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andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 1d

The unfathomable richness of seeing: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Many hold that visual experience is sparse and its richness illusory, relying on high-level summaries rather than detailed content. However, we argue here that seeing is more than this – it is unfatho...

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 1d

doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Principles for proper peer review

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 3d

Understanding the flexibility of working memory: compositionality, generative processing, anchors and holistic representations
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
#neuroscience

Redirecting

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 12d

A big win for @neuromatch.bsky.social and for our students, TAs, and mentors! So proud of the hard work that went into making this happen and grateful to the NIH for their support!

Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 12d

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience.

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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 14d

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

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

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 19d

tee hee hee, there's two people with too much free time ;-)

Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 20d

New work led by Jackie Fulvio that adds to growing evidence that dynamics in parietooccipital low-beta oscillations play an important role in the encoding of priority in visual working memory. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Effects of TMS on the decoding, electrophysiology, and representational geometry of priority in working memory

The flexible control of working memory (WM) requires prioritizing immediately task-relevant information while maintaining information with potential future relevance in a deprioritized state. Using do...

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 22d

yes, although today I have been moving around my environment with my eyes open for at least a good 6 hrs. or more 😆

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UW-Madison Psychology @uwpsych.bsky.social · 28d

Congratulations to Assistant Professor João Guassi Moreira who was awarded a 2025 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant! Stay current with his work at cdnlab.psych.wisc.edu/CDNlab/

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 28d

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!)

To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website:
www.sinclairlab-rice.com

Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

Sinclair Lab

The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Sep 2

it'll be a bigger emphasis in 3rd ed of www.wiley.com/en-us/Essent...

Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition

<p><i>Essentials of Cognitive Neuroscience</i> introduces and explicates key principles and concepts in cognitive neuroscience in such a way that the reader will be equipped to critically evaluate the...

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Chicago Connected @chicagoconnected.bsky.social · Sep 2

Missing Northwestern University professor Nina Kraus found

Late Tuesday afternoon, an ambulance came and took Kraus away on a stretcher. Her family said she was alive and was going to the hospital. Noel Brennan reports.

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Aug 22

08:40 am
Maria V. Servetnik
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Thomas Christophel
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Representational formats to encode context and priority in visual working memory
Brad Postle | University of Wisconsin–Madison | United States
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Clayton Curtis | New York University | United States

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Aug 22

Attending #ECVP next week? Please seek me out if you're potentially interested in a postdoc:
Thursday – 08-28-2025 - 08:30 am
Out of sight, but not out of mind: How the human brain represents images that are not directly seen
Chair, Rosanne Rademaker

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · Aug 22

I can't quite believe it – I got a new NSF grant! 😲🤯

I'm incredibly grateful to the program officers & reviewers for their dedication and efforts to keep science going 🌟👏🏼

So, I'll be hiring! Looking for a postdoc to study competition in memory-guided attention. See flyer for details! 🎉

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Franki Kung @frankikung.bsky.social · Aug 20

This special issue "invites submissions on research areas recently de-prioritized and/or de-funded that address or discuss how social cognition approaches can aid in the understanding of these critical societal issues."

Plz consider submitting!

Keith Maddox @maddblackprof.bsky.social · Aug 19

Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung.

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Call for Papers Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption.docx

Call for Papers: Special Collection Indomitable Science: Social Cognition Scholarship amid Disruption Deadline for Letters of Intent: October 15, 2025 (https://bit.ly/4mlowtf) Guest Editors: Gale...

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Aug 17

not so much Tononi, right?

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Aug 16

methinks he overstates 😅

Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Aug 15

@levelsof.bsky.social I'm gonna steal this for my teaching, too :-)

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Ziyao Zhang @bulezz.bsky.social · Aug 12

Excited to share my first fMRI paper in @pnas.org We found that suppressing the encoding of one event can strengthen the neural representation of the next in CA1, and bias retrieval-related neural restatement away from suppressed information. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Maintenance suppression enhances subsequent associative learning | PNAS

Removing irrelevant information from working memory (WM) can free cognitive resources and reduce interference with current task goals. Beyond these...

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Aug 14

Kafka, Memento

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Aug 13

🧵(1/7) In late 2024, we surveyed ~6,000 MIT Press authors to understand their views on large language model (LLM) licensing and partnership practices, and to ensure our practices align with their priorities. 850+ responded. Here’s what we learned…

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serences.bsky.social @serences.bsky.social · Aug 13

I gave a talk in 2009 about feature-based attention and a famous vision scientist asked how top down signals from PFC could possibly target the right sensory neurons. The best I could do was "uh, dunno". sunyoungp.bsky.social has a much more thoughtful answer journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Near-random connections support top-down feature-based attentional modulations in early sensory cortex

Author summary In everyday life, we focus on what matters—like finding our car keys on a messy desk—by sending signals from higher control brain areas to earlier sensory brain areas. These “top-down” ...

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Norman Lab @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social · Aug 13

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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