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Berna Güler

@bernaguler.bsky.social
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Postdoc @brognition.bsky.social & DavachiLab | Yale University @brnglr93 on Twitter

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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
Many thanks to @erengunseli.bsky.social @davidclewett.bsky.social @odedbein.bsky.social Yağmur Damla Şentürk, and Sümeyye Karahamza
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Findings suggest that stronger within-event associations across memoranda may result from the reactivation of prior event representations at event boundaries
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The results supported boundary-triggered reactivation: alpha-band suppression increased following events Evidence for accumulation was more limited: CDA gradually increased across items within an event, but alpha-band suppression did not
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If information accumulates in WM, neural markers of WM load should gradually increase across items within an event If information is reactivated at boundaries, WM load should increase when a new event begins — reflecting reinstatement of the preceding event.
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Working memory has long been thought to support segmentation, but how it does so remains unclear. Using two EEG indices sensitive to working-memory load (contralateral delay activity (CDA) and alpha-band suppression), we tested two possibilities: accumulation vs. reactivation
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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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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Many thanks to @erengunseli.bsky.social @davidclewett.bsky.social @odedbein.bsky.social Yağmur Damla Şentürk, and Sümeyye Karahamza
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Findings suggest that stronger within-event associations across memoranda may result from the reactivation of prior event representations at event boundaries
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The results supported boundary-triggered reactivation: alpha-band suppression increased following events Evidence for accumulation was more limited: CDA gradually increased across items within an event, but alpha-band suppression did not
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If information accumulates in WM, neural markers of WM load should gradually increase across items within an event If information is reactivated at boundaries, WM load should increase when a new event begins — reflecting reinstatement of the preceding event.
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
WM has long been thought to support segmentation, but how it does so remains unclear. Using two EEG indices sensitive to working-memory load (contralateral delay activity (CDA) and alpha-band suppression), we tested two possibilities: accumulation vs. reactivation
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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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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Huge congrats 🎉🎈
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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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Kristen Wiig: I'm Ready To Party! - Bridesmaids
ALT: Kristen Wiig: I'm Ready To Party! - Bridesmaids
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu
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Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News  Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202...
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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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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
It looks great, congrats! Do you have preprint or any material to share, love to hear more 🤗
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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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Ben Griffiths @benjamingriffiths.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New paper out in J. Neuro! We used MEG and pattern classifiers to ask: if a memory is reactivated in the brain, does that mean you'll recall it? Short answer: no. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... Read on for the details! [1/7] #neuroscience #memory
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Alpha Oscillations Track the Projection of Reactivated Memories into Conscious Awareness
By definition, episodic memory is a conscious phenomenon. Memory traces reactivated by the hippocampus and reinstated in the sensory cortices need to enter conscious awareness for them to be re-experi...
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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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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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...
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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...
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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 · 22/02/2026
Thank youu! This could not be possible without the help of our super supportive lab members, like you ✨🙂
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Thank you very much Candice! 🌸
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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
Huge thanks to my collaborators @erengunseli.bsky.social @davidclewett.bsky.social @odedbein.bsky.social & Sumeyye Karahamza & Yağmur D. Şentürk
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Our results support boundary-triggered reactivation as the primary mechanism, with only moderate evidence for continuous accumulation. These findings suggest that WM mainly supports event organization by reinstating recent information at moments of event transition
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Using WM load-sensitive EEG indices, we tested two possibilities: 1⃣ WM gradually accumulates information during events 2⃣ WM reactivates information at event boundaries
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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
In sum: It’s not surprising changes, but contextual stability, that determines how we segment continuous experience into discrete events.
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Across three experiments, we manipulated contextual stability while keeping prediction errors constant. In a separate experiment, we manipulated prediction errors while holding the context stable. To assess event segmentation, we used temporal distance and temporal order tasks.
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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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To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Across 4 experiments, we both manipulated contextual stability and prediction error. Findings consistently showed that contextual stability, not prediction error, better accounts for how people segment continuous experience into memory units.
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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
Bilim Akademisi'ne tüm destekleri için içtenlikle teşekkür ederim! / I sincerely thank the Science Academy for supporting my attendance at the VSS by providing travel funding 😊 @bilimakademisi.bsky.social bilimakademisi.org/sen-de-bilim...
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“Sen de Bilim İçin Koş!” Projesiyle Desteklenen Berna Güler, ABD'de Bilimsel Çalışmasını Sundu - Bilim Akademisi
Türkiye İş Bankası 46. İstanbul Maratonu kapsamında hayata geçirdiğimiz “Sen de Bilim için Koş!” projesiyle 272.000 TL bağış topladık. Elde edilen bağışlarla, dört doktora öğrencisinin yurt dışında dü...
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