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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 6d

💭⏱️🏁🏎️ In this week's lab meeting, our PhD candidate Mathieu (@tsouniz.bsky.social) shared his upcoming project plan to study the effect of free time on working memory: "Slow down the pace to win the recall race!"
Thank you for your presentation; we’ll be eagerly tracking the run of the project! 💭⏱️🏁🏎️

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

We had a great time at #ESCOP2025 last week! 🤩
All lab members had the chance to present their work and engage in inspiring conversations. Many thanks to the organizers for such a well-run and engaging conference!🥳

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · Jun 30

Come work with us on #workingmemory !🦩🧠

Evie Vergauwe @evievergauwe.bsky.social · Jun 30

Postdoc position open in our #workingmemory lab! See here for more info: www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · May 26

Thank you @annemscheel.bsky.social for visiting us in Geneva, we were delighted to get to know & exchange with you!💬

Your insightful meta-science talk put the underlying structure of research (the different processes of scientific discovery, testing, & inference) into perspective - so helpful! ⚙️🤓

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · May 23

This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Benjamin Kowialiewski in our lab!🤩 He gave a very insightful talk on his work on the free time benefit, sparking some great discussions around the topic ⏰🧠

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · May 15

🔐⚛️💬🧠 Join us for a talk by Anne Scheel (open science/metascience researcher: www.uu.nl/staff/AMSche...

It will be next Thursday, May 22nd at 12h15 – 13h45 (Salle Uni-Mail 1130) on "Detecting and explaining psychological phenomena" using exploratory vs. confirmatory research. Everyone is welcome!

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Swiss Reproducibility Network @swissrn.bsky.social · May 7

Great atmosphere at the Open Science day of the KU Leuven when Evie Vergauwe @evievergauwe.bsky.social member of our steering committee, gave a keynote titled "Open Science needs more than enthusiasm".
Photo: Aziza Menouni
#openscience #swissrn #reproducibility

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Swiss Reproducibility Network @swissrn.bsky.social · May 2

We’ve submitted our official statement on Switzerland’s 2027 austerity package. Why? Because cutting education and research means cutting our future. SwissRN stands for rigorous, transparent and reproducible science - this needs stable funding, not short-term savings.
www.swissrn.org/contents/new...

SwissRN statement on the 2027 budget relief package (EP27) – SwissRN

SwissRN has submitted a formal statement to the Swiss government regarding the 2027 budget relief package (EP27).

www.swissrn.org

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · May 6

Congratulations to our master student Meghana for her great poster presentation at the Neuroscience Master Day at Campus Biotech! She presented her project plan to use EEG to decode working memory content. 🧠💭

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · May 6

Item vs order: a battle for attention? @johannahein.bsky.social shared her research on how attention supports the maintenance of what’s remembered & in what sequence. We’re looking forward to the next series of results! And yes, we’ll be keeping everything in order for the line-up of lab updates 🧠📋

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · Apr 16

⏳⏰🧠 Tic-toc, it’s research o’clock! In today’s lab meeting, our teammate Ruiheng Zhang shared her latest work on how free time affects working memory. With some early results already on the table, it seems future insights are just a matter of time… we’ll definitely be sticking around for seconds!🧠⏰⏳

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · Apr 11

Here’s a link to his most recent paper on this research: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

APA PsycNet

psycnet.apa.org

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congratulations to Kishen Senziani, master student and research assistant in the lab, who very successfully defended his thesis yesterday 🎉🥳🙌
He examined the role of gamma oscillations in improving learning in children and young adults

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Caro Hautekiet @carohautekiet.bsky.social · Apr 8

Happy to share that this work is now (finally) published in JEP:HPP 🕺 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · Apr 10

In this week’s lab meeting, @nlangerock.bsky.social presented her insightful research on the proactive maintenance of working memory representation in children and adults 🚀

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · Apr 10

‼️And another one, examining strategic prioritization in #workingmemory

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Apr 4

The consequences of strategic prioritization in working memory: https://osf.io/4a2bu

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · Apr 10

🚨New preprint out by @carohautekiet.bsky.social @evievergauwe.bsky.social
@as-souza.bsky.social 🚨

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Apr 7

Refreshing Boosts Memory But Does Not Protect It Against Interference: https://osf.io/fmqns

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · Apr 9

We were pleased to have Martin Constant (postdoc in the Visual Cognition Lab @Unige) as a guest speaker in our lab meeting, presenting research on how visual WM performance is influenced by relative &absolute salience depending on task design. Thank you for the interesting presentation &discussion!

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · Mar 27

In this week’s lab meeting, our lab member Christina Lutz @luchris.bsky.social presented her work on differences in conditional reasoning between adults and children, across different test modalities. We had great discussions and are already looking forward to hearing more about her results soon🤩

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ReproducibiliTea Journal Club Geneva @reprotea-geneva.bsky.social · Mar 18

We are looking forward to this semesters’ program! 🤩
Starting off *this Friday* already, with a fun Game on Open Access by de Andrade and colleagues (2021, University of Antwerp)

See you there!🚀

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · Mar 5

This week, we had the pleasure of having Alexandre Fortuna present his work in our lab meeting!😊
Alexandre is a PhD student at the University of Geneva, examining the effect of retro cue validity on memory resource allocation and attentional template efficiency.

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Love Data Week @lovedataweek.bsky.social · Jan 27

Reminder: #LoveDataWeek25 starts Feb 10! Explore events or register yours at https://buff.ly/4aEq2lh.

Get a head start with "Love Data: Persistent Identifiers - the ORCID Advantage" hosted by Rochester University on Feb 5. Register at: https://buff.ly/40F6icW.

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · Feb 4

Useful article on writing by the author Julia Rohrer: www.the100.ci/2024/12/01/w...

Writing about technical topics in an accessible manner

A wise man – I’m quite sure it was Brian Wansink – once pointed out that it is impossible to both read and write a lot. So, maybe reading a post about how to write just steals time from the more urgen...

www.the100.ci

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Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · Jan 27

We are currently building the largest, cross-domain data set of human behavior as part of an open collaborative project. Contributions of any form are welcome, but especially experiments with meta-data from developmental, cross-cultural, or clinical studies.

More details: github.com/marcelbinz/P...

GitHub - marcelbinz/Psych-201

Contribute to marcelbinz/Psych-201 development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Mirko Thalmann @mirkothm.bsky.social · Feb 3

Ever wondered why only some memories 🧠 come easily? Our latest work (osf.io/preprints/ps...) led by S. Haridi, with @ericschulz.bsky.social, shows that targeted memory retrieval speeds up with precise semantic and temporal retrieval cues. Hence, crafting cues can give you instant access to memories⚡

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