🔭JOB ALERT🔬 Fully-funded PhD (+ soon postdoc) openings in my lab @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. TOPIC: Investigating predictive neural representations in naturalistic settings using MEG-based dynamic RSA

📣 In meiner Arbeitsgruppe (LMU München) ist eine PhD-Stelle zu besetzen. Gesucht werden motivierte Bewerber:innen mit Interesse an experimenteller kognitiver Neurowissenschaft. Bewerbungsfrist: 10.08.2026. Bewerbungen bitte per Email. Mehr Infos hier: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...

Our new preprint "Separating visual memories through learned action associations" is now out at: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Here we show that action similarity is an important, yet often overlooked, dimension in the organization of visual memory.

Interested in timing, motor control, attention, working memory and/or stuttering? ⌛️ Curious to see how we try to bring these together in one study? 🧐 Check out our most recent, hot-off-the-press manuscript, born out of fun cross-field and cross-lab discussions ✨ Very excited to see this out ☀️🍾

Brain and Cognition Lab@brognition.bsky.social · 3w ago

🧵 New paper led by @irenetxeberria.bsky.social in press at Current Biology! A collaborative effort between the Brain and Cognition Lab and the Brain, Speech & Language Lab ⭐ Does the temporal organisation of action selection differ in stuttering? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A thread 👇

The B&C Lab is excited to take part in this year’s @wmsymposium.bsky.social Lab members @william-nm.bsky.social will give his talk on Wednesday (July 15) at 12 pm (CDT) and @sabomelinda.bsky.social on Friday (July 17) at 9 am (CDT). They will present work on the interaction between attention-WM-LTM

See you all on Friday at 9 am (CDT). I will present our latest behavioral findings on how attentional prioritization shapes long-term memory retrieval depending on load. 💡

Brain and Cognition Lab@brognition.bsky.social · 3w ago

The B&C Lab is excited to take part in this year’s @wmsymposium.bsky.social Lab members @william-nm.bsky.social will give his talk on Wednesday (July 15) at 12 pm (CDT) and @sabomelinda.bsky.social on Friday (July 17) at 9 am (CDT). They will present work on the interaction between attention-WM-LTM

New B&C Lab paper by @gaoyi123.bsky.social in collaboration with @irenetxeberria.bsky.social, Sage (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social), and Kia. 1/n 👉 doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...

Neural Signatures of Flexible Temporal Orienting under Spatial and Motor Uncertainty

Abstract. The goal-dependent use of temporal expectations enhances visual performance, even without concurrent spatial or motor predictions, yet the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. To ide...

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Finally out: my review in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social covering how my lab and others have been ‘Looking into working memory through micro eye movements’ over the years. What does the microsaccade bias buy us? A lot I argue. Go see for yourself at: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Do we perceive animacy itself, beyond its lower-level visual correlates? In @elife.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and I leverage “visual anagrams” — images whose interpretations change with orientation — to suggest the answer is: yes! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

❗3x scholar-at-risk positions (2 post MSc, 1 postdoc) at Uni Trento (several departments incl. CIMeC)❗ 1 year + possibility of 1 year extension. Must hold asylum seeker / refuge or SAR status. Please contact me for more info. Please share!

Attention operates in a changing world, so attentional priority maps must likewise be dynamic. Our (Sage Boettcher, @visualattentionlab.bsky.social, @gwenlliams.bsky.social, Nir Shalev) TiCS paper argues this and propose key questions for future work hoping to account for dynamic priority maps.

Making time for a dynamic attentional priority map

Attentional priority is typically conceived as a static spatial map, despite attention operating in a continuously changing world. We propose a dynami…

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check out Dr. Williams' new paper on feature temporal predictions in dynamic search… first but not last from a fab PhD!

Gwen(llian) Williams@gwenlliams.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New paper (first from my PhD!) out in Visual Cognition ✨ @tandfresearch.bsky.social With the wonderful Sage Boettcher @dynacog-lab.bsky.social & Kia Nobre @brognition.bsky.social We ask how temporal expectations can help us find targets in dynamic, cluttered environments when location is unknown.

Check out this new cross-journal special Collection on Visual Imagery at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology and Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/collections/...! Get submitting! @natcomms.nature.com, @commspsychol.nature.com

Visual Imagery

Editors invite manuscripts that highlight recent developments in the mechanisms, functions and experience of visual mental imagery. Topics include, but are ...

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New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123

New paper (first from my PhD!) out in Visual Cognition ✨ @tandfresearch.bsky.social With the wonderful Sage Boettcher @dynacog-lab.bsky.social & Kia Nobre @brognition.bsky.social We ask how temporal expectations can help us find targets in dynamic, cluttered environments when location is unknown.

Just a few more days left to apply! Come join our lab!🥳

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

We are looking for a new colleague!🧠🇨🇭🦩 A new post doc position is available in our lab - check the link for more details! www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...

📍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

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Attentional resources vary rhythmically, but what about susceptibility to #distractors?@fiebelkornian.bsky.social &co show that theta & alpha phases modulate sensitivity & distractor impact, revealing rhythm-specific mechanisms shaping #attention & distractability @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4tU0vh4

🎉 New preprint 🎉 with Olya Bulatova, @drmack.bsky.social & @keisukefukuda.bsky.social! We decode shapes in working memory from EEG and show that representations are task-dependent, flexibly integrating information about category and task during the memory delay

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Task goals dynamically reconfigure neural working memory representations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.19.700420v1

So excited to see this lovely paper with @benjyb.bsky.social, @matanmazor.bsky.social and @giuliacabbai.bsky.social published in @nconsc.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery

Abstract. Visual imagery and external perception rely on similar representations. However, whether the same processes underpin the subjective appraisal of

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Benjy Barnett@benjyb.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨New preprint🚨 out with the dream team @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social! We report a novel and robust effect across five different datasets: vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe! Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...

Interested in studying Neurocognitive Psychology? The application period for this excellent Master's program at LMU Munich is starting NOW! Apply here: www.lmu.de/psy/de/studi...

Worth checking out this paper showing how we can use temporal expectations to shift between different search templates 🔎

Gordon Dodwell@gdodwell.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our latest publication is now available in early access! Utilising our RSPP procedure and the N2pc, we trace covert switches between separate attentional templates in real time, revealing exactly when observers swap from one template to another. doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...

🚀 New preprint alert 🚀 How easily can working memory create interference in long-term memories? Our new preprint, Interference Across Memory Systems: Disrupting Long-Term Memories Through Working Memory examines this osf.io/preprints/ps... w/ @sahcan.bsky.social Anna Lena Mantei, Daniel Schneider

Thrilled to say that we’re now officially led by a multi-award-winning PI – congratulations Sage on being awarded the Women in Neuroscience UK Rising Star Award for Early Group Leaders! #WiNUKAwards2025

Women in Neuroscience UK@womeninneurouk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🌟 We’re delighted to announce Dr Sage Boettcher (@ox.ac.uk) as the Rising Star: Early Group Leader winner at the #WiNUKAwards2025! Sage leads the Dynamic Cognition Lab, studying how attention and memory interact to guide behaviour. A dedicated mentor, teacher, and advocate for inclusive science.

Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search

Internal and external selection processes can codevelop in time to yield efficient search behavior.

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🌟 We’re delighted to announce Dr Sage Boettcher (@ox.ac.uk) as the Rising Star: Early Group Leader winner at the #WiNUKAwards2025! Sage leads the Dynamic Cognition Lab, studying how attention and memory interact to guide behaviour. A dedicated mentor, teacher, and advocate for inclusive science.

New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵...

📣 Out in TINS (@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social): Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.