Holly Kular

San Diego, CA

hkular [at] ucsd [dot] edu

PhD candidate in the Perception and Cognition Lab at University of California San Diego advised by Dr. John Serences.

My research focus is visual working memory in humans. I apply statistical modeling to human behavioral data, utilize machine learning methods to analyze neuroimaging data, and test predictions of neural network models of working memory. I am interested in how and when working memory fails and the neural codes supporting perception and storage in working memory.

Prior to starting my PhD, I worked as a research coordinator at the Vision and Perception Neuroscience Lab at Stanford University. There I worked on eyetracking and neuroimaging projects investigating the neural development of the visual system.

news

Jul 17, 2024	Completed the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Computational Neuroscience: vision course
Jun 18, 2024	I presented my work Working memory errors from distraction are not influenced by sensory noise at encoding at the Vision Sciences Society Conference 2024
Jun 12, 2024	Successfully proposed my dissertation and advanced to candidacy.
Aug 10, 2023	Completed Steve Luck’s ERP bootcamp. Focusing on EEG ERP experiment design, data collection, and analysis.
May 20, 2023	I presented my work Working Memory is Robust to Distractor Interference but not Changes in Stimulus Noise at the Vision Sciences Society Conference 2023

selected publications

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Working memory errors from distraction are not influenced by sensory noise at encoding

Kular, and Serences

In Journal of Vision, 2024

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It is unclear whether sensory uncertainty during encoding increases susceptibility to interference or whether memories are relatively stable once information is encoded. These data provide evidence that while working memory representations are prone to adaptive distortions during delay periods, these distortions are not modulated by sensory noise during encoding.
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Working memory is robust to distractors but not sensory uncertainty

Kular, Adam, and Serences

In Journal of Vision, 2023

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Prior research suggests that ongoing sensory input during the delay period of a working memory task presents a challenge to the storage of remembered information. Here, we tested whether distracting stimuli influenced working memory while simultaneously manipulating stimulus uncertainty during encoding to parametrically vary the strength of memory representations.