The stats are in for last year: JEP:HPP had a 72% rejection rate in 2025, a time to decision of less than 2 weeks, a total time from submissions to online publication of ~3 months.
Consider JEPHPP for your best work!
#Perception #CognitivePsychology

New paper in PBR: "Working memory’s pointer system is governed by physical objecthood, not spatiotemporal information"
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Without valid WM pointers, we miss OBVIOUS changes in visible items; the study shows that this "resetting" process is all about objects and not spatiotemporal change!

Junior Specialist- Henderson Lab University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

If you know of a graduating senior who might want to spend a gap year in @jmhenderson.bsky.social's productive, supportive, and fun lab, pass along this ad for a full-time, NIH-funded RA position!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07601?fbc...

Depending on what you want to do exactly and how effective you want the mask to be there are different ways to go. I've got a paper I'm writing on something close to this right now. Masks in WM paradigms are certainly more complicated than the standard anything cuts consolidation line of reasoning.

When Mental Images Get in the Way: How Aphantasia Reveals a Hidden Advantage in Reasoning New research from the University of Lyon suggests that people with aphantasia may actually reason faster on certain logic problems—a finding that challenges the long-held assumption that mental imager...

Congratulations to @m-delem.bsky.social and Damien Le Clézio for their masterful presentation of our work on the benefits of aphantasia on reasoning. And thank you for the invitation Aphantasia Network 🤩
aphantasia.com/video/aphant...

Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology The Department of Psychology at the University of Southern Denmark invites applications for a full-time position as tenure-track Assistant Professor. The position is a six-year tenure-track appointmen...

Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience" #neurojobs #neuroskyence #visionscience
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I just remembered I gave a talk on this work at the 2025 meeting of the Memory Disorders Research Society, for those interested: vimeo.com/1170041564?s...

The "2-body problem" affects many in #AcademicSky & #PsychSciSky.

Join us April 28, 2pm EDT, for an open & honest conversation with women who have navigated this reality firsthand. Jointly organized by @sparksociety.bsky.social @wicsc-trainee.bsky.social

Register: tinyurl.com/yc86by7f

📢 Rare academic 💎 alert 📢

We’re hiring a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Level B/C) in Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience @ Swinburne (Melbourne).

Teach a brand‑new degree + access MRI, MEG, EEG & TMS/tDCS.

⏰ Apply by 17 May 2026, 11 pm
🔗 swinjobs.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...

Reach out for more info.

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!

Our new review with Berna Güler (@bernaguler.bsky.social) is out!

We ask a basic but under-specified question: What shapes the segmented nature of episodic memories?

The mosaic of experience: How individual differences in attention and working memory shape event segmentation - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications Episodic memories, although experienced as continuous, are structured into discrete events, a process supported by working memory (WM) and attentional control. Yet, the causal contributions of these m...

New paper out 🧠 We synthesize findings from aging, ADHD, dyslexia & OCD and propose that event segmentation emerges from the interaction of attention, working memory, and schemas/contextual modulation. Curious to hear your thoughts! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Another new one from the lab in J Neurosci:

www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Evidence accumulation is a core principle by which brains convert information into decisions. But what happens when the evidence the brain needs can't be directly read from an external stimulus or memory? 1/N

Our new preprint w/ @zhaochong.bsky.social and Ed Vogel investigates two major memory effects, list-length and serial position, with ERPs and EEG decoding. We find that neural correlates of these effects are dissociable

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our next (NSF-funded) OPAM workshop will feature Dr Sarah Merrill (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) presenting on NSF GRFP and Fellowship Applications. Please join us for the workshop on May 7th at 1pm EST). Zoom link available here: www.opamconference.com/workshops-su...

A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I wrote up something that's been in my head for a while: psychometric methods alone can't tell us what cognitive tasks and their indicators measure.

Correlating indicators across tasks is circular when constructs are defined by those same correlations.

osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/3

Forget For Now, but Remember Later: Can People Selectively Remove Information From Working Memory While Keeping it in Long-Term Memory? | Journal of Cognition

Can we remove information from working memory and still maintain it in the long term - or the other way around? It turns out to be difficult. If you want to know more, check out our new paper:
journalofcognition.org/articles/10....

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...

Screenshot of a manuscript title page. Title: “An AI agent can complete the Attention Network Test with human-like behavioral signatures: Implications for the bot-or-not debate.” Authors: Richard Huskey, Ziyu Zhao, Douglas A. Parry, and Jacob T. Fisher, with university affiliations listed below. The abstract says an autonomous AI agent completed the Attention Network Test in real time and produced mostly human-like behavioral data. Across seven code revisions, the bot achieved attention network scores within published human norms, 95.8% accuracy, and reaction-time patterns showing positive skew and trial-to-trial autocorrelation. Compared with 796 human participants, the bot fell within the human range on several measures but showed elevated autocorrelation and a bimodal reaction-time distribution due to intermittent detection failures. The paper argues this makes simple bot-vs-human detection harder in online reaction-time studies.

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New preprint with Ziyu Zhao, @dougaparry.bsky.social, & @jacobtfisher.online

Can an AI bot complete a live online reaction-time task & produce data that passes as human?

We built an autonomous bot to take the Attention Network Test (ANT) in real time

Preprint:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

WM postdocs!
Just a reminder to please submit your application for WMS organizer before March 29th if you care about fostering an empowering community of WM researchers!

Dissociating Spatial Attention and Working Memory Storage with Pupillometry Abstract. Extant work establishes a close relationship between spatial attention and working memory (WM) storage. Indeed, spatial representations of memorized items emerge spontaneously, even when…

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Human Gaze Behaviors Track Abstract Stimulus Categories Abstract. Categorization, or the ability to group stimuli according to behavioral relevance, is a cornerstone of abstract cognition. Neurophysiological studies in nonhuman primates have revealed that ...

Proud of this one, led by former lab student Ali Caron (not on bluesky) and online at @jocn.bsky.social.

direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Super excited to share that our paper, “Multiple Partially Overlapping Neural Modules Orchestrate Conflict Processing,” has been accepted for publication in Imaging Neuroscience! 🎉
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w/ @tgro.bsky.social @manuelvarlet.bsky.social Edmund Wascher, Patrick Gajewski

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models.

A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

Only 5 days left!!!

We recently warned of bots in online behavioral research. @achetverikov.bsky.social showed there is no evidence for that in our @joinprolific.bsky.social data - but that doesn't mean we're safe. Agentic AI can do behavioral tasks through prompting alone. Reply & videos: osf.io/3cztr/overview

The effect of sequence stability on serial dependence jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Just a few more days left to apply! Come join our lab!🥳

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres (@rmt93.bsky.social): We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual WM against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference.
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