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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🌈 New preprint! With Sage, Melissa, and Kia (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social, @scenegrammarlab.bsky.social, @kianobre.bsky.social), we explore how attention is divided across external perception and internal working memory - revealing a dynamic trade-off between these two domains. doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What is the role of working memory in segmenting continuous experience into events? Does information gradually accumulate in working memory, or is the preceding event reactivated when we encounter a boundary? Check our new paper in JoCN🧵: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

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Working Memory Facilitates Event Segmentation Via Boundary-triggered Reactivation and Partial Accumulation during Events

Abstract. Event segmentation is the cognitive process of dividing continuous experiences into meaningful units. Although working memory (WM) is believed to play an instrumental role in event segmentat...

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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

In a new preprint, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social and I investigated stimulus-specific memorability with ROC analysis. We find that the variability of latent memory effects (familiarity) caused by individual memory items across people is a game-changing dimension of memorability osf.io/c62an/files/...

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WMSymposium.bsky.social @wmsymposium.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

ATTENTION!!! The program of Working Memory Symposium (WMS) 2026 (July 14-17) is out! sites.google.com/view/wmsympo... This year, WMS will feature a single stream presentation of 52 talks (39 talks and 13 blitz) + 1 panel discussion across 4 days. Looking forward to seeing you all!!!

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David Clewett @davidclewett.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Can you make your life feel “longer” in retrospect? Add a dose of change and novelty in the present to later expand memories of your past. Excited to share our work on how dopamine-related processing bends memory to reflect the passage of distinct events. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/can...

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Can dopamine bend time to shape memory?

The brain may use dopamine to expand time between distinct events, enabling us to remember unique episodes.

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Nature @nature.com · 20/05/2026

“It absolutely defied all of our expectations. This was so surprising that my whole project changed.” This phenomenon could have far-reaching implications, and is leaving neuroscientists baffled. go.nature.com/3RPAhhc

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The brain’s code seems to be in constant flux. Neuroscientists are baffled

Neurons fire much more erratically than researchers thought. What does that mean for how the brain works?

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Now out in Current Opinion in Neurobiology! We propose that biases in perception & memory emerge naturally from an adaptive, hierarchical human learning system. w/ @timbrady.bsky.social + sky-less et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Attraction and repulsion in perception and working memory as complementary outcomes of learning

Visual perception is imperfect. Fortunately, the environment contains an incredible amount of structure that observers can learn to exploit through ex…

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Happy to share that I will give a colloquium talk at the Heymans Institute for Psychological Research, University of Groningen, on June 2 I will present my work on how experiences are segmented into meaningful events, and how contextual stability and working memory contribute to this process ✨

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Alison Preston @aliprestonphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Under stress, two things happened in the hippocampus: 1) Less reactivation of the prior related memory during new learning 2) Greater neural dissimilarity between overlapping events To put it another way, stress pushed related memories apart instead of pulling them together.

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Excited to share our new paper on how distraction affects memory retrieval. Using a continuous report paradigm, we show that distraction reduces whether memories are accessed but not how precisely they are represented. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Chong Zhao @zhaochong.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

In collaboration with @monicarosenb.bsky.social , we showed that individual diffs in LTM encoding is uniquely predicted by inter-electrode correlations even controlling for working memory abilities. This suggests that WM & LTM encoding are separate abilities coded by different neural signatures! 1/n

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WMSymposium.bsky.social @wmsymposium.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Abstract submission for WMS2026 (July 14th-17th) is now open! If you are an early career researcher of working memory, please let us hear about your cool work by submitting your abstract (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...). Deadline is May 31st.

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Nature @nature.com · 24/04/2026

Failure is part and parcel of research, but discussing it sometimes seems to be taboo in science. It doesn’t need to be go.nature.com/3QHXZvk

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We need to talk about failure in science

Failure is part and parcel of research, but discussing it sometimes seems to be taboo in science. It doesn’t need to be.

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Many claim memory biases toward percepts reflect corruption in sensory signals. We challenge this view by showing that ppl adapt their integration rationally w/ experience. w/ @timbrady.bsky.social Humans adaptively integrate memory and perception based on stimulus history | osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

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?

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Proud of my student @farvk.bsky.social for his first @spspnews.bsky.social experience and poster at #spsp2026. An excellent scholar and an amazing person to talk about and do science with! @psuliberalarts.bsky.social

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories? We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate! Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!

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Melinda Sabo @sabomelinda.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

📍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

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Honored to receive a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and to join Prof. Kia Nobre at Yale University. Excited to continue my work on the role of working memory in event segmentation. Grateful for this opportunity! www.brognition.yale.edu/%f0%9f%8c%8d...

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🌍 Welcoming Berna Güler to the B&C Lab – Brain & Cognition Lab

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

New preprint alert! 📢 Event segmentation allows us to parse continuous experience into meaningful events. Working memory (WM) is suggested to play a key role in this process, but how? osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nursima Ünver @nunvera.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Super excited to see this out in the world!

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Happy to share that I’ll be an Editorial Fellow for Journal of Experimental Psychology: General in 2026, working with Sarah Brown-Schmidt on the journal’s editorial process. Grateful for this opportunity! ✨ www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

New paper alert🚀 Episodic memory is structured by event boundaries—moments of critical change. The common view suggests that prediction errors drive them—but is that true? We show that contextual stability, not prediction errors, is the key driver of segmentation. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Prediction error is out of context: The dominance of contextual stability in structuring episodic memories - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Our everyday experiences unfold continuously, yet we segment them into distinct memory units—a phenomenon known as event segmentation. Although extensively studied, the underlying mechanisms of event ...

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It is so moving to see my colleagues raising their voice and awareness. Proud moment ✨ @erinmorrow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Our paper is accepted in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! 🎉 We challenge the idea that prediction errors drive event segmentation, showing that contextual stability plays a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I’ll share findings from my recent research — which has been accepted for publication in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review — on how contextual stability, rather than prediction errors, might play a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories. Hoping to see you there! 😊

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

First time in #VSS2025 and it was a wonderful experience both academically and socially 🌸

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David Clewett @davidclewett.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it. We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Dopaminergic processes predict temporal distortions in event memory

Our memories do not simply keep time - they warp it, bending the past to fit the structure of our experiences. For example, people tend to remember items as occurring farther apart in time if they spa...

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Excited to share a new study from ACME Lab on how emotional processing shapes event segmentation! It shows that both negative stimuli and their down regulation impact how events are segmented in memory. osf.io/preprints/psya…

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Preprint update! We tested roles of contextual stability and prediction error in event segmentation, independently manipulating each factor in 4 experiments. We found contextual stability as the primary driver - challenging the event segmentation theory osf.io/preprints/ps...

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David Clewett @davidclewett.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Standing up for science is standing up for truth, reason, and wellbeing. So proud of my lab and colleagues for coming out to the march today!

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Thanks to the organizers of the 10th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science for a fun meeting. Burhan Bağlar, Sinem Subaşı, and Yaren Kaynar did a wonderful job presenting their work despite being swamped with final projects and presentations. Well done! See our posters below.

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Excited to share our new review paper! Episodic memories comprise segmented units. The role of working memory (WM) in such segmentation is implemented but not sufficiently studied. We explore the potential roles of WM and attention in event segmentation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

📣New paper alert! We discuss the role of working memory in event segmentation. We propose accumulation and reactivation models that explain how working memory may be accumulating memoranda within events and reactivating memoranda at event boundaries www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

New paper alert! Congrats to Yağmur D. Şentürk and Nursima Ünver for constructing a complex design & collecting 65 EEG datasets (each 4 hours)!🎉Our study reveals that switching to a new task rule triggers memory reactivation of previously learned items. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iIjT2VHY8...

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Please spread the word! A 24-month postdoc position is available in my lab. A 12-month extension may be possible. Experience in coding and data analysis is needed. Knowledge of memory, attention, or a related topic is preferred. Please get in touch via email if interested! gunselilab.com

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Exciting News! Our new review paper explores the impact of divided attention on episodic memory retrieval, a topic with mixed findings. Often, studies discuss the relationship between attention and retrieval as if each is a unitary phenomenon. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Event segmentation—continuous experiences divided into distinct memory units. But what fuels this process? Our study compares two theories: prediction error and contextual stability. We found that transitions across stable contexts matter more. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

👋 I am a Ph.D. student in experimental psychology. It is so nice to be connected with great minds here! ✨ #Hiscisky #psyscisky #psychscisky #neuropsyscisky

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