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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 11h

Slow change blindness from serial dependence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Slow change blindness from serial dependence

Slow change blindness, when attentive observers fail to notice large changes that happen gradually, raises questions about how visual information is combined across time. One plausible integration str...

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 5d

Flexible Working Memory in the Peripheral Nervous System
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Flexible Working Memory in the Peripheral Nervous System

Working memory (WM) representations that are distributed across the brain can be flexibly recruited to best guide behavior[1][1]–[4][2]. For instance, information may be represented relatively more st...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 5d

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas
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Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology

Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations across distinct cortical regions.

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 7d

A distinctive meaning makes a sentence memorable | Journal of Memory and Language

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A distinctive meaning makes a sentence memorable

Prior work on visual memory has suggested that humans have a high-capacity but imperfect memory: image representations accumulate noise over time, whi…

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 9d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 10d

Go ahead and bring of these to Psychonomics

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

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#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 16d

Decoupling lower-level and higher-level visual features in naturalistic scenes: https://osf.io/unv5g

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 16d

Excited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings.

We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity.

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8x8 grid depicting the approach to stimulus creation. Feature pairs are on the axes and images are in the cells. The x-axis represents the high-level feature pairs: setting (green) and object (teal). For example, the first column of images all depict “truck” (object) in “field” (setting) rendered in various textures and patterns. The y-axis represents low-level feature pairs: texture (blue) and pattern (purple). For example, the first row of images all depict different objects and settings rendered as if drawn with crayon (texture) and containing large horizontal edges (pattern).

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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 21d

Neurons in mouse primary visual cortex that respond emergently to illusory contours drive pattern completion

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Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference - Nature Neuroscience

Neurons that respond emergently to illusory contours drive pattern completion in V1. Pattern completion in lower cortical areas may therefore mediate perceptual inference by selectively reinforcing ac...

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Michael Hout @michaelhout.bsky.social · 27d

The keynote speaker at this year's @opam.bsky.social Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting will be Dr Joy J. Geng of UC Davis. We're thrilled to have Joy join us, discuss her research, and impart some wisdom that she's gained throughout her incredibly impressive career.

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 27d

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Jan Theeuwes @jthee.bsky.social · 26d

By integrating the 'pinging' technique with fMRI-based multivariate pattern analysis, we provide evidence for a dual-format representation of attention during the preparatory period.

doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

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Yong Hoon Chung @yonghoonchung.bsky.social · Sep 2

Tomorrow afternoon I'll be presenting my symposium talk at #ESCoP2025 titled "Meaningful and familiar stimuli support visual working memory for simple features"! See you there!

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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Aug 27

🧠 Excited to share that our new preprint is out!🧠
In this work, we investigate the dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in the early visual cortex using rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT).

📄 Check it out on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in early visual cortex

Task-irrelevant yet salient stimuli can elicit automatic, bottom-up attentional capture and compete with top-down, goal-directed processes for neural representation. However, the temporal dynamics und...

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Aug 31

Memories that remain: Image memorability transfers to scene descriptions: https://osf.io/mg7zk

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · Sep 1

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Sep 1

The prefrontal cortex encodes task-identity information and flexibly adjusts its sensory processes as a function of the specific ongoing task
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The prefrontal cortex encodes task-identity information and flexibly adjusts its sensory processes as a function of the specific ongoing task

Does the prefrontal cortex represent only specific task parameters, or does it also hold a higher-order representation of task identity? This study shows that the prefrontal cortex flexibly encodes ta...

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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · Aug 11

New paper day! Whereas earlier studies have shown that human eye movement patterns are influenced by the physical properties of remembered stimuli, we show that they are also influenced by stimulus meaning. h/t to Ali Pexsa (not on bluesky) who led this work.

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Human eye movements track stimulus meaning

Working memory (WM) is a capacity- and duration-limited system that enables the representation and processing of fleeting sensory phenomena. Human fMRI studies indicate that brain areas associated wit...

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Gidon Frischkorn @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hey #memory folks, check out this new preprint by @joschadutli.bsky.social , @koberauer.bsky.social, and @leabartsch.bsky.social showing that elaboration benefits are likely driven by aiding in establishing efficient retrieval cues.

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Aug 28

How does semantic elaboration affect retrieval from episodic memory?: https://osf.io/ktgsu

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · Aug 29

I really wish that the AI companies would stop training their models to reflexively say "You are right" when they have no clue as to whether I am actually right or not. I want to know when I'm wrong.

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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · Aug 28

Need to control visual similarity in your experiments? A new open database by Robbins and colleagues @michaelhout.bsky.social @haywardgodwin.bsky.social, published in #psynomBRM, maps similarity among 1,200 objects in 20 categories using MDS—validated & ready to use.

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · Aug 29

Headed to UK to explore London a bit before @escop.bsky.social #ESCOP2025 ! If anyone has any recs for sights and food in the city, @philippmusfeld.bsky.social & I would be grateful! 🇬🇧🍦🏰

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’ll have to give it a read!

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · Aug 28

Without reading, I’m curious how you guys got around guessing strategies (e.g., if you ask me about an arrow, I might guess yes if I remember seeing the bow)? I guess you test the arrow when bow was presented with an unrelated object to compute a false alarm rate?

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