We're hiring professional track faculty in Psychology at UT Austin! Two Asst/Assoc Professor of Instruction positions & one Clinical Asst/Assoc Professor position for a licensed clinical psychologist. Instruction: apply.interfolio.com/188637 Clinical: apply.interfolio.com/188633 Please share!

Excited to be presenting @wmsymposium.bsky.social tomorrow, July 16 at 11:45am CDT! I’ll be sharing my recent work where we provide evidence for a revised model of memory control, in which multiple distinct mechanisms support the regulation of intrusive thoughts. Hope to see you there!

WMSymposium.bsky.social@wmsymposium.bsky.social · 3w ago

WMS2026 will kick off tomorrow at 9am CDT! If you are interested in cutting-edge working memory research and ECR-promoting vibrant community of scientists, come check it out! Don't forget to check out the program (www.wmsymposium.org) and join the slack!

How do we regroup and resume goal directed behaviors when distractions pull us away from our plans? In a snake game inspired memory task, we found people flexibly replan after distraction, but this flexibility was constrained, worked for only one item in memory. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Ziyao Zhang@bulezz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

new preprint! 🐍 In a dynamic Snake game inspired task, we show participants flexibly replan their behaviors after distraction, but this ability is constrained by memory load and distraction strength. EEG results coming soon👀 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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

Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:

Human learning of noninvasive brain–computer interfaces via manifold geometry - Nature Neuroscience

Busch et al. use nonlinear neural manifolds to help humans gain rapid control over a noninvasive brain–computer interface, allowing them to learn how to play a video game with real-time fMRI neurofeed...

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The Naturalistic Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab is launching at UT Austin and is looking for founding members at all levels, including lab manager, PhD students, and postdocs! #NeuroJobs We will study human brain🧠 and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling. thesonglab.github.io

🎊New Lab Alert! I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come. thesonglab.github.io I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at CU Boulder in January 2027, where I'll be starting the Affective Learning and Translational Memory (AltMem) Lab. I am also recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle (starting fall 2027)! altmemlab.org

Our first foray into horror movies was recently published. Former grad student David Gregory used them as a means to study temporal memory for threatening events. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/

Arousal and valence differentially shape temporal memory for naturalistic events - PubMed

While emotional arousal and negative valence both alter episodic memory, their contributions to different facets of temporal memory remain unclear. Here, we examined two components of temporal memory ...

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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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The prefrontal cortex controls memory organization in the hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

The prefrontal cortex controls memory organization in the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience

Related memories are sometimes encoded in overlapping neurons. The authors show that the prefrontal cortex controls this type of memory organization in the hippocampus through direct projections to th...

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Preprint! Representations in working memory wax and wane with relevance. How does this affect what we remember later? We show that temporal expectations drive competition between items in working memory and that these neural dynamics predict long-term forgetting.

Ziyi (Zoe) Duan@zoeduan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excited to share our new preprint: Temporal expectation triggers competition in working memory that leads to forgetting. Appreciate all the help and support from Dr.Jarrod Lewis-Peacock, @bulezz.bsky.social, and @lorencelizabeth.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

new preprint! 🐍 In a dynamic Snake game inspired task, we show participants flexibly replan their behaviors after distraction, but this ability is constrained by memory load and distraction strength. EEG results coming soon👀 osf.io/preprints/ps...

I’ve been having a great time at @cogneuronews.bsky.social !! If you’ll be around for the final day of the meeting, come say hi during the last poster session (8-10am, Poster F34)! I’ll be sharing some new work on how dynamic memory control helps regulate intrusive thoughts!

Caleb Jerinic-Brodeur@cjerinic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’ll be at #CNS2026 in Vancouver!! If you’re interested in inhibitory memory control, come check out my poster during the final session on Tuesday, March 10th from 8-10am (Poster F34)! I’ll share some exciting new work on how dynamic memory control helps regulate intrusive memories.

I’ll be at #CNS2026 in Vancouver!! If you’re interested in inhibitory memory control, come check out my poster during the final session on Tuesday, March 10th from 8-10am (Poster F34)! I’ll share some exciting new work on how dynamic memory control helps regulate intrusive memories.

Our paper is now out at JNeuro! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... How do we avoid attentional capture by salient stimuli? We found that inversions of singleton distractor representations support attentional suppression of salient items.

Rapid inversion of singleton distractor representations underlies learned attentional suppression

In visually complex and dynamically changing environments, humans must often filter out salient but task-irrelevant stimuli. Prior work shows that with repeated exposure to color singleton distractors...

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Ziyao Zhang@bulezz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We found attentional suppression might be related to re-coding salient singleton locations in a inverted format to target locations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are hiring a research specialist, to start this summer! This position would be a great fit for individuals looking to get more experience in computational and cognitive neuroscience research before applying to graduate school. #neurojobs Apply here: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21503/r...

Applications for NeuroHackademy 2026 are now open! This is a two-week NIH-funded summer experience that combines neuroimaging and data science in a summer school / experiential hackathon: neurohackademy.org/apply/ @uwpsychology.bsky.social @uwescience.bsky.social

New paper!!! Pooled data (17 conditioning+memory exp) to figure out (a) robustness of emotional temporal biases (attribute items to threat context even if encoded before or afterwards) and (b) how this predicts emotional memory enhancement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New lab paper: "Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis." Across 17 different studies, fear conditioning consistently distorted temporal source memory for information encoded before and after. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis

Episodic memory allows us to remember when an event occurred by situating it within a coherent temporal context. Pavlovian fear conditioning, a widely…

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Check out my SfN poster if you are interested in how retrospective and prospective representations in working memory work together to create plans and replans when being distracted! I will present it at the early career poster session at 6:45 pm on Saturday or from 1-5 on Tuesday.

🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference? In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hippocampal transformations occur along dimensions of memory interference

The role of the hippocampus in resolving memory interference has been greatly elucidated by considering the relationship between the similarity of visual stimuli (input) and corresponding similarity o...

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We found attentional suppression might be related to re-coding salient singleton locations in a inverted format to target locations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Rapid inversion of singleton distractor representations underlies learned attentional suppression

In visually complex and dynamically changing environments, humans often face the challenge of filtering out salient stimuli that are presently irrelevant to their tasks. Recent evidence suggests that ...

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UT Austin is hiring! Assistant Professor in Psychology with a focus on computational/data science/AI approaches apply.interfolio.com/174061

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity @ UT Austin! I’m recruiting a clinical psychologist or neuroscientist to join us in 2025/2026. Our work: fear/threat + fMRI + EMA + HiTOP + anxiety/trauma/OC psychopathology in adults & adolescents + fancy stats! 📄 Description: tinyurl.com/2jfk8d8m 🌐 Lab: www.scoop-lab.com

Excited to share my first fMRI paper in @pnas.org We found that suppressing the encoding of one event can strengthen the neural representation of the next in CA1, and bias retrieval-related neural restatement away from suppressed information. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Maintenance suppression enhances subsequent associative learning | PNAS

Removing irrelevant information from working memory (WM) can free cognitive resources and reduce interference with current task goals. Beyond these...

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