🔭JOB ALERT🔬 Fully-funded PhD (+ soon postdoc) openings in my lab @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. TOPIC: Investigating predictive neural representations in naturalistic settings using MEG-based dynamic RSA

Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com! A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm really excited to share the results of a new study that @bjbalas.bsky.social and I have been working on this summer. This project was a bit of a labor of love. If you're interested in #chess, mental imagery, #aphantasia, or the value of a sabbatical, this is a 🧵 for you: 1/?

Clever Cat Plays Chess

ALT: Clever Cat Plays Chess

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SUPER excited to share the first-ever preprint out of my PhD! AND it comes with a CAT story. I know there are quite some people here who love seeing cat pictures!! 🐈1/🧵

I'm happy to share that last week I had two papers published! 🎉 One is my first PhD paper, and the other comes from my time as a research assistant at Proaction Lab. If you're interested in how well we remember speed, or how object knowledge is organized in the brain, follow the thread 🧵

Interested in how people perceive and remember the speed of visual objects? Our paper (see also the blueprint/ thread below) is now out in the Journal 📔 of Vision!

Rosanne Rademaker@rademaker.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Many things in the world move, and can even move behind other things. When will the cat reappear? To predict this, remembering the cat’s speed will likely help. But... how do people remember something like speed, which is defined by displacement over both (🤯) space and time? TWEEPRINT ALERT! 🚨🧵1/n

Excited to share my first #preprint with @matthiasnau.bsky.social on how gaze behavior shapes brain activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Gaze-dependent activity was widespread even during sleep, including in many visual cortices, and altered brain-wide functional connectivity! 🧵 1/8

Brain-wide gaze-dependent activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep

Gaze behavior and brain activity are tightly coupled during perception and mental imagery. Whether this coupling extends to eyes-closed states remains largely unknown, primarily because measuring eye ...

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New paper! We compared EEG decoding for scenes that appeared abruptly versus scenes emerging gradually during continuous visual input. Takeaway: Presentation context matters when interpreting EEG decoding time courses. With @michaengesee.bsky.social and Daniel Kaiser. doi.org/10.1152/jn.0...

Abrupt scene onsets and gradually emerging scene information produce distinct EEG decoding dynamics | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society

Multivariate analyses of magneto-/electroencephalography (M/EEG) data are typically performed on neural responses time-locked to discrete stimulus onsets. Such designs usually reveal high decoding performance during the initial transient response (0–500 ms), which subsequently drops to a lower, sustained level. Here, we examined time-resolved EEG decoding of natural scene processing when scenes gradually enter the visual field without a clear onset. We created video sequences in which one scene category (e.g., a beach) smoothly transitioned into another category (e.g., a forest) by blending two scenes into a single composite panorama and moving a square aperture across it. We compared EEG decoding for the first scenes within the transitions, which appeared with a sudden, artificial onset, to the second scenes, which emerged naturalistically as the videos progressed. For the first scenes, we observed robust category decoding from 60 ms after onset with a clear peak structure. For the second scene, category decoding was markedly weaker and showed no discernible peak structure. Realigning the appearance of category-diagnostic content for the second scene using deep neural networks did not enhance decoding or recover a peak structure. Furthermore, classifiers trained on the first scene generalized to the second, but with a broad, temporally diffuse pattern, instead of a diagonal pattern more consistent with a shared hierarchical processing timeline. Together, these findings demonstrate that time-resolved EEG decoding is sensitive to stimulus-presentation context. Accordingly, temporal decoding patterns obtained in conventional trial-based paradigms may not generalize unchanged to conditions involving gradual scene transitions and continuous visual input. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Using multivariate EEG decoding, we show that scene-category information follows different temporal profiles across two presentation regimes: abrupt scene appearance after a grayscale screen and gradual scene emergence during continuous visual input. Our findings demonstrate that time-resolved decoding is sensitive to stimulus-presentation context and should not be interpreted as an invariant signature of a fixed visual processing hierarchy.

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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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What if simply predicting an event could trick your brain into remembering it as real, even when it never happened? 🧠 Very excited to share my very first preprint with @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, born from a question that seemed almost too counterintuitive to be true🧵 1/7 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

In a new preprint, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social and I investigated stimulus-specific memorability with ROC analysis. We find that the variability of latent memory effects (familiarity) caused by individual memory items across people is a game-changing dimension of memorability osf.io/c62an/files/...

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

ALT: Kristen Wiig: I'm Ready To Party! - Bridesmaids

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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)

Neural acceleration drives adaptations in working memory encoding speed

Humans and non-human animals adaptively boost their encoding speed when they expect limited sensory exposure time, so that they can capture essential information before it is gone. However, it is uncl...

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🔔 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.

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Sleep spindles enhance latent working memory representations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.734777v1

NEW! Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages. Find your next funding source and apply, all in one place: thetransmitter.org/neuroscience... #neuroskyence

—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi

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...

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.

Focus. Relax. Focus again. Turns out people would rather not do that! With my amazing mentors Wouter Kool and Julie Bugg, we show that people actively avoid switching between control states even in a single task, and trade off this demand against conflict. More in Wouter's thread and paper below!

Wouter Kool@wouterkool.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨Paper alert!🚨 Across 5 expts, @mileritayar.bsky.social's new JEPG paper shows that people explicitly avoid switching between attention control states. Using demand selection tasks, we find that people don't just avoid cognitive conflict, but also switching between congruent and incongruent trials.

Now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social ! We show that the persistence of memory biases across retrieval episodes may critically depend on attention to inducer stimuli during initial interference. w/ @keisukefukuda.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A single perceptual comparison is sufficient, but not necessary, to induce lasting memory distortion

Humans constantly compare their visual memories with similar visual inputs to modify their behavior adaptively. However, basic and applied studies sug…

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#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. 👇

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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New course launching in 2027!🎉 🤓 Neuromatch and @connectedminds.bsky.social are developing a Computational Behaviour course. A two-week, fully remote course open to participants worldwide! Learn more: neuromatch.io/computationa... #ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience

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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Now out in Current Opinion in Neurobiology! We propose that biases in perception & memory emerge naturally from an adaptive, hierarchical human learning system. w/ @timbrady.bsky.social + sky-less et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Attraction and repulsion in perception and working memory as complementary outcomes of learning

Visual perception is imperfect. Fortunately, the environment contains an incredible amount of structure that observers can learn to exploit through ex…

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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 ✨

Spend your July doing research in Granada! The CIMCYC is calling for talented undergraduate students (non-UGR) to join our Summer Research Stays 2026. 📍 9 Placements available 💶 €1,600 scholarship 🔬 8 specialized Research Groups (see next post!) 🏡 Housing support included Apply by May 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...

People still store object-specific details about search targets in memory when category knowledge is 'good-enough.' w/ Ryan Williams, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, & Susanne Ferber Object Details Persist in Visual Working Memory Regardless of Category Sufficiency for Search | osf.io/preprints/ps...

Many claim memory biases toward percepts reflect corruption in sensory signals. We challenge this view by showing that ppl adapt their integration rationally w/ experience. w/ @timbrady.bsky.social Humans adaptively integrate memory and perception based on stimulus history | osf.io/preprints/ps...