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Nick Myers @nick-myers.bsky.social · Aug 26

New paper using M/EEG to look at attractive and repulsive serial dependence in working memory, led by the excellent Jiangang Shan, with Jasper Hajonides.

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Aug 26

In #memories, when does bias towards or away from a stimulus arise? New research shows that attractive serial dependence emerges during #decision-making, while repulsive biases originate during early sensory encoding. 🧪
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Attractive serial dependence arises during decision-making

Our memory of a stimulus can be biased toward or away from previous stimuli, but when this bias arises is unclear. This study shows that attractive serial dependence emerges during decision-making, su...

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Aug 10

“Kijk maar of je het in je agenda kan proppen” (7/7)

Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Aug 10

@fnkp.bsky.social using gen-AI to create awesome new experiment stimuli which nearly look alike visually, but depict completely different things. Fri, C135 (6/7)

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Aug 10

Inés Pont-Sanchis combining EEG, eye-tracking, and computational models to examine working memory distractibility in Schizophrenia. Fri, C62 (5/7)

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Aug 10

Frieda Born, who found long-term benefits of briefly *not* attending visual working memories, and takes it to fMRI to better understand why. Tue, A117 (4/7)

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Aug 10

Fabio Bauer showing that contemporary vision models deal with visuospatial information about real world objects quite differently than humans do. Tue, A53 (3/7)

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Aug 10

@hanzule.bsky.social finding *no* evidence for rhythmic dynamics during multi-item working memory — at least not in sustained orientation-dependent gaze patterns, which are strong and clear for up to 3 items. Tue, A127 (2/7)

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Aug 10

Pushing past my social-media fatigue to spotlight our lab’s new posters at #CCN2025 in Amsterdam. Come say hi to: (1/7)

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thanks so much @alzietlow.bsky.social‬ for the warm welcome, excited to be here!

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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · May 29

New preprint! 🚨→ Determinants of Visual Ambiguity Resolution. A new work with @ortiztudela.bsky.social @jvoeller.bsky.social @martinhebart.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Iris K. Schneider @ikschneider.bsky.social · Apr 14

We have a position open - if you’re interested in ambivalence in (social)decision making, check it out: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

Vacancy ID 12064

www.verw.tu-dresden.de

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Apr 9

Multiplexing of cognitive encoding by oculomotor networks leads to incidental gaze shifts
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#neuroscience

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Apr 1

No April Fool's joke, one week left to apply!

Because some asked, we are an international team and English is the working language in the lab. German language skills are beneficial, but not essential.

Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Mar 18

Join us at the new chair of Biopsychology at @tudresden.bsky.social! Fully funded university positions, broad topics in cognitive neuroscience, plus you get to work with the fabulous adaptive memory and cognition group (link below)  www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste... (tinyurl.com/y6tjbptj)

Vacancy ID 12024

www.verw.tu-dresden.de

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C3N @c3neuro.bsky.social · Mar 24

Science Alert 🚨: Our paper is now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social - We show that the firing phase of neurons in human MTL doesn’t reflect the order of events, challenging a long-standing theory of human memory.
nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01893-7

Phase of firing does not reflect temporal order in sequence memory of humans and recurrent neural networks - Nature Neuroscience

The temporal order of events in working memory is thought to be reflected by ordered neuronal firing at different phases. Here the authors show that this is not the case and that phase order is linked...

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Psychologie & Gehirn 2025 @pug2025.bsky.social · Mar 24

One week left to submit individual contributions for this year's 50th Psychology and Brain (PuG) conference in Würzburg. We look forward to receiving abstract submissions for accepted symposia as well as poster contributions www.pug2025.org

PuG2025 | Psychologie und Gehirn

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the 50th Annual Conference on “Psychology and the Brain (PuG2025),” held from June 18–21, 2025, at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg!

www.pug2025.org

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Mar 24

Two weeks left to apply!

Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · Mar 12

2 Postdoc positions with my fabulous new colleague @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social - chair of biopsychology @tudresden.bsky.social
- thanks for sharing -
@dgps.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Mar 22

That city crow putting pizza on my thyme had me thinking for the rest of the day

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · Mar 18

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.

Treemap chart showing the fragmented landscape of psychological measures.

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Mar 18

Join us at the new chair of Biopsychology at @tudresden.bsky.social! Fully funded university positions, broad topics in cognitive neuroscience, plus you get to work with the fabulous adaptive memory and cognition group (link below)  www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste... (tinyurl.com/y6tjbptj)

Vacancy ID 12024

www.verw.tu-dresden.de

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Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · Feb 24

We are looking for 2 new colleagues - #professorships in
(A) Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
(B) Work & Organizational Psychology
Join a lively and collaborative department @tudresden.bsky.social in #Dresden
- Please share -
@dgps.bsky.social #jobalert 📣
tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/a...

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keisukefukuda.bsky.social @keisukefukuda.bsky.social · Feb 22

My favorite remote conference is coming back this year, and we are looking for a postdoc to join the team of organizers! If you LOVE working memory research and its wonderful community, join us!

WMSymposium.bsky.social @wmsymposium.bsky.social · Feb 21

The Working Memory Symposium will return in 2025 (Tentative date: July 8-11)! We are now seeking a new post-doc organizer to join our organizing team. To apply, fill out the google form linked on our home page (www.wmsymposium.org) by March 16!

Working Memory Symposium

We will return this summer for WMS 2025! Tentative date: July 8-11Click here to apply for a postdoc organizor!(Application Deadline: March 16th)

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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · Feb 11

BAMB! is happening again in 2025. Learn how to model your behavioural data, next to the beach in Barcelona! keynotes this year from @athenaakrami.bsky.social and Peter Dayan.

alexhyafil.bsky.social @alexhyafil.bsky.social · Jan 30

Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025

BAMB!

Course philosophy Our goal is to teach advanced techniques in model-based analysis of behavior (humans and other animals) to cognitive and computational neuroscientists at PhD and early career levels...

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · Feb 6

Impressive work from Liqiang Huang:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'd like to see how this generalizes beyond 4-item color memory (e.g., different set sizes, retention intervals, memoranda, cueing, etc.). I'd also like to see comparison with earlier models. This model has "only" 57 parameters!

Comprehensive exploration of visual working memory mechanisms using large-scale behavioral experiment - Nature Communications

Two decades of research on visual working memory have yielded substantial yet fragmented knowledge. Here, using a large-scale experiment with 40 million responses, the author provides evidence these f...

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Feb 2

Nearly 250,000 people in Berlin showed up to protest fascism and the Musk backed AfD party.

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Jan 19

Thank you @lipmpib.bsky.social‬