Amazing #RegisteredReport led by Sumaiyah Raza from @mrccbu.bsky.social.

We (again) found evidence against a memory benefit of spatial novelty. However, this time we did find a retroactive benefit of rest, which highlights that more work is needed here.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Also a thing that happened today is that I gave an interview about my experience of being a post doc in China and Fudan.

Final post #ohbm2025 post (I promise).

I have never seen that many different species of wild animals in a city before coming to #Brisbane.

Did you ever wanted to see a visualisation how two common brain 🧠 network parcellations (Yeo 7 vs. CAB NP) differ?

Here is a small something I quickly cooked up because I was curious myself.

#neurosky #neuro #brain #brainsky #neuroimaging

Code: github.com/JAQuent/netw...

🍾🥳 Proud to share our new paper published on eLife 📄: elifesciences.org/articles/100...

Accompanied by an insight piece by @neurojacob.bsky.social 📄: elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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In conclusion, our findings highlight WM as a dynamic system that reacts to changes in goals and task contexts.

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The results reveal that though stimulus-specific information can be detected in both visual & frontal cortices, the latter exhibits stronger representation in a more cognitively challenging task & tracks performance; while the opposite is true for the visual cortex in a simple maintenance task.
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Across two fMRI experiments & an RNN stimulation, we showed that control demands may be the key to understand the differential functions of stimulus representation found across the brain in goal-directed working memory (WM).

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🍾🥳 Proud to share our new paper published on eLife 📄: elifesciences.org/articles/100...

Accompanied by an insight piece by @neurojacob.bsky.social 📄: elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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Key takeaways:
1️⃣ Frontal regions stored task goals consistent with the designed structure during pure maintenance.
2️⃣ Theta-band communication/fMRI connectivity relay task-congruent goal information to visual areas, where they transform the remembered visual details to guide response.

We designed an interesting task where participants memorized both concrete visual details (e.g., an object’s color/size) and abstract goals (e.g., “change the object in certain direction”), which were sampled from a defined structural space (2-D in our case).

🧠 Thrilled to share our latest study, now published in PLOS Biology! 🌟

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

In this work, conducted by me and Dr. Qing Yu at the Institute of Neuroscience, we uncovered how the brain encodes and implements abstract task information (such as goals) in working memory.

I would love to be added.

Amazing thank you!

Hi everyone!

I convinced none less than the best person (@mengya-zhang.bsky.social) in the universe to join. Give her a follow (especially anyone interested in working memory or cognitive control).

Hello Rebecca, I am a post doc whose main research interest is working memory. Could I also be added to this list?