Joint work with @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @koberauer.bsky.social

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We have a new PhD position at the University of Zurich to work on visual working memory. For more info see here:
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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👀

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New preprint with @chenyuli.bsky.social!

We wrote a hands-on tutorial for applying the Memory Measurement Model (M3) to categorical recall data using the #bmm R package. It contains four examples, complete R scripts, and a parameter recovery workflow.

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

How to Set Priors for Hypothesis Testing in Generalized Linear Models: A Three-Step Workflow with an Application to Binomial Models: https://osf.io/q7byw

UZH: Postdoctoral Position Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental, individ...

We're looking for a postdoc starting this summer to join our efforts in understanding the capacity limits of cognition: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

But as we mentioned in our Discussion section, if participants can complete the processing task based on perceptual information (for example, clicking on the red object), the distractors may not necessarily be encoded into working memory.

To me, working memory seems to be the system that temporarily holds the representations of these two objects and processes size information (as it is defined).

I am not quite familiar with the concept of mental space. How does it differ from working memory?

Good question! In our study, we asked participants to determine the real-world size of two objects (for example, an apple versus an elephant) and click on the larger or smaller one. Therefore, they had to use the object images as cues to retrieve size information from long-term memory.

Can We Process Information Without Encoding It into Working Memory?

Our findings with @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @koberauer.bsky.social suggest that processing entails encoding. Task-irrelevant information enters working memory during processing, impairing memory for relevant information.

Postdoctoral researcher (80%) in Cognitive Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

The successful applicant will work with the head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Klaus Oberauer, and the Cognitive Psychology team.
Application deadline: 20 March 2026

Big news from the lab today: @joschadutli.bsky.social has officially defended his PhD! 🎉
We’re grateful to @aidanhorner.bsky.social for serving as external examiner and as Joscha’s supervisors we @leabartsch.bsky.social and @koberauer.bsky.social are incredibly proud—congrats, Joscha!

The Cognition Lab @ University of Zurich is on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on new papers & preprints, conferences that lab members attend & other news around research on #workingmemory, #attention, and #longtermmemory.

Super excited to share that Ven Popov & me published a new release of the #bmm R package: venpopov.github.io/bmm/

We have added the Memory Measurement Model for categorical #workingmemory tasks to the package!

Apart from that there are some minor fixes to already implemented models and functions.

Can removing info from working memory reduce interference or free up capacity? Our new study finds that removal boosts memory by freeing resources—not by reducing interference.

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Can We Process Information Without Encoding It into Working Memory?: https://osf.io/mcpf7

Next up in Poster Session III, November 22 from 6:00 - 7:30 PM, @chenyuli.bsky.social sky.social will tell you about the benefit of removing information from working memory. With @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social on-frischkorn.bsky.social , @hannahdames.bsky.social hdames.bsky.social and Klaus Oberauer.

The Zurich Cognition Lab (Oberauer, Bartsch, and Frischkorn) is attending Psychonomics 2024 and you are in for A LOT of treats! If you are in New York, make sure to stop by our talks and posters and discuss with us (more details in the thread)

#psynom24

The Benefit of Removing Information from Working Memory: Increasing Available Cognitive Resources or Reducing Interference?: http://osf.io/s8kcz/

Ven Popov - Introducing the Bayesian Measurement Modeling R Package (bmm) Making Bayesian measurement modeling in psychology accessible, reliable & efficient

Looks interesting: venpopov.com/posts/2024/i...

😎 My colleagues Gidon Frischkorn and Ven Popov have launched *bmm* their R-package on hierarchical Bayesian implementations of measurement models for to CRAN ! Please check out their Blog post: venpopov.com/posts/2024/i... #CogSci #workingmemory #CogPsych #rstats #PsychSciSky

🚨New paper🚨 I’m exited to share that our (@joschadutli.bsky.social, K. Oberauer, @leabartsch.bsky.social) work on the link between grouping of information in #workingmemory and the formation of chunks in #longtermmeory has just been published in Cognition! 🥳

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Come and join us, for lots of #workingmemory fun 🤩

Removal of Information from Working Memory: Time Course and Consequences: http://osf.io/qt3f9/