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Caro Hautekiet @carohautekiet.bsky.social · 13h

The final part of my PhD work is now published in JEP:LMC 🤩 Special thanks to my wonderful PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🤗 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 15d

These results suggest that the benefits of prior knowledge, such as topic expertise, reflect contributions from long-term memory (LTM) to WM, rather than an increased efficiency of WM functions like bindings. I'd love to replicate with younger experts (could not get them!) and other WM functions! 🤩

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 15d

Results: Expertise didn't moderate age-related slowing to establish bindings in WM, regardless of the relevance of the information (intact vs scrambled birds; Block 1). Instead, older experts showed a benefit to binding memory that disappeared when long-term memory was unreliable (high PI; Block 2).

A figure of the main results from Blocks 1 and 2 of the study.

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 15d

How did we identify participants for these three groups? Subjective ratings clearly correlated with a perceptual discrimination task, which itself signaled a separate kmeans cluster of older experts. These experts were far superior at identifying birds vs the novices, validating the separate groups.

A correlation matrix of the objective and subjective expertise measures on the left panel, and how the expertise groups were defined (kmeans clustering that is used in the paper) versus treating expertise as a continuous score.

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 15d

Why does information seem so much easier to process when it coheres with our prior knowledge? We investigated this question by recruiting three groups (younger novices, older novices, and older experts in birding) to take part in a working memory (WM) study, the critical parts pictured below.

The main design of the Loaiza et al. birding study: Two blocks that both entailed a WM task that presented several bird-word pairs to participants followed by an immediate test, wherein the bird image was presented with three recall options (the correct target word from the trial, a lure word that was presented in the trial but not with that bird, and a new-to-block word).

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 15d

I am pleased to share that "the bird study" is now accepted at Psychology and Aging! A great collaboration with visiting intern Kishen Senziani, @leabartsch.bsky.social & @edamizrak.bsky.social 😀 Check out the pre-print below and a short thread on the study design and main takeaways 🧵👇

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 15d

What Makes a Birdbrain Tick: Long-term Memory Drives Expertise Effects on Working Memory Binding: https://osf.io/y835u

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 23d

Congrats to @lauraklatt.bsky.social for being the #WomWoM research fairy of 2025! She is both a star researcher & incredibly generous and collegial with all in the field, especially the juniors! Thank you to everyone who sent in nominations & to @scannedfruits.bsky.social for making Laura's wand 🪄🧚‍♀️

Laura-Isabelle Klatt @lauraklatt.bsky.social · 23d

3/3 My personal highlight of #ESCOP2025 was becoming this year‘s #WomWom research fairy! 🧚‍♂️ Thanks again to all my fellow #WomeninWorkingMemory. It means a lot ❤️

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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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Gidon Frischkorn @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social · 26d

Yes, this was a really great experience! Thanks for @cvonbastian.bsky.social and @vmloaiza1.bsky.social for asking us to do this as part of #ESCOP2025! And if you are interested in having a similar workshop for your PhD Programm or similar, feel free to reach out!

Isabel Courage @isabelcourage.bsky.social · 26d

A huge thanks to all participants, my fellow workshop co-organizers @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @ruhibhanap.bsky.social, and #ESCOP2025 for hosting our workshop introducing cognitive measurement models with the #bmm R package (venpopov.github.io/bmm/) - it was such a rewarding experience!

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Leeds WoMCog group at the #ESCoP2025 conference in Sheffield!

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Christ Billy @cbaryanto.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’m going to present at the Blitz Talk on Friday, 6pm, at #ESCOP2025 @escop.bsky.social. The very last session, yet I’m sure with a lot of excitement! Come to listen whether engaging in your hobby predict your cognitive abilities. 🧠

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Candice Morey @candicemorey.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here is the paper that @mollyadelooze.bsky.social presented this morning at #escop2025 showing source amnesia for recently presented verbal information.

Molly A. Delooze @mollyadelooze.bsky.social · Dec 13

#Forgetting happens faster than you think, even when you’re paying #attention.

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@candicemorey.bsky.social @ncowan51.bsky.social

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Lizzie Bradford @lizziebradford.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s been an excellent few days in Sheffield for #ESCoP2025! I have enjoyed so many talks, posters, and chats, and have come away feeling inspired and excited about research ideas and topics happening across labs 🤩

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Sep 3

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I've saved some of my faves after over a year of living here!

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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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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Sep 1

Sure do!! 😁

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's all starting soon 🥳 we can't wait to welcome you all to Sheffield for #ESCoP2025 🤩 @cvonbastian.bsky.social @escop.bsky.social

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Claudia von Bastian @cvonbastian.bsky.social · Aug 28

With less than week until #ESCOP2025, we're super excited to kick-off our conference with something truly special - an Algorave! 🤩 (1/12 👀)

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Aug 25

Happy first day of classes! I had a stress dream that a cacophony of errors made me so late to work that I missed today's entire graduate seminar that I'm teaching this semester. But I live less than a mile away from work 🤣

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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...

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Aug 1

Me: This project will distinguish between Theories A and B
My data:

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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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ubiquityopen.bsky.social @ubiquityopen.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ubiquity Press is sponsoring #ESCOP2025 this year! As the publishers of the @jcgntn.bsky.social, @escop.bsky.social's journal, we believe in supporting our publications as much as possible. @vmloaiza1.bsky.social @cvonbastian.bsky.social

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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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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Jul 25

It's only cancel culture if it comes from the democratic regions of the U.S. Otherwise it's sparkling authoritarianism.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 25

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

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