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Vanessa Loaiza

@vmloaiza1.bsky.social

cognitive developmental psychologist based at Colorado State University. low span studying working memory 😉 she/her & my last name is pronounced low-eye-zah

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

Just a few more days left to nominate your female colleagues! 🧚‍♀️ Help spread some joy and appreciation for the women who do so much for our field, not just in terms of their outstanding research, but also all the labor that they do to support the wonderful WM community that we have!

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...

Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happy to see this out! There was a suggestion in the literature that susceptibility to continued influence of misinformation decreases with age; we suggest here that this was an artefact and age does not play a big role. Led by the excellent Paul McIlhiney. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Influence of Age on the Effectiveness of Misinformation Retractions

Misinformation has become a much-discussed issue in public and academic domains. One harmful aspect of misinformation is that it can persistently influence people's judgements after clear and credibl...

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 3w ago

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

Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · last mo.

Today is the LAST day to submit a public comment on the proposed OMB rule. We've put together a guide to help: www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now

Act Now: Submit Your Comment to the OMB Proposal

Federal science funding is under the most significant threat in decades — and the window to act closes July 13.

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

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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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2mo ago

Listening to this episode and it’s actually worse than I thought; this book is like the final boss for fact checkers and other people who are bothered by made-up claims.

If Books Could Kill@ifbookspod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Episode 53: The Body Keeps The Score In 2014, a Dutch researcher revolutionized our understanding of trauma with insights like "don't talk about it" and "get a massage."

Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

PO-STL-AB

Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202...

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Want to provide constructive and fair reviews, rather than unwittingly become the dreaded Reviewer 2? Join us to learn some principles for writing peer reviews that help make papers into the best versions of themselves that they can be. This is a free event on Zoom! Register below 👇🏼

Reviewer Zero@reviewerzero.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Want to make peer review more inclusive & equitable? @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar on how to write better, fairer reviews! 📅 June 15th | 12–1:30pm EST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/59ez5azt #PeerReview #AcademicTwitter

A promotional flyer from Reviewer Zero for a webinar titled "So You Want to Participate in Peer Review: How to Write Inclusive and Equitable Reviews." The event is scheduled for June 15th, 12–1:30pm EST. The flyer features a yellow speech bubble with the event title in bold blue text, an illustration of two hands typing on a keyboard, and a QR code and link to register at https://tinyurl.com/59ez5azt. The background is cream-colored with a blue spiral notebook graphic at the top.

Jan Theeuwes @jthee.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ESCoP 2026 will be held in Hangzhou (31 Aug–4 Sept). Great keynote speakers, strong programme, and a chance to experience China. Easy travel via Shanghai + high-speed train. Abstracts still open! www.escop-copm-2026.com

mega raccro @toweringklau.bsky.social · 8mo ago

i have very rapidly become incapable of thinking about anything that isn’t this video

Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I try to teach my kids this all the time. In order to become good at something, you have to be willing to be bad at it first. I worry that our kids will forget the messy process of learning things. AI promises "woah, I know kung fu," but minds and bodies don't work that way.

James Grimmelmann@jtlg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I can write good abstracts not because I have a natural talent for it but because I have spent twenty years consciously practicing it. The only way to get good at something is to keep working through the part where you're not good at it … yet. cf. james.grimmelmann.net/files/advice...

Do the Thing

The Malcolm Gladwell version of the 10,000-Hour Rule is a myth, but the underlying idea is obviously true. You get better at things by doing them, so do the things you want to get better at. If you want to be a better reader, read. If you want to be a better writer, write. If you want to be a better public speaker, speak in public.

A few corollaries are less obvious. The first is the sports aphorism to practice like you play. If you spend your time doing something that is somewhat but not really like the skill you want to develop, you will end up with that and not with what you wanted. If you write small, incremental papers because anything more ambitious feels like too much of a risk, you will only get good at writing small, incremental papers. If you take shortcuts and read in a hurry, you will get good at taking shortcuts and reading in a hurry. You have to do the thing itself.

The second is to embrace failure. Don’t expect to be good when you start doing something new. Do it anyway. Think of yourself as a beginning musician playing notes to see how they sound together, or a beginning artist mixing paints to see what colors result. Create things purely for yourself. Fail fast and fail often. Love your mistakes, and learn from them. Make a mess, clean it up! The only way out is through.

Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 6mo 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...

Job Opening

Annonce d'ouverture de poste

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I worry about putting out a vibe against my express wishes to receive questions/feedback from students and mentees. Yet, when an undergrad student includes "fuck" in his question after class and an RA tells me I'd be "diabolical" to do an exam before spring break...maybe signals that I'm doing OK 😂

WMSymposium.bsky.social @wmsymposium.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are excited to announce that we will host WMS2026! The tentative dates are July 14th-17th, and we are currently looking for a postdoc to join the WMS2026 organizer team. If you are interested, please submit your application using the link below (Deadline: March 29th) forms.gle/noqsuEja2tB8...

a little girl is making a funny face while wearing a blue shirt with a leopard print .

ALT: a little girl is making a funny face while wearing a blue shirt with a leopard print .

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Yong Hoon Chung @yonghoonchung.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New paper with @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in JoCN! "Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects" doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...

Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects

Abstract. Visual working memory is a core cognitive function that allows active storage of task-relevant visual information. Contrary to the common assumption that the capacity of this system is fixed...

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Dr. Kelly I. Zimmerman @fillsyourniche.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our paper is now available online! Check out the Kudos summary here: link.growkudos.com/1ed9uhpo8w0

How can expertise in healthy older age help to benefit memory ability?

Why is it easier to keep information active in mind when we already have some prior knowledge of it? To answer this question, we recruited younger and older novices and older experts in birding to bri...

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Vanessa Loaiza@vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I am pleased to share that "the bird study" is now accepted at Psychology and Aging! A great collaboration with visiting intern Kishen Senziani, @leabartsch.bsky.social & @edamizrak.bsky.social 😀 Check out the pre-print below and a short thread on the study design and main takeaways 🧵👇

William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 9mo ago

Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!

OpenWMData

A collection of publicly available working memory datasets

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 12mo ago

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients into Clear Quantities

Abstract
Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear models, but is more challenging for more complex models with, for example, categorical variables, interactions, non-linearities, and hierarchical structures. Here, we introduce an alternative approach to making sense of statistical models. The central idea is to abstract away from the mechanics of estimation, and to treat models as “counterfactual prediction machines,” which are subsequently queried to estimate quantities and conduct tests that matter substantively. This workflow is model-agnostic; it can be applied in a consistent fashion to draw causal or descriptive inference from a wide range of models. We illustrate how to implement this workflow with the marginaleffects package, which supports over 100 different classes of models in R and Python, and present two worked examples. These examples show how the workflow can be applied across designs (e.g., observational study, randomized experiment) to answer different research questions (e.g., associations, causal effects, effect heterogeneity) while facing various challenges (e.g., controlling for confounders in a flexible manner, modelling ordinal outcomes, and interpreting non-linear models).

Figure illustrating model predictions. On the X-axis the predictor, annual gross income in Euro. On the Y-axis the outcome, predicted life satisfaction. A solid line marks the curve of predictions on which individual data points are marked as model-implied outcomes at incomes of interest. Comparing two such predictions gives us a comparison. We can also fit a tangent to the line of predictions, which illustrates the slope at any given point of the curve.

A figure illustrating various ways to include age as a predictor in a model. On the x-axis age (predictor), on the y-axis the outcome (model-implied importance of friends, including confidence intervals).

Illustrated are
1. age as a categorical predictor, resultings in the predictions bouncing around a lot with wide confidence intervals
2. age as a linear predictor, which forces a straight line through the data points that has a very tight confidence band and
3. age splines, which lies somewhere in between as it smoothly follows the data but has more uncertainty than the straight line.

Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Here is your chance to become an associate editor of a fantastic journal! The incoming editor of @jcgntn.bsky.social, @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social, is looking for associate editors. Check out this cool opportunity to self-nominate or nominate someone you know! www.escop.eu/about-us/jou...

ESCOP - Journal

ESCOP is a dynamic scientific society that provides a venue within which current research in cognitive psychology and neighboring disciplines can be presented, discussed and encouraged.

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Matteo Lisi @mlisi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I’ll be giving a 'Workshops for Ukraine' session on Building and Customising Statistical Models with Stan and R: An Introduction to Bayesian Inference — online on Nov 13. Open to all, with donations supporting Ukrainian organisations. 👉 sites.google.com/view/dariia-... #stats #rstats #statssky

Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine

Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)

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Caro Hautekiet @carohautekiet.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The final part of my PhD work is now published in JEP:LMC 🤩 Special thanks to my wonderful PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🤗 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

APA PsycNet

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Caro Hautekiet@carohautekiet.bsky.social · 2y ago

Delighted to share that the last part of my PhD work is now available as a preprint 🥳🎉 osf.io/preprints/ps... This work was done in collaboration with my amazing PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🌟 #workingmemory

Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 11mo ago

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What Makes a Birdbrain Tick: Long-term Memory Drives Expertise Effects on Working Memory Binding: https://osf.io/y835u

Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Congrats to @lauraklatt.bsky.social for being the #WomWoM research fairy of 2025! She is both a star researcher & incredibly generous and collegial with all in the field, especially the juniors! Thank you to everyone who sent in nominations & to @scannedfruits.bsky.social for making Laura's wand 🪄🧚‍♀️

Laura-Isabelle Klatt@lauraklatt.bsky.social · 11mo ago

3/3 My personal highlight of #ESCOP2025 was becoming this year‘s #WomWom research fairy! 🧚‍♂️ Thanks again to all my fellow #WomeninWorkingMemory. It means a lot ❤️

Gidon Frischkorn @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Hey #memory folks, check out this new preprint by @joschadutli.bsky.social , @koberauer.bsky.social, and @leabartsch.bsky.social showing that elaboration benefits are likely driven by aiding in establishing efficient retrieval cues.

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 12mo ago

How does semantic elaboration affect retrieval from episodic memory?: https://osf.io/ktgsu

Gidon Frischkorn @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Yes, this was a really great experience! Thanks for @cvonbastian.bsky.social and @vmloaiza1.bsky.social for asking us to do this as part of #ESCOP2025! And if you are interested in having a similar workshop for your PhD Programm or similar, feel free to reach out!

Isabel Courage@isabelcourage.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A huge thanks to all participants, my fellow workshop co-organizers @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @ruhibhanap.bsky.social, and #ESCOP2025 for hosting our workshop introducing cognitive measurement models with the #bmm R package (venpopov.github.io/bmm/) - it was such a rewarding experience!

Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Leeds WoMCog group at the #ESCoP2025 conference in Sheffield!

Christ Billy @cbaryanto.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I’m going to present at the Blitz Talk on Friday, 6pm, at #ESCOP2025 @escop.bsky.social. The very last session, yet I’m sure with a lot of excitement! Come to listen whether engaging in your hobby predict your cognitive abilities. 🧠