Research

News and updates

• Please visit my symposium: "The influences of Multisensory Integration and Attention on Each Other" at the twelfth International Multisensory Research Forum in Fukuoka, Japan, June 17-20 October, 2011.
• I will be attending the summerschool "Function of Attention in Cognition", in Berlin, July, 18-22, 2011.

New Papers

• Staufenbiel, S., Van der Lubbe, R. J. H., and Talsma, D. (in press). Spatially Uninformative Sounds Increase Sensitivity for Visual Motion Change. Experimental Brain Research
• Mulckhuyse, M., Belopolski, A. V., Heslenfeld, D., Talsma, D. and Theeuwes, J. (in press). Distribution of Attention Modulates Salience Signals in Early Visual Cortex. PLos one
• Diamantopoulou, S., Poom, L., Klaver, P., and Talsma, D. (in press). Visual Working Memory Capacity and Stimulus Categories: A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Investigation, Experimental Brain Research
• Talsma, D., Sikkens, J., and  Theeuwes, J. (in press). Stay Tuned: What is Special about not Shifting Attention? PLoS one
• Van der Burg, E., Talsma, D., Olivers, C. N. L., Hickey, C. M., and Theeuwes, J. (in press), Early Multisensory Interactions Affect the Competition Among Multiple Visual Objects. NeuroImage.

 

 

Publications

1. Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Staufenbiel, S., Van der Lubbe, R. J. H., and Talsma, D. (in press). Spatially Uninformative Sounds Increase Sensitivity for Visual Motion Change. Experimental Brain Research.
• Mulckhuyse, M., Belopolski, A. V., Heslenfeld, D., Talsma, D. and Theeuwes, J. (2011). Distribution of attention modulates salience signals in early visual cortex. PLos one, 6(5), e20379.
• Diamantopoulou, S., Poom, L., Klaver, P., and Talsma, D. (2011). Visual Working Memory Capacity and Stimulus Categories: A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Investigation, Experimental Brain Research, 209, 501-513.
• Talsma, D., Sikkens, J., and  Theeuwes, J. (2011). Stay Tuned: What is Special about not Shifting Attention? PLoS one, 6(3), e16829..
• Van der Burg, E., Talsma, D., Olivers, C. N. L., Hickey, C. M., and Theeuwes, J. (2011), Early Multisensory Interactions Affect the Competition Among Multiple Visual Objects. NeuroImage, 55, 1208-1218.
• Talsma, D., Senkowski, D., Soto-Faraco, S., and Woldorff M. G., (2010), The multifaceted interplay between attention and multisensory integration, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14, 400-410.
• Talsma, D., Coe, B., Munoz, D. P., and Theeuwes, J. (2010). Brain Structures involved in Visual Search in the Presence and Absence of Color Singletons. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 761-774
• Talsma, D., Senkowski, D., and Woldorff, M.G. (2009). Intermodal Attention Affects the Processing of the Temporal Alignment of Audiovisual Stimuli. Experimental Brain Research,  198, 313-328
• Van der Burg, E., Olivers, C.N.L., Bronkhorst, A.W., Talsma, D., and Theeuwes, J. (2008). Multisensory synchrony guides attention in cluttered dynamic environments. Visual Cognition, 16(8), 140-144
• Talsma, D.  (2008). Auto-Adaptive Averaging: Detecting Artifacts in Event-Related Potential Data Using a Fully Automated Procedure, Psychophysiology, 45, 216-228
• Talsma, D., Slagter, H.A., Cipriani, G., and Kok, A. (2008). Attentional Orienting Across the Sensory Modalities.  Brain & Cognition, 67, 1-10.
• Talsma, D., Mulckhuyse, M., and Theeuwes, J. (2007). Faster, more intense! The Relation between Electrophysiological Reflections of Attentional Orienting, Sensory Gain Control, and Speed of Responding, Brain research, 1178, 92-105.
• Mulckhuyse, M., Talsma, D., and Theeuwes, J. (2007). Grabbing attention without knowing: Automatic capture of attention by subliminal spatial cues. Visual Cognition, 15(7), 779-788.
• Talsma, D., Doty, T.J., and Woldorff, M.G. (2007). Selective Attention and Audiovisual Integration: Is Attending to Both Modalities a Prerequisite for Optimal Early Integration? Cerebral Cortex, 17, 691-701.
• Senkowski, D., Talsma, D., Grigutsch, M., Herrmann, C., and Woldorff, M.G. (2007). Good Times for Multisensory Integration: Audiovisual Processing in the oscillatory gamma-band.  Neurospychologia, 45 (3), 561 – 571.
• Talsma, D. Doty, T.J, Strowd, R., and Woldorff, M.G. (2006). Attentional Capacity for Processing Concurrent Stimuli is Larger Across Sensory Modalities than Within a Modality. Psychophysiology, 43, 541-549.
• Talsma, D., Kok, A., and Ridderinkhof, K. R. (2006).  Visual Attention to Spatial and Non-Spatial Visual Stimuli is affected differentially by Age: Effects on Event-Related Brain Potentials and Performance Data. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 62, 249-261.
• Senkowski, D., Talsma, D., Herrman, C., and Woldorff, M.G. (2005). Multisensory processing and oscillatory gamma responses: Effects of selective spatial attention. Experimental Brain Research. 166, 411–426.
• Talsma, D., Slagter, H.A., Nieuwenhuis, S. T., Hage, J., and Kok, A. (2005). The Orienting of Visuospatial Attention: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 117 – 129.
• Slagter, H. A., Kok, A., Mol, N., Talsma, D., and Kenemans, J. L., (2005). Generating Spatial and Non-Spatial Attentional Control: An ERP Study. Psychophysiology, 42(4), 428-39.
• Talsma, D. and Woldorff, M.G. (2005). Selective attention and Multisensory Integration: Multiple phases of effects on the evoked brain activity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(7), 1098-1114.
• Bekker, E. M., Kenemans, J. L., Hoeksma, M. R., Talsma, D, and Verbaten, M. N. (2005).  The pure electrophysiology of stopping. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 55(2), 191-198.
• Talsma D. and Kok A. (2002). Intermodal spatial attention differs between vision and audition: An event-related potential analysis. Psychophysiology, 39, 689–706.
• Nieuwenhuis, S., Ridderinkhof, K.R., Talsma, D., Coles, M.G.H., Kok, A., and Van der Molen (2002). A computational account of altered error processing in older age: Dopamine and the error-related negativity. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2(1), 19-36.
• Talsma, D. and Kok A. (2001). Non-Spatial Intermodal Attention is Mediated by Sensory Brain Areas: Evidence from Event Related Potentials. Psychophysiology, 38, 736-751.
• Talsma, D., Wijers, A.A., Klaver, P., and Mulder, G. (2001) Working Memory Processes Show Different Degrees of Lateralization: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. Psychophysiology, 38, 425-439.
• Klaver, P. Talsma, D., Wijers, A.A., Heinze, H-J, and Mulder, G. (1999). An event-related brain potential correlate of visual short-term memory. Neuroreport, 10, 2001-2005.

 

2. Book Chapters

• Talsma, D., Senkowski, D., Soto-Faraco, S., and Woldorff M. G., (in preparation). The influence of top-down attention on Multisensory processing. To appear in: Stein, B.E., et al. (Eds.) Handbook of Multisensory Processes (2nd edition). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Talsma, D., and Van Harmelen, A.-L. (2009). Procedures for optimizing signal-to-noise ratio in Event-related Potential data. In: Handy, T. (Ed.) Brain Signal Analysis: Advances in Bioelectric and Biomagnetic Methods. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Talsma, D. and Woldorff, M.G. (2005). Methods for the Estimation and Removal of Artifacts and Overlap in ERP data. In: Handy, T. (Ed.) Event-related potentials:  A methods handbook.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press. Pp 115-148.
• Kok, A. and Talsma, D. (1997). Aging and Inhibition: multiple inhibitory systems. In: G.J.M. van Boxtel and K.B.E. Böcker (Eds.). Brain and Behavior: Past Present and Future Tilburg, Tilburg University Press.
• Kok, A. and Talsma, D. (1997). Aging and Inhibition: multiple inhibitory systems. In: M. Falkenstein, J. Hohnsbein, & P. Ullsperger (Eds.). Cognitive changes due to aging and fatigue as revealed in Electrical Brain Activity. (pp. 100-111), Berlin, BAUA.

 

3. Other Publications

• Talsma, D., Klaver, P., Poom, L., and Diamantopoulou, S. (2010). Visual Working Memory Capacity and Stimulus Categories: A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Investigation. Society for Neuroscience. Proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting, San Diego, Ca, USA. November 12-17, 2010.
• Talsma, D., van Harmelen, A.-L., & Theeuwes, J. (2009). Rapid Reorienting of Attention As Reflected in an N2pc Event-Related Potential Component. Winter conference of the Netherlands Psychonomic Society (Nederlandse vereniging voor Psychonomie: NVP), December, 2009, Egmond aan Zee.
• Van der Burg, E., Talsma, D., Olivers, C.N.L., Hickey, C. & Theeuwes, J. (2009). Non-Spatial Auditory Signals Drive Spatial Visual Search Very Early and Automatically: An ERP Study. Winterconference of the Netherlands Psychonomic Society (Nederlandse vereniging voor Psychonomie: NVP), December, 2009, Egmond aan Zee.
• Olivers, C.N.L, van der Burg, E., Talsma D., et al., 2009, Early Multisensory Interactions Affect the Competition Among Multiple Visual Objects: An EEG Study of the Pip and Pop effect. Psychophysiology, 46, S20.
• Talsma, D. Low but Accurate Detection Rates for Small Degrees of AudiovisualAsynchrony. International multisensory research forum, New York , NY, July 2009.
• Talsma, D., Van der Burg, E., Olivers, C. N. L., and Theeuwes, J. (2008). Multisensory integration causes non-informative auditory stimuli to facilitate visual search: An event-related potential investigation of the “Pip and Pop” phenomenon. International multisensory research forum, Hamburg, July 2008.
• Munoz, D.P., Theeuwes, J., Isa, T., Itti, L., Berg, D., Peters, R., Tseng, P.-H., Ikeda, T., Kaneda, K., Kato, R., Phongphanpanee, P., Yoshida, M., Mulckhuyse, M., Talsma, D., Boehnke, S., Cameron, I., Marino, R., & White, B. (2008). Neural Substrate of Bottom-up and Top-Down Visual Attentional Integration. Annual Human Frontiers Science Foundation meeting, Berlin, Germany.
• Talsma, D. Sikkens, J.J., Theeuwes, J. (2007). A case for the stay-central cue: An event-related potential investigation of attentional switch vs. no-switch processes. Winterconference of the Netherlands Psychonomic Society (Nederlandse vereniging voor Psychonomie: NVP), December, 2007, Egmond aan Zee.
• White, B. Boehnke, S., Marino, R., Talsma, D., Itti, L., Theeuwes, J., and Munuz, D. P. Competition between exogenous and endogenous signals revealed by saccade latency and saccade curvature in the Monkey. Proceedings of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) meeting, May 2007, Sarasota, FL, USA.
• Talsma, D., Mulckhuyse, M., Slagter, H. A., and Theeuwes, J. (2007). Faster, more intense! The Relation between Electrophysiological Reflections of Attentional Orienting, Sensory Gain Control, and Speed of Responding, Proceedings of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) meeting, May 2007, Sarasota, FL, USA.
• Talsma, D., Mulckhuyse, M., Slagter, H. A., and Theeuwes, J. (2007). Faster, more intense! The Relation between Electrophysiological Reflections of Attentional Orienting, Sensory Gain Control, and Speed of Responding, Proceedings of the International Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)  meeting, May 2007, New York, NY, USA
• Schweizer, T. S., Deijen, J. B., Heslenfeld, D., Nieuwenhuis, S., and Talsma, D. (2006). Functional magnetic resonance imaging of brain activity during rigid versus creative thought processes in obsessive-compulsive patients. Proceedings of the International Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) meeting, April 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Talsma, D., Grent-‘t-Jong, T., Karp, C., and Woldorff, M.G. (2006). Influences of Multisensory Stimulation on Auditory Feature Analysis as Revealed by ERPs Proceedings of the International Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) meeting, April 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Talsma, D., Senkowski, D., and Woldorff, M.G., (2005). Selective Attention, Audiovisual integration: How does relative timing of the auditory and visual components modulate the event-related brain activity? Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON) Meeting, September 5-10, Havana, Cuba.
• Talsma, D., Doty, T.J., and Woldorff, M.G., (2005). Selective Attention and Audiovisual Integration: Is Attending to Both Modalities a Prerequisite for Optimal Early Integration? Proceedings of the International Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) meeting, March-April 2005, New York City, NY, USA.
• Senkowski, D. S., Talsma, D., Herrman, C. S., and Woldorff, M. G. (2003). Timing makes the difference: Effects of audio-visual stimulus onset asynchrony on oscillatory gamma-band responses. Proceedings of the 33rd annual Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.
• Talsma D., and Woldorff, M.G., (2003). Selective Attention affects audiovisual integration I: Effects on a tri-phasic ERP waveform. Proceedings of the International Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) meeting, March-April 2003, New York City, NY, USA.
• Senkowski, D. S., Talsma, D., Herrman, C. S., and Woldorff, M. G. (2003). Selective attention affects audiovisual integration II: Early modulation of the evoked gamma-band response. Proceedings of the annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) meeting, New York City, NY, USA.
• Talsma, D., and Woldorff, M.G., (2002) The influence of Attention on Multisensory integration. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON) Porqourolles, France : September 9-16, 2002.
• Nieuwenhuis, S. T., Ridderinkhof, K. R., Talsma, D., Holroyd, C. Kok, A., and van der Molen, M. W. (2001). Error-related processing in older age. Psychophysiology, 38, S72.
• Talsma, D. (2001) Selective Attention and its Role in Sensory Processing, Working Memory, and Cognitive Aging: Event-Related Potential Studies of Potentially Related Events. Academisch Proefschrift, Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
• Talsma, D., Hage, J., Nieuwenhuis, S., and Kok, A. (2001). Costs and benefits of shifting attention differ between young and old adults: Evidence from event-related potentials and performance measures. Psychophysiology, 38, S93.
• Talsma, D. and Kok, A. (2001). Sensory Brain areas are involved in nonspatial intermodal attention. Journal of Psychophysiology, 15(3),  218.
• Talsma, D. and Kok A. (2000a). Effects of inter- and intramodal spatial attention: Evidence from ERPs. Journal of Psychophysiology, 14, S62.
• Talsma, D. and Kok A. (2000b). Attentional Mechanisms influence Dipoles in Sensory Brain Areas: Evidence from an MEG Study, Psychophysiology, 37, S97.
• Talsma, D. (2000). Selective attention has cross-modal components: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Psychophysiology, 14(4), 264-265.
• Span, M. M., Talsma, D. and Wagenmakers, E. J. (2000). What influence does noise have on dimension estimation? Journal of Psychophysiology, 14(4), 264.
• Talsma, D. and Kok, A. (1999). Sensory brain areas are involved in non-spatial intermodal attention: Evidence from event-related potentials. Psychophysiology, 36,  S113.
• Talsma, D. and Kok, A. (1999). Sensory brain areas are involved in non-spatial intermodal attention: Evidence from event-related potentials. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON), Budapest, June, 27 - July 3).
• Talsma, D., Klaver, P., Wijers, A.A., and Mulder, G. (1998). Brain activity and visual working memory, Journal of psychophysiology, 12,400
• Talsma D. (1997). De invloed van Cognitieve Veroudering op Corticale Inhibitie en Selectieve Aandacht. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Ontwikkelingspsychologie. 23(2). 68-69.
• Talsma, D., Klaver, P. Wijers, A. A., and Mulder, G. (1997). Brain activity and visual working memory. Journal of Psychophysiology, 11, 98.