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Candice Koolhaas

@ckoolh.bsky.social
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PhD student at Umass Boston in the Early Minds Lab! Studying working memory and cognitive effort in all ages, with Zsuzsa Kaldy and Erik Blaser

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We’re back with episode 2 of “A Conversation with a Future Luminary”! Jenna talks with UMass Boston graduate students, @ckoolh.bsky.social and @quinnpham.bsky.social about time management, working memory, episodic future thinking, collecting data in museums, and much more! itsinnate.fireside.fm/45
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A conversation with future luminaries #2: Candice Koolhaas and Quinn Pham
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Candice Koolhaas @ckoolh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@quinnpham.bsky.social and I were on the It’s Innate podcast! Thank you @jennadistefano.bsky.social @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social @deontbenton.bsky.social for the opportunity!!! It was so much fun to chat about our PhD projects! open.spotify.com/episode/4l1w...
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Episode 45: A conversation with future luminaries #2: Candice Koolhaas and Quinn Pham
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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thanks, but actually my favorite line didn't make it to the piece. Does Odysseus feel guilty about the Trojan war? Lots of discourse on this question even though he doesn't exist! Is he conscious? AI agents are fictive characters abstracted from text - like Odysseus.
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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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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
How good are you at inferring the correlation of a set of data points? Check out Daniel @lakens.bsky.social’s game (part of his “Improving your statistical inferences” book) and test (and hone!) your skill: buff.ly/hcOmPOU
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Candice Koolhaas @ckoolh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So excited to share a new publication! Here, my advisors @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social @erikblaser.bsky.social and I discuss the theoretical model underlying our recent projects on WM use across the lifespan, and we suggest a more ethological approach to studying WM. www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...
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What is working memory for? An ethological approach to working memory in children and adults
Typical visual working memory tasks involve many trials of rapid presentations of simple stimuli to be remembered across short delays. This is rarely …
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20/06/2026
Open Mind, the free OA competitor to Cognition (El$evier) founded by Richard Aslin, has nearly caught up to it impact-factor-wise Submit your best work! It's a great journal with fast and constructive review, a great ed board, and lots of cool work Open Mind is the future of cogsci journals!
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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Congratulations, Melissa Kibbe (@levelsof.bsky.social), on winning the Society for Philosophy and Psychology’s 2026 Stanton Prize and, more generally, for your rich research program demonstrating the origins of abstract, generative thought in human infants.
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Christoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Have you thought of using unchained pupillometry to infer effort/arousal with _uncontrolled_ visual stimulation? Sounds crazy? @yuqingc.bsky.social shows that convolutional modeling of pupil responses with gaze-contingent luminance changes finally allows just that! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Candice Koolhaas @ckoolh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Update: my amazing RA Zane Mourad is no longer job hunting as he will be starting this summer as lab manager at the Infant Cognition Lab at UC Davis!! 🎉 he gifted the grad students these beautiful shot glasses with a pic from our CDS trip 🥲 simultaneously thrilled but also missing him already!
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Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🎊New Lab Alert! I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come. thesonglab.github.io I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.
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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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Candice Koolhaas @ckoolh.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Arrived to Florida a bit before VSS and enjoying a classic on the hotel balcony 😎
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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Psych-DS is spellcheck for your datasets, and it has an R package now! Available in beta now, made by the excellent Brian Leonard, instructions here: psych-ds.github.io/psychds-r/
Screenshot of the "Create Dataset" page of the psych-DS Shiny app from the new R package psychds
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Sam Gilbert @samgilbert.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵...
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Antoine Coutrot @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
⚠️New review on video games for cognitive citizen science! "From Players to Participants: Citizen Science and Video Games to Understand Cognition" arxiv.org/abs/2604.24321
Cognitive Citizen Science Games : Sample Size as a function of starting year. For each game we show its logo, research area, sample size and whether it is a bespoke game or embedded in an existing game.
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Zurich Cognition Lab @cognition-zurich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
After hundreds of studies on the retro-cue effect in working memory, we thought that we understood what caused it. Not quite - check out our new paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...
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Candice Koolhaas @ckoolh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Is anyone looking for a full-time RA starting in the summer who has an awesome personality, great work ethic, and experience with eye-tracking and cognitive development research? 🙂
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.
cover of the book "Bayesian Workflow" by Gelman, Vehtari, et al. Coming out later this year, in the summer probably.
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Candice Koolhaas @ckoolh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Excited for #CDS2026 in Montreal! Check out our lab's posters on Friday and Saturday!
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Candice Koolhaas @ckoolh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
So grateful to have my first first-author publication out in Developmental Science! Here we (@zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social @erikblaser.bsky.social) used our Shopping Game to ask whether kids use all of their memory capacity if they don't have to (they don't! 🤭) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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How Much Do You Remember When It's up to You? Measuring Memory Use Without Response Bias in Young Children
Outside the laboratory, people tend not to push working memory to its limits. Instead, we tend to capitalize on stable, external resources (e.g., assembly diagrams or shopping lists) in a dynamic, c...
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Evan F. Risko @efriskouw.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New research from University of Waterloo Psychology researchers Adrian B. Safati (PhD student) and Dr. Daniel Smilek shows that simply expecting to think about our own thinking can actively influence how we regulate attention. Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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The Effects of Anticipating Metacognitive Judgments about Mind-Wandering - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Across two experiments (N = 121, 121) we examined whether the anticipation of metacognitive judgments in the form of experience sampling probes of mind-wandering influenced attentional engagement. Par...
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Sebastiaan Mathôt @cogsci.nl · 24/02/2026
🚨 New #Review #Preprint 🚨 Veera Ruuskanen proposes a new, concrete framework to understand how and why pupil size 👁️, neural activity 🧠, and behavior 💃 interact. doi.org/10.31234/osf... #psychology #neuroscience #pupillometry #perception
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Chenyu Li @chenyuli.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Can We Process Information Without Encoding It into Working Memory? Our findings with @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @koberauer.bsky.social suggest that processing entails encoding. Task-irrelevant information enters working memory during processing, impairing memory for relevant information.
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Nataly Beribisky @natalyb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Looking for your next weekend stats read?! @cribbie.bsky.social and I have written a tutorial on negligible effect/equivalence testing! link.growkudos.com/1ex872pua68
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How Small Is Small Enough? Understanding Negligible Effects
Researchers often ask questions about whether an effect is small enough to be considered unimportant. For example, is the difference in productivity between working at home and working in the office n...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Neuroscientist @clionamurray.com knows the power of community. Murray explains how @blackinneuro.bsky.social expanded from its humble beginnings as a Slack channel to connect Black neuroscientists across the diaspora. By @alainaglevine.bsky.social #neuroskyence
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Introducing “Pretend Battleship”: you’re told where all the ships are but then have to play like you never got that information. Could you do it? And what would your performance reveal about your understanding of your own mind? A joy to be part of this creative project led by @matanmazor.bsky.social
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International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
New on the Baby Blog - Could a toddler lose their keys? Proactive interference says yes by @ckoolh.bsky.social, Zane Mourad and @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social infantstudies.org/title-could-... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #memory
Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - Could a toddler lose their keys? Proactive interference says yes by Candice Koolhaas, Zane Mourad and Zsuzsa Kaldy against an image background of three infants giggling together on the left corner and a toddler drawing a picture of a globe on the right
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Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search
Internal and external selection processes can codevelop in time to yield efficient search behavior.
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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Now out in an issue! ~~ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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The ubiquity of episodic-like memory during infancy
Considerable progress has been made in understanding early memory development. However, much of this research pre-dates contemporary theories of memory systems in the mature brain. This review provide...
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905. His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development. On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape. 🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio
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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
In an EEG study spearheaded by Marlena Baldauf, we show that 8-month-old babies’ visual systems resonate at 4Hz (theta rhythm) — unlike adults, who resonate around 10Hz (alpha). 👶🧠 echoes at 4Hz 👩‍🦰🧠 echoes at ~10Hz Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Infant Brains Tick at 4Hz - Resonance Properties of the Developing Visual System
Neural rhythms of the infant brain are not well understood. Testing the rhythmic properties of the adult visual system with periodic or broadband visual stimulation elicited neural resonance phenomena...
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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting. Our new perspective piece in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from @utaustin.bsky.social Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
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The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting
The retention and use of long-term memories is crucial for adaptive behavior. While stable memories help organisms anticipate outcomes, they may become maladaptive if not updated to reflect new condit...
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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Sad but true. Lessons here though. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A Month‐Long Parent‐Led Spatial Intervention Failed to Improve Children's Spatial Skills
Eighty 4- and 5-year-olds and their parents were randomly assigned to a spatial or narrative activity condition. For a month, parents engaged their children in these activities and learned about the ...
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Alex J. Hoogerbrugge @ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Just added a few thousand new search datasets, bringing the total up to almost 6k museum visitors 😮‍💨 Updated preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... Data: osf.io/kf4sb/
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International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Can infants tell when your phone is getting in the way? 📱👀 Cao et al. (2025) found that 20mo infants expect adults distracted by phones to do worse at simple tasks. Even babies may realise the consequences of multitasking! #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Damian Koevoet @dkoevoet.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Now published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Open Access link: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Reappearing sensory input guides visual working memory prioritization - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Adaptive behavior necessitates the prioritization of the most relevant information in the environment (external) and in memory (internal). Internal prioritization is known to guide the selection of ex...
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
also from the meme archives
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Candice Koolhaas @ckoolh.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
open.spotify.com/episode/5w35... 😻 the last ~10 minutes of this episode especially is so beautiful and inspiring 😱
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What We Can Learn About Happiness from Babies | Alison Gopnik
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Candice Koolhaas @ckoolh.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
If you have the intuition that Bluey is better for kids than popular kids YouTube streamers, you are right! Kids YouTube videos have way more “flicker” - an interesting measure Sarah Stolp Shepherd uses in her research that is related to reduced short term learning and EF! youtu.be/4whbKAhHMc8?...
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BCCCD25 - Sarah Stolp Shepherd: Focused or overstimulated?
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Matthew Robison @matthewrobison.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Alexis Torres has written an excellent review, now published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, on "The Role of the LC-NE System in Attention: From Cells, to Systems, to Sensory-Motor Control" (w/ me and Gene Brewer). check it out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Just had the chance to present on an @infantstudies.bsky.social panel about inexpensive methods for data collection with children - if you're curious about how Children Helping Science works/the kinds of studies you can run, this slide deck is a good place to start! docs.google.com/presentation...
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2025 - CHS (ICIS Webinar)
Conducting developmental studies online with Children Helping Science Melissa Kline Struhl ICIS Webinar 05/29/2025 1 1 Children Helping Science
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/05/2025
Fitting a generalized mixed model with a gamma distribution log link and random slopes to reaction time data to arrive at precisely the same point estimate as the authors did by simply averaging and conducting a t-test:
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Candice Koolhaas @ckoolh.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
First time at #vss2025 favorite conference so far for sure 😎🐠🐟🐡
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Candice Koolhaas @ckoolh.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
My first #srcd poster on proactive interference with 1.5 - 2.5 year olds 🤩
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Candice Koolhaas @ckoolh.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
First post! HW assignment for Biostats class. For #TidyTuesday I just compared how many times some random words appeared in the Simpson's-character-names dataset. Here is the link to the script: github.com/candicekoolh...
The instance of the word "Homer" appears ~100 times, "Donut" ~5 times, and "Nuclear" 1-2 times in the simpsons_characters dataset.
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