About me

I study how we "control" what they consciously experience from moment to moment by shifting their attention. I specifically explore how attention influences what we store into (or experience from) our personal store of memories. I'm generally interested in consciousness, meta-cognition, dreams, and other far-out stuff (like The Cambridge Declaration of Consciousness (2012)).

Out of the lab, I like to do yoga, meditate, scribble in my dream journal...

Research

        
My work centers around the study of human attention and consciousness. I employ behavioral and psychophysical paradigms, physiological data, neural data (fMRI), and computational methods. I am now expanding into the clinical domain (ADHD & Autism) in collaboration with Doctor Kajsa Igelstrom.

Publications


  • Predicting the Attention of Others

    Ziman K., Kimmel S. C., Farrell K. T., Graziano M. S. A. (2023). Predicting the Attention of Others. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Unexpected false feelings of familiarity about faces are associated with increased pupil dilations

    Ziman K., Manning J. R. (Under Review). Unexpected false feelings of familiarity about faces are associated with increased pupil dilations Psychonomic Bulletin & Reivew.

  • Covert attention enhances memory for attended items and for related unattended items.

    Ziman K, Lee MR, Martinez AR, Manning JR (In preparation) Covert attention enhances memory for attended items and for related unattended items.


Posters


Modelling and Predicting the Attention of Others.

Ziman K., Kimmel S. C., Farrell K. T., Graziano M. S. A. (2023). Modelling and Predicting the Attention of Others. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness New York, NY.

Predicting the Attention of Others.

Ziman K., Kimmel S. C., Farrell K. T., Graziano M. S. A. (2023). Predicting the Attention of Others. Princeton Neuroscience Institute Annual Retreat Philadelphia, PA.

Pupil dilation increases when participants report familiarity for images of faces they have not seen before.

Ziman K., Manning J. R. (2019). Pupil dilation increases when participants report familiarity for images of faces they have not seen before. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Virtual from Tel Aviv, Israel.

Volitional attention modulates memory encoding and retrieval.

Ziman K., Lee M. R., Martinez A. R., and Manning J. R. (2019). Volitional attention modulates memory encoding and retrieval. Society for Neuroscience. Chicago, IL.

Is automatic speech-to-text transcription ready for use in psychological experiments?

Ziman K., Heusser A. C., Fitzpatrick P. C., Field C. E., & Manning J. R. (2018). Is automatic speech-to-text transcription ready for use in psychological experiments? Context and Episodic Memory Symposium. Philadelphia, PA.

Effects of Study Context on Recall Organization

Ziman, K., Heusser A.C., Manning J.R. (2017). Effects of Study Context on Recall Organization. Society for Neuroscience Conference. Washington, DC.

Harnessing the power of mnemonic fingerprints: Maximizing learning potential by personalizing stimulus organization during adaptive list learning

Ziman, K., Heusser A.C., Manning J.R. (2017). Harnessing the power of mnemonic fingerprints: Maximizing learning potential by personalizing stimulus organization during adaptive list learning. Context and Episodic Memory Symposium. Philadelphia, PA.

Efficient Learning: Manipulating context to enhance (or diminish) memory

Manning JR,Ziman, K., Heusser AC (2017) Efficient Learning: Manipulating context to enhance (or diminish) memory.Society for Neuroscience. Washington, DC. Washington, DC.

Positive affect worsens ensemble coding performance

Ziman, K., Familiar, A., & Shim, W. M. (2016). Positive affect worsens ensemble coding performance. Journal of Vision, 16(12), 59-59.

Content of Sleep-talking Transcripts versus Dream Accounts and Waking Language

Barret, D., Lennon, J.,Ziman, K. (2016). Content of Sleep-talking Transcripts versus Dream Accounts and Waking Language.

Comparison of Medial Temporal Subregional Thickness and Overall Brain Volume to Episodic Memory Performance in Humans

Wong, W.O., Suthana, N.A., Pourshaban, D., Ziman, K., Bookheimer, S., Fried, I., Knowlton, B. (2012) Comparison of Medial Temporal Subregional Thickness and Overall Brain Volume to Episodic Memory Performance in Humans.

Mentoring


I've been honored to mentor over fifteen outstanding undergraduates, several of whom are now my co-authors, as well as two graduate students. I've also served as a role model via Letters to a Pre-Scentist, the Dartmouth Brain Bee, and the Richmond Middle School brain speaker series.

Contact


Shoot me a message (below) or email kz0108 (at) Princeton (dot) edu

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