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...
More evidence for the role of alpha/beta oscillations in top-down control.
Sustained alpha oscillations serve attentional prioritization in working memory, not maintenance
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
#neuroscience
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yuanyuan Weng, Jelmer P. Borst, and Elkan G. Akyürek:
Sustained alpha oscillations serve attentional prioritization in working memory, not maintenance
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Our latest findings: bringing together the core insights so far from our NWO-funded project on "Externally driven internal attention", led by @annavanharmelen.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
JOB ALERT: PhD opening in my lab!
@cimecunitrento.bsky.social
in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant.
The project will use advanced analysis methods of MEG data to investigate how our world's naturalistic hierarchical structure facilitates predictive neural processing.
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...
Human Gaze Behaviors Track Abstract Stimulus Categories
doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
#neuroscience
How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience?
Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as events become familiar. Slow-timescale structure predicts memory.
Excited to share this work w/ Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
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...
Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution....
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Very happy to share that the first project of my PhD journey has been accepted for publication in Imaging Neuroscience 👩🏼🔬
Give it a read 📖 and let me know what you think!
direct.mit.edu/imag/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...
Looking for a #PhD or #postdoc position on predictive processing? 🧠 Please, get in touch if you are the perfect fit to join my lab at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
@philippmusfeld.bsky.social , @joschadutli.bsky.social, @koberauer.bsky.social and I wrote up the result of three years of in lab discussions on setting priors in GLMs.
Hope some of you find the proposed workflow and our recommendations helpful!
#bayes #glm #brms #rstats
I’m excited to share the preprint of my first paper! Finding neural correlates of SoA is hard, but I’m thrilled to share first insights of my research: in line with bayesian approaches to agency, we argue that feedback-induced states of perceived agency alter task preparation and outcome monitoring
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...
I am glad to attend #CNS2026 in beautiful Vancouver🇨🇦! I will present my work on action planning in visual working memory. In this project, we focus on the factors leading motor planning such as selective attention, affordances and task requirements. Meet me at the Poster Session B (B38)!
Must-see at CNS 2026:
Poster
Sunday pm C36
Priority-Driven Transformation of Visual Working Memory Content, Jung Woo Hur & me
Tuesday am
Tuesday am F45
Beta oscillatory—not burst—dynamics support priority coding in working memory
Jacqueline M. Fulvio & me
I am happy to be attending #CNS2026 with the Yale Wu Tsai Institute travel award to present this paper👇🏻 as a poster - it’ll be on Monday from 2:30-4:30pm (session E), come check it out!
I am glad to attend #CNS2026 in beautiful Vancouver🇨🇦! I will present my work on action planning in visual working memory. In this project, we focus on the factors leading motor planning such as selective attention, affordances and task requirements. Meet me at the Poster Session B (B38)!
Join our lab in Geneva, as a postdoc working on #workingmemory, with both Jarrod Lewis-Peacock and myself !
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Leon von Haugwitz, Edmund Wascher, and Mauro F. Larra:
Cardiac phase modulates behavior and response related lateralization in visual spatial conflicts during change detection
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
📍2003 marked the year in which the retro-cue paradigm was born. Fast forward, 23 years later, we adapt this logic to long-term memory and ask how does attention shape retrieval from long-term memory? 🤔
w/ @william-nm.bsky.social Kia Nobre, Nahid Zokaei and Nora Roüast
osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n
10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments.
More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
Please share!
New preprint! We mapped out how ‘diffuse’ predictions affect neural representations. We show predictions reshape the geometric layout of the neural representations by compressing the representational spread and stabilize the neural code by reducing the neural variance during memory encoding.
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
🚨Pupillometrists!
Reviewer2: “But what if changing pupil size unintentionally affected arousal?” 👁️
Now we give you the answer! In collaboration with Snell lab www.snelllab.eu, we show that you can safely manipulate pupil size, via ipRGC activation, without unintentionally altering arousal!
So proud that @scannedfruits.bsky.social submitted the third (and final!) paper of her #PhD thesis this week 🎉What a milestone!
Check out the preprint & stay tuned for a summary thread 👀🧵
Check out our new preprint, which presents object-based retrieval processes in multisensory working memory. Here we show that unimodal feature probes incidentally reactivate untested tones and orientations of audiovisual objects. +