Surya Gayet

Biographic Data

ID7523320
NAMESurya Gayet
GIVEN NAMESSurya
FAMILY NAMEGayet
SIGNATUREGAYET S
AFFILIATIONSUtrecht University
ORCID0000-0001-9728-1272
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
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 …

  • 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…

  • Scene context automatically drives predictions of object transformations

    Open AccessGiacomo Aldegheri, Surya Gayet et al.ARTICLECognition2023

    As our viewpoint changes, the whole scene around us rotates coherently. This allows us to predict how one part of a scene (e.g., an object) will change by observing other parts (e.g., the scene background). While human object perception is known to be strongly context-dependent, previous research has largely focused on how scene context can disambiguate fixed object properties, such as identity (e.g., a car is easier to recognize on a road than o…

  • Physiological arousal underlies preferential access to visual awareness of fear-conditioned (and possibly disgust-conditioned) stimuli

    Piotr Litwin, Paweł Motyka et al.ARTICLEEmotion2023

    Fear and disgust have been associated with opposite influences on visual processing, even though both constitute negative emotions that motivate avoidance behavior and entail increased arousal. In the current study, we hypothesized that (a) homeostatic relevance modulates early stages of visual processing, (b) through widespread physiological responses, and that (c) the direction of these modulations depends on whether an emotion calls for immedi…

  • 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