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Jan W. de Fockert
Researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London
Publications - 63
Citations - 5197
Jan W. de Fockert is an academic researcher from Goldsmiths, University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Working memory & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 63 publications receiving 4727 citations. Previous affiliations of Jan W. de Fockert include University of London & University of Essex.
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Urbanization decreases attentional engagement
TL;DR: It is proposed that urban environments prioritize exploration at the expense of attentional engagement and cognitive control of Attentional selection in the Himba.
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Event-related potential evidence that automatic recollection can be voluntarily avoided
TL;DR: This article investigated whether voluntary control processes can also stop recollection of unwanted memories that would otherwise have been automatically recollected, and found that recalling unwanted memories can override highly practiced, automatic recollection.
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State anxiety biases estimates of uncertainty and impairs reward learning in volatile environments.
TL;DR: It is established that temporary anxious states in healthy individuals impair reward-based learning in volatile environments, primarily through changes in uncertainty estimates, which play a central role in current Bayesian accounts of perceptual inference and learning.
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Higher levels of depression are associated with reduced global bias in visual processing
Jan W. de Fockert,Andrew Cooper +1 more
TL;DR: Results are in line with recent findings of a dissociation between local/ global processing bias and interference from local/global distractors, and support the claim that depression is associated with a reduction in the tendency to prioritise global-level processing.
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Reduced distractibility in a remote culture.
TL;DR: It is argued that the reduced distractibility in the Himba is clearly consistent with their tendency to prioritize the analysis of local details in visual processing, and was evident even at a low level of perceptual load of the displays.