In a new preprint, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social and I investigated stimulus-specific memorability with ROC analysis. We find that the variability of latent memory effects (familiarity) caused by individual memory items across people is a game-changing dimension of memorability osf.io/c62an/files/...

ATTENTION!!! The program of Working Memory Symposium (WMS) 2026 (July 14-17) is out! sites.google.com/view/wmsympo... This year, WMS will feature a single stream presentation of 52 talks (39 talks and 13 blitz) + 1 panel discussion across 4 days. Looking forward to seeing you all!!!

Kristen Wiig: I'm Ready To Party! - Bridesmaids

ALT: Kristen Wiig: I'm Ready To Party! - Bridesmaids

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Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu

Can you make your life feel “longer” in retrospect? Add a dose of change and novelty in the present to later expand memories of your past. Excited to share our work on how dopamine-related processing bends memory to reflect the passage of distinct events. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/can...

“It absolutely defied all of our expectations. This was so surprising that my whole project changed.” This phenomenon could have far-reaching implications, and is leaving neuroscientists baffled. go.nature.com/3RPAhhc

The brain’s code seems to be in constant flux. Neuroscientists are baffled

Neurons fire much more erratically than researchers thought. What does that mean for how the brain works?

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Now out in Current Opinion in Neurobiology! We propose that biases in perception & memory emerge naturally from an adaptive, hierarchical human learning system. w/ @timbrady.bsky.social + sky-less et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Attraction and repulsion in perception and working memory as complementary outcomes of learning

Visual perception is imperfect. Fortunately, the environment contains an incredible amount of structure that observers can learn to exploit through ex…

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Happy to share that I will give a colloquium talk at the Heymans Institute for Psychological Research, University of Groningen, on June 2 I will present my work on how experiences are segmented into meaningful events, and how contextual stability and working memory contribute to this process ✨

Under stress, two things happened in the hippocampus: 1) Less reactivation of the prior related memory during new learning 2) Greater neural dissimilarity between overlapping events To put it another way, stress pushed related memories apart instead of pulling them together.

Excited to share our new paper on how distraction affects memory retrieval. Using a continuous report paradigm, we show that distraction reduces whether memories are accessed but not how precisely they are represented. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

In collaboration with @monicarosenb.bsky.social , we showed that individual diffs in LTM encoding is uniquely predicted by inter-electrode correlations even controlling for working memory abilities. This suggests that WM & LTM encoding are separate abilities coded by different neural signatures! 1/n

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Chong Zhao, Edward K. Vogel, and Monica D. Rosenberg: A unique neural signature of long-term memory encoding from EEG inter-electrode correlation doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

New paper out in J. Neuro! We used MEG and pattern classifiers to ask: if a memory is reactivated in the brain, does that mean you'll recall it? Short answer: no. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... Read on for the details! [1/7] #neuroscience #memory

Alpha Oscillations Track the Projection of Reactivated Memories into Conscious Awareness

By definition, episodic memory is a conscious phenomenon. Memory traces reactivated by the hippocampus and reinstated in the sensory cortices need to enter conscious awareness for them to be re-experi...

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Abstract submission for WMS2026 (July 14th-17th) is now open! If you are an early career researcher of working memory, please let us hear about your cool work by submitting your abstract (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...). Deadline is May 31st.

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Failure is part and parcel of research, but discussing it sometimes seems to be taboo in science. It doesn’t need to be go.nature.com/3QHXZvk

We need to talk about failure in science

Failure is part and parcel of research, but discussing it sometimes seems to be taboo in science. It doesn’t need to be.

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Many claim memory biases toward percepts reflect corruption in sensory signals. We challenge this view by showing that ppl adapt their integration rationally w/ experience. w/ @timbrady.bsky.social Humans adaptively integrate memory and perception based on stimulus history | osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper out 🧠 We synthesize findings from aging, ADHD, dyslexia & OCD and propose that event segmentation emerges from the interaction of attention, working memory, and schemas/contextual modulation. Curious to hear your thoughts! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The mosaic of experience: How individual differences in attention and working memory shape event segmentation - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Episodic memories, although experienced as continuous, are structured into discrete events, a process supported by working memory (WM) and attentional control. Yet, the causal contributions of these m...

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Our new review with Berna Güler (@bernaguler.bsky.social) is out! We ask a basic but under-specified question: What shapes the segmented nature of episodic memories?

Proud of my student @farvk.bsky.social for his first @spspnews.bsky.social experience and poster at #spsp2026. An excellent scholar and an amazing person to talk about and do science with! @psuliberalarts.bsky.social

How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories? We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate! Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!

📍2003 marked the year in which the retro-cue paradigm was born. Fast forward, 23 years later, we adapt this logic to long-term memory and ask how does attention shape retrieval from long-term memory? 🤔 w/ @william-nm.bsky.social Kia Nobre, Nahid Zokaei and Nora Roüast osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n

Honored to receive a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and to join Prof. Kia Nobre at Yale University. Excited to continue my work on the role of working memory in event segmentation. Grateful for this opportunity! www.brognition.yale.edu/%f0%9f%8c%8d...

Eren Günseli@erengunseli.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Bu soruların ortak bir cevabı var: yürütücü işlevler. Yeni kitabımız Zihnin Orkestra Şefi, kararlarımızı, duygularımızı ve merakımızı yöneten bu sistemi, alanında uzman araştırmacılarla ele alıyor. www.nobelyayin.com/zihnin-orkes...

New preprint alert! 📢 Event segmentation allows us to parse continuous experience into meaningful events. Working memory (WM) is suggested to play a key role in this process, but how? osf.io/preprints/ps...

Super excited to see this out in the world!

Eren Günseli@erengunseli.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our new preprint is out! Using a continuous-report paradigm, we show that divided attention reliably disrupts long-term memory retrieval by reducing accessibility—not precision. Two experiments + mixture modeling + TCC. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Happy to share that I’ll be an Editorial Fellow for Journal of Experimental Psychology: General in 2026, working with Sarah Brown-Schmidt on the journal’s editorial process. Grateful for this opportunity! ✨ www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

New paper alert🚀 Episodic memory is structured by event boundaries—moments of critical change. The common view suggests that prediction errors drive them—but is that true? We show that contextual stability, not prediction errors, is the key driver of segmentation. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Prediction error is out of context: The dominance of contextual stability in structuring episodic memories - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Our everyday experiences unfold continuously, yet we segment them into distinct memory units—a phenomenon known as event segmentation. Although extensively studied, the underlying mechanisms of event ...

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It is so moving to see my colleagues raising their voice and awareness. Proud moment ✨ @erinmorrow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...

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Our paper is accepted in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! 🎉 We challenge the idea that prediction errors drive event segmentation, showing that contextual stability plays a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Bilim Akademisi'ne tüm destekleri için içtenlikle teşekkür ederim! / I sincerely thank the Science Academy for supporting my attendance at the VSS by providing travel funding 😊 @bilimakademisi.bsky.social bilimakademisi.org/sen-de-bilim...

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I’ll share findings from my recent research — which has been accepted for publication in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review — on how contextual stability, rather than prediction errors, might play a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories. Hoping to see you there! 😊

First time in #VSS2025 and it was a wonderful experience both academically and socially 🌸