciousness, Attention, & Perception (and coincidentally refers to my favorite clothing attribute).
Please, have a look, and don't forget to follow my PhD students!
Samson Chota retweeted
We had a blast visiting the @rolfslab in Berlin! Two wonderful days of talking science and seeing each others' cool projects. See you in Utrecht!(?)
Samson Chota retweeted
Tomorrow at 4 pm (CET), Prof. Sabine Kastner will provide the upcoming Helmholtz lecture, "Neural dynamics of the primate attention network." Refer to the link to find the abstract and location, or if you want to request to join online bit.ly/3PeMjOa
Samson Chota retweeted
Microsaccades are interesting. Maybe. Great work by the indomitable Dr. Shawn Willett. pnas.org/eprint/9GNBSYTWKTCM…
Samson Chota retweeted
Very excited to share our new preprint on visual processing in the octopus! Led by Judit Pungor @traceofpink, together with @jsongco_ and @climbing_octo, we measured the functional organization of visual responses in the octopus brain. 🐙👁️
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Samson Chota retweeted
**JOB POSITION ALERT**
Join me in Toulouse (France) for a 3 years postdoc in Computational Neuroscience, working on Predictive Coding and Travelling Waves!
Please RT and spread the word!
More details here: artipago.github.io/open%20po…
Samson Chota retweeted
When we open our eyes, we feel we see the present moment. But because neural processing takes time, the brain only has access to outdated information. So how does it create our experience of the present? I propose a possible answer in @TrendsCognSci: go.unimelb.edu.au/fv9i 1/15
Samson Chota retweeted
New paper out in PNAS! (we question the conclusion of a recent PNAS paper)
Check the summary in this thread by @SuryaGayet!
🚨New paper alert🚨 in @PNASNews, where we call into question a recent study claiming that we overestimate the prevalence of minorities (e.g., 5 blue among 80 red marbles) MORE when in line with social knowledge (5 ethnic minority among 80 majority faces). pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
Samson Chota retweeted
We are looking for a postdoc to join us in the Dynamics of Cognition Lab. We are investigating the neural basis of cognitive flexibility associated with selective attention and working memory. If you’re potentially interested, DM. And please RT!
Samson Chota retweeted
Brookshire shows that a widely used approach to identifying rhythms in behavioral data can misclassify consistent, non-rhythmic patterns as rhythmic. Importantly, evidence for rhythms in attention isn’t limited to behavioral data. My comment from bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/5fckyu48
Brookshire shows that widely reported 3-8 Hz periodic rhythms of human attention may be artefactual.
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Samson Chota retweeted
On Tuesday @SamsonChota (w. @SvanderStigchel, Chris Olivers, Leon Kenemans and me) will talk about surprising EEG results, comparing multivariate responses to memorized VS perceived stimuli. Perceived stimuli feel more 'crisp', but does that mean that representations are sharper?
Samson Chota retweeted
Only two weeks left to apply for this 4-year PhD position on working memory and attention at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). Come join me and the rest of the team! Or spread the word to your current / former students.
Deadline: September 7th
Start: asap (before February)
Fully-funded PhD position! Study the temporal dynamics of internal attention and working memory – using EEG, with @SvanderStigchel, @SuryaGayet
and @SamsonChota
Deadline September 7th
academictransfer.com/nl/3157…
Samson Chota retweeted
Fully-funded PhD position! Study the temporal dynamics of internal attention and working memory – using EEG, with @SvanderStigchel, @SuryaGayet
and @SamsonChota
Deadline September 7th
academictransfer.com/nl/3157…
Samson Chota retweeted
A bunch of our AttentionLab-ers are on a writing retreat! 💻
Apologies if they haven't responded to your emails yet 😉
Samson Chota retweeted
New (full) PhD position on visual working memory and eye-tracking. We are looking for a PhD student with a background in cognitive psychology/neuroscience or artificial intelligence. Please RT! #AttentionLabUU @SvanderStigchel
uu.nl/organisatie/werken-bij…
Samson Chota retweeted
We’re kicking off an updated #AttentionLabUU account with a spotlight on founder and principal investigator Stefan van der Stigchel! @SvanderStigchel is currently researching the dynamics of visual working memory for an @ERC_Research Consolidator grant. Follow us for updates!
Samson Chota retweeted
A new member of #AttentionLabUU is @AndreSahakian. In his PhD he will use #virtualreality to study the dynamics of visual working memory together with @SuryaGayet and @chrispaffen. What is the trade-off between storing information in memory versus relying on external information?
