Influencing the contents of mind from the outside: understanding and utilising stimulus-driven selective attention inside visual working memory

The human brain acts as the interface between the inner (mental) and the outer (physical) worlds. In this project, the researchers will uncover how external visual sensations automatically draw attention to matching internal representations held in visual working memory, and how such externally driven selective memory activation may be utilised to experimentally manipulate the formation of long-term memory traces.