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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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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 2d

New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 2d

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj

Happy to chat to interested applicants.

Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu

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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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Konstantinos Tsetsos @ktsetsos.bsky.social · 9d

This programme will benefit from Trinity's outstanding neuroimaging facilities, including a cutting-edge OPM-MEG system—one of the first in Europe.

PhD and postdoc recruitment will begin soon (details to follow). If you are interested, or know someone who might be, please get in touch!

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Nick Myers @nick-myers.bsky.social · 12d

exciting PhD project, with fantastic supervisors!

Nick Myers @nick-myers.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nice! Congratulations Mona!

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Simon Faghel-Soubeyrand @simonfsoubeyrand.bsky.social · Mar 25

Preprint alert! 🚨
1/ How does deep sleep reshape our memories? Our new study shows that slow-wave sleep (SWS) reorganises episodic memory networks, shifting recall from the parietal cortex to the anterior temporal lobe (ATL). With Polina Perzich and @bstaresina.bsky.social . A thread below👇

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Mar 25

Slow wave sleep supports the reorganisation of episodic memory networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644966v1

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Gonzalo Urcelay @gurcelay.bsky.social · Sep 1

Only a few days left to apply for this 3-year postdoc position in Nottingham (deadline Sept 5th!). If you're considering applying please get in touch. If you're already a PI, then repost this!

Gonzalo Urcelay @gurcelay.bsky.social · Aug 13

Job Alert!!! We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join a 3-year BBSRC funded project led by my colleague Carl Stevenson (I’m coPI). This multi-disciplinary project will combine in vivo heart rate monitoring and optogenetics with behavioural testing (fear and active avoidance) in rats.

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Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · Aug 28

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

PhD Candidate: cognitive computational neuroscience of individual differences

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Nick Myers @nick-myers.bsky.social · Aug 26

New paper using M/EEG to look at attractive and repulsive serial dependence in working memory, led by the excellent Jiangang Shan, with Jasper Hajonides.

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Aug 26

In #memories, when does bias towards or away from a stimulus arise? New research shows that attractive serial dependence emerges during #decision-making, while repulsive biases originate during early sensory encoding. 🧪
plos.io/3JSztEg

Attractive serial dependence arises during decision-making

Our memory of a stimulus can be biased toward or away from previous stimuli, but when this bias arises is unclear. This study shows that attractive serial dependence emerges during decision-making, su...

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Qiaoli Huang @qiaoli-huang.bsky.social · Aug 26

Happy to share our new preprint. We found that brain adaptively switches between relational and item-based coding strategies based on the structure of memory contents.
@doellerlab.bsky.social

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

Efficient coding in working memory is adapted to the structure of the environment

Working memory (WM) relies on efficient coding strategies to overcome its limited capacity, yet how the brain adaptively organizes WM representations to maximize coding efficiency based on environment...

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assafbreska.bsky.social @assafbreska.bsky.social · Aug 20

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social

M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9

@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social

please repost 🙏

PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation

Job Offer from August 11, 2025

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serences.bsky.social @serences.bsky.social · Aug 13

I gave a talk in 2009 about feature-based attention and a famous vision scientist asked how top down signals from PFC could possibly target the right sensory neurons. The best I could do was "uh, dunno". sunyoungp.bsky.social has a much more thoughtful answer journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Near-random connections support top-down feature-based attentional modulations in early sensory cortex

Author summary In everyday life, we focus on what matters—like finding our car keys on a messy desk—by sending signals from higher control brain areas to earlier sensory brain areas. These “top-down” ...

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Aug 10

Pushing past my social-media fatigue to spotlight our lab’s new posters at #CCN2025 in Amsterdam. Come say hi to: (1/7)

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Denis Lan @denislan.bsky.social · Aug 7

My first PhD paper - with @lhuntneuro.bsky.social and @summerfieldlab.bsky.social - is now out in @plosbiology.org! We ask: how do humans (and deep neural networks) navigate flexibly even in unfamiliar environments, such as a new city? Link: plos.io/45uSwNm 🧵 (1/6)

Cartoon image of me looking at a map, with a stadium behind me and a hotel and ferris wheel across the river in the background. I am thinking about going to the ferris wheel

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · Aug 3

Learning-dependent modulation of working memory

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

Learning-dependent modulation of working memory - Memory & Cognition

Category knowledge helps us make inferences and decisions but may also bias how information is perceived and remembered. Previous studies have reported categorical biases in working memory (WM), but m...

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Aug 1

📣 Tomorrow is the last day! 📣
Get those nominations in and celebrate those awesome female scientists in our field 🤩

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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Athina Tzovara @athinatzovara.bsky.social · Jul 21

We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs

Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...

Open positions

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · Jul 18

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · Jul 16

Out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social now! Kia and I argue that attention research would benefit from a stronger focus on how the brain shifts between external and internal attention. We outline competing hypotheses, review existing behavioral and neural findings, and highlight open questions.

How the brain shifts between external and internal attention

Focusing on relevant contents to guide adaptive behavior is a core property of the brain. For decades, scientists have investigated mechanisms to anti…

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Irene Echeverria-Altuna @irenetxeberria.bsky.social · Jul 15

Looking for a summer read? Look no further! ☀️

Our most recent paper with Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social and @kianobre.bsky.social is out @plosbiology.org! 🪩

Sensory and motor working-memory contents are both prioritised dynamically, but their prioritisation can be temporally decoupled 🧠

Sensory and motor contents are prioritized dynamically in working memory

Attention flexibly modulates sensory contents in working memory, but the dynamics of motor content modulation in working memory remain unclear. This study shows that brain representations of both sens...

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MarleneRoesner.bsky.social @marleneroesner.bsky.social · Jul 12

What a week! 🤩I can´t believe it is over already 😱
But more than just good memories remain - you can (re-)wacht all the amazing and inspiring talks from #WMS2025 drive.google.com/file/d/1cSrp...

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Jul 9

In this Article, Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe. @jankaminski.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unattended working memory items are coded by persistent activity in human medial temporal lobe neurons - Nature Human Behaviour

Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe.

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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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