Congratulations to Soazig, whose paper showing that exogenous attention is limited to the effective oculomotor range has been accepted to the Cortex special issue in honour of Bob Rafal. Great work Soazig!
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Learning & Memory Processes at Durham University
Dan presented some data on visual search and visual memory in patients with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) at the 1st annual Learning & Memory Processes meeting. Patients with PSP have vertical paralysis of gaze and our study showed that the vertical gaze paralysis was associated with impairment of visual search and spatial working memory for targets on the vertical axis (see also Smith & Archibald 2018)
Smith, D.T. & Archibald, N. (2018). Spatial Working Memory in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Cortex
Lab move completed!
The move from Stockton to our new labs at the Science Laboratories in Durham is complete and the Eyelink II is ready for action. The CRS VET, Eyelink 1000 and BioPac EOG100 will be up and running in the next week or so.
Speakers confirmed for 2019 symposium!
We’re delighted that a host of leading scholars have agreed to contribute to next July’s symposium on motor processes and visual attention, including keynotes from Prof Marissa Carrasco and Prof Christian Olivers and talks from Dr. Teuni ten Brink (Utrecht University), Prof. Therese Collins (Paris Descartes), Dr. Trevor Crawford (Lancaster University), Dr. Anna Grubert (Durham University), Miss Nina Hanning (LMU), Dr. Casimir Ludwig (Bristol University), Dr. Robert McIntosh (University of Edinburgh), Dr. Laure Pisella (Lyon University) and Dr. Martin Rolfs (HU Berlin)
Experimental Psychology Society meeting July 2018
Dan attended the joint meeting of the EPS and CSBBCS in St. Johns, Newfoundland to report some recent findings from the project. His talk brought together neuropsychological and behavioural evidence, including some recent data from Soazig’s experiments, to argue that exogenous orienting of attention depends on activation of the eye-movement system whereas endogenous orienting can be achieved independently of saccade programming. He also participated in a symposium on the control of visual attention, organised by RJ Redden and featuring talks from Ray Klein, Bob Swalwell, Ana Chica, Amelia Hunt and RJ himself.
