Tim Ricker
@timricker.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of South Dakota | PI of the Memory & Attention Laboratory | Fan of chess, cards, video games, & hiking.
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Tim Ricker
@timricker.bsky.social
· Dec 9
Reward-based prioritization in working memory is distinct from recency and due to a resource trade-off
rdcu.be
New paper out on value-based prioritization in visual WM. We used hDDM to account for speed/accuracy tradeoffs and isolate memory benefits from perceptual/motor benefits. We see perceptual/motor contributions suggesting that prioritization benefits are not purely mnemonic.
Link: rdcu.be/eTUIm
Link: rdcu.be/eTUIm
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It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:
January 16, 2026 at 10:38 PM
It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:
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I do my most considered thinking when I am writing. In an effort to think more, I've started a blog to write on whatever has my attention. It's a reminder to myself to keep thinking and discovering; maybe it will serve the same purpose for others to preserve their desire and time to think.
In defense of thinking
Writing to retain the practice of thought
indefenseofthinking.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:39 AM
I do my most considered thinking when I am writing. In an effort to think more, I've started a blog to write on whatever has my attention. It's a reminder to myself to keep thinking and discovering; maybe it will serve the same purpose for others to preserve their desire and time to think.
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We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe!
Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you!
massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...
Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you!
massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...
Postdoctoral Fellow Visual Attention Lab
Site: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts t...
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January 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe!
Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you!
massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...
Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you!
massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...
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Our paper is now available online! Check out the Kudos summary here:
link.growkudos.com/1ed9uhpo8w0
link.growkudos.com/1ed9uhpo8w0
December 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Our paper is now available online! Check out the Kudos summary here:
link.growkudos.com/1ed9uhpo8w0
link.growkudos.com/1ed9uhpo8w0
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The ADAM lab is hiring a Research Specialist to join us! This role involves conducting human subjects research (EEG experiments on attention + working memory) and assisting with the execution and administration of ongoing projects.
Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Research Specialist
The Attention, Distractions, and Memory (ADAM) Lab at Rice University is recruiting a full-time Research Specialist (Research Specialist I). The ADAM Lab (PI: Kirsten Adam) conducts cognitive neurosci...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:21 PM
The ADAM lab is hiring a Research Specialist to join us! This role involves conducting human subjects research (EEG experiments on attention + working memory) and assisting with the execution and administration of ongoing projects.
Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Make it your New Year resolution to add a #workingmemory dataset to OpenWMData so that we can curate our field's precious data, start testing theories and benchmarking models across datasets, conduct secondary analyses and meta-research using the data itself, and help me feel like I'm, like, alive.
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io
January 2, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Make it your New Year resolution to add a #workingmemory dataset to OpenWMData so that we can curate our field's precious data, start testing theories and benchmarking models across datasets, conduct secondary analyses and meta-research using the data itself, and help me feel like I'm, like, alive.
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Registration is now open for the upcoming One World Seminar, "Inattentional blindness in and out of the lab," presented by Daniel J. Simons on February 26: buff.ly/Oz2S1Hk
January 5, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Registration is now open for the upcoming One World Seminar, "Inattentional blindness in and out of the lab," presented by Daniel J. Simons on February 26: buff.ly/Oz2S1Hk
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New preprint alert! 📢 Event segmentation allows us to parse continuous experience into meaningful events. Working memory (WM) is suggested to play a key role in this process, but how?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
December 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
New preprint alert! 📢 Event segmentation allows us to parse continuous experience into meaningful events. Working memory (WM) is suggested to play a key role in this process, but how?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Happy to share a new chapter of my academic journey: as a DAAD PRIME fellow, I’ve recently joined the @dondersinst.bsky.social 🧠
Grateful for this opportunity & looking forward to what’s ahead! Get in touch if you’d like to connect!
#CognitiveNeuroscience #AcademicLife #WomenInScience
Grateful for this opportunity & looking forward to what’s ahead! Get in touch if you’d like to connect!
#CognitiveNeuroscience #AcademicLife #WomenInScience
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Happy to share a new chapter of my academic journey: as a DAAD PRIME fellow, I’ve recently joined the @dondersinst.bsky.social 🧠
Grateful for this opportunity & looking forward to what’s ahead! Get in touch if you’d like to connect!
#CognitiveNeuroscience #AcademicLife #WomenInScience
Grateful for this opportunity & looking forward to what’s ahead! Get in touch if you’d like to connect!
#CognitiveNeuroscience #AcademicLife #WomenInScience
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Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
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The Publications Committee is seeking applications for a new Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, with a term beginning in 2027. The application deadline is February 15. Learn more: buff.ly/RYEgcdS
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The Publications Committee is seeking applications for a new Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, with a term beginning in 2027. The application deadline is February 15. Learn more: buff.ly/RYEgcdS
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The Publications Committee is seeking applications for a new Editor-in-Chief of Learning & Behavior, with a term beginning in 2027. The application deadline is February 15. Learn more: buff.ly/AZ8DNBa
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Publications Committee is seeking applications for a new Editor-in-Chief of Learning & Behavior, with a term beginning in 2027. The application deadline is February 15. Learn more: buff.ly/AZ8DNBa
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The Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship»
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
#psychjobs
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
#psychjobs
UZH: Lecturer Research «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship»
The Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich invites applications for a tenured Lecturer Research position for «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship». We are seeking an enthusias...
jobs.uzh.ch
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship»
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
#psychjobs
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
#psychjobs
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Our upcoming (NSF-funded) OPAM workshop will feature Dr Johnny van Doorn (of University of Amsterdam) presenting on the theory and practice of Bayesian statistics (using JASP software). Please register and join us for the workshop (on January 26th), here: www.opamconference.com/online-works...
December 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Our upcoming (NSF-funded) OPAM workshop will feature Dr Johnny van Doorn (of University of Amsterdam) presenting on the theory and practice of Bayesian statistics (using JASP software). Please register and join us for the workshop (on January 26th), here: www.opamconference.com/online-works...
New paper out on value-based prioritization in visual WM. We used hDDM to account for speed/accuracy tradeoffs and isolate memory benefits from perceptual/motor benefits. We see perceptual/motor contributions suggesting that prioritization benefits are not purely mnemonic.
Link: rdcu.be/eTUIm
Link: rdcu.be/eTUIm
Reward-based prioritization in working memory is distinct from recency and due to a resource trade-off
rdcu.be
December 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
New paper out on value-based prioritization in visual WM. We used hDDM to account for speed/accuracy tradeoffs and isolate memory benefits from perceptual/motor benefits. We see perceptual/motor contributions suggesting that prioritization benefits are not purely mnemonic.
Link: rdcu.be/eTUIm
Link: rdcu.be/eTUIm
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Is WM a gateway to LTM? In this registered report we find that higher WM load rarely impairs LTM encoding - suggesting WM capacity is not a bottleneck for forming LTM traces. @as-souza.bsky.social @edamizrak.bsky.social @cognition-zurich.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... [1/3]
APA PsycNet
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December 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Is WM a gateway to LTM? In this registered report we find that higher WM load rarely impairs LTM encoding - suggesting WM capacity is not a bottleneck for forming LTM traces. @as-souza.bsky.social @edamizrak.bsky.social @cognition-zurich.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... [1/3]
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Our new preprint is out!
Using a continuous-report paradigm, we show that divided attention reliably disrupts long-term memory retrieval by reducing accessibility—not precision.
Two experiments + mixture modeling + TCC.
Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Using a continuous-report paradigm, we show that divided attention reliably disrupts long-term memory retrieval by reducing accessibility—not precision.
Two experiments + mixture modeling + TCC.
Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Our new preprint is out!
Using a continuous-report paradigm, we show that divided attention reliably disrupts long-term memory retrieval by reducing accessibility—not precision.
Two experiments + mixture modeling + TCC.
Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Using a continuous-report paradigm, we show that divided attention reliably disrupts long-term memory retrieval by reducing accessibility—not precision.
Two experiments + mixture modeling + TCC.
Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Are you interested in adding individual differences analyses to your next project but dont know where to start? Then join us tomorrow where @drjt.bsky.social will give us a workshop on the what, why, and how of individual differences research! Sign up below! www.opamconference.com/workshops-su...
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Are you interested in adding individual differences analyses to your next project but dont know where to start? Then join us tomorrow where @drjt.bsky.social will give us a workshop on the what, why, and how of individual differences research! Sign up below! www.opamconference.com/workshops-su...
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Our latest is now out at JEP:General, “Quiet Eyes: Visual gaze stability predicts intra- and interindividual variability in attention control.” psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... (Abstract below)
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Our latest is now out at JEP:General, “Quiet Eyes: Visual gaze stability predicts intra- and interindividual variability in attention control.” psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... (Abstract below)
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Thank you to everyone who came to the symposium! I'm also grateful to the people who have chatted to me about my talk on building a formal cognitive model that fits for the latent representation to then link to neural representation similarity.
My talk slides: williamngiam.github.io/talks/2025_A...
My talk slides: williamngiam.github.io/talks/2025_A...
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Thank you to everyone who came to the symposium! I'm also grateful to the people who have chatted to me about my talk on building a formal cognitive model that fits for the latent representation to then link to neural representation similarity.
My talk slides: williamngiam.github.io/talks/2025_A...
My talk slides: williamngiam.github.io/talks/2025_A...
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Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!
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Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io
December 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!
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New content: Souza, A. S. (2025). Refreshing Multi-Feature Objects in Visual Working Memory. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 49, pp. 1–19. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
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#psychscisky
Refreshing Multi-Feature Objects in Visual Working Memory | Journal of Cognition
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November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
New content: Souza, A. S. (2025). Refreshing Multi-Feature Objects in Visual Working Memory. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 49, pp. 1–19. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
#psychscisky
#psychscisky
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PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!
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More information about next EWoMS in Lyon - France 🥳 ewoms11.sciencesconf.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
More information about next EWoMS in Lyon - France 🥳 ewoms11.sciencesconf.org