New preprint from the lab. We think we have a solution (two, actually) to a long-standing problem in the field of response inhibition. Using two different mathematical approaches, we think we can identify long-hypothesized inhibitory 'trigger failure' trials. More in🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Two types of response inhibition failures in humans

Response inhibition is a key control function that allows humans to perform safe, goal-directed behaviors. The dominant behavioral-computational model holds that response inhibition fails when the inh...

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🌈 New preprint! With Sage, Melissa, and Kia (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social, @scenegrammarlab.bsky.social, @kianobre.bsky.social), we explore how attention is divided across external perception and internal working memory - revealing a dynamic trade-off between these two domains. doi.org/10.64898/202...

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

Dynamic prioritisation of attention when external and internal demands compete https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.06.743163v1

Happy #BINW26 !! I'm Dr. Clíona Murray and I am the Co-Director of Programming at Black In Neuro. The future that I'm reimagining is one where we can authentically show up in a space that was never designed for us. Each and every member of the BIN community remind me of that. So, thank you all 🫶🏽

Black In Neuro@blackinneuro.bsky.social · 2w ago

📣 It's Roll Call time! Kick off #BINW26 by introducing yourself! Share a selfie or short video telling us who you are, what you do, and the future you're helping reimagine. 🧠 Tag us and use #BINRollCall so we can celebrate our amazing community! Tag 3 BIN members you'd like to see join Roll Call ✨

My lab is hiring! We are recruiting a full time research coordinator to support our projects on memory brain states. More info and application: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Other at University of Virginia

Apply for Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Other at University of Virginia

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This recent post by @earlkmiller.bsky.social got my attention. It shows how abstraction could emerge in the primate PFC. The paper is hard, but the main idea can be simplified to low-dims, so I made fun a little animation. A🧵with my toy model and notes: #neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI

🧵 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 👇

Differences in dynamic motor selection in stuttering

Stuttering involves interruptions to the smooth flow of speech occurring mostly at syllable onset.1 Speech fluency is enhanced in people who stutter (…

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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

Preprint alert! 🚀 Spontaneous eye blinks are often treated as EEG artefacts. We show they can serve as temporal markers of internal attention, aligning with moments of attentional focusing in working memory. Check it out:

Spontaneous eye blinks as temporal markers of internal attention

Eye blinks are among the largest physiological artefacts in electroencephalography and are typically removed from the recordings. Yet their timing may carry information about cognition. Here, we asked...

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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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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

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Our cerebellum+RL paper is now out in the Journal of Neuroscience! "The Human Cerebellum Encodes Temporally Sensitive Reinforcement Learning Signals" @sfnjournals.bsky.social @sfn.org www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...

The Human Cerebellum Encodes Temporally Sensitive Reinforcement Learning Signals

In addition to supervised motor learning, the cerebellum also supports nonmotor forms of learning, including reinforcement learning (RL). Recent studies in animal models have identified core RL signal...

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Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Learning shapes neural geometry in the primate prefrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Learning transforms prefrontal cortex activity from flexible, high-dimensional representations into compact, task-relevant and abstract codes, enabling efficient generalization of learned rules to new...

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⏰ 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...

The 2026 WomWoM research fairy award

Welcome, fellow working memory researchers! It's time to decide who should be this year's research fairy. If you are not yet aware of the story about this award or would like a refresher, please che...

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I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

Sometimes the most interesting finding isn’t loss of function—it’s resilience. Our new @pnas.org study shows that memory-guided attention survives left hippocampal sclerosis, with the brain shifting toward the right hippocampus. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

„Potential mechanisms and functional significance of aperiodic neural activity“ Timely review article by Michael Preston Jr, @syd-smith.bsky.social & Brad Voytek

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · 2mo ago

Potential mechanisms and functional significance of aperiodic neural activity

We are excited to share a new publication led by B&C alumnus Gerardo Salvato, in collaboration with fellow B&C alumna Zita Patai and Kia. The study explores how long-term memory helps guide attention, even when critical memory structures are affected by focal pathology www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🎉Save the date! Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug 2. We're celebrating our 6th annual BIN Week with returning favorites like #NeuroRacism, #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, and #BINRollCall plus a brand new theme: #BlackInTime. ✨ 🧠 #BINW26 #AReimaginedFuture

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...

We have a new Cognitive Control Collaborative website: www.cognitivecontrol.net Six labs, more than 20 trainees, six years of collaboration (and counting). Consider joining us, many of us are looking for new grad students in the fall!

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.

❗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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Once upon a time Sage Boettcher was my fresh-out-of-college Research Assistant. Now she is faculty at Oxford. I am delighted to still be invited to collaborate with her. "Making time for a dynamic attentional priority map" Boettcher, Williams, Wolfe, & Shalev authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Join us on Monday, June 8, to learn about the progress the 2025 @kavliatyale.bsky.social Awardees have made on their Kavli-funded research projects 🧠. Open to all Yale affiliates. 🧬 @zhenlei.bsky.social 🖥️ @clionamurray.com 🔡 @jivr.bsky.social 🦠

#PuG crowd: interested in cognitive control? Come to our symposium “Cognitive Control: Domain-General, Domain-Specific, or Neither?” happening on Friday at 2 pm (room: HS07). We have a fantastic line-up: @annalschubert.bsky.social, Linda Bräutigam, @sarahdepue.bsky.social, Daxun Zhu, and myself. 👇

I aim pay forward all of their support, optimism, and humor to my future mentees. Which brings me to: my lab at Vanderbilt CCC will be recruiting folks of all levels for Fall 2027! If you'll be at OHBM, come to my talk on 6/17 to get a sense of what we'll be up to — or just shoot me an email 🧠 🥳

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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It was AWESOME to see lots of EXCITING WM research spearheaded by early career researchers at @vssmtg.bsky.social!!! WMS community would LOVE to see your cool research in a form of talks and blitz! Abstract deadline is May 31st! (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...)

SpongeBob Says See You Soon!

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Make sure you don’t miss the poster of @irenetxeberria.bsky.social in today’s afternoon poster session. 👇 #VSS2026

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

The B&C Lab is excited to attend the @vssmtg.bsky.social. William, @sabomelinda.bsky.social, and @irenetxeberria.bsky.social will each present posters. Lab alumni @danielagresch.bsky.social and @jamalamal.bsky.social will also present projects conducted in collaboration with the B&C Lab. #VSS2026