How much of a risk are LLM-generated bots for online behavioral experiments? We present results of an entirely natural language prompt-generated agent, capable of absolving any of the 26 experiments we tested it on. Most tasks are passed with data that can pass as human osf.io/preprints/ps... (1/)

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

What kind of dynamics underlie sequence working memory? In the last project of my PhD we developed and analysed RNNs fitted to multi-session single-unit data of macaques. Now out on: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With @jakhmack.bsky.social and data from Chen et al., Neuron 2024. [1/4]

Ages since I made an #opticalIllusion demo, but luckily I saw a video from the master @akiyoshikitaoka.bsky.social and needed an interactive web version. For a little Friday fun you can drag that square back and forth and I promise, hand on heart, it never changes colour. rowan.fyi/made/lightne...

New preprint! We asked why neural representation of the original item that is encoded for mental rotation persists even after it becomes irrelevant. Given working memory's limited capacity and evidence for efficient storage, why keep irrelevant information around? 1/4 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Reminder dat de strijd van politici tegen buitenlandse studenten nooit om de economie ging maar pure vreemdelingenhaat is. Met -ook hier- een kwalijke hoofdrol voor Pieter Omtzigt nos.nl/artikel/2629...

Internationale studenten kosten geld, maar leveren uiteindelijk meer op

Studenten die na hun afstuderen in Nederland blijven wonen en werken, compenseren het geld dat de overheid tijdens hun studie aan hen uitgeeft gemiddeld ruimschoots.

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🧵 What is the briefest visual response we can elicit? Intuitively, that's the response to the briefest stimulus, aka a flash, right? 📸 No, we can go even briefer! Using a deceptively simple technique, we designed stimuli that elicit briefer-than-brief responses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Super excited to see our review out in TiCS! Here me & @cogsci.nl present the first comprehensive framework of the mechanisms driving relationships between spontaneous pupil-size fluctuations, neural activity, and behavior 👀🧠👩🏻‍💻 Spoiler: arousal is only one of at least four 😶‍🌫️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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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🚨 Happy to see this paper finally out in @plosbiology.org ! "Sequential neural dynamics underlie unconscious integration and conscious perception of visual stimuli" with Michael Herzog and @davidpascucci.bsky.social #neuroimaging #EEG #consci doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Sequential neural dynamics underlie unconscious integration and conscious perception of visual stimuli

Understanding the neural correlates of consciousness remains a challenge, as disentangling unconscious from conscious processing is highly complex. Using EEG decoding, this study provides neural evide...

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Biased opinion here, but check out this amazing work by Joost on adaptive encoding in working memory! 🔥🔥

Joost de Jong@joost-de-jong.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How do we keep up with the pace of our surroundings? Previously, we’ve shown that working memory encoding speeds up when you expect limited encoding time. How does the brain accomplish this? In new work, we found that the brain uses an accelerated neural code⚡🧠: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)

Super interesting study by Sophia, who pretty much predicted its outcomes perfectly from the start! 👇👍

Sophia Wilhelm@sophiawilhelm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔔 Our new preprint is out! Here we asked whether sleep spindles - a hallmark NREM rhythm linked to plasticity and memory - changes how well latent working memory representations can be accessed after a nap.

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

Speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to brain’s information flow Rotating neuronal waves are built into brain anatomy and help coordinate far-flung regions, mouse imaging study suggests www.science.org/content/arti... #neuroscience

Speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to brain’s information flow

Rotating neuronal waves are built into brain anatomy and help coordinate far-flung regions, mouse imaging study suggests

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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!

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.

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...

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

Our latest paper is no longer behind a paywall! We show that visual bias in working memory toward interference can be moderated by motor control 🧠. Check it out!

Motor Control Processes Moderate Visual Working Memory Gating

Gating processes that regulate sensory input into visual working memory (WM) and the execution of planned actions share neural mechanisms, suggesting a mutual interaction. In a preregistered study (Op...

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Our detailed tests of high-speed OLED monitors for vision, eye-tracking, and EEG research are finally out in 𝐵𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑀𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑠. So why did it take 1.5 years to publish this? Because we discovered a new property of OLEDs that vision researchers should be aware of... [1]

Olaf Dimigen@olaf.dimigen.de · 2y ago

Are you looking for a precise monitor for vision science, eye-tracking, or EEG? In a new preprint (w/ Arne Stein), we tested a new type of display with excellent performance in time-critical experiments: "High-speed" (240 Hz) OLED monitors. All details here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

ANOTHER assistant professorship available in my department. Focus on contemporary neuroimaging applications to neuropsychology and psychopharmacology. #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

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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Happy to share that I will give a colloquium talk at the Heymans Institute for Psychological Research, University of Groningen, on June 2 I will present my work on how experiences are segmented into meaningful events, and how contextual stability and working memory contribute to this process ✨

Investigations into whether we can search for multiple targets in a simultaneous fashion have led to mixed findings. In this new PsychScience article, we report that people CAN search concurrently, but don't always DO so... 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

To conclude: It’s looking like feedback is a plausible mechanism to invoke latent states in EVC, and is necessary to maintain flexible and distractor resistant visual thoughts. As usual, there’s much more cool stuff in the preprint, so check it out! 11/11

Excited to share our new paper on how distraction affects memory retrieval. Using a continuous report paradigm, we show that distraction reduces whether memories are accessed but not how precisely they are represented. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

New preprint! Imagine you’re locked in a lab, doing a working memory task, in which two items are presented and successively tested each trial. If you knew in advance which item would be tested first, would you encode it differently, with priority? 1/3 Our answer: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Read our latest #perspective on spatiotemporal routines in perception and cognition, published in @natrevpsychol.nature.com 👉 rdcu.be/fgYWU, with Árni Kristjánsson @icevislab.bsky.social , thanks to @snsf.ch @thesensech.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social

Spatiotemporal routines in visual perception

Nature Reviews Psychology - Perception unfolds within richly structured spatiotemporal environments but is often studied in simplified contexts. In this Perspective, Pascucci and Kristjánsson...

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Effects of TMS on the Decoding and Electrophysiology of Priority in Working Memory www.eneuro.org/content/13/4... More evidence for a (not-inhibitory) role for oscillatory dynamics in the low beta band in the encoding of priority in WM

Effects of TMS on the Decoding and Electrophysiology of Priority in Working Memory

The flexible control of working memory (WM) requires prioritizing immediately task-relevant information while maintaining information with potential future relevance in a deprioritized state. Using do...

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How robust is the large-pupil advantage in visual detection? Turns out, very! Here we show with @cogsci.nl that the effect persists for different stimulus colors, eccentricities, and retinal adaptation-states ✨👀 Check it out in JEP:HPP: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...