Martin Constant

Post-doc

Uni Mail / bureau 4130
40 bd du Pont d'Arve
CH-1205 Genève

Email: martin.constant(at)unige.ch
Phone: +41 (0) 22 379 91 23

Education

PhD in Systemic Neuroscience
Supervised by Heinrich R. Liesefeld
Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Master in Cognitive Science - “Neuropsychology and Clinical Neurosciences”
Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS), Lyon, France
Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Research interests

Attention
Color vision
EEG
Replication
Salience
Statistics & Methodology
Visual working memory

Publications

Constant, M., & Kerzel, D. (2024). Cues improve visual working memory but fail to counteract the effects of salience. Journal of Vision, 24(10), 589. https://doi.org/g6chdt (Conference abstract) [poster]
Constant, M., & Kerzel, D. (2024, in press). Persistent effects of salience in visual working memory: Limits of cue-driven guidance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001259 [accepted version, preprint v1, data]
Mushtaq, F., Welke, D., Gallagher, A., Pavlov, Y. G., Kouara, L., Bosch-Bayard, J., van den Bosch, J. J. F., Arvaneh, M., Bland, A. R., Chaumon, M., Borck, C., He, X., Luck, S. J., Machizawa, M. G., Pernet, C., Puce, A., Segalowitz, S. J., Rogers, C., Awais, M., … Valdes-Sosa, P. (2024). One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1437–1443. https://doi.org/gt7s3x [pdf]
Kerzel, D., & Constant, M. (2024). Effects of spatial location on distractor interference. Journal of Vision, 24(9), 4. https://doi.org/ngfv [pdf, data]
Kerzel, D., & Constant, M. (2024). Dense and uniform displays facilitate the detection of salient targets. Visual Cognition. https://doi.org/ndsf [pdf]
Constant, M., Mandal, A., Asanowicz, D., Yamaguchi, M., Gillmeister, H., Kerzel, D., Luque, D., Pesciarelli, F., Fehr, T., Mushtaq, F., Pavlov, Y. G., & Liesefeld, H. R. (2023). A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996). Registered Report aimed for Cortex. https://doi.org/grv7h2 [pdf, in-principle acceptance]
Constant, M., & Liesefeld, H. R. (2023). Effects of salience are long-lived and stubborn. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(9), 2685–2694. https://doi.org/gr6xzr [accepted version, data]
Liesefeld, H., Constant, M., & Oberauer, K. (2022). The consequences of effects of saliency are long-lived (and stubborn). Journal of Vision, 22(14), 4206. https://doi.org/jsvx (Conference abstract) [poster]
Constant, M., & Liesefeld, H. R. (2022). Examining the effect of saliency on EEG markers of attention allocation and maintenance in a visual-working-memory task. Journal of Vision, 22(14), 3512. https://doi.org/jsvw (Conference abstract) [poster]
Laybourn, S., Frenzel A. C., Constant M., & Liesefeld, H. R. (2022). Unintended emotions in the laboratory: Emotions incidentally induced by a standard visual working memory task predict task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(7), 1591–1605. https://doi.org/hh3g [accepted version, data]
Constant, M., & Liesefeld, H. R. (2021). Massive effects of saliency on information processing in visual working memory. Psychological Science, 32(5), 682–691. https://doi.org/gjk9jh [pdf, supplements, preprint v1, preprint v2, data]
Constant, M., & Liesefeld, H. R. (2020). The role of saliency for visual working memory in complex visual scenes. Journal of Vision, 20(11), 499. https://doi.org/fgf4 (Conference abstract) [poster]
Constant, M., & Mellet, E. (2018). The impact of handedness, sex, and cognitive abilities on left–right discrimination: A behavioral study. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/gdbb4f [pdf]