So happy to see this published! 🎉 Meet **deadleaves**, an #OpenScience Python package for generating Dead Leaves images to study #vision, segmentation, natural image statistics, and beyond. 📄 Paper (JOSS): doi.org/10.21105/jos... 📚 Documentation: deadleaves.readthedocs.io For more info 🧵

We're wrapping up our annual workshop on "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience." I wanted to take this opportunity to share some things that I have learned from teaching a coding course. Useful info for students and instructors. On my blog: gaspelinblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/w...

What I Have Learned from Teaching a Large National Workshop on Coding

Over the past several years, I have had the opportunity to teach a national virtual workshop on R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience. Supported by the National Science Foundation and hoste…

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New content in the journal: Hautekiet, C., & Oberauer, K. (2026). Does Attending to Information in Working Memory Improve Long-Term Memory? Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 41, pp. 1–11. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... @carohautekiet.bsky.social

Does Attending to Information in Working Memory Improve Long-Term Memory? | Journal of Cognition

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On a quick skim, the core function that OSF will fulfil is registration of studies (plus protocols and analysis plans) and hosting preprints. This means we will need to find data repositories for new projects following mid-November; perhaps Github, Zenodo, or university-operated commons.

Jonathan Peelle@jpeelle.bsky.social · 5d ago

Yikes “Starting November 16, 2026, no new projects or child components of existing projects can be created on OSF. After February 19, 2027, all public and private OSF projects will become read-only.” www.cos.io/osf-changes

A project from my master's research with @erengunseli.bsky.social is out in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience :) In this paper across two EEG experiments we showed that the level of reactivation of long-term memories in working memory is not influenced by anticipating upcoming interference. 1/3

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Memory Reactivation Levels Remain Unaffected by Anticipated Interference

1/ 🧵 New preprint with @keisukefukuda.bsky.social! Sharing some work from my undergrad thesis 🧠 doi.org/10.31234/osf... Recent work has shown that simply making a prediction can induce a false memory of the predicted event, even when that prediction is left unresolved or directly contradicted.

Now final in @elife.bsky.social: #Synesthetes really do 'see' when reporting colors while reading (typeface gray) numbers: pupils change according to the perceived colors' brightness - if a synesthete sees a bright yellow, the pupils become smaller. elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Christoph Strauch@cstrauch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We show that synesthesia is sensory and automatic in nature: the pupil scales with the brightness of experienced synesthetic colors. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Now in its new dress @elife.bsky.social (convincing & valuable in round 1). If anyone wants to pick up the method, happy to share & explain!

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We have recently published work in Psych Science and JEP:LMC showing a surprising relationship between initial capture and learned suppression of salient distractors. Ultimately, this has led us to believe that attentional control is much more flexible than often assumed. Read more on my blog!

From Capture to Suppression: How Distraction Shapes Attentional Control

By Nick Gaspelin and Yue Zhang Zhang, Y. & Gaspelin, N. (2026a). From capture to control: Initial capture increases learned suppression. Psychological Science. 37(4), 2…

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Excited to see this line of research continue to grow, from our initial findings in Psych Science to our follow-up work in JEP: LMC. Thanks, Nick, for the great write-up! Check it out if you’re interested in how experience can rapidly reshape attentional control.

Nick Gaspelin@ngaspelin.bsky.social · 3w ago

We have recently published work in Psych Science and JEP:LMC showing a surprising relationship between initial capture and learned suppression of salient distractors. Ultimately, this has led us to believe that attentional control is much more flexible than often assumed. Read more on my blog!

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/?

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Just about 1.5 weeks until the 2nd August deadline to nominate the fantastic female working memory researchers you know! Please share far and wide!

Vanessa Loaiza@vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

⏰ 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...

7/ Turns out, yes! Low motion coherence (high uncertainty) of a memory target increases its vulnerability to distortion from a "similar"-looking non-target during the delay, while a high-coherence (low-uncertainty) target stays relatively resilient.

Interested in memory updating, exploration, structure learning, & reward? @asinclair.bsky.social & I are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship at York University, with the opportunity to work at Rice too. Contact Allie or me for details! #PsychJobs

How do we regroup and resume goal directed behaviors when distractions pull us away from our plans? In a snake game inspired memory task, we found people flexibly replan after distraction, but this flexibility was constrained, worked for only one item in memory. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Ziyao Zhang@bulezz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

new preprint! 🐍 In a dynamic Snake game inspired task, we show participants flexibly replan their behaviors after distraction, but this ability is constrained by memory load and distraction strength. EEG results coming soon👀 osf.io/preprints/ps...

📢 OPAM 2026 abstract deadline extended! Good news, you now have until **July 22, 2026** to submit your abstract for OPAM 2026. Don't miss the chance to share your latest work with our community. Submit here: www.opamconference.com/abstract-sub... #OPAM2026

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My preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social on inferring the representation underlying cognitive tasks has been updated: osf.io/preprints/ps.... It has a new title, upgrades of our previous models, additional analyses, and a stronger discussion that reflects our deeper and clearer thinking. /1

William Ngiam | 严祥全@williamngiam.github.io · 10mo ago

What is the representation underlying cognition? Formal models rely on multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments to derive the representation. In this preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social, we take an alternative approach; we build Bayesian generative models for three cognitive tasks. /1

WMS2026 will kick off tomorrow at 9am CDT! If you are interested in cutting-edge working memory research and ECR-promoting vibrant community of scientists, come check it out! Don't forget to check out the program (www.wmsymposium.org) and join the slack!

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After five years in the US 🇺🇸, I'll soon be returning to my hometown of Strasbourg, where I'll join INSERM as a tenure-track Junior Group Leader and launch the MInD (Motivation, Inattention & Distraction) Research Group. 🇫🇷🇪🇺 Two graduate positions available: matthieuchidharom.wixsite.com/mind

Three new lectureship positions available at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE550/l...

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Article in The Psychologist from myself & Charity Brown, prompted by our recently published textbook Key Topics in Memory (BPS & Routledge). This reflects on Chapter 1 & Chapter 7 of the book, while also indicating the ground we cover in the intervening chapters. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Memory research: Foundations to futures | BPS

Richard Allen and Charity Brown reflect on the many ways we can think about, capture and explore the content and workings of our memories. They trace the origins and trajectory of memory research, rev...

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⏰ 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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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!

Presenting our preprint work at the virtual @wmsymposium.bsky.social (WMS 2026). 📅 Tuesday, July 14th | 9:30 AM CDT 🗣️ Session A1: Control 1 There's a fantastic group of presenters lined up with tons of cool talks on working memory, representations, and attention. Link in the comments below!

Mrugank Dake@thememoryguy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New preprint! 🚨 Work w/ Sangita Dandekar & Clayton Curtis at NYU during my PhD. We show how prefrontal & visual cortices coordinate to keep working memories alive via localized & long-range β-band dynamics. 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/5)

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!!!

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As of today, I'm officially an Assistant Professor at the University of California Davis! I'm so excited to be joining the Department of Psychology and the Center for Mind and Brain, and I'm looking forward to getting settled into the new lab and embarking on a lot of fun new research this year

Back in late 2020, in my capacity as director of a new Neuroscience Ph.D. program, I led an effort to apply for an NIH T32 G-RISE grant. It was rejected, then I handed it off to my co-PIs before they resubmitted it (in quite a hurry), it was rejected again, but recently we heard that it was funded!

New paper: across 3 EEG experiments, we examined how do we edit WM at test. Imagine you were asked to memorize 4 colored squares during encoding: at test, when you were given a single test probe, are you able to remove the items at irrelevant positions (upper), or do you have to keep'em (lower)? 1/n

New paper out showing that people do not need bottom-up attentional capture to prioritize information in real time during rapid working memory tasks. (link.springer.com/article/...)

Reward-based prioritization and perceptual feature effects on attentional flexibility in working memory - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

The focus of attention (FoA) is a resource within working memory (WM) assumed to hold limited information in a highly accessible state. Recent evidence suggests the FoA can flexibly adjust to hold ear...

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