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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · 2d

Working memory and attentional control abilities predict individual differences in visual long-term memory tasks

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 23d

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

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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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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Leeds WoMCog group at the #ESCoP2025 conference in Sheffield!

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Sep 2

(Superbia....apols Luisa!)

Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Sep 2

- Additionally, Ali Mair is presenting on event memory in ageing and MCI, & Luisa Superb Guimaraes is a co-author on several talks and posters.

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Sep 2

- On Thursday pm, Amanda Waterman is talking about strategy use in following instructions, and Gerard Campbell is presenting early outcomes from our ESRC project on strategy use in cognitive ageing.
- David Peebles is giving a talk on using ACT-R to capture working memory data, on Friday pm.
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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Sep 2

- I'm presenting work led by Taiji Ueno on working memory and attention on Thursday morning in the symposium organised by Caro Hautekiet.
- Millie Smith has a poster in the Thursday session on cognitive offloading in working memory, from the first year of her PhD.
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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Sep 2

- On Wednesday morning, Hatice Cinar has a talk on memory and attention across modalities, presenting work done during and after her PhD, in the symposium organised by Johanna Hein.
- Baira Selvarajah has a blitz talk for her PhD work on dyslexia, music, and prosody, on Wednesday evening.
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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Sep 2

Excited for the start of ESCoP 2025 (www.escop2025.com) in Sheffield this week. Our group has a bunch of things going on across the meeting...

ESCOP | Cognitive Psychology Conference

View the latest information on the ESCOP 2025 Conference is Sheffield

www.escop2025.com

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Jul 22

Heading off to University of Queensland in Brisbane this week to help kick off a 3-year ARC-funded project on the causes & consequences of cognitive offloading in children. It's hosted at UoQ, & also involves collaborations with colleagues at Leeds (@amandawaterman.bsky.social), UCL, and Melbourne.

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Jun 23

Heading to the 2025 Working Memory Discussion Meeting at beautiful Parcevall Hall today. Looking forward to three days of talks, chats, walks to the pub, and hopefully not too much rain.

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨 Calling all colleagues who work on #workingmemory and #aging 🚨 Do you have any unpublished data on age differences in WM? 👴 👵 🧠 🌨️ We're working on a BIG meta-analysis, and I'd love any and all data that are currently not "out there" for us to find! 🔬 🤓 Please repost for reach, thanks! 🔁 😁

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Jun 11

New article now out in Epilepsy & Behavior!

Subjective and objective memory in a community-derived sample of people with epilepsy: Evidence from the Crimes and Four Doors tests

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Thanks again for support from @exppsychsoc.bsky.social and Epilepsy Action.

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · May 21

Enjoyed the event - thanks for putting it on!

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Charlotte Hawksworth @c-hawksworth.bsky.social · May 20

🧠 Myself and the rest of the Beautiful Mind team for Pint of Science in Leeds hosted a brilliant first event last night, with great talks from @richjallen.bsky.social and @maddie-gilbert.bsky.social!

You can check out the other events we’re putting on here: pintofscience.co.uk/events/leeds #pint25

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · May 19

Doing this tonight! A whistle-stop tour through Nietzsche, Ebbinghaus, Epilepsy, deja vu, accelerated forgetting, and the Crimes Test, with Disney's Seven Dwarfs thrown in for good measure.

Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · May 15

I'm doing Pint of Science on Monday in Leeds! Come along if you'd like to hear about memory and forgetting in epilepsy. Warning: will contain a memory test...

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · May 15

I'm doing Pint of Science on Monday in Leeds! Come along if you'd like to hear about memory and forgetting in epilepsy. Warning: will contain a memory test...

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Apr 30

BNS Spring Meeting about to start. Looking forward to presenting our work on memory and forgetting in epilepsy.

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Amy Atkinson @amyatkinson.bsky.social · Apr 24

** New paper with @richjallen.bsky.social, @mwarb.bsky.social and others (not on BlueSky) in Journal of Attention Disorders **

Here we demonstrate that the ability to direct attention in working memory is not impaired in adults with symptoms of ADHD:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...