Dani Gresch
@danielagresch.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at the Scene Grammar Lab studying attention, working memory, and temporal expectations
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Dani Gresch
@danielagresch.bsky.social
· Oct 19
📣 Out in TINS (@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social):
Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
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We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe!
Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you!
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Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you!
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Postdoctoral Fellow Visual Attention Lab
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January 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe!
Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you!
massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...
Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you!
massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...
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Interested in studying Neurocognitive Psychology? The application period for this excellent Master's program at LMU Munich is starting NOW! Apply here: www.lmu.de/psy/de/studi...
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Interested in studying Neurocognitive Psychology? The application period for this excellent Master's program at LMU Munich is starting NOW! Apply here: www.lmu.de/psy/de/studi...
Worth checking out this paper showing how we can use temporal expectations to shift between different search templates 🔎
Our latest publication is now available in early access!
Utilising our RSPP procedure and the N2pc, we trace covert switches between separate attentional templates in real time, revealing exactly when observers swap from one template to another.
doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
Utilising our RSPP procedure and the N2pc, we trace covert switches between separate attentional templates in real time, revealing exactly when observers swap from one template to another.
doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
Rapid Changes of Attentional Priorities in Visual Search: Tracking Covert Switches of Preparatory Attentional Templates in Real Time
Abstract. Attentional selectivity focuses on what is currently relevant. Relevance changes frequently in everyday life, triggering rapid reassignments of attentional priorities. Such reassignments are...
doi.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Worth checking out this paper showing how we can use temporal expectations to shift between different search templates 🔎
Reposted by Dani Gresch
🚀 New preprint alert 🚀
How easily can working memory create interference in long-term memories? Our new preprint, Interference Across Memory Systems: Disrupting Long-Term Memories Through Working Memory examines this
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w/ @sahcan.bsky.social Anna Lena Mantei, Daniel Schneider
How easily can working memory create interference in long-term memories? Our new preprint, Interference Across Memory Systems: Disrupting Long-Term Memories Through Working Memory examines this
osf.io/preprints/ps...
w/ @sahcan.bsky.social Anna Lena Mantei, Daniel Schneider
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November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🚀 New preprint alert 🚀
How easily can working memory create interference in long-term memories? Our new preprint, Interference Across Memory Systems: Disrupting Long-Term Memories Through Working Memory examines this
osf.io/preprints/ps...
w/ @sahcan.bsky.social Anna Lena Mantei, Daniel Schneider
How easily can working memory create interference in long-term memories? Our new preprint, Interference Across Memory Systems: Disrupting Long-Term Memories Through Working Memory examines this
osf.io/preprints/ps...
w/ @sahcan.bsky.social Anna Lena Mantei, Daniel Schneider
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Thrilled to say that we’re now officially led by a multi-award-winning PI – congratulations Sage on being awarded the Women in Neuroscience UK Rising Star Award for Early Group Leaders! #WiNUKAwards2025
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Thrilled to say that we’re now officially led by a multi-award-winning PI – congratulations Sage on being awarded the Women in Neuroscience UK Rising Star Award for Early Group Leaders! #WiNUKAwards2025
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Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search
Internal and external selection processes can codevelop in time to yield efficient search behavior.
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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🌟 We’re delighted to announce Dr Sage Boettcher (@ox.ac.uk) as the Rising Star: Early Group Leader winner at the #WiNUKAwards2025!
Sage leads the Dynamic Cognition Lab, studying how attention and memory interact to guide behaviour. A dedicated mentor, teacher, and advocate for inclusive science.
Sage leads the Dynamic Cognition Lab, studying how attention and memory interact to guide behaviour. A dedicated mentor, teacher, and advocate for inclusive science.
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🌟 We’re delighted to announce Dr Sage Boettcher (@ox.ac.uk) as the Rising Star: Early Group Leader winner at the #WiNUKAwards2025!
Sage leads the Dynamic Cognition Lab, studying how attention and memory interact to guide behaviour. A dedicated mentor, teacher, and advocate for inclusive science.
Sage leads the Dynamic Cognition Lab, studying how attention and memory interact to guide behaviour. A dedicated mentor, teacher, and advocate for inclusive science.
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New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent.
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📣 Out in TINS (@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social):
Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
October 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
📣 Out in TINS (@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social):
Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
Reposted by Dani Gresch
Spatial attention and working memory are popularly thought to be tightly coupled. Yet, distinct neural activity tracks attentional breadth and WM load.
In a new paper @jocn.bsky.social, we show that pupil size independently tracks breadth and load.
doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
In a new paper @jocn.bsky.social, we show that pupil size independently tracks breadth and load.
doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
October 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Spatial attention and working memory are popularly thought to be tightly coupled. Yet, distinct neural activity tracks attentional breadth and WM load.
In a new paper @jocn.bsky.social, we show that pupil size independently tracks breadth and load.
doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
In a new paper @jocn.bsky.social, we show that pupil size independently tracks breadth and load.
doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
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Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
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New paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’!
Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves!
Demos in thread👇
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Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves!
Demos in thread👇
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October 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’!
Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves!
Demos in thread👇
[1/6]
Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves!
Demos in thread👇
[1/6]
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We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.
September 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.
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Kohl et al. report that sensorimotor network dynamics can distinguish patients with Parkinson’s disease from controls and highlight the importance of network context of motor cortical activations.
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#Parkinsons
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#Parkinsons
September 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Kohl et al. report that sensorimotor network dynamics can distinguish patients with Parkinson’s disease from controls and highlight the importance of network context of motor cortical activations.
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#Parkinsons
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#Parkinsons
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How the brain shifts between external and internal attention
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#neuroscience
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#neuroscience
How the brain shifts between external and internal attention
Nobre and Gresch call for an upgrade of attention research by considering how the
brain shifts its focus between contents in the external sensory stream and internal
memory representations. They highl...
www.cell.com
July 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
How the brain shifts between external and internal attention
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#neuroscience
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#neuroscience
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Great perspective!👏
My thoughts:
- we should stop saying 'attention lapses', they are 'attention shifts'
- what % of motor imagery M\EEG signal is internal attention? what % of Libet's readiness potential is internal attention?🤔
- individual differences in shifts may be relevant for many tasks
My thoughts:
- we should stop saying 'attention lapses', they are 'attention shifts'
- what % of motor imagery M\EEG signal is internal attention? what % of Libet's readiness potential is internal attention?🤔
- individual differences in shifts may be relevant for many tasks
Out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social now! Kia and I argue that attention research would benefit from a stronger focus on how the brain shifts between external and internal attention. We outline competing hypotheses, review existing behavioral and neural findings, and highlight open questions.
How the brain shifts between external and internal attention
Focusing on relevant contents to guide adaptive behavior is a core property of the brain. For decades, scientists have investigated mechanisms to anti…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Great perspective!👏
My thoughts:
- we should stop saying 'attention lapses', they are 'attention shifts'
- what % of motor imagery M\EEG signal is internal attention? what % of Libet's readiness potential is internal attention?🤔
- individual differences in shifts may be relevant for many tasks
My thoughts:
- we should stop saying 'attention lapses', they are 'attention shifts'
- what % of motor imagery M\EEG signal is internal attention? what % of Libet's readiness potential is internal attention?🤔
- individual differences in shifts may be relevant for many tasks
Reposted by Dani Gresch
This project has only been possible through a real team effort!
In the same spirit, we hope these resources continue to grow, and we really welcome any feedback or contributions to help us improve and expand what we've shared.
In the same spirit, we hope these resources continue to grow, and we really welcome any feedback or contributions to help us improve and expand what we've shared.
☁️ Thinking of moving your VR experiments online but not sure where to start? ☁️
We’ve put together a tutorial sharing what we’ve learned, including code and step-by-step practical notebooks.
osf.io/hax47_v1
We’ve put together a tutorial sharing what we’ve learned, including code and step-by-step practical notebooks.
osf.io/hax47_v1
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July 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This project has only been possible through a real team effort!
In the same spirit, we hope these resources continue to grow, and we really welcome any feedback or contributions to help us improve and expand what we've shared.
In the same spirit, we hope these resources continue to grow, and we really welcome any feedback or contributions to help us improve and expand what we've shared.
Out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social now! Kia and I argue that attention research would benefit from a stronger focus on how the brain shifts between external and internal attention. We outline competing hypotheses, review existing behavioral and neural findings, and highlight open questions.
How the brain shifts between external and internal attention
Focusing on relevant contents to guide adaptive behavior is a core property of the brain. For decades, scientists have investigated mechanisms to anti…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social now! Kia and I argue that attention research would benefit from a stronger focus on how the brain shifts between external and internal attention. We outline competing hypotheses, review existing behavioral and neural findings, and highlight open questions.
Reposted by Dani Gresch
Online now:
How the brain shifts between external and internal attention
Nobre and Gresch call for an upgrade of attention research by considering how the brain shifts its focus between contents in the external sensory stream and internal memory representations. They highlight competing hypotheses, review the few experimental attempts and findings, propose candidate neural mechanisms, and identify major open questions.
dlvr.it
July 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Online now:
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Looking for a summer read? Look no further! ☀️
Our most recent paper with Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social and @kianobre.bsky.social is out @plosbiology.org! 🪩
Sensory and motor working-memory contents are both prioritised dynamically, but their prioritisation can be temporally decoupled 🧠
Our most recent paper with Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social and @kianobre.bsky.social is out @plosbiology.org! 🪩
Sensory and motor working-memory contents are both prioritised dynamically, but their prioritisation can be temporally decoupled 🧠
Sensory and motor contents are prioritized dynamically in working memory
Attention flexibly modulates sensory contents in working memory, but the dynamics of motor content modulation in working memory remain unclear. This study shows that brain representations of both sens...
journals.plos.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Looking for a summer read? Look no further! ☀️
Our most recent paper with Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social and @kianobre.bsky.social is out @plosbiology.org! 🪩
Sensory and motor working-memory contents are both prioritised dynamically, but their prioritisation can be temporally decoupled 🧠
Our most recent paper with Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social and @kianobre.bsky.social is out @plosbiology.org! 🪩
Sensory and motor working-memory contents are both prioritised dynamically, but their prioritisation can be temporally decoupled 🧠
Reposted by Dani Gresch
Dani provides a comprehensive overview of our newest work, out now in JoN. We are so proud to see this work out – and big shout out to Dani and Larissa for leading the charge!
📢 New paper out in JoN [@sfnjournals.bsky.social]! With Larissa, Freek [@freekvanede.bsky.social], Kia [@brognition.bsky.social] and Sage [@dynacog-lab.bsky.social], we ask which and when WM contents get reselected after an interrupting external-attention task. 🧵 below (1|9) doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
Neural Dynamics of Reselecting Visual and Motor Contents in Working Memory after External Interference
In everyday tasks, we must often shift our focus away from internal representations held in working memory to engage with perceptual events in the external world. Here, we investigated how our interna...
doi.org
May 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Dani provides a comprehensive overview of our newest work, out now in JoN. We are so proud to see this work out – and big shout out to Dani and Larissa for leading the charge!
📢 New paper out in JoN [@sfnjournals.bsky.social]! With Larissa, Freek [@freekvanede.bsky.social], Kia [@brognition.bsky.social] and Sage [@dynacog-lab.bsky.social], we ask which and when WM contents get reselected after an interrupting external-attention task. 🧵 below (1|9) doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
Neural Dynamics of Reselecting Visual and Motor Contents in Working Memory after External Interference
In everyday tasks, we must often shift our focus away from internal representations held in working memory to engage with perceptual events in the external world. Here, we investigated how our interna...
doi.org
May 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
📢 New paper out in JoN [@sfnjournals.bsky.social]! With Larissa, Freek [@freekvanede.bsky.social], Kia [@brognition.bsky.social] and Sage [@dynacog-lab.bsky.social], we ask which and when WM contents get reselected after an interrupting external-attention task. 🧵 below (1|9) doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
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New preprint alert from our very own @gwenlliams.bsky.social 🚨
🎉 Excited to share the first preprint from my PhD research!
Huge thank yous to Sage Boettcher (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social) and Kia Nobre (@brognition.bsky.social) and everyone else that supported this work!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge thank yous to Sage Boettcher (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social) and Kia Nobre (@brognition.bsky.social) and everyone else that supported this work!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Feature-temporal predictions dynamically modulate performance, feature-based attentional capture, and motor response activity during visual search
Recent research has investigated visual search in dynamic environments and considered how temporal predictions modulate behaviour over time. Spatiotemporal predictions have been shown to adaptively gu...
www.biorxiv.org
April 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New preprint alert from our very own @gwenlliams.bsky.social 🚨
Reposted by Dani Gresch
🎉 Excited to share the first preprint from my PhD research!
Huge thank yous to Sage Boettcher (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social) and Kia Nobre (@brognition.bsky.social) and everyone else that supported this work!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge thank yous to Sage Boettcher (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social) and Kia Nobre (@brognition.bsky.social) and everyone else that supported this work!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Feature-temporal predictions dynamically modulate performance, feature-based attentional capture, and motor response activity during visual search
Recent research has investigated visual search in dynamic environments and considered how temporal predictions modulate behaviour over time. Spatiotemporal predictions have been shown to adaptively gu...
www.biorxiv.org
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🎉 Excited to share the first preprint from my PhD research!
Huge thank yous to Sage Boettcher (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social) and Kia Nobre (@brognition.bsky.social) and everyone else that supported this work!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge thank yous to Sage Boettcher (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social) and Kia Nobre (@brognition.bsky.social) and everyone else that supported this work!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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@danielagresch.bsky.social presented her latest work about visual and motor working memories retrieval using EEG. She showed exciting results both from visual and motor oscillatory results.
@danielagresch.bsky.social presented her latest work about visual and motor working memories retrieval using EEG. She showed exciting results both from visual and motor oscillatory results.
March 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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@danielagresch.bsky.social presented her latest work about visual and motor working memories retrieval using EEG. She showed exciting results both from visual and motor oscillatory results.
@danielagresch.bsky.social presented her latest work about visual and motor working memories retrieval using EEG. She showed exciting results both from visual and motor oscillatory results.