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Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social · 2d

The human-neuroscience N2pc marker of covert and internal attention co-occurs with spatial biases in microsaccades, 200-300 ms after prompted to shift attention. (How) are these empirical phenomena related? Check it out in the latest work led by @baiweiliu.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Microsaccades strongly modulate but do not directly cause the EEG N2pc marker of spatial attention

Researchers often study human attention using microsaccades and the N2pc EEG marker, but it is unclear to what extent microsaccades contribute to N2pc. This study shows that microsaccades modulate N2p...

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 5d

Have you had an insight related to your work/hobby after taking a psychedelic (not a personal insight)? We're running a survey backed by the Center for Minds to understand such insights. It takes ~30 mins & pays $15.
tiny.cc/Psychedelics...

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 24d

Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!

@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social

By me +
Hanna Hillman

We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue

Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...

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Kirsten Adam @kirsten-adam.bsky.social · 23d

I had a feeling you might be interested in PFC 😆 Here we stuck to our preregistered sensory retinotopic ROIs (since that's what we were most interested given current competing accounts) but I think you're right that we'll see some interesting stuff in frontal cortex and we should dig in!

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Kirsten Adam @kirsten-adam.bsky.social · 23d

New pre-print day! Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex 🧠 (with Ed Awh & @serences.bsky.social)

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

Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex

Increasing working memory (WM) load incurs behavioral costs, and whether the neural constraints on behavioral costs are localized (i.e., emanating from the intraparietal sulcus) or distributed across ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Matthew Robison @matthewrobison.bsky.social · Sep 9

Notre Dame is hiring in Psychology! We have an open-rank, tenure/TT position in Cognitive Neuroscience: apply.interfolio.com/170229

Application deadline is soon (Sept. 15)

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Fred Oswald @foswald.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University, partnering with the Center for African and African American Studies, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of associate or full professor to begin July 1, 2026.

apply.interfolio.com/172829

@ricesocsci.bsky.social

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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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Caro Hautekiet @carohautekiet.bsky.social · Aug 12

New preprint alert! 🤩 Together with Klaus Oberauer, I wrote a review article on how focused attention in #workingmemory affects long-term memory formation. osf.io/preprints/os...

OSF

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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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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Aug 5

2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:

Annual Meeting - Cognitive Neuroscience Society

March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster CNS 2026 Annual Meeting – March 7 – March 10, 2026 We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2026 Annual Meeting, March...

www.cogneurosociety.org

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Nicholas Gaspelin @ngaspelin.bsky.social · Jul 29

Excited this review paper is out! We update the signal suppression account to explain recent findings related to attention capture by salient stimuli. We also propose new mechanisms of learned attentional control. Written with Steve Luck and @xiaojinma.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Signal suppression 2.0: An updated account of attentional capture and suppression - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

The signal suppression account of attentional capture was proposed in 2010 to resolve a longstanding debate between bottom-up and top-down theories of capture by proposing that a top-down suppressive ...

link.springer.com

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · Jul 25

New preprint for the SCIMaP project: we show how accounting for commuter flows reveals the broad extent of economic losses that will result from NIH funding cuts

Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · Jul 25

#SCIMaP estimates current & future economic losses in local communities across the US (counties & Congressional Districts). We explain our approach in a new preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

(w @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social)

Faceted plot with panels for Atlanta, Pittsbrugh, and Houston. Focal counties (Dekalb, Alleghany, and Houston) are outlined. Surrounding counties are shaded by future estimated annual economic loss due to the proposed cap on indirect costs based on commuter flows that connect to a focal county (indicated by light pink outline).

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 Just about a week left to celebrate all our fantastic female colleagues in #workingmemory by nominating them for the #WomWoM research fairy award! 🚨

Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Jul 1

#workingmemory researchers! It's time to nominate all of our brilliant and wonderful female colleagues for the 2025 #WomWoM research fairy award! 🧚‍♀️🪄 Please share widely -- deadline 2nd August! bit.ly/2025womwomfa...

The 2025 WomWoM research fairy award

Welcome, fellow working memory researchers! It's time to decide who should be this year's research fairy. If you are not yet aware of the story about this award or would like a refresher, please che...

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Jul 24

EEG Correlates of Active Removal from Working Memory
Jiangang Shan and Bradley R. Postle
Journal of Neuroscience 9 July 2025, 45 (28) e2414242025; doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

EEG Correlates of Active Removal from Working Memory

The removal of no-longer-relevant information from visual working memory (WM) is important for the functioning of WM, given its severe capacity limitation. Previously, with an “ABC-retrocuing” WM task...

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share!

osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

Research Associate

Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact [email protected]. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...

osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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WMSymposium.bsky.social @wmsymposium.bsky.social · Jul 2

Can you believe that WMS2025 (July 8-11) is less than a week away? If you are interested in Working Memory Research, WMS2025 is THE BEST online conference with THE AWESOMEST community of researchers across the globe! So DON'T FORGET TO CHECK IT OUT!
www.wmsymposium.org/home

Working Memory Symposium

Date: July 8-11Program is now Available!

www.wmsymposium.org

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · Jul 2

Who doesn't like a good model of the brain? Yet, from simple regression to neural nets, some limitations keep popping up (e.g., overfitting) @mjwolff.bsky.social & I saw some cool but puzzling data, ran a quick analysis & found one such limitation: model mimicry. Now in #naturecommunications &🧵below

Model mimicry limits conclusions about neural tuning and can mistakenly imply unlikely priors

Nature Communications - Model mimicry limits conclusions about neural tuning and can mistakenly imply unlikely priors

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · Jul 1

Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add

PhD position — Rademaker lab

www.rademakerlab.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 29

The proposed budget slashes NIH by ~40%, devastating medical research, clinical trials, treatment breakthroughs—life-saving work.

Thousands of lives at risk for tax cuts for the rich? NO THANKS.

Tell your senators to oppose the cuts HERE:
zurl.co/qiKdX

zurl.co/RCR0y
#CutsCostLives

Will the Senate Save NIH?

Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.

zurl.co

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · Jun 25

I'm now ready to share a rough DRAFT of the teaching resources list for cognitive psychology I've been compiling. As you'll see, I could use further help from you, esp. where there are no entries yet. Pls take a look & share your favorite resources.🙏 I'll keep updating the list this summer. Thanks!

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Jim Grange @jimgrange.bsky.social · Jun 19

New pre-print: The impact of dimension switching on visual short-term memory. This is some of the PhD work of Stuart Moore.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Kirsten Adam @kirsten-adam.bsky.social · May 30

🎉🎉🎉🎉 congratulations!!

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Janna Wennberg @jannawennberg.bsky.social · May 16

Come chat with me about visual working memory and sensory recruitment this Tuesday! Work with the fabulous @kirsten-adam.bsky.social and @serences.bsky.social #VSS2025

Holly Kular @hkular.bsky.social · May 16

Tue, 5/20 3:00PM, @jannawennberg.bsky.social will show fMRI evidence that voxel population codes in EVC transform under distraction.

Janna Wennberg's vision science society poster

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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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