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Excited to be working with Tirta again at Victoria University of Wellington! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Dec 01, 2025</th> <td> Our new paper <a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003546" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“A dynamic spatiotemporal normalization model captures perceptual and neural effects of spatial and temporal context”</a> is now published in PLOS Biology! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Nov 29, 2025</th> <td> I (with Doug and Viola) have a new commentary out in Brain and Behavioral Sciences, responding to Ruth Rosenholtz’s interesting recent article <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X24000323" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“Visual Attention in Crisis”</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Sep 02, 2025</th> <td> I have a new preprint online, coauthored with Melissa (now at EPFL in Switzerland) and Rachel. You can view it on bioRxiv: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.28.672962" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Attention reshapes the representational geometry of a perceptual feature space</a> Data and analysis code are also posted on the <a href="https://github.com/denisonlab/attn_geo" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">project Github repo</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Jun 11, 2025</th> <td> A new paper with Mert and Viola is out in JNeuro, investigating the flexibility of feature-based attention using SSVEPs. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2097-24.2025" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Zooming In and Out: Selective Attention Modulates Color Signals in Early Visual Cortex for Narrow and Broad Ranges of Task-Relevant Features</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Mar 10, 2025</th> <td> My first preprint from my Postdoc is online! Check it out on biorXiv: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.06.641906" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A dynamic spatiotemporal normalization model for continuous vision</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">May 07, 2024</th> <td> Super excited that my review paper <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.01.002" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“Representational structures as a unifying framework for attention”</a> with Viola is now published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or thoughts! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Dec 10, 2022</th> <td> I recently defended my PhD and am getting ready to move to across the country to Boston to work in Rachel Denison’s lab at BU. </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> <footer class="fixed-bottom" role="contentinfo"> <div class="container mt-0"> © Copyright 2026 Angus F. Chapman. 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