We're finally getting the tools to study replay in humans. But why bother? What can we learn from it that we don't know from rodent recordings? Our thoughts are now out in a new TICS Forum Great fun writing this w @smfleming.bsky.social + @maritpetzka.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

What can we learn from studying replay in humans?

Noninvasive methods are making it possible to study neural replay in humans. Although focused on alignment with rodent findings, human research often …

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How do children remember the important things in their lives? In this article, Zoe Ngo @zoengo.bsky.social and Pedro Espinosa‑Villafranca describe their research approach to studying the development of memory processes in childhood.🧠 boldscience.org/how-do-child...

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“Memories of real-world experiences are shaped by personal meaning, emotion, a child’s own sense of agency, and social interaction.” Zoe Ngo and Pedro Espinosa-Villafranca ask how children remember experiences. #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/how-do-child...

New #preprint by @francescopoli.bsky.social, @duncanastle.bsky.social and colleagues. Infant-like curiosity and brain-like organisation drive the complexity of human #cognition. Exciting finding for #AI! Thanks for including Charlotte and me in the project!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last mo.

Curiosity shapes brain-like architectures and functions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.02.735826v1

Lunch LecturesEntwicklungspsychologie 🗓 Datum: 07. Juli 2026 🕛 Zeit: 12:00–13:00 Uhr 💻 Ort: Zoom Wir freuen uns auf den Vortrag von Prof. Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann (Technische Universität Nürnberg): "How young children come to understand others" Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1eHx5...

Amazing memories from #PuG2026! 🧠 Wonderful seeing the team: Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann (3rd from left), @heidrunschultz.bsky.social @tobiashopf.bsky.social & Anna-Lena Tebbe. Great conference featuring Charlotte & Heidrun's symposium and posters by Tobias Hopf & Lea Haerms. Thanks for stopping by! 🙌

Excited for #OHBM2026 in Bordeaux! I'm presenting at an oral session on arcuate fascicle maturation in 1-year-olds (Monday, June 15 at 4:45 pm) and a poster (Monday, June 15 at 12:30 & Tuesday, June 16 at 12:30). Come say hi, happy to chat about infant brain development! #OHBM #HumanBrainMapping

New preprint out 🌿 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With Qingyue Bi, Michelle Moller, Julian Koenig, @peterslab.bsky.social

Come see us at #PuG2026! Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann (@milestoneslab.bsky.social) and I will be presenting the symposium on "Memory, Space, and Perspective: Internally Constructed Neural Representations in the Developing Mind", today 4pm in HS 14!

Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand". www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵

Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand - Nature Neuroscience

By combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ...

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Which factors are more vs. less important in predicting memory? We systematically investigated the contributions of image memorability, valence, arousal, attention, and test delay. Image memorability was the strongest predictor of memory. Proud of this work led by @hartwakeland.bsky.social!

I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘Building world models by learning to distinguish imagination from reality: why childhood imagination feels so real’ with Nora Petrova, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...

It is back!

International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow@icom-memory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology

The Milestones of Neurocognitive Development Lab, led by Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann, is now on Bluesky - follow us for exciting insights into the development of human cognition!

Milestones of Neurocognitive Development Lab@milestoneslab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🦊🧠 Hello Bluesky! We are the Milestones of Neurocognitive Development Lab, a joint research group at @mpicbs.bsky.social and the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN). Led by Prof. Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann, we explore the neural and cognitive milestones of the developing mind!

Have you ever heard a #child proudly say “Schau mal, zwei Hünde!” What sounds amusing to us shows how hard forming plurals is for a 3yo. Cheslie Klein, Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann & Angela Friederici show how maturation of #neural pathways in 🧠 is linked to form plural of #words. tinyurl.com/2mm5y5sy

How “Highways” in the Brain Help Young Children Form Plurals

How “Highways” in the Brain Help Young Children Form Plurals

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Postdocstelle in der Biopsychologie in Köln zu besetzen: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... Spannende Forschung, nettes Team und 4 SWS Lehre im Bachelor/Master Psychologie. Bewerbungsfrist endet am 17.04. - gerne Teilen.

1/ 🚨 New preprint Key Moments Scaffold the Semantic Structure of Narratives Using spoken recall and annotations from three naturalistic datasets with topic modeling, we ask: which parts of a narrative contribute most to its semantic structure and subsequently memory? Preprint: osf.io/dcfvw

Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4

Save the date for the 1st MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep: May 31st to June 3rd Keynote speakers: @marwimber.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social & Dan Bendor Sessions on: memory processes sleep & replay analysis and stimulation techniques www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab... plz rp

Really cool new project from @urvi.bsky.social that finds that kids are much better at temporal reasoning than previously reported, if we test them with REAL passing time, rather than hypothetical past or future events and differentiate past and future at 3 years old.

Urvi Maheshwari ツ@urvi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New w/ @drbarner.bsky.social! We argue that children's struggle to represent the past and future in common tests of knowledge may stem from difficulties in hypothetical reasoning about imaginary timelines, rather than a lack of knowledge about time. 1/n academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

New year, new job, even a new university (literally): Excited to start my new position as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Technology Nuremberg with Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann and the Cognitive Neuroscience research group.

Can reward improve memory for what came before it? 🌟 In a registered report with @duncanlabuoft.bsky.social & @megschlichting.bsky.social, we reconcile mixed findings from past studies: reward retroactively boosts associative—but not item—memory, and only in reward-sensitive individuals!

Did you know that imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them more? New research led by CU Boulder and @mpicbs.bsky.social found that the brain responds to imagined events in similar ways to real experiences. Explore the findings ↓ https://bit.ly/3Y8WyGQ

Your brain on imagination: Study reveals how the mind's eye helps us learn and change

A new study shows that merely imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them better by engaging brain regions involved with learning and

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fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

Your #brain on imagination: Study reveals how the mind’s eye helps us learn and change - @rolandbenoit.bsky.social from @colorado.edu and Aroma Dabas from MPI CBS show that merely imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them better: tinyurl.com/bde6ttwk

Your brain on imagination: Study reveals how the mind’s eye helps us learn and change

Your brain on imagination: Study reveals how the mind’s eye helps us learn and change

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Und hier sind sie – die 10 Preisträger*innen des Gottfried Wilhelm #LeibnizPreis' 2026 – ausgezeichnet für ihre exzellenten Forschungsarbeiten und Errungenschaften in der Wissenschaft! 🏆👏 Die Verleihung der Preise feiern wir am 18. März in Berlin. Einzelheiten & Kurzprofile: sohub.io/1uv1

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

Representational Momentum Transcends Motion

Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science

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It’s official! The postdoc positions announcement is here 🚀 If you know great candidates interested in attention, memory transformation and EEG, please help spread the word: Project (ReDAS) -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... Job offer -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

Bridging Fields in Psychology and Neuroscience with Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Strengthening collaboration to encourage novel research connections between scientific areas is central to the CIMCYC - María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence strategy . To encourage this, the CIMCYC has ...

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Our new paper, now published in @natcomms.nature.com , asks a simple question: when two tasks share a common structure, does the brain learn them more efficiently? Surprisingly, this was not the case. Thread below (1/7) rdcu.be/eSwvU

The effects of task similarity during representation learning in brains and neural networks

Nature Communications - Here, the authors show learning tasks with similar structures can initially cause interference and slow down learning, but both the brain and artificial networks gradually...

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Full professorship in general psychology open @tudresden.bsky.social We are a lively department with a fantastically equipped neuroimaing center. DM me with questions. @dgps.bsky.social @dgps-fgal.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12517