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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 2d

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!

I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence

Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 2d

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

How to get PhD funding in the UK

It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 10d

How to decide what to replicate or reproduce? We recommend priotizing studies with "high value" or unclear results, considering practical limits, watching for bias, and always communicate choices openly.

Handbook chapter: forrt.org/replication_handbook/choosing_study.html

3 Choosing the Target Study – Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies

How to carry out reproductions and replications in the social, cognitive, and behavioral sciences

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 11d

Another awesome video from Numberphile. I’m not going to spoil it, but I will say it is very relevant if you teach research methods (it not just statistical in a narrow sense) youtu.be/VwIKKBL4ldQ?...

We have statistical evidence that people are mildly psychic

YouTube video by Stand-up Maths

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Marius Boeltzig @mariusboeltzig.bsky.social · 11d

The less shouty version can be accessed here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The benefit of being wrong: How prediction error size guides the reshaping of episodic memories

Episodic memories are not static – they shift and reshape as our surroundings evolve. One powerful mechanism for change are prediction errors, which a…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 19d

Last month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out!

www.momentslab.org

Moments Lab

www.momentslab.org

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 23d

🚨Do you want to join our online seminars?

Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓

#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 26d

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility

“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 26d

It must be real if it's on jobs.ac.uk...!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ976/p...

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 28d

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Fees and Funding - Durham University

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Sandie Cleland @sandiecleland.bsky.social · 29d

New preprint with @jacquihutchison.bsky.social and Zeshu Shao: "In at the deep end! Enhancing the experience of Psychology "conversion" programme students": osf.io/preprints/ps... @emilynordmann.bsky.social @abdnpsych.bsky.social

OSF

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Arianna Moccia @arimoccia.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hi! Nice to virtually meet you! Here is the QR code to a PDF of the poster. Glad you found it interesting! If you have any questions or want more details, happy to chat about it! 🙂

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Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · Sep 8

Was meant to be presenting at #BACN25 on Thursday. Unfortunately, COVID has decided otherwise. My poster will still make an appearance though. Even better? It’s presented by @aidanhorner.bsky.social instead! Go check it out on Thursday along with other lab posters on narratives, objects and schema.

Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚪🧠 Ever wondered if walking through doors really changes your memory? At #ESCOP25 today I’m at Board 19 showing how spatiotemporal boundaries impact recall in VR. Although time matters, it’s more to do with using it effectively!

This poster presents work that examines how spatiotemporal boundaries influence recall. Previous research suggests that such boundaries improve memory (Logie & Donaldson, 2021). It remains unclear, however, whether the benefit comes directly from the boundaries or from the post-encoding processes they permit, such as elaborative rehearsal. Across three experiments, participants studied words in a virtual environment under different conditions: (1) Non-segmented: continuous word presentation in a single room; (2) Segmented: a new room introduced every four words, creating spatiotemporal boundaries; (3) Non-segmented (time): continuous word presentation in one room, with structured pauses to match the timing of the segmented condition. In Experiment 3, the segmented condition was replaced by a non-segmented (task) condition, which used the same timing as the non-segmented (time) condition but filled the pauses with a 2-back task to prevent rehearsal. Findings were as follows: Experiments 1 and 2 showed better recall in the segmented and non-segmented (time) conditions compared to the non-segmented condition, with no difference between segmented and non-segmented (time). Experiment 3 found reduced recall when a task replaced the free period. However, it did not replicate the earlier benefit of non-segmented (time) over non-segmented. Overall, the results suggest that recall advantages observed in earlier work may be due to post-encoding processes rather than the boundaries themselves. The next experiment will test whether elaborative rehearsal or resource allocation during encoding better explains these effects by systematically varying the presence of free periods and tasks.

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Ian Phillips @ianbphillips.bsky.social · Sep 4

€3,000 essay prize on 'The philosophical implications of aphantasia/hyperphantasia', just announced by @bencenanay.bsky.social. Open to anyone who got their PhD after May 2018 and current PhD students. Deadline: Dec 1, 2025. Announcement and details: listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A....

LISTSERV 16.5 - PHILOS-L Archives

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Dominika Varga @dkvarga.bsky.social · Sep 4

So happy to share our paper on the role of the hippocampus as a mismatch detector:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

We show that the hippocampus detects mismatches between ongoing experiences and episodic memories but not generalised schematic knowledge.

See 🧵for how we got here:
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Sep 4

Deadline is tomorrow so get your applications in people! #neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Aug 27

Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?!

#neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Jul 21

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · Sep 3

🔎 T&Cs apply: To claim your chocolate, you’ll need to chat with me about the actual science behind the (almost errorless) poster. #ESCOP25

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Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · Sep 3

👀 Spot the typo challenge! My poster at Board 19 has a not-so hidden typo. First person to find it when you swing by gets some chocolate! #ESCOP25 #Misspelling #WHY #Fail

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Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚪🧠 Ever wondered if walking through doors really changes your memory? At #ESCOP25 today I’m at Board 19 showing how spatiotemporal boundaries impact recall in VR. Although time matters, it’s more to do with using it effectively!

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Matthew Mak @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Killing 'delve': We analysed 4,800+ student-authored reports across a decade to uncover how ChatGPT is shaping undergrad writing—style, sentiment, and quality. 📉📈
GenAI isn't just a tool. It's a co-author.
📝 #Preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Style, Sentiment, and Quality of Undergraduate Writing in the AI Era: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis of 4,820 Authentic Empirical Reports

As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) becomes widespread in education, its influence on students’ academic practice raises concern. We conducted pre-registered analyses of 4,820 empirical repo...

www.researchsquare.com

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · Aug 25

We make predictions based on general knowledge and/or specific memories. Different brain areas are active when these distinct predictions are violated – and hippocampus selectively responds to prediction errors based on episodic memory.

Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!

Hippocampal mismatch signals are based on episodic memories and not schematic knowledge | PNAS

Prediction errors drive learning by signaling mismatches between expectations and reality, but the neural systems supporting these computations rem...

www.pnas.org

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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · Aug 20

I’m about halfway through this update (first 11 tutorials are done). I think they’re a lot better. Using a consistent @easystats.github.io workflow throughout will - I think - massively reduce the cognitive load for students. Looking forward to road testing in autumn term.

Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · Feb 10

Probably no-one except me uses my R tutorials in their teaching, but if you do, I'm re-writing them over the next 6-9 months. My goal is to streamline them based on 5 years of using them in class, but if you have (polite) requests/suggestsions let me have them. www.discovr.rocks/discovr/

discovr: a package of interactive tutorials | discovr

Statistics education

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · Aug 18

{truffle} is an R package for teaching users to process data.

Semi-realistic psychological datasets with predetermined effects (via `truffles_` functions) are then hidden in common data processing headaches (via `dirt_` functions) for students to clean and analyze.

mmmdata.io/posts/2025/0...

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Jul 29

Happy publication day to first author @ewanmurray.bsky.social! A lot of hard work by Ewan went into this, so it is great to see if fully published.

A Meta-analytic Review of the Effectiveness of Spacing and Retrieval Practice for Mathematics Learning

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence

A Meta-analytic Review of the Effectiveness of Spacing and Retrieval Practice for Mathematics Learning - Educational Psychology Review

Spaced retrieval practice harnesses two well-studied phenomena: the spacing effect, where spacing out practice over several sessions leads to a gain in retention compared to massed practice in one ses...

link.springer.com

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Lea Bartsch @leabartsch.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

Applications are invited for a
Postdoctoral Position (80%)
at the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich. The ideal
start date would be January 1st, 2026 but could be somewhat earlier or later. The position is for
initially 3 years, with possible renewal for another 1.5 years.
The successful applicant will work with the head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Prof. Dr. Klaus
Oberauer, and the Cognitive Psychology team. The post involves research and teaching (one course
per semester).
Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular
working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental,
individual-differences and aging studies and computational modeling. For further information see:
https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec/allgpsy.html
We offer:
- An attractive research environment with close collaboration within the team
- Excellent lab infrastructure
- Salary according to Cantonal regulations
We expect:
- a PhD in psychology or a related discipline
- experience with experimental research
- excellent method knowledge and skills
- very good command of English
- interest in pursuing an academic career in cognitive psychology
In addition, it would be desirable if you had:
- experience with publishing in international journals
- programming skills
- experience with mathematical / computational modeling
Please send applications including your CV and motivation letter
no later than September 10, 2025
electronically as a single PDF to: Michaela Oestmann, michaela.oestmann@psychologie.uzh.ch
For questions about the position please contact Klaus Oberauer, k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

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Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · Aug 4

Yep! I plan to add my comment to this post. Thanks for generating the issue, Mattan.

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