Just a few more days left to nominate your female colleagues! 🧚‍♀️ Help spread some joy and appreciation for the women who do so much for our field, not just in terms of their outstanding research, but also all the labor that they do to support the wonderful WM community that we have!

Vanessa Loaiza@vmloaiza1.bsky.social · last mo.

⏰ What time is it? 🧚‍♀️It's research fairy time! Please share widely and nominate early and often (by Aug 2) those fantastic female researchers that we are privileged to have have in our field ✨🪄 forms.gle/Znh4zgtXgWQK...

Up to 2 year fully funded postdoc fellowship at @TUD to apply for own funding. Very cool program👇 Get in touch if you have questions @tudresden.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @s4sn.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social @escaneu.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/ga/finanzier...

Maria Reiche Postdoctoral Fellowships

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New Publication Alert! 🚨 Along with @koberauer.bsky.social and @agnesrosner.bsky.social we investigated if eye movements are functional for memory retrieval in an associative recognition task and largely found evidence against it. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.3... #workingmemory

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

Proud to share new fMRI work by the fabulous Or Yizhar (not on Bsky): on the manifold level(s) of abstraction of visual working memories in visual cortex. With a fantastic team, Fabio Bauer, Inés Pont Sanchis, and @hanzule.bsky.social, supported by @erc.europa.eu 
doi.org/10.64898/202...

New paper with @paulm-k.bsky.social and Mark Stokes on how we switch internal attention between working memory contents. Beta-band oscillations tracked the magnitude and success of these switches. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... #neuroskyence

Human Beta Oscillations Reflect Magnitude and Fidelity of Priority Shifts in Working Memory

Flexible prioritization in working memory (WM) is supported by neural oscillations in frontal and sensory brain areas, but the roles of different oscillations remain poorly understood. Recordings in h...

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Can context-sensitivity improve human–machine alignment in VFMs? We show that incorporating context improves modeling of human similarity decisions. 🎉Accepted to ReAlign ICLR! Now on @arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2604.13883 Joint first-authored work with amazing Frieda Born. 1/5

The Obleser lab will be hiring soon! New postdoc (fully funded) and new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded). Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct. Watch out for official announcements! Please be in touch. auditorycognition.com obleserlab.com hoerhanse.de lemmi.uni-luebeck.de

💥New paper out! Why do some people generalise threat more than others? We show that anxious people generalise more strongly, even after accounting for perceptual mistakes. A huge (!) thanks to @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social and @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social

Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · 5mo ago

Anxiety is associated with increased generalisation of threat to similar stimuli. This paper dissociates perceptual mistakes from value generalisation and links stronger value-transfer to trait anxiety. @nicoschuck.bsky.social @ondrejzika.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We are looking for a new colleague in work and organizational psychology - full professor position @tudresden.bsky.social - Please share - @dgps.bsky.social tud.link/qt3r1g

Briefly not attending something may help you remember it later 🪄: new paper led by phenomenal PhD student Frieda Born (not on Bsky) out now in Comms Psychology: 
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Long-term effects of working memory retrieval from prioritized and deprioritized states - Communications Psychology

Testing items in working memory improves long-term memory, especially for deprioritized items. This benefit shows when WM retrieval requires continuous recall, suggesting self-generated reports streng...

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We recently published a theoretical review about how compositional and generative mechanisms in working memory provide a flexible engine for creative perception and imagery. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps... Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Full professorship in general psychology open @tudresden.bsky.social We are a lively department with a fantastically equipped neuroimaing center. DM me with questions. @dgps.bsky.social @dgps-fgal.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12517

Humans can infer global relationships from local comparisons, but how do we adapt when these relationships change? New work by the brilliant @tgham.bsky.social used RL modelling to find out 👇

Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · 9mo ago

Human relational learning is winner-biased: we update our beliefs about winners more than losers. A study of transitive inference uses computational modelling to show this bias hinders flexibility. @tgham.bsky.social @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🥳 I am incredibly humbled and grateful to share that our work, "Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels," has been published today in @nature.com ⬇️

Andrew Lampinen@lampinen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What aspects of human knowledge do vision models like CLIP fail to capture, and how can we improve them? We suggest models miss key global organization; aligning them makes them more robust. Check out LukasMuttenthaler's work, finally out (in Nature!?) www.nature.com/articles/s41... + our blog! 1/3

Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory

A core function of visual working memory (WM) is to sustain mental representations of recent visual inputs, thereby bridging moments of experience. Th…

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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 · 11mo ago

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

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

New preprint! 🚨→ Determinants of Visual Ambiguity Resolution. A new work with @ortiztudela.bsky.social @jvoeller.bsky.social @martinhebart.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We have a position open - if you’re interested in ambivalence in (social)decision making, check it out: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

Multiplexing of cognitive encoding by oculomotor networks leads to incidental gaze shifts doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #neuroscience

No April Fool's joke, one week left to apply! Because some asked, we are an international team and English is the working language in the lab. German language skills are beneficial, but not essential.

Bernhard Spitzer@bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us at the new chair of Biopsychology at @tudresden.bsky.social! Fully funded university positions, broad topics in cognitive neuroscience, plus you get to work with the fabulous adaptive memory and cognition group (link below) 
www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste... (tinyurl.com/y6tjbptj)

Science Alert 🚨: Our paper is now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social - We show that the firing phase of neurons in human MTL doesn’t reflect the order of events, challenging a long-standing theory of human memory. nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01893-7

Phase of firing does not reflect temporal order in sequence memory of humans and recurrent neural networks - Nature Neuroscience

The temporal order of events in working memory is thought to be reflected by ordered neuronal firing at different phases. Here the authors show that this is not the case and that phase order is linked...

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One week left to submit individual contributions for this year's 50th Psychology and Brain (PuG) conference in Würzburg. We look forward to receiving abstract submissions for accepted symposia as well as poster contributions www.pug2025.org

Two weeks left to apply!

Philipp Kanske@kanske.bsky.social · last yr.

2 Postdoc positions with my fabulous new colleague @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social - chair of biopsychology @tudresden.bsky.social - thanks for sharing - @dgps.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

That city crow putting pizza on my thyme had me thinking for the rest of the day

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.

Join us at the new chair of Biopsychology at @tudresden.bsky.social! Fully funded university positions, broad topics in cognitive neuroscience, plus you get to work with the fabulous adaptive memory and cognition group (link below) 
www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste... (tinyurl.com/y6tjbptj)

We are looking for 2 new colleagues - #professorships in (A) Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy (B) Work & Organizational Psychology Join a lively and collaborative department @tudresden.bsky.social in #Dresden - Please share - @dgps.bsky.social #jobalert 📣 tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/a...

My favorite remote conference is coming back this year, and we are looking for a postdoc to join the team of organizers! If you LOVE working memory research and its wonderful community, join us!

WMSymposium.bsky.social@wmsymposium.bsky.social · last yr.

The Working Memory Symposium will return in 2025 (Tentative date: July 8-11)! We are now seeking a new post-doc organizer to join our organizing team. To apply, fill out the google form linked on our home page (www.wmsymposium.org) by March 16!