The SPOHAD LAB has a homepage! www.spohadlab.com The next step on a two-year journey that started as a crazy study idea and slowly transformed into a full-fledged international collaboration - the Spohad Lab now has its own homepage.

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New Paper out! My colleague Julia Pronoza used data from two of our previous studies to set up a computational model and gain insights into when prediction errors update existing memories vs create new ones. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Competition Between Memory Updating and Differentiation Emerges From Intrinsic Network Dynamics | Request PDF

Request PDF | Competition Between Memory Updating and Differentiation Emerges From Intrinsic Network Dynamics | When an event occurs that is similar to a previous experience, the original episodic mem...

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NEW PREPRINT Ukrainians are more positive about their collective future than Germans and Poles. They also see their personal future as more intertwined with their country's and feel more agency to be able to change their country's future.

The Memory Lab congratulates @mariusboeltzig.bsky.social to the successful defense of his PhD! Well done Dr. Boeltzig! 👨‍🎓 Marius did excellent research in the @schubotzlab.bsky.social on understanding how the size of prediction errors shapes episodic memory. 🧠 Make sure to check out his work!

After 3.5 years, I defended my PhD in Psychology, with my thesis "Learning From The Unexpected: How Prediction Error Size Shapes Episodic Memory". So grateful to colleagues, collaborators, and friends who were part of this journey!

Exactly three weeks before my PhD defense, the third and last paper of the thesis was published! We tested the neural correlates and representational and behavioural consequences of updating vs separating events after prediction errors. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Three studies of EU, UK, and US elections show that self-serving bias moderates the relationship between future thinking and remembering. @mariusboeltzig.bsky.social @scottcolepsych.bsky.social @clarerathbone.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Self-serving biases shape the relationship between future thinking and remembering of elections - Communications Psychology

Three studies of EU, UK, and US elections show that self-serving bias moderates the relationship between future thinking and remembering. Event memories and memories for pre-election expectations are ...

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Remembering and future thinking are related - but self-serving biases can influence their relationships. This is what our new paper shows in the context of political elections. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Self-serving biases shape the relationship between future thinking and remembering of elections - Communications Psychology

Three studies of EU, UK, and US elections show that self-serving bias moderates the relationship between future thinking and remembering. Event memories and memories for pre-election expectations are ...

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We are excited to share out new study investigating the importance of temporal and content structure when watching movies! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Just kicked off the Kyiv Winter School of Memory 2026 with over 70 participants of different universities in Ukraine. So rewarding to see this slightly crazy idea become a reality. Thanks to @linniplidot.bsky.social and Karine Malysheva (National University of Kyiv) for organising this with me.

Happy to belatedly share some good pre-Christmas news: My colleague Karine Malysheva from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and I secured a Collaborative Diversity and Inclusion grant from @officialsarmac.bsky.social.

I'm excited to share our new paper about initial prediction errors, which arise spontaneously at first exposure to coherent novel stimuli. In this study we investigated the neural and mnemonic consequences of initial PEs compared to those of experimentally induced PEs. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

If there is an account on Bluesky that deserves way more followers, it is this one!

Evan R. Hughes, Ph.D@evanhughesphd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Ulric Neisser, b. 12/8/1928, an experimental Ψ and a founder of Cognitive Psychology. #Neisser earned his Ph.D. @harvard.edu in 1956. Rejecting Behavorism, his Rx examined the mental processes behind perception, memory, and behavior leading to a massive paradigm shift in the field of #psychology.

How do gaze patterns and hand movements differ between actors in naturalistic manipulation tasks when one person's action respond to the other's? New research from our lab, led by post-doc Anoush, using eye tracking and motion capture elucidates these processes. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | Analyzing Gaze and Hand Movement Patterns in Leader-Follower Interactions During a Time-Continuous Cooperative Manipulation Task

In daily life, people often interact by taking on leader and follower roles. Unlike laboratory experiments, these interactions unfold naturally and continuou...

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We secured a grant from Lund University, allowing us to invite two collaborators, Karine Malyesheva and Illia Zarubin, from Taras Shevchenko University Kyiv for a week. Great discussions on future possibilities. @mikael-johansson.bsky.social @linniplidot.bsky.social @lund-memory-lab.bsky.social

That was an exciting week with NAC (Natural and Artificial Cognition) and the SweCog (Swedish Cognition) conference in Lund!🤩 We had the opportunity to present our research on eye tracking and multi tasking, social inferences, how our brain extracts specifics and gist, and war memories in Ukraine.

It was great to present my poster on distinct encoding after large predictions errors at ICON last week. Thanks to all who passed by to have a chat (i.e., shouting at each other at the top of one‘s lungs).

New Paper Out! Why do some prediction errors (PEs) lead to changes in episodic memories and others do not? Our new research supports the idea that the size of the episodic PE plays a crucial role in shaping mnemonic and neural outcomes. These are the 4 most important results:

Presenting our work on future thinking and remembering around elections today at @sarmac2025.bsky.social - Session 7, 11:40 (my talk starts around 12:10) in Moore Abbey. Pass by if you’re around! @studentssarmac.bsky.social

It was great to present this work for the first time - and looking forward to doing this again at @officialsarmac.bsky.social in Ireland next week!

Schubotz Lab@schubotzlab.bsky.social · last yr.

He also gave an oral presentation on how event outcomes influence the relationship between future thinking and remembering. Participants changed their assessment of how important elections were depending on whether the elections went their way or not - showing strong self-serving biases.

Marius @mariusboeltzig.bsky.social presented his poster on the influence of prediction error size on memory - showing that large prediction errors lead to distinct encoding of new episodes, while keeping old ones intact.

The first paper of my PhD is out now in Neuroimage: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Finding the sweet spot of memory modification: An fMRI study on episodic prediction error strength and type

Previous research has highlighted the critical role of prediction errors (PEs) in signaling the need to adapt memory representations in response to un…

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Great experience to present at @teap2025.bsky.social this year!

Register by tomorrow for this lovely conference!

FOR 2812@for2812.bsky.social · last yr.

The deadline to submit abstracts for posters, talks and symposia for GEM 2025 is fast approaching. Have your submissions in by 15.03.2025 The deadline will not be extended! for2812.rub.de/gem2025 #DFG_for2812 #gem2025 #interdisciplinaryresearch #generative_episodic_memory #memory #neuroscience

The deadline to submit abstracts for posters, talks and symposia for GEM 2025 is fast approaching. Have your submissions in by 15.03.2025 The deadline will not be extended! for2812.rub.de/gem2025 #DFG_for2812 #gem2025 #interdisciplinaryresearch #generative_episodic_memory #memory #neuroscience

This gets more true by the second.

Philip Eil@phileil.bsky.social · last yr.

Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:

We are looking for German or Ukrainian people participants for a 20-40 minutes survey. Topics are Flashbulb Memories, Negative Memories, and Future Thinking - and there are vouchers to be won.

The abstract submission of GEM 2025, which is organised by my research consortium @for2812.bsky.social is now open. It's a great interdisciplinary conference on constructive memory - and I will organise the PhD symposium, so I'd be happy to see some Blueskyers there :) for2812.rub.de/gem2025/

The ultimate test of a social network for psychologists is whether they can recruit participants... So - if you are German or Ukrainian: Please consider taking part in our online survey (25-40 minutes). It is about how you imagine the future,...

New paper from our lab in NeuroImage on cortical chronotopy, led by Falko Mecklenbrauck! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decoding Cortical Chronotopy - Comparing the Influence of Different Cortical Organizational Schemes

The brain's diverse intrinsic timescales enable us to perceive stimuli with varying temporal persistency. This study aimed to uncover the cortical org…

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