New paper w/ @edvogel.bsky.social & Wilma Bainbridge: we showed that aphantasic participants, who lack mental imagery, had lower visual working memory performance for simple colors & complex fractals (Exp 1), & visually presented words/pseudowords (Exp 2). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mental imagery ability is associated with visual working memory performance: evidence from aphantasic participants

Visual imagery refers to the mental generation of visual representations of stimuli, while visual working memory involves retaining visual information…

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Recruiting a new PhD student to start Fall 2027. Research would focus on Visual Working Memory, possibly with a developmental approach (but not necessarily). Check out my lab website where the are links to the application and contact info if you have questions. rickermemorylab.com

Memory & Attention Laboratory

The Memory and Attention Laboratory at the University of South Dakota is part of the Human Factors & Applied Cognition  program in the Department of Psychology . We study memory, attention, and...

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The CATS Lab is moving to Columbia next year, and I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle to start Fall 2027 in the Department of Psychology. Learn more about how to apply here: psychology.columbia.edu/content/prep... I am also recruiting a postdoc and staff for 2027. More info coming soon!

📢 New preprint with @edvogel.bsky.social & @monicarosenb.bsky.social When we encode a long list of items into memory, do we simply repeat the encoding process we use for short lists, or does the brain adaptively reconfigure its neural architecture to accommodate the encoding of a long list?

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mnemonic Demand Reconfigures the Neural Architecture of Memory Encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.03.749199v1

As of today, I'm officially an Assistant Professor at the University of California Davis! I'm so excited to be joining the Department of Psychology and the Center for Mind and Brain, and I'm looking forward to getting settled into the new lab and embarking on a lot of fun new research this year

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!!!

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Some positive news amongst the chaos: I received an official award notice from NSF (SBE/BCS) this AM! So for those of you with pending applications, keep the faith. Also, looks like I'll be recruiting 1-2 new Ph.D students this fall to carry out the work; interested parties can e-mail me to chat!

New paper: across 3 EEG experiments, we examined how do we edit WM at test. Imagine you were asked to memorize 4 colored squares during encoding: at test, when you were given a single test probe, are you able to remove the items at irrelevant positions (upper), or do you have to keep'em (lower)? 1/n

I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.

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

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

With @edvogel.bsky.social and our team, we found that with repeated learning of image sequences (set size 32), the parietal old/new effect (shown below), but not frontal old/new effect, exhibited enhanced amplitude and earlier peak latency. 1/2

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (JoCN)@jocn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Neural Dynamics Underlying Repeated Learning of Visual Image Sequences

So excited to see this out today! Huge congrats to @oliviachristiano.bsky.social, who led this project.

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Olivia R. Christiano and Sebastian Michelmann: Reliability and signal comparison of OPM-MEG, fMRI & iEEG in a repeated movie viewing paradigm doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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 · 5mo 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...

🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 We are seeking a full-time Study Coordinator for a NIMH-funded project that aims to uncover cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying maladaptive food-choice behavior in anorexia nervosa using behavior, eye tracking, fMRI, and computational models. Pls spread the word!

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Department SSD Institute for Mind and Biology: Staff and Temporary Employees About the Department The Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Univer...

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Please share with colleagues: The new Psychonomics journal, Individual Differences in Cognition, is accepting submissions! Please send us your empirical, measurement, & stats-methods research in all areas of cognition, including lab, daily-life, & applied work. www.psychonomic.org/general/cust...

Time for personal updates: I successfully defended my PhD last week (huuuge thanks to my committee + labmates + community) and I’ll be joining @s-michelmann.bsky.social ‘s lab as a postdoc this summer. It has been six wonderful years here at UChi thanks to everyone :) See you all in NYC!

The ADAM lab is hiring a Research Specialist to join us! This role involves conducting human subjects research (EEG experiments on attention + working memory) and assisting with the execution and administration of ongoing projects. Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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The Attention, Distractions, and Memory (ADAM) Lab at Rice University is recruiting a full-time Research Specialist (Research Specialist I). The ADAM Lab (PI: Kirsten Adam) conducts cognitive neurosci...

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New pre-print day! Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex 🧠 (with Ed Awh & @serences.bsky.social) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex

Increasing working memory (WM) load incurs behavioral costs, and whether the neural constraints on behavioral costs are localized (i.e., emanating from the intraparietal sulcus) or distributed across ...

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🌟 We’re hiring! 🌟 Are you interested in memory, cognitive training, & healthy ageing? We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join our lab! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ814/r... 👉 0.5 FTE (2.5 days/week), 4 months (likely from 01/26) 👉 Annual salary £32,080 to £33,002 (pro-rata) 👉 Based in Sheffield, UK

Research Assistant - Cognitive Ability & Plasticity Lab at University of Sheffield

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How does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro

Item-based Parsing of Dynamic Scenes in a Combined Attentional Tracking and Working Memory Task

Abstract. Human visual processing is limited—we can only track a few moving objects at a time and store a few items in visual working memory (WM). A shared mechanism that may underlie these performanc...

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🚨NEW paper alert at JEP:G: when we're making recognition memory decisions, are we aware of our recognition errors? The answer is YES (with two error detection systems for different purposes): (w/ Geoff Woodman & @keisukefukuda.bsky.social ) psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... 1/3

New paper out at Journal of Memory and Language! We knew that individual differences in working memory predict source memory, but did it predict simple item recognition memory (that relied on less attention resources than source memory)? Our answer is: YES! (with @edvogel.bsky.social ) 1/5

Tonight 5-7 PM I’ll be presenting my poster at CNS @cogneuronews.bsky.social C46: “Repetition learning produces stronger and faster recollection during recognition” Don’t miss it if you’re interested in EEG and visual long-term memory! #CNS2025

Remember what your partner said during a heated argument? Or the rush of getting your first job offer? Why do these emotionally arousing moments stick? Across 3 studies, and 3 arousal measures, we found that emotional arousal enhances memory encoding by promoting functional integration in the 🧠 1/🧵

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2y ago

Emotional arousal enhances narrative memories through functional integration of large-scale brain networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.13.643125v1

Attention here! We found ind. diff. & fMRI evidence that sustained attention is more closely related to long term memory than to attentional control. With the best team @monicarosenb.bsky.social @edvogel.bsky.social @annacorriveau.bsky.social @jinke.bsky.social

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sustained attention is more closely related to long-term memory than to attentional control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.13.643171v1

New paper out now in JEP:G. "Individual differences in working memory and attentional control continue to predict memory performance despite extensive learning." psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xg…

The Awh Vogel lab is heading to Psychonomics! We made a page on our lab website to cover everything, including Ed Awh's OPAM keynote address! awhvogellab.com/conferences#... Find the great work on display from Chong, Igor, Matthieu, me(?), and Park!

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The Awh Vogel Lab at the University of Chicago uses behavioral and neural methods to study attention and visual working memory

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I'm so excited to read this special issue on interactions of working & long-term memory! My article with @zhaochong.bsky.social and Ed Vogel is linked here, and I'll also be giving a talk on this paper at Psychonomics! #psynom24 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Behavioral signatures of the rapid recruitment of long-term memory to overcome working memory capacity limits - Memory & Cognition

Working- and long-term memory are often studied in isolation. To better understand the specific limitations of working memory, effort is made to reduce the potential influence of long-term memory on p...

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Lea Bartsch@leabartsch.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Special Issue on "the information exchange between working memory & long-term memory" at Memory & Cognition which I had the pleasure to Co-Edit with @keisukefukuda.bsky.social,@vmloaiza1.bsky.social and @edamizrak.bsky.social is out now! rdcu.be/d0GjA #workingmemory #cogSci #Psychology #psynom24