Dirk van Moorselaar

Dirk van Moorselaar is a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, specializing in Cognitive Psychology. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying visual attention, working memory, and their interactions in guiding visual processing.

His primary research interests include:

• Working Memory and its influence on visual attention allocation
• Visual Search efficiency and strategies
• Retro-Cue effects on attentional deployment
• Attentional mechanisms for filtering distracting information
• Inhibition processes in visual cognition
• Selective attention in complex visual environments
• Visual field representations and their neural correlates

Dr. van Moorselaar's recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on how learned suppression mechanisms help filter irrelevant information from visual processing. His work bridges cognitive psychology with neuroscience, examining how expectations and prior knowledge shape attentional selection. A significant portion of his research investigates how visual working memory representations guide attention, with implications for understanding both normal cognitive function and conditions involving attentional deficits. His methodological approach typically combines behavioral paradigms with neurophysiological techniques including EEG, ERP, and SSVEP.

Dr. van Moorselaar has been active in academic service, serving as a reviewer for Attention, Perception & Psychophysics from 2022-2023. He has presented his research at numerous conferences since 2013, with speaking engagements focusing on visual working memory, attentional capture, and the dynamic interaction between memory and attention systems.