Flexibility Retained: Unimpaired Updating of Expectations in Schizophrenia.

Flexibly and actively updating expectations based on feedback is crucial for navigating daily life. Previous research has shown that people with schizophrenia (PSZ) have difficulty adjusting their expectations. However, there are studies suggesting otherwise.

Attention with or without working memory: mnemonic reselection of attended information.

Attention has been regarded as the 'gatekeeper' controlling what information gets selected into working memory. However, a new perspective has emerged with the discovery of attribute amnesia, a phenomenon revealing that people are frequently unable to report information they have just attended to moments ago. This report failure is thought to stem from a lack of consolidating the attended information into working memory, indicating a dissociation between attention and working memory.

Working-Memory-Guided Attention Competes with Exogenous Attention but Not with Endogenous Attention.

Recent research has extensively investigated working memory (WM)-guided attention, which is the phenomenon of attention being directed towards information in the external environment that matches the content stored in WM. While prior studies have focused on the potential influencing factors of WM-guided attention, little is known about the nature of it. This attention system exhibits characteristics of two classical distinct attention systems: exogenous attention and endogenous attention, as it can operate automatically like exogenous attention yet persist for a long time and be modulated by cognitive resources like endogenous attention.

Seeing what's possible: Disconnected visual parts are confused for their potential wholes.

Perception research traditionally investigates how states of the world are seen-how we perceive the shapes, colors, and locations that objects actually have. By contrast, everyday life provokes us to consider states of the world that have not yet (and may not ever) actually obtain. When assembling furniture or completing a jigsaw puzzle, for example, we may appreciate not only the particular shapes of individual objects but also their potential to combine into new objects with distinct shapes of their own.

Intracranial Pressure Sensor and Valve to Control Hydrocephalus.

Hydrocephalus is a neurological condition that can result from trauma, hemorrhage, cancer, and infection. To control the intracranial pressure (ICP) a shunt is implanted to drain the cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF). We are working to develop an implantable pressure sensor.