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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Altogether, this suggests that saccade phase-locking leads to more accurate neural representations of visual experiences, which in turn support the formation of veridical episodic memories. Interested in how these processes play out in even more naturalistic visual experiences? Stay tuned!

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This association was observable between- and within-participants, and the resulting neural representational fidelity, upon the first fixation on an image, predicted participants’ subsequent memory for that stimulus!

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Using representational similarity analysis time-locked to saccades, we found evidence in support of this hypothesis. When saccades were phase-locked to alpha oscillations, they resulted in higher fidelity neural representations of the images that the eyes landed on, during the fixation.

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Here, we asked WHY this memory encoding benefit arises, with the hypothesis that it’s due to a more effective visual sampling process. In other words, that phase-locked saccades lead to better fidelity neural representations of visual content, from which the memories are formed.

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Past research had suggested when saccades are synchronized – or phase-locked – with neural oscillations in the alpha band, the brain more effectively forms memories from visual experiences.

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Using combined MEG and eye-tracking, we report new evidence suggesting that when eye movements are phase-locked to alpha oscillations in neural activity, the brain can better process and represent the visual objects that the eyes land on, supporting their encoding in memory.

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SCONe - Scottish-EU Critical Oscillations Network @scone-neuro.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...

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Brain rhythms in cognition -- controversies and future directions

Brain rhythms seem central to understanding the neurophysiological basis of human cognition. Yet, despite significant advances, key questions remain unresolved. In this comprehensive position paper, w...

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Lauren Homann @laurenhomann.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Proud to share the first preprint of my PhD w/ @barense.bsky.social & Mursal Jahed: “Putting the testing effect to the test in the wild: Retrieval enhances real-world memories and promotes their semantic integration while preserving episodic integrity” See thread! 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

During natural reading with eye movements, the left posterior fusiform cortex reflects both fixated and upcoming words in parallel—and distinguishes whether an upcoming word is skipped or fixated. A new preprint from Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social!

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

These results suggest that during visual reading, word recognition and integration begin parafoveally, underpinned by the left occipito-temporal system. AND this system appears to be the first port of call where word processing may rapidly exert downstream influences on eye movement behaviours.

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

What about word skipping? Here, we examined parafoveal processing of words that were skipped vs. fixated. This revealed widespread parafoveal effects of frequency and surprisal before skipping, with significantly larger effects preceding skipped words in the left fusiform and middle temporal gyri

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

We identified putative generators of these influences in left occipito-temporal and ventral temporal areas. These effects began in posterior areas during parafoveal word processing and shifted anteriorly when the word was fixated.

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Matching past work, 2 properties significantly influenced fixation durations: a given word's frequency and it's surprisal in the current context. Next, we asked where and when these properties influenced neural activity, time-locked to fixation onsets

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

To try to answer this, we recorded brain activity and eye movements with simultaneous MEG and eye-tracking, while participants naturally read short stories. This allowed us to analyze neural activity time-locked to more than 22k gaze fixations

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

As a visual reader moves their eyes across this sentence, they will linger on certain words longer than others, and skip some entirely. How does the brain make these decisions, based on the incoming linguistic input, in tens or hundreds of milliseconds?

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Alex White @alexlw.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Attention PhD grads looking for research and teaching jobs! Barnard College in NYC is hiring "Faculty Fellows." It's a 2-year mentored position that requires 2 courses/year (or equivalent) and research in one of our labs. Due April 20th. More info: barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Faculty/job/...

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Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, Neuroscience & Behavior

If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, Neuroscience & Behavior Job Summary: With B...

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I'm at CNS presenting new work from my postdoc! Come check out our poster C32 from 5:00-7:00 tonight: Consistent alignment of saccades and alpha oscillations supports the neural representation and memory encoding of visual objects w. @rosannaolsen.bsky.social, Jen Ryan, & Jed Meltzer

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jerrytang.bsky.social @jerrytang.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I'm excited to share our new paper (with @alexanderhuth.bsky.social) on transferring language decoders across participants and modalities! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kZRD3QW8S... 1/5

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

How is the memorability of an image influenced by how it makes us feel? @hartwakeland.bsky.social created an image set (VAMOS) of over 900 scene images, along with their valence, arousal, and memorability ratings. They then showed that *moderately* negative images are more memorable! (1/2)

Sample images sorted by evoked valence/arousal and memorability. Scene images were selected to span a wide range of average valence and arousal scores. The figure above shows examples of memorable and forgettable images from across the spectra of valence and arousal. Examples include a tornado (negative and memorable), pollution from a factory (negative and forgettable), a field of sunflowers (positive and memorable), a frosty field in early morning (positive and forgettable), a car crash (high arousal and memorable), and a mountain scene (high arousal and forgettable).

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Nice study showing that memories for new speech + hand movement associations are linked to the specific words they were learned with, suggesting that "...word or gesture production might reactivate an entire co-speech gesture memory engram"

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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Please, spread! 🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇 dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr... @c-brains.bsky.social

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Cognition and Brain Revolutions: Artificial Intelligence, Neurogenomics, Society

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Our review out in TiCS spearheaded by Mathilde Bonnefond on the latest ideas on the functional role of alpha oscillations and distractor inhibition - e.g. we highlight that alpha increases might reflect perceptual target load rather than distractor anticipation authors.elsevier.com/a/1kFXN_V1r-...

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Olaf Hauk @olafhauk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

@mrccbu.bsky.social are happy to announce Cognitive Neuroimaging Skills Training In Cambridge (#COGNESTIC) on 15-26 Sep 2025. We will provide training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and related methods. Look here for more information: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

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Kate Nussenbaum @katenuss.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)! The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration. More details here: cldlab.org/join/ 🧠💻 #psychscisky

Detailed job description, which can also be found here: https://cldlab.org/join/

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Opportunity to join a really great group!

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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

JOB ALERT: We are recruiting a research assistant in the Imagine Reality Lab to work on a project using MEG decoding to distinguish between different theories of consciousness 🧠 Get in touch if you have any questions about the role's scientific details. Please share! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Had a lot of fun teaching this workshop on simultaneous MEG and eye-tracking yesterday!

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Not so "new" anymore but still here at the Rotman and the University of Toronto Data Sciences Institute, interested in all things memory, language, aging, and MEG/eye-tracking! 👋

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Felicia Tuchman, MS @feliciatuchman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Looking to follow more graduate students in psychology? Look no further. Comment to be added! go.bsky.app/SJfTsPJ

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

New preprint alert! Project led by the amazing @akulsatish.bsky.social! Theta and alpha oscillations in human hippocampus and medial parietal cortex support the formation of location-based representations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Cognition

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Maureen Ritchey @maureenritchey.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

What cognitive factors guide gaze reinstatement? New preprint from the MemoLab: osf.io/preprints/ps... It feels like a bonus that this paper started as an undergrad senior thesis project! Led by two unbelievably talented students, Tingwei Hu and Hae Young Yi, who graduated this past year.

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Simon Eickhoff @sbe.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Finally out 🎉 - our meta-analysis of 403 neuroimaging studies on language (1/3) In addition to providing robust evidence on the engagement of classical language regions during language tasks, we also investigated the processing of linguistic subdomains: semantics, syntax, phonology and pragmatics!

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Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Hi folks, I'm a new PhD from NYU and now a postdoc at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto 🇨🇦 My research examines memory, language, and aging using MEG & eye-tracking, MRI, and behavioral methods 🧠

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