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Amanda Waterman

@amandawaterman.bsky.social
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Professor of Cognitive Development, University of Leeds. Interested in Working Memory, Executive Function, Cognitive Offloading, & applying cognitive science to the classroom. Also interested in red wine, comedy podcasts, live music, & singing loudly.

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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
New paper on PsyArXiv looking at task difficulty (memory load), serial order, and error patterns in children’s #workingmemory using a large-scale dataset (N~15,000) #developmental #psychology With @richjallen.bsky.social and @amyatkinson.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Really enjoyed doing this podcast with these fabulous women for #IWD International Women’s Day @maddipow.bsky.social
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Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Ahoy! Shiver me timbers, it’s the exciting conclusion to Madrigal in Margate: Oatal Recall! Expect sea life, violence and a whole lot of corporate sponsorship! Listen to it right now, ya hear, on the Crowley Time podcast feed or at crowleytime.com! Also features more glorious synth from Tommy Music.
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Researcher Development @ Leeds @researcherdevleeds.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
In a new episode of the #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast @nickshepp.bsky.social chats to Dr Kinga Patterson about #OpenResearch & its parallels to learning a language. Discover open research practices, learn about #collaboration & explore opportunities for #ECRs.
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(Episode 103) Practice makes perfect: why open research is like learning a language with Dr Kinga Patterson
Quickly and easily listen to Research Culture Uncovered for free!
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Postdoc job alert 🚨 This is a great team to work for, so get applying!
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Listen to Crowley Time with him @atomcrowley.bsky.social and thank me later
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Fam, they let a Pop-Tarts mascot go to a hospital and meet newborns. Now we're going to have to do a longitudinal study on these babies.
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Our paper now available looking at how executive function (inc #workingmemory) & processing speed mediate r/ship btw SES & educational attainment with Rachael Cheung @sarah-blower.bsky.social @richjallen.bsky.social & led by @kate-mooney.bsky.social #devsci #cogsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Do executive functions and processing speed mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and educational achievement? Analysis of an observational birth cohort study - BMC Psychology
Background There are large and persistent social inequalities in children’s educational attainment, with children from more socioeconomically disadvantaged families consistently having lower attainmen...
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Bradford Research School @bradresearchsch.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Counting down our most-read posts of the year Number 5: The Relationship Between Working Memory and Long-term Memory researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...
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The Relationship Between Working Memory and Long-term Memory
Our long-term memory has potentially infinite capacity - so how can we use it to support working memory?
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Bradford Research School @bradresearchsch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Working Memory: Research into Practice Download the guide from Professor @amandawaterman.bsky.social and @markmillerteach.bsky.social researchschool.org.uk/bradford/wor...
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Working Memory: Research Into Practice
Working Memory: A Practical Guide for Teachers
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Is giant Keira Knightley really going to shoot a bearded four-year-old in the head? Or will tiny homunculus Ben Whishaw thwart her aim by firing a miniscule bullet into her knee?
Publicity shot for the show Black Doves in which perspective makes the above look possible.
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Good news for a Monday - paper accepted looking at how executive function & processing speed mediate relationship between SES & educational attainment. Spoiler: #workingmemory important! With @richjallen.bsky.social Kate Mooney, Rachael Cheung & Sarah Blower. Link to follow soon. #devsci #cogsci
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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Optimist: the glass is half full. Pessimist: the glass is half empty. Developmental psychologist: which has more?
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Watching #gbbo and getting really stressed. How is Dylan not smashing this?! He is clearly the best baker 😬😬😬
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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The latest (September 2024) issue of JARMAC by @officialsarmac.bsky.social has a special section on "applying cognitive science to improve learning" (see the list of articles below). They all seem really interesting, so check them out if you're interested in this topic!
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John Towse @jntowse.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Thanks Mark. Here’s another: go.bsky.app/3HinJx9
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Kirsten Adam @kirsten-adam.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I made a starter pack to follow your favorite WomWoMs (Women of Working Memory) go.bsky.app/78fcoth You can ping me to be added!
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Looking forward to reading this article by @jntowse.bsky.social @amyatkinson.bsky.social Satoru Saito and Bob Logie #workingmemory #cogsci
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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
To celebrate deleting my twitter, I'm reposting some of my classic cognitive development memes from the other site. First, one of my all-time faves
Two choices meme - one button says "Where Sally thinks the marble is" and the other button says "Where the marble actually is". The sweating man who is tasked with making the choice between the two buttons is labeled "3-year-olds"
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Daryl O’Connor @daryloconnor.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Cogent Psychology is recruiting for Section Editors & Editorial Board Members in: 1. Health Psychology 2. Work, Industrial & Organizational Psychology 3. Neuropsychology Please think of applying or get in touch if you want to know more Deadline 20th Dec think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below
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The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
If you haven’t already watched Alma’s not normal on the BBC, then can I strongly recommend that you do. It is bloody brilliant. Really bloody brilliant.
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Follow Tom - he is super funny, and in a bunch of brilliant podcasts, including Crowley Time, which includes some of my favourite comedy characters EVER, and which you should listen to immediately. And I’m not even paid to be this nice about him. He is just *that* good.
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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
The multicomponent model of working memory 50 years on journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
New preprint -> Prioritizing feature bindings across space and modality in working memory osf.io/preprints/ps... With Hatice Cinar, @amyatkinson.bsky.social, & @amandawaterman.bsky.social
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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
New paper out in Memory & Cognition, with @amyatkinson.bsky.social and @amandawaterman.bsky.social! Does value-based prioritization at working memory enhance long-term memory? link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
This exciting project will explore working memory and cognitive offloading in children & adults, and is supervised by me, @amandawaterman.bsky.social & Luisa Superbia Guimaraes, & Jon Redshaw at U of Queensland. Please share!
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Tim Ricker @timricker.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Check out Kelly Cotton's newest paper with me and Josh Sandry. We show that online participant complex cognitive task performance often appears to be equal to in person performance. Further analysis shows this first-glace sameness is not always true. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Academic hivemind - we need your help again! This time we are looking for research on #workingmemory in children’s serial recall that has looked at types of error (eg, intrusions, transpositions, repetitions) @evievergauwe.bsky.social @womcogdevlab.bsky.social @cvonbastian.bsky.social
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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
New paper now out at Memory - Exploring techniques for encoding spoken instructions in working memory: a comparison of verbal rehearsal, motor imagery, self-enactment and action observation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #workingmemory
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Exploring techniques for encoding spoken instructions in working memory: a comparison of verbal rehe...
Encoding and recalling spoken instructions is subject to working memory capacity limits. Previous research suggests action-based encoding facilitates instruction recall, but has not directly compar...
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Delighted our paper, Exploring techniques for encoding spoken instructions in #workingmemory: A comparison of verbal rehearsal, motor imagery, self-enactment, & action observation, was accepted in Memory. With @richjallen.bsky.social, Agnieszka Jaroslawska & led by Tianxiao Yang. More info soon!
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Philipp Musfeld @philippmusfeld.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
🚨Open PhD Position: We are looking for a new PhD student in the Cognition Lab at the University of Zurich (PI: Klaus Oberauer), starting February 2024. The application deadline is November 10. Please Share! More information here and in the thread below www.psychologie.uzh.ch/de/bereiche/...
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Download our free guide - Working Memory: Research Into Practice. A collaboration with Mark Miller (Director of Bradford Research School) #workingmemory #education researchschool.org.uk/bradford/wor...
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Working Memory: Research Into Practice
Working Memory: A Practical Guide for Teachers
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Academic hivemind. We are trying to find as many papers as we can on #workingmemory in children and young people from 11-18 years. Any pointers/suggestions gratefully received! Also, re-posts would be welcomed 🙏#cogpsyc #devpsy #cogdev
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Amanda Waterman @amandawaterman.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Looking forward to delivering this online workshop with Mark Miller from Bradford Research School on #working memory and the practical implications for tackling the complexity of writing in the classroom. #education. Teachers can sign up here: researchschool.org.uk/bradford/eve...
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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
The International Conference on Working Memory (Leeds, UK, June 2024) is now open for poster submissions! Please follow this link to our website, and go to the Poster Submission tab. sites.google.com/view/icwm/home #workingmemory
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