📢 ***Call for papers at Psychological Science (APS)*** Dr Roni Porat and I are editing a special issue, "From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World.” Please see the detailed call here (www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...) and send us your best work!

The Indian presence on BlueSky is limited, and there hasn't been talk of it here. But the scenes of violence and police brutality are distressing and it's important for people to know. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

India’s Cockroach movement protesters show no sign of backing down

Thousands of people again on the streets of Delhi demanding education reforms despite police violence on Monday

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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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We're so very proud of this! Not much of the journal metrics per se (they don't always reflect well what they're supposed to measure...), but of the fact that we offer a reputable outlet for strong cognitive science outside of commercial logics. Send us your best papers, folks!

Gidon Frischkorn@gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is great to see! Also that @jcgntn.bsky.social has gained a good spot among these outlets. Obviously, I am not impartial (being AE at JoC), but it is great to see that non-profit journals that are backed by scientific societies & focused on serving the scientific community are faring well!

⏰ 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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How to best estimate Bayes factors for standard hypothesis tests? We compared bridge sampling and the Savage-Dickey density ratio. The latter does a good job in most constellations typical for experiments in cognitive psychology.

Reliability, bias, and computational cost of estimating the Bayes factor using bridge sampling and the Savage–Dickey density ratio - Behavior Research Methods

Bayes factors often require numerical estimation because closed-form solutions are unavailable. In six simulation studies, we explored the reliability, bias, and computational cost of two easy-to-use ...

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This is great to see! Also that @jcgntn.bsky.social has gained a good spot among these outlets. Obviously, I am not impartial (being AE at JoC), but it is great to see that non-profit journals that are backed by scientific societies & focused on serving the scientific community are faring well!

—— 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

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...

📣 Postdoctoral Researcher Opportunity – ADHD, Working Memory & Learning I am recruiting a postdoc to join my research group at Queen Mary, London on a newly funded MRC New Investigator Grant. ⏱️Deadline: 2 July 2026 🗓️ Start date: 1 October 2026 Apply here: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Finally out in Psychological Review (psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...), our update to Signal Detection Theory. We show that contrary to the prevailing Gaussian assumption, evidence distributions in recognition memory are likely minimum extreme Gumbel!

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Honey, we fixed Signal Detection Theory (SDT)! In this preprint, Constantin Meyer-Grant, David Kellen, Sam Harding, and I critically evaluate the (unequal-variance) Gaussian SDT model in recognition memory and pursue the Gumbel-min model as a principled alternative: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵

New Publication Alert! 🚨 Along with @koberauer.bsky.social and @agnesrosner.bsky.social we investigated if eye movements are functional for memory retrieval in an associative recognition task and largely found evidence against it. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.3... #workingmemory

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

A new #bmm release is available on #CRAN. With this version, #bmm now covers basic response time models. This release contains three new models plus several usability features. Here's what's in it 🧵 venpopov.com/bmm/ #rstats #bayes #openscience

Easy and Accessible Bayesian Measurement Models Using brms

Fit computational and measurement models using full Bayesian inference. The package provides a simple and accessible interface by translating complex domain-specific models into brms syntax, a powerfu...

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Tricky one to answer! I feel like I can't ever tell how my papers are received; they seem to be cited fairly. But I thought about my solo theory piece written as a postdoc – it felt like I was going out on a limb. I've wondered if that was appreciated, and whether the field thought I had a point!

Mapping visual working memory models to a theoretical framework - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

The body of research on visual working memory (VWM)—the system often described as a limited memory store of visual information in service of ongoing tasks—is growing rapidly. The discovery of numerous...

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Proud to share new fMRI work by the fabulous Or Yizhar (not on Bsky): on the manifold level(s) of abstraction of visual working memories in visual cortex. With a fantastic team, Fabio Bauer, Inés Pont Sanchis, and @hanzule.bsky.social, supported by @erc.europa.eu 
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Today's keynote speaker to highlight is Prof Klaus Oberauer! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition #ICOM2027 #philosophysky 🧪

@wmsymposium.bsky.social 📢 📢 📢 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS OPEN 📢 📢 📢 The #workingmemory Symposium will be held online July 14-17, 2026. 🥳 🎤🎤🎤Talks will be either a standard 12-minute length (with 3 minutes for Q&A), or a 3-minute data "blitz" style presentation. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

WMS 2026 Abstract Submission Form

The Working Memory Symposium (WMS) is a virtual conference promoting scientific discourse on working memory for researchers using any model system, targeting any population, and using any research met...

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Very excited to have this officially published: A neural state space for episodic memories A brief thread... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪 @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

A neural state space for episodic memories

Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …

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We are very excited to officially announced that ICOM - The International Conference on Memory - is back in 2027 from 26th-30th July! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

A multi-lab replication effort (@eegmanylabs.bsky.social) of the contralateral delay activity (CDA) has just been published online! In brief, the set-size effect appears to be robustly observed, but CDA correlation with VWM capacity is not reliably strong. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

It's exam season, which means it is time to revise. Can AI help your revision process? Possibly. But definitely not if you let it do the important work for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQS...

AI-generated summaries: a good study aid?

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🧠 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

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...

Exciting news for ICOM7 (International Conference on Memory), in Glasgow, 26th-30th July 2027. The conference website is live and we can announce our keynote speakers!

📢 PhD position in the @cognition-zurich.bsky.social at University of Zurich I’ve been part of the lab for 7+ years, and it’s a genuinely collaborative and supportive place to grow as a researcher and do research on working memory and cognition 👇

Zurich Cognition Lab@cognition-zurich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We have a new PhD position at the University of Zurich to work on visual working memory. For more info see here: www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec...

We have a new PhD position at the University of Zurich to work on visual working memory. For more info see here: www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec...

Which risky choices should (and do) we study as behavioral scientists? In two related articles, we recently examined the current "ecology of risk" (i.e., laypersons' reports on what risky choices they face in real life) and how these choices differ from those […] [Original post on mstdn.science]

Join our lab in Geneva, as a postdoc working on #workingmemory, with both Jarrod Lewis-Peacock and myself !

Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab@womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are looking for a new colleague!🧠🇨🇭🦩 A new post doc position is available in our lab - check the link for more details! www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...