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Edward Awh is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and has a research focus in neuroscience, particularly within cognitive neuroscience. Their work spans various subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, social psychology, and sensory systems. The primary emphasis of their research lies in neural and behavioral psychology studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neural dynamics and brain function, as well as visual perception and processing mechanisms.

Awh has authored numerous papers in prominent scientific venues. Recent publications include:

  • Storage in Visual Working Memory Recruits a Content-Independent Pointer System (2022, Psychological Science)
  • Spatially Guided Distractor Suppression during Visual Search (2021, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • Covert Spatial Attention Speeds Target Individuation (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • Controlling the Flow of Distracting Information in Working Memory (2021, Cerebral Cortex)
  • Multivariate analysis reveals a generalizable human electrophysiological signature of working memory load (2020, Psychophysiology)

The frequent venues of publication reflect the focus on visual and cognitive research including the Journal of Vision, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, and Psychophysiology.

Frequent coauthors include Edward K. Vogel (with two separate counts indicating collaboration of 26 and 11 publications), William Xiang Quan Ngiam, Kirsten Adam, and Joshua J. Foster.

Edward Awh's main research topics encompass:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Cognitive Science and Mapping

The scientist's work contributes primarily to understanding cognitive neuroscience processes, often employing electrophysiological signatures and behavioral paradigms to explore working memory, attention, and perception.

Best Publications

  • Top-down versus bottom-up attentional control: a failed theoretical dichotomy

    Edward Awh;Artem V. Belopolsky;Jan Theeuwes

  • Spatial working memory in humans as revealed by PET

    John Jonides;Edward E. Smith;Robert A. Koeppe;Edward Awh

  • Overlapping mechanisms of attention and spatial working memory.

    Edward Awh;John Jonides

  • Interactions between attention and working memory.

    E. Awh;E.K. Vogel;S.-H. Oh

  • Dissociation of Storage and Rehearsal in Verbal Working Memory: Evidence From Positron Emission Tomography

    Edward Awh;John Jonides;Edward E. Smith;Eric H. Schumacher

  • Stimulus-Specific Delay Activity in Human Primary Visual Cortex

    John T. Serences;Edward F. Ester;Edward K. Vogel;Edward Awh

  • Visual working memory represents a fixed number of items regardless of complexity

    Edward Awh;Brian Barton;Edward Vogel

  • Verbal working memory load affects regional brain activation as measured by pet

    John Jonides;Eric H. Schumacher;Edward E. Smith;Erick J. Lauber

  • Conflict adaptation effects in the absence of executive control

    Ulrich Mayr;Edward Awh;Paul Laurey

  • Spatial versus object working memory: Pet investigations

    Edward E. Smith;John Jonides;Robert A. Koeppe;Edward Awh

  • The Role of Parietal Cortex in Verbal Working Memory

    John Jonides;Eric H. Schumacher;Edward E. Smith;Robert A. Koeppe

  • Working memory and fluid intelligence: capacity, attention control, and secondary memory retrieval.

    Nash Unsworth;Keisuke Fukuda;Edward Awh;Edward K. Vogel

  • Rehearsal in spatial working memory.

    Edward Awh;John Jonides;Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz

  • Quantity, Not Quality: The Relationship between Fluid Intelligence and Working Memory Capacity

    Keisuke Fukuda;Edward Vogel;Ulrich Mayr;Edward Awh

  • Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory.

    Klaus Oberauer;Stephan Lewandowsky;Edward Awh;Gordon D.A. Brown

  • Evidence for split attentional foci.

    Edward Awh;Harold Pashler

  • Factorial Comparison of Working Memory Models

    Ronald van den Berg;Edward Awh;Wei Ji Ma

  • Visual and oculomotor selection: links, causes and implications for spatial attention

    Edward Awh;Katherine M. Armstrong;Tirin Moore

  • The contralateral delay activity as a neural measure of visual working memory.

    Roy Luria;Halely Balaban;Edward Awh;Edward K. Vogel

  • Discrete capacity limits in visual working memory.

    Keisuke Fukuda;Edward Awh;Edward K Vogel

  • The Role of Spatial Selective Attention in Working Memory for Locations: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials

    Edward Awh;Lourdes Anllo-vento;Steven A. Hillyard

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward K. Vogel
Edward K. Vogel University of Chicago
John T. Serences
John T. Serences University of California, San Diego
John Jonides
John Jonides University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nash Unsworth
Nash Unsworth University of Oregon
Ulrich Mayr
Ulrich Mayr University of Oregon
Edward E. Smith
Edward E. Smith Columbia University
Eric H. Schumacher
Eric H. Schumacher Georgia Institute of Technology
Robert A. Koeppe
Robert A. Koeppe University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christian N. L. Olivers
Christian N. L. Olivers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jan Theeuwes
Jan Theeuwes Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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