Linus Holm

Why do we solve puzzles, retrieve memories and forage information for its own sake - and what knowledge might an AI equipped with human curiosity uncover?

Research qualifications: Docent

Educational qualifications: Recognised university teacher

Contact

linus.holm@umu.se

+46 90 786 76 07

Works as

Associate professor at Department of Psychology

Hus Y, Beteendevetarhuset, Vindarnas torg, Mediagränd 14, D-103 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Novelty seeking is neither necessary nor sufficient for curiosity or creativity, instead both curiosity and creativity may reflect an epistemic drive

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cambridge University Press 2024, Vol. 47

Holm, Linus; Schrater, Paul

Reliable retrieval is intrinsically rewarding: recency, item difficulty, study session memory, and subjective confidence predict satisfaction in word-pair recall

PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023, Vol. 18, (10)

Holm, Linus; Wells, Michael

Motor timing training improves sustained attention performance but not fluid intelligence: near but not far transfer

Experimental Brain Research, Springer 2020, Vol. 238, (4) : 1051-1060

Karampela, Olympia; Madison, Guy; Holm, Linus

Tapping ahead of time: its association with timing variability

Psychological Research, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg 2020, Vol. 84 : 343-351

Yang, Junkai; Ouyang, Feiyi; Holm, Linus; et al.

Episodic curiosity for avoiding asteroids: Per-trial information gain for choice outcomes drive information seeking

Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group 2019, Vol. 9

Holm, Linus; Wadenholt, Gustaf; Schrater, Paul

Investigating algorithmic and creative reasoning strategies by eye tracking

Journal of Mathematical Behavior, Elsevier 2019, Vol. 55

Norqvist, Mathias; Jonsson, Bert; Lithner, Johan; et al.

A mechanism of timing variability underlying the association between the mean and SD of asynchrony

Human Movement Science, Elsevier 2019, Vol. 67

Yang, Junkai; Ouyang, Feiyi; Holm, Linus; et al.

Cortical mechanisms for afterimage formation: evidence from interocular grouping

Scientific Reports, Vol. 7

Dong, Bo; Holm, Linus; Bao, Min

Executive control and working memory are involved in sub-second repetitive motor timing

Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 235, (3) : 787-798

Holm, Linus; Karampela, Olympia; Ullén, Fredrik; et al.

Vergence is limited by adaptation

Perception, Vol. 45 : 99-100

Fast, Elizabeth; Holm, Linus; McLoon, Linda; et al.

Eye vergence is limited by adaptation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Vol. 57, (12)

Fast, Elizabeth; Holm, Linus; McLoon, Linda K.; et al.

Shared timing variability in eye and finger movements increases with interval duration: support for a distributed timing system below and above one second

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 68, (10) : 1965-1980

Karampela, Olympia; Holm, Linus; Madison, Guy

Psychometric properties and heritability of a new online testfor musicality, the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test

Personality and Individual Differences, Elsevier 2014, Vol. 63 : 87-93

Ullén, Fredrik; Mosing, Miriam A.; Holm, Linus; et al.

Whenever next: Hierarchical timing of perception and action

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press 2013, Vol. 36, (3) : 217-218

Holm, Linus; Madison, Guy

Motor and Executive Control in Repetitive Timing of Brief Intervals

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, American Psychological Association (APA) 2013, Vol. 39, (2) : 365-380

Holm, Linus; Ullen, Fredrik; Madison, Guy

Effects of practice on variability in an isochronous serial interval production task: asymptotical levels of tapping variability after training are similar to those of musicians

Acta Psychologica, Vol. 143, (1) : 119-128

Madison, Guy; Karampela, Olympia; Ullén, Fredrik; et al.

Object learning improves feature extraction but does not improve feature selection

PLOS ONE, Public library of science 2012, Vol. 7, (12) : e51325-

Holm, Linus; Engel, Stephen; Schrater, Paul

Intelligence and temporal accuracy of behaviour: unique and shared associations with reaction time and motor timing

Experimental Brain Research, Springer 2011, Vol. 214, (2) : 175-183

Holm, Linus; Ullén, Fredrik; Madison, Guy

Looking as if you know: Systematic object inspection precedes object recognition

Journal of Vision, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2008, (4)

Holm, Linus; Eriksson, Johan; Andersson, Linus

Predictive eyes precede retrieval: visual recognition as hypothesis testing

Umeå studies in cognitive science, 2

Holm, Linus

Memory for scenes: refixations reflect retrieval

Memory & Cognition, EBSCO 2007, Vol. 35, (7) : 1664-1674

Holm, Linus; Mäntylä, Timo

Gaze control and recollective experience in face recognition

Visual cognition (Print), Hove: Psychology Press 2006, Vol. 14, (3) : 365-386

Mäntylä, Timo; Holm, Linus

Gaze control in episodic memory

Umeå psychology supplement reports, 4

Holm, Linus

A desire for painful truths: Vocabulary uncertainty drives epistemic curiosity and information seeking, but learning the answer is dissatisfying

Holm, Linus; Wadenholt, Gustaf; Schrater, Paul

Motor timing training improves sustained attention performance

Karampela, Olympia; Madison, Guy; Holm, Linus

Attraction and distraction by task-irrelevant curiosity in a two-armed bandit

Wadenholt, Gustaf; van den Berg, Ronald; Schrater, Paul; et al.

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Research groups

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Cognition

Group member

Brain, gene and environment interactions

Research projects

1 January 2020 until 31 December 2023

The satisfaction of resolving uncertainty: A project to test what makes learning, deduction and retrieval rewarding in itself

1 January 2015 until 31 December 2018

Measuring the costs and benefits of curiosity: Exploratory behavior and Learning outcomes

1 January 2012 until 31 December 2015

The causal relationship between cognitive processing and brief interval timing