The mental economy: testing a dynamic trade-off between internal storage and external sampling

Project Information

HOMEOSTASIS

Grant agreement ID: 863732

DOI

10.3030/863732

Project closed

EC signature date 27 March 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (28)

Microsaccade biases can reflect task-specific spatial memorization strategies

Author(s): Samson Chota, Kabir Arora, J. Leon Kenemans, Surya Gayet, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Issue 19, 2025, ISSN 1662-453X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2025.1526213

Eye Movements as Proxy for Visual Working Memory Usage: Increased Reliance on the External World in Korsakoff Syndrome

Author(s): Sanne Böing, Antonia F. Ten Brink, Alex J. Hoogerbrugge, Erik Oudman, Albert Postma, Tanja C. W. Nijboer, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Journal of Clinical Medicine, Issue 12, 2023, Page(s) 3630, ISSN 2077-0383
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/jcm12113630

Shifting reliance between the internal and external world: A meta-analysis on visual-working memory use

Author(s): Tianying Qing, Christoph Strauch, Leendert Van Maanen, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Issue 32, 2025, Page(s) 1118-1130, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-024-02623-z

Saliency models perform best for women’s and young adults' fixations

Author(s): Christoph Strauch, Alex J. Hoogerbrugge, Gregor Baer, Ignace T. C. Hooge, Tanja C. W. Nijboer, Sjoerd M. Stuit, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Communications Psychology, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2731-9121
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44271-023-00035-8

Decoding binary decisions under differential target probabilities from pupil dilation: A random forest approach

Author(s): Christoph Strauch, Teresa Hirzle, Stefan Van der Stigchel, Andreas Bulling
Published in: Journal of Vision, Issue 21, 2023, Page(s) 6, ISSN 1534-7362
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
DOI: 10.1167/jov.21.7.6

Applying machine learning to dissociate between stroke patients and healthy controls using eye movement features obtained from a virtual reality task

Author(s): Alex Hoogerbrugge; Brouwer, Veerle H.E.W.; Stuit, Sjoerd; Ten Brink, Antonia F.; Gosselt, Isabel K.; Van der Stigchel, Stefan; Nijboer, Tanja C.W.
Published in: Heliyon, Issue Volume 8, Issue 4, 2022, Page(s) e09207, ISSN 2405-8440
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09207

A matter of availability: Sharper tuning for memorized than for perceived stimulus features.

Author(s): Samson Chota, Surya Gayet, J. Leon Kenemans, Christian N.L. Olivers, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Journal of Vision, Issue 23, 2023, Page(s) 5213, ISSN 1534-7362
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
DOI: 10.1167/jov.23.9.5213

Effort and salience jointly drive saccade selection

Author(s): Damian Koevoet, Christoph Strauch, Marnix Naber, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Issue 32, 2025, Page(s) 2363-2374, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02701-w

Don't hide the instruction manual: A dynamic trade-off between using internal and external templates during visual search

Author(s): Alex J. Hoogerbrugge, Christoph Strauch, Tanja C. W. Nijboer, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Journal of Vision, Issue 23, 2023, Page(s) 14, ISSN 1534-7362
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
DOI: 10.1167/jov.23.7.14

The orienting response drives pseudoneglect-Evidence from an objective pupillometric method.

Author(s): Strauch, C.; Romein, Christophe; Naber, Marnix; van der Stigchel, Stefan; Ten Brink, AF; Experimental Psychology (onderzoeksprogramma PF); Helmholtz Institute; Leerstoel Stigchel; Leerstoel Dijkerman; Afd Psychologische functieleer
Published in: VOLUME=151;STARTPAGE=259;ISSN=0010-9452;TITLE=Cortex, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.03.006

The Intensity of Internal and External Attention Assessed with Pupillometry

Author(s): Damian Koevoet, Marnix Naber, Christoph Strauch, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Journal of Cognition, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 8, ISSN 2514-4820
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
DOI: 10.5334/joc.336

Decoding binary decisions under differential target probabilities from pupil dilation: A random forest approach

Author(s): Christoph Strauch Teresa Hirzle Stefan Van der Stigchel Andreas Bulling
Published in: Journal of Vision, Issue 21(7), 2021, Page(s) 6, ISSN 1534-7362
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
DOI: 10.1167/jov.21.7.6.

Inspecting the external world: Memory capacity, but not memory self-efficacy, predicts offloading in working memory

Author(s): Sanne Böing, Antonia F. Ten Brink, Carla Ruis, Zoë A. Schielen, Esther Van den Berg, J. Matthijs Biesbroek, Tanja C. W. Nijboer, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Issue 46, 2025, Page(s) 943-965, ISSN 1380-3395
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2024.2447263

Steady-state Visual Evoked Potentials Reveal Dynamic (Re)allocation of Spatial Attention during Maintenance and Utilization of Visual Working Memory

Author(s): Samson Chota, Arnaud T. Bruat, Stefan Van der Stigchel, Christoph Strauch
Published in: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Issue 36, 2024, Page(s) 800-814, ISSN 0898-929X
Publisher: Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02107

Seeing the Forrest through the trees:Oculomotor metrics are linked to heart rate

Author(s): Hoogerbrugge, Alex J.; Strauch, Christoph; Oláh, Zoril A.; Dalmaijer, Edwin S.; Nijboer, Tanja C. W.; Stigchel, Stefan Van der; Leerstoel Stigchel; Helmholtz Institute; Experimental Psychology (onderzoeksprogramma PF); Afd Psychologische functieleer; Leerstoel Postma
Published in: urn:issn:1932-6203, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272349

Revealing visual working memory operations with pupillometry: Encoding, maintenance, and prioritization

Author(s): Damian Koevoet, Christoph Strauch, Stefan Van der Stigchel, Sebastiaan Mathôt, Marnix Naber
Published in: WIREs Cognitive Science, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 1939-5078
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1668

Persistent resampling of external information despite 25 repetitions of the same visual search templates

Author(s): Alex J. Hoogerbrugge, Christoph Strauch, Tanja C. W. Nijboer, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Issue 86, 2024, Page(s) 2301-2314, ISSN 1943-3921
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-024-02953-z

Bilateral increase in MEG planar gradients prior to saccade onset

Author(s): Jasper H. Fabius, Alessio Fracasso, Michele Deodato, David Melcher, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-32980-z

A nasal visual field advantage in interocular competition

Author(s): Sahakian, Andre; Paffen, Chris; van der Stigchel, Stefan; Gayet, Surya; Experimental Psychology (onderzoeksprogramma PF); Helmholtz Institute; Leerstoel Stigchel; Afd Psychologische functieleer
Published in: Scientific Reports, 12, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08473-w

The Costs of Paying Overt and Covert Attention Assessed with Pupillometry

Author(s): Damian Koevoet, Christoph Strauch, Marnix Naber, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Journal of Vision, Issue 23, 2023, Page(s) 4883, ISSN 1534-7362
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
DOI: 10.1167/jov.23.9.4883

Mountains of memory in a sea of uncertainty: Sampling the external world despite useful information in visual working memory

Author(s): Andre Sahakian, Surya Gayet, Chris L.E. Paffen, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Cognition, Issue 234, 2023, Page(s) 105381, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105381

Presaccadic Attention Shifts Up‐ and Downwards: Evidence From the Pupil Light Response

Author(s): Damian Koevoet, Marnix Naber, Christoph Strauch, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Psychophysiology, Issue 62, 2025, ISSN 0048-5772
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.70047

Just-in-Time Encoding Into Visual Working Memory Is Contingent Upon Constant Availability of External Information

Author(s): Alex J. Hoogerbrugge, Christoph Strauch, Sanne Böing, Tanja C. W. Nijboer, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Journal of Cognition, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 39, ISSN 2514-4820
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
DOI: 10.5334/joc.364

Attention rhythmically samples multi-feature objects in working memory

Author(s): Samson Chota, Carlo Leto, Laura van Zantwijk, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-18819-z

Future steps in visual working memory research

Author(s): Christian N. L. Olivers, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Visual Cognition, Issue 28, 2021, Page(s) 325-329, ISSN 1350-6285
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2020.1833478

No evidence for social factors in the overestimation of individuals from minority groups.

Author(s): Surya Gayet; Andre Sahakian; Chris L. E. Paffen; Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: urn:issn:0027-8424, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2214740119

Differential aspects of attention predict the depth of visual working memory encoding: Evidence from pupillometry

Author(s): Damian Koevoet, Marnix Naber, Christoph Strauch, Rosyl S. Somai, Stefan Van der Stigchel
Published in: Journal of Vision, Issue 23, 2023, Page(s) 9, ISSN 1534-7362
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
DOI: 10.1167/jov.23.6.9

Pupillometry as an integrated readout of distinct attentional networks

Author(s): Strauch, C.; Wang, Chin-An; Einhäuser, Wolfgang; van der Stigchel, Stefan; Naber, Marnix; Leerstoel Stigchel; Helmholtz Institute; Experimental Psychology (onderzoeksprogramma PF)
Published in: Trends in Neurosciences, 45(8), 635. Elsevier Limited, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0166-2236
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2022.05.003