Mandy Viktoria Bartsch

Colourful predictive templates in early visual cortex

The paper shows that early visual cortex pre-activates color information before a stimulus appears, using high-temporal-resolution brain recordings and decoding analyses.

An ecological origin of the asymmetry of human color discrimination: evidence from psychophysics, MEG, and deep neural networks

The paper shows human color discrimination asymmetry arises from ecological color statistics, supported by psychophysics, MEG, and deep neural networks.

Broadband high frequency Activity initializes Distractor Suppression

The paper shows broadband high-frequency activity (BHA) predicts distractor suppression and performance in visual search tasks, indicating its role in initiating selective attention.

Serial attentional resource allocation during parallel feature value tracking

This study investigates the precision of tracking two changing color streams and finds imbalanced tracking precision and time-varying attentional allocation between them.

Attention expedites target selection by prioritizing the neural processing of distractor features

The paper shows that prioritized processing of distractor colors speeds up target identification by enhancing neural gain and then attenuating distractors.

Local sleep during mind-wandering enhances processes of spatial attention allocation

The paper investigates how mind-wandering during local sleep affects visual attention and finds that attentional selection improves despite reduced cortical processing of external stimuli.

Decoding the covert shift of spatial attention from electroencephalographic signals permits reliable control of a brain-computer interface

This paper introduces a BCI method that decodes covert spatial attention from EEG signals, achieving reliable control without requiring eye movements or multiple stimulus presentations.