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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Job Alert: Our department is looking to recruit an eminent scholar for a distinguished, endowed professorship (full professor, tenured) in the domain of human neuroscience with high clinical relevance. Please broadcast widely! For application information, see academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32753

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Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience

Job #AJO32753, Professor (tenured), Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I expect to recruit a PhD student this cycle! The Control and Decision Making Lab at WashU studies control, effort, and decision making, combining behavioral experiments with modeling and neuroimaging. If that sounds cool, check out our work: cdmlab.wustl.edu. How to apply: psych.washu.edu/apply

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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨 WashU is hiring! 🚨 As part of WashU’s +AI Initiative, the search includes tenure-track opportunities in Psychological & Brain Sciences for people who place AI or machine learning at the center of their research. I'm on the committee, so feel free to reach out with questions. Please repost!

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Rules of Life

Recruiting interdisciplinary expertise to explore fundamental questions regarding living systems and the physical world

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Evidence accumulation modeling of learning, repetition, and control adaptation processes in Stroop and contingency learning: osf.io/v2s5y

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Merve Ileri-Tayar @mileritayar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

So thrilled to share that I've started a postdoctoral position in Tobias Egner's (@tobiasegner.bsky.social) fantastic lab at Duke University! Looking forward to the research, collaborations, and everything ahead!

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Merve Ileri-Tayar @mileritayar.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Officially a PhD! 🎉 Feeling incredibly grateful (and super emotional) for everyone and everything that brought me here. My wonderful mentors, friends, and family, thank you for believing in me. Here's to the next chapter!

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Merve Ileri-Tayar @mileritayar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Focus. Relax. Focus again. Turns out people would rather not do that! With my amazing mentors Wouter Kool and Julie Bugg, we show that people actively avoid switching between control states even in a single task, and trade off this demand against conflict. More in Wouter's thread and paper below!

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Davide Gheza @davideghez.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

New preprint! Last year we showed humans adapt attention in a dimension-specific way when multiple things compete for attention. Now we read out the neural dynamics of this adaptation. doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.16.688701 w/ @mikefreund.bsky.social @theazalabak.bsky.social @wouterkool.bsky.social

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Changrun Huang @changrun-huang.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Our recent review led by Julie Bugg is out in PB&R. We explore why advance warnings to pay attention often fail to improve proactive cognitive control in conflict tasks. We introduce the TEPID framework to explain this. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

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The puzzle of profitless pre-cues

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Merve Ileri-Tayar @mileritayar.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Beyond thrilled to share that I've been selected as the winner of the 2025 Dean's Award for Graduate Research Excellence! So grateful to my incredible mentors, Julie Bugg, Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social, and Todd Braver, who made this possible. More here! artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/gr...

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Merve Ileri-Tayar @mileritayar.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Thrilled to announce our new paper in JEP: General! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... We show how proactive control declines while reactive control remains robust across the lifespan, using multiple measures of both in a novel Stroop paradigm. A very rich, open dataset for future modeling projects!

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

New modeling paper, spearheaded by Raphael Geddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, now out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: "Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility". Free read link: rdcu.be/epatc

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Senne Braem @sebraem.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

We're organizing a symposium in Ghent on "Flexible Definitions of Cognitive Flexibility" on Wednesday, September 10th, with six exciting speakers: shengjiexu.ugent.be/CoCoFlex_Sem.... Registration is free, but seats are limited. You can also submit poster or talk abstracts by July 31st!

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Merve Ileri-Tayar @mileritayar.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

New paper out in JEP:HPP! 🚨 We showed that people flexibly and automatically use environmental cues to regulate attention, even when unpredictable, attention-grabbing distractors hit from multiple senses. Disruption was short-lived, and control bounced back quickly! 📃 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Two new preprints from my group at WashU! First, Merve @mileritayar.bsky.social tests whether people place an effort cost on switching between cognitive control settings. We find that people avoid switching between focused and relaxed attentional states. osf.io/preprints/os...

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Merve Ileri-Tayar @mileritayar.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

First post with my first publication of 2025! 🎉 "Does item-specific cognitive control operate at the item level?" is now out in JEP:LMC! As a group of item-specific control enthusiasts, we put this idea to the test—does it really work at the item level? Check it out here! doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...

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