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Overview

John T. Serences is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego, in the United States. Their work primarily centers on neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience as evidenced by a significant volume of publications in this subfield.

Their research topics span several key areas within neuroscience, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Face recognition and perception
  • Visual attention and saliency detection
  • Neural networks and applications

Serences has contributed extensively to the scientific literature, with a substantial number of publications appearing in well-known journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Serences are:

  • "Attractive serial dependence overcomes repulsive neuronal adaptation," 2022, PLoS Biology
  • "An adaptive perspective on visual working memory distortions," 2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "History Modulates Early Sensory Processing of Salient Distractors," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Shared Representational Formats for Information Maintained in Working Memory and Information Retrieved from Long-Term Memory," 2021, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Classic Visual Search Effects in an Additional Singleton Task: An Open Dataset," 2021, Journal of Cognition

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Kirsten Adam
  • Margaret M. Henderson
  • Timothy C. Sheehan
  • Timothy F. Brady
  • Sirawaj Itthipuripat

Best Publications

  • Stimulus-Specific Delay Activity in Human Primary Visual Cortex

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

  • Transient neural activity in human parietal cortex during spatial attention shifts

    Steven Yantis;Steven Yantis;Jens Schwarzbach;Jens Schwarzbach;John T. Serences;Robert L. Carlson;Robert L. Carlson

  • Selective visual attention and perceptual coherence.

    John T. Serences;Steven Yantis

  • Coordination of voluntary and stimulus-driven attentional control in human cortex

    John T. Serences;Sarah Shomstein;Andrew B. Leber;Xavier Golay;Xavier Golay

  • Cortical mechanisms of space-based and object-based attentional control.

    Steven Yantis;John T Serences

  • Feature-Based Attentional Modulations in the Absence of Direct Visual Stimulation

    John T. Serences;John T. Serences;Geoffrey M. Boynton;Geoffrey M. Boynton

  • Parietal and Frontal Cortex Encode Stimulus-Specific Mnemonic Representations during Visual Working Memory

    Edward F. Ester;Thomas C. Sprague;John T. Serences

  • Value-based modulations in human visual cortex.

    John T. Serences

  • Cortical mechanisms of feature-based attentional control

    Taosheng Liu;Scott D. Slotnick;John T. Serences;Steven Yantis

  • Spatially Selective Representations of Voluntary and Stimulus-Driven Attentional Priority in Human Occipital, Parietal, and Frontal Cortex

    John T. Serences;Steven Yantis

  • Control of object-based attention in human cortex.

    John T. Serences;Jens Schwarzbach;Jens Schwarzbach;Susan M. Courtney;Xavier Golay

  • Attention modulates spatial priority maps in the human occipital, parietal and frontal cortices

    Thomas C Sprague;John T Serences

  • Coexisting representations of sensory and mnemonic information in human visual cortex.

    Rosanne L. Rademaker;Chaipat Chunharas;Chaipat Chunharas;John T. Serences

  • Hierarchical Organization of Human Auditory Cortex: Evidence from Acoustic Invariance in the Response to Intelligible Speech

    Kayoko Okada;Feng Rong;Jon Venezia;William Matchin

  • Restoring Latent Visual Working Memory Representations in Human Cortex

    Thomas C. Sprague;Edward F. Ester;John T. Serences

  • Spatially global representations in human primary visual cortex during working memory maintenance.

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

  • The topography of alpha-band activity tracks the content of spatial working memory.

    Joshua J. Foster;David W. Sutterer;John T. Serences;Edward K. Vogel

  • Area Spt in the Human Planum Temporale Supports Sensory-Motor Integration for Speech Processing

    Gregory Hickok;Kayoko Okada;John T. Serences

  • Alpha-Band Oscillations Enable Spatially and Temporally Resolved Tracking of Covert Spatial Attention

    Joshua J. Foster;David W. Sutterer;John T. Serences;Edward K. Vogel

  • A neural measure of precision in visual working memory

    Edward F. Ester;David E. Anderson;John T. Serences;Edward Awh

  • Domain general mechanisms of perceptual decision making in human cortex.

    Tiffany C. Ho;Scott Brown;John T. Serences

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Awh
Edward Awh University of Chicago
Steven Yantis
Steven Yantis Johns Hopkins University
Edward K. Vogel
Edward K. Vogel University of Chicago
Geoffrey M. Boynton
Geoffrey M. Boynton University of Washington
Tiffany C. Ho
Tiffany C. Ho University of California, San Francisco
Susan M. Courtney
Susan M. Courtney Johns Hopkins University
Zoltán Vidnyánszky
Zoltán Vidnyánszky University of Vienna
Ramesh Srinivasan
Ramesh Srinivasan University of California, Irvine
Birte U. Forstmann
Birte U. Forstmann University of Amsterdam
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam

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