Stefan Van Der Stigchel

Biographic Data

ID1464659
NAMEStefan Van Der Stigchel
GIVEN NAMESStefan
FAMILY NAMEVan Der Stigchel
SIGNATUREVAN DER STIGCHEL S
AFFILIATIONSUtrecht University
ORCID0000-0002-5918-3521
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Spatial statistical learning of task relevance, rather than stimulus prevalence, improves visual working memory recall

    Open AccessLuzi Xu, Andre Sahakian et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2026

    Our visual environment provides us with more information than we can process. Processing efficiency may be enhanced by leveraging inherent regularities in the environment, such as prioritizing likely target objects over unlikely ones. Although there is evidence that statistical learning improves visual working memory performance, it is unclear whether this improvement occurs through stimulus prevalence (how likely we are to encounter stimuli) or …

  • Effort and salience jointly drive saccade selection

    Open AccessDamian Koevoet, Christoph Strauch et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2025

    Choosing where to move the eyes (’saccade selection’) is one of the most frequent human decisions and fundamentally shapes perception. Currently, saccade selection is thought to be predominantly driven by the observer’s goals, selection history, and by the physical salience of stimuli. Recent work demonstrates that the inherent effort associated with planning and executing saccades (’saccade costs’) also drives saccade selection: participants pre…

  • Understanding Navon

    Open AccessFelix Schweigkofler, Sjoerd Stuit et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2025

    When perceiving visual information, either the local parts or more commonly the global whole can dominate on a perceptual-cognitive level (local/global bias). Using hierarchical figures consisting of smaller local elements forming a larger global shape, researchers have tried to understand how this local–global bias emerges. However, despite extensive research, local–global biases remain an elusive concept (possibly partially due to inadequacies …

  • Shifting reliance between the internal and external world

    Open AccessTianying Qing, Christoph Strauch et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2025

  • The priority state of items in visual working memory determines their influence on early visual processing

    Open AccessD J Wang, Dan Wang et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2025

    Participants can flexibly alter the priority state of different items in visual working memory. • Prioritized items influence early visual processing more than non-prioritized ones. • Flexible prioritization allows for memory-guided behavior with changing task-goals. • Flexible prioritization permits memory-guided behavior in dynamic visual environments. • Previously prioritized items’ influence on perception persists, even if irrelevant. Items h…

  • Mountains of memory in a sea of uncertainty

    Open AccessAndre Sahakian, Surya Gayet et al.ARTICLECognition2023

    A large part of research on visual working memory (VWM) has traditionally focused on estimating its maximum capacity. Yet, humans rarely need to load up their VWM maximally during natural behavior, since visual information often remains accessible in the external world. Recent work, using paradigms that take into account the accessibility of information in the outside world, has indeed shown that observers utilize only one or two items in VWM bef…

  • The priority for access to awareness of information matching VWM is mirror-invariant

    Open AccessYun Ding, Marnix Naber et al.ARTICLECognition2021

  • How retaining objects containing multiple features in visual working memory regulates the priority for access to visual awareness

    Open AccessYun Ding, Marnix Naber et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2021

  • How Attention Works

    Stefan Van Der StigchelBOOKHow Attention Works2019

  • Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Gap‐Overlap Task in 10‐Month‐Old Infants

    Open AccessJanna Cousijn, Roy S Hessels et al.ARTICLEInfancy2017

    Understanding the development of attention is key to understanding cognitive maturation. The gap‐overlap task can be administered at all ages and is widely used to study the development of overt visual attention. However, studies using the gap‐overlap task report different measures and little is known about the tasks’ psychometric properties, especially in infants. We tested the 1‐week test–retest reliability of two frequently used gap‐overlap me…

  • Conditioned fear modulates visual selection

    Manon Mulckhuyse, Geert Crombez et al.ARTICLEEmotion2013

    Eye movements reflect the dynamic interplay between top-down- and bottom-up-driven processes. For example, when we voluntarily move our eyes across the visual field, salient visual stimuli in the environment may capture our attention, our eyes, or modulate the trajectory of an eye movement. Previous research has shown that the behavioral relevance of a salient stimulus modulates these processes. This study investigated whether a stimulus signalin…

  • The influence of synesthesia on eye movements

    Open AccessTanja C W Nijboer, Gabriela Satris et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2011

  • The imbalance of oculomotor capture in unilateral visual neglect

    Open AccessStefan Van Der Stigchel, Tanja C W NijboerARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2010