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Joost de Jong

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Postdoc at the INCC Paris, studying temporal integration and time perception ⏱️ using psychophysical experiments 👀 and neurocomputational models 🧠

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Joost de Jong @joost-de-jong.bsky.social · Jan 8

Excited to share something that's been ~6y in the making: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... (preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...). Ever wondered how it's possible that time flies by in passing, but seems like ages when looking back? ⌛ Our UTC model might have some answers! #compneuro #cogpsy 🧠🟦 (1/n)

APA PsycNet

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Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · 5d

Which do you think lasts longer, a spade or an hourglass symbol?

Excited to share a new preprint from my lab, with some interesting and surprising results. 🧵 follows

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · 26d

1/4 I’m really excited to share that my first PhD manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience 🎉! Until it becomes available, don’t forget to check out our updated preprint (with some additional insights) #JNeurosci

Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · Mar 7

Preprint Alert!!

In our latest study, we describe a novel relationship between action planning and working memory. Our results show that action-item associations affect how working memory maintains the fidelity of sensory information during a task.

Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Motor control processes moderate visual working memory gating

Gating processes that regulate sensory input into visual working memory (WM) and the execution of planned actions share neural mechanisms, suggesting a mutual interaction. In a preregistered study (OS...

www.biorxiv.org

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 28d

Have you ever wondered WHY memories fade away? And why some people are good at remembering facts while others suck at it? If so, you would be interested in thew new paper by Yinan Xu, Florian Sense, @van-rijn.org, @chantelpratphd.bsky.social, and myself doi.org/10.1371/jour... 👇 🧪

Default mode network connectivity predicts individual differences in long-term forgetting: Evidence for storage degradation, not retrieval failure

Author summary Why do some people forget faster than others? This study investigates individual differences in long-term memory forgetting by linking them to patterns of brain connectivity. Although m...

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Miles Wischnewski @miles2708.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨WHOHOO!! I am happy to share that I received the #ERCStG for my project PRECHRON: The Prefrontal Chronometer for Organizing Working Memory.

I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social

#brainstimulation #TMS #EEG

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De Speld @speld.nl · Sep 3

Onderzoekers: zomer voorbijgevlogen, maar begin voelt ook wel weer lang geleden

De zomer is echt voorbij gevlógen. Dat stellen onderzoekers van de Universiteit Utrecht.

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Sebastiaan Mathôt @sebastiaanmathot.bsky.social · Sep 3

☀️Voor boekenliefhebbers☀️Een wereld vol denkers ligt binnenkort in de winkel! Over hoe mensen, dieren, planten en AI allemaal op hun eigen unieke manieren nadenken. Bij elke bestelling nu een toffe extra 👇 1/2 #wetenschap #boeken #psychologie @uitgeverijbalans.bsky.social

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Joost de Jong @joost-de-jong.bsky.social · Sep 2

Also be sure to check out Michael Scheeringa’s critical analysis: www.michaelscheeringa.com/trauma-dispa...

The Body Does Not Keep the Score: How Popular Beliefs About Trauma Are Wrong (Michael Scheeringa)

CATEGORY: BOOK REVIEWS

www.michaelscheeringa.com

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Joost de Jong @joost-de-jong.bsky.social · Aug 28

Always wondered about whether perception is temporally discrete or continuous ⏱️👀? Stop by poster #67 this morning at #ECVP, where I introduce a simple *continuous* rolling window model that accounts for some classic visual phenomena, like band-pass filtering, visible persistence and postdiction.

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Olaf Dimigen @olaf.dimigen.de · Aug 22

🚨 New preprint: Invisible neural frequency tagging (RIFT) for the underfunded researcher:
👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.

Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) with a consumer monitor: A proof-of-concept

Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) enables neural frequency tagging at rates above the flicker fusion threshold, eliciting steady-state responses to flicker that is almost imperceptible. While R...

www.biorxiv.org

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Joost de Jong @joost-de-jong.bsky.social · Aug 24

Exactly, their experimental setup was also cool in showing you can do basic experiments with high temporal precision using a low-cost setup. Just an Arduino controller and some LEDs.

Joost de Jong @joost-de-jong.bsky.social · Aug 23

Maybe it should have just been an erratum or comment, so the conceptual flaw would permanently linked to the online version of the paper. But in any case, their Stroudian interpretation was recently refuted in a re-analysis by Kelber & Ulrich: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Perceptual-moment theories

PDF | The theory that the temporal flow of events is perceived as a succession of discrete moments has long fascinated psychologists and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchG...

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Evie Vergauwe @evievergauwe.bsky.social · Jun 30

Postdoc position open in our #workingmemory lab! See here for more info: www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...

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Elkan Akyurek @elkanakyurek.bsky.social · Jul 3

Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project!
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Vacatures bij de RUG

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Joost de Jong @joost-de-jong.bsky.social · Jul 1

Box and arrow models never made sense to me until now

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our new paper out now in Science explores how neural activity in the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) *drifts* over time - and *jumps* at key boundaries - to help organize events in memory.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here's a quick summary of what we found 🧵👇

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · Jun 13

"As appealing as they can be, Large Language Models are as useful to scientific research as microwaves are to fine
cuisine."

doi.org/10.1177/0301...

Using AI for peer reviewing is like using a microwave to reheat an old meal - Pascal Mamassian, 2025

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · May 26

Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes @neuralreckoning.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...

Neuroscience needs to empower early-career researchers, not fund moon shots

Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Andre Sahakian @andresahakian.bsky.social · May 15

About time our latest project about time got out!

How do self-paced encoding and retention relate to performance in (working) memory-guided actions?

Find out now in Memory and Cognition: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
(or check the short version below)🧵

The rise and fall of memories: Temporal dynamics of visual working memory - Memory & Cognition

Visual working memory (VWM) is a cognitive system, which temporarily stores task-relevant visual information to enable interactions with the environment. In everyday VWM use, we typically decide how l...

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Sebastiaan Mathôt @sebastiaanmathot.bsky.social · May 9

Interested in pupillometry, eye movements, visual attention, visual working memory, or related topics? Apply with our group in in beautiful, livable, and friendly Groningen! Reach out to @elkanakyurek.bsky.social, @van-rijn.org, @olaf.dimigen.de, @miles2708.bsky.social or myself to explore options!

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 8

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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Joost de Jong @joost-de-jong.bsky.social · Mar 19

Awesome work! We did some similar work in humans, finding that forgetting speed adapts to temporal contingencies in memory delays (link.springer.com/article/10.3...). I’ve wondered since then how this could be implemented, and these adaptive neural dynamics look like a very promising candidate.

Adaptive forgetting speed in working memory - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Working memory is known to be capacity-limited and is therefore selective not only for what it encodes but also what it forgets. Explicit forgetting cues can be used effectively to free up capacity, b...

link.springer.com

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · Feb 27

My new piece in @theguardian.com

Techno-optimism is human pessimism.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett

Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · Jan 31

Our tutorial on how to use ARIADNE to make your research life easier is now finally published in AMPPS! 🤩

Read it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Check out the tool: igor-biodgps.github.io/ARIADNE/grap...

Supported by IGOR (www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/...) and @zpid.bsky.social ❤️

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Jan 18

Prior knowledge changes sensory processing in the spinal cord?! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroskyence

Prior knowledge changes initial sensory processing in the human spinal cord

High-frequency signals at a neuronal population level reveal a cognitive influence on sensory processing in the human spinal cord.

www.science.org

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Faculteit GMW - University of Groningen @rug-gmw.bsky.social · Jan 7

Waarom gaat de tijd sneller als je het naar je zin hebt? In deze aflevering van de podcastserie van Universiteit van Nederland over tijd legt Hedderik van Rijn (@van-rijn.org) uit waarom onze beleving van tijd zo flexibel is. www.universiteitvannederland.nl/podcast/waar...

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Joost de Jong @joost-de-jong.bsky.social · Jan 8

I'd like to thank my collaborators (@van-rijn.org, @elkanakyurek.bsky.social , Chris Eliasmith, Aaron Voelker, Terrence Stewart) who beared with me all those years!