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Paul Bays @bayslab.org · 05/10/2026
Do the contents of visual #WorkingMemory deteriorate more quickly when more items are being remembered? Seems a straightforward question but we had to bring together 13 studies and >120,000 trials to get definitive answers... doi.org/10.1037/rev0... @ivntmc.bsky.social
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0
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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I had a feeling recently that seems to be corroborated by chats with colleagues, so I decided to share it here. A lot of systems neuroscientists driven by algorithmic-level questions are going through what looks and feels like a research depression. 🧵 (1/n) 🧠📈 #NeuroAI
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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interested in higher-order cognition and PFC: how *does* the PFC build abstract task representations?! Going to @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2027? Vote for our symposium! cogneurosociety.org/symposium-voting-form/ feat. @desrocherslab.bsky.social @lapate.bsky.social @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social !
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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I would like to highlight two postdoctoral positions in the project Neuronal Mechanisms of Reading in Children Using OPM-MEG at the University of Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit��� Deadline 30 Sep.
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Ben Griffiths @benjamingriffiths.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🧠 We've got a new paper out in Cerebral Cortex! "Rhythmic stimulation elicits multiple, concurrent neural responses" academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... A 🧵 on why flicker doesn't just do one thing to the brain 👇
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Zurich Cognition Lab @cognition-zurich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Open Postdoc (80%) in our Lab @uzh-ch.bsky.social (PI: Klaus Oberauer) Topics are: Working memory, long-term memory, attention; experiments, individual differences, computational modeling. Start Dec 2026 to Feb 2027, until June 2030. Apply by Oct 15; Questions to: k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch
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maria ruz @mruz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are hiring a postdoc and a predoc to do research (EEG, fMRI, MVPA, RSA) on expectation and attention at the wpd.ugr.es/~humneuro/ in beautiful Granada @cimcyc.bsky.social ! People with interest + relevant experience please reach us at mruz@ugr.es #NeuroJobs #AcademicJobs #CogNeuro #GranadaSpain
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Human Neuroscience Lab – University of Granada
Our lab is located at the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center. Here we have access to several behavioral testing rooms, a 3T Siemens Magnetic Resonance Imaging facility with compatible EEG and EyeLink Eyetracker, high-density EEG recording devices, and a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation device with a robotic assistant and neuronavigator.​
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sepex.bsky.social @sepex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Job offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience (Human Neuroscience Lab, CIMCYC, University of Granada) Os enviamos información sobre una oferta de contrato postdoctoral en el Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, Granada. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en…
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Job offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience (Human Neuroscience Lab, CIMCYC, University of Granada)
Os enviamos información sobre una oferta de contrato postdoctoral en el Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, Granada. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ Job offer (1) Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience The Human Neuroscience Lab ( of the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, …
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Ignacio Saez, PhD @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📣 We're hiring! The Saez Lab at Mount Sinai is seeking a postdoctoral researcher with experience in intracranial recordings, electrophysiology, BCIs, mood disorders, and/or computational modeling, to explore the neural basis of human cognition. 🗓️ Apply by September 30, 2026. Please share widely!
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Erin Rich @erinlrich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey, we’ve been studying mnemonic chunking in🐒! With @fkchiang89.bsky.social Here’s the rundown: 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Compression as a neural mechanism of mnemonic chunking in prefrontal cortex
Chiang and Rich show that macaques spontaneously chunk spatial targets in a self-ordered working memory task. dlPFC neurons compress chunked targets into lower-dimensional representations that are shi...
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Marcus Kaiser @connectomelab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Very pleased to share our latest work, led by Prof. Jeyoung Jung: “Transcutaneous auricular Vagus nerve stimulation for working memory enhancement: A comparative study of electrical and ultrasound stimulation” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ultrasound #neuromodulation #cognition #zenbud
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Atsushi Kikumoto @kikumotoatsushi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2027 at the University of Maryland — Cognitive Flexibility Dynamics Lab, studying cognitive control via brain recording (M/EEG, MRI), stimulation (TUS), and computational modeling. Please email me: cfd-lab.com/join
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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our task-switching paper is now out at Current Biology! www.cell.com/current-biol... We find that that our brains reset to a task-neutral state between trials, providing flexibility when the upcoming task is uncertain. RNNs also learn this strategy, but only when trained to switch tasks.
schematic of how a brain might reset to a neutral state between trials
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Nick Myers @nick-myers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you're at #ECVP2026 come say hi! We'll be presenting new work on visual attention, memory, and generalisation on Wed morning.
our  ECVP Posters:
W1AM1 - Limits of Cross-Task Generalisation of Category-Selective Neural Codes
Uma Ajmeria, Nicholas Myers Wednesday 26th 09:00–10:30

W2AM4 - Retrocueing benefits in visual working memory are disrupted by distraction but not by the need to maintain unprioritised memory contents
Isabel Ellis Wednesday 26th 09:00–10:30

W2AM12 - Chunking improves working memory via compression, not direct retrieval from long term memory
Juan M. Chau
Wednesday 26th 09:00–10:30
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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
PhD position (4 years, paid) on an NWO-funded project on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supervised by Dr. Mieke Donk (main PI) and me! For more information: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
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Vacancy — PhD position (4 years) on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention
Are you interested in understanding how attention shapes what we see? Would you like to combine behavioural experiments, psychophysics, and eye tracking to uncover how the brain selects and prioritise...
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Megan deBettencourt @mdebettencourt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Come work with me at Google! We have an open 6-month temp role on my team - it’s a great opportunity for someone with a cog neuro or psych background interested in exploring big tech. Looking for comp modeling experience (e.g. RL, DDMs) and Python/JS. Reach out to learn more or pass along any names!
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Ingmar de Vries @ingmardevries.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🔭JOB ALERT🔬 Fully-funded PhD (+ soon postdoc) openings in my lab @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. TOPIC: Investigating predictive neural representations in naturalistic settings using MEG-based dynamic RSA
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The PhD position in our lab closes 31 July - apply now!
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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
***New preprint from the lab*** showing “Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits”. In sleep we show spiking sequences in V1 (sensory neocortex!) that represent information that has not been directly experienced www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
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Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits
To make flexible decisions, the brain needs to make inferences between events that were not directly experienced together. In sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events, during periods of rest and sleep, spiking ...
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Tobias Staudigl @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
📣 In meiner Arbeitsgruppe (LMU München) ist eine PhD-Stelle zu besetzen. Gesucht werden motivierte Bewerber:innen mit Interesse an experimenteller kognitiver Neurowissenschaft. Bewerbungsfrist: 10.08.2026. Bewerbungen bitte per Email. Mehr Infos hier: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
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Doktorand / Doktorandin (m/w/d)
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Are you a senior graduate student, postdoctoral researcher, or early-stage independent investigator looking to get involved in scientific publishing? Apply to join JNeurosci’s ECR Advisory Board by July 31, 5pm ET. Learn more: www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-board…
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The postdoc position in our lab closes 20 July - get applying! :)
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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Help needed! I'm part of a team tasked with creating a 2nd year undergraduate module/course "Computational Skills for Psychologists" Its remit is the fundamentals of coding and good practice. Any advice from others who've done similar courses? (Assume no programming knowledge. Assume Python)
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neurosock @neurosock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This recent post by @earlkmiller.bsky.social got my attention. It shows how abstraction could emerge in the primate PFC. The paper is hard, but the main idea can be simplified to low-dims, so I made fun a little animation. A🧵with my toy model and notes: #neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI
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Juan is trying to Ph.D. @juan-m-chau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Had some fun presenting a bit of my PhD work at @wmsymposium.bsky.social yesterday! It seems that chunking helps working memory by compressing info in-place, not by offloading it to long-term memory 🧠📈 Link to preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Nick Myers @nick-myers.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New preprint! Led by amazing PhD student @juan-m-chau.bsky.social 👇 Do chunking benefits in working memory come from (lossy) compression or from retrieval from long-term memory? Juan modeled recall error distributions and finds compression fits data better. #neuroskyence
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Doeller Lab @doellerlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Join us at @mpicbs.bsky.social as a fully funded 4-year PostDoc (m/f/d) in Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience (Area: Functions of the Perirhinal Cortex). Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 17 August: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/44...?
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Fully funded PostDoc Position (m/f/d) for 4 years in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Area: Functions of the Perirhinal Cortex) - Doeller Lab | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kogniti...
Fully funded PostDoc Position (m/f/d) for 4 years in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Area: Functions of the Perirhinal Cortex) - Doeller Lab | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kogniti...
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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We're proud to introduce Brainbow, a new Slack workspace for LGBTQIA+ people in neuroscience worldwide. Brainbow aims to provide a safe space, even for those in the closet (emails & names are optional). It also includes channels for communities within the LGBTQIA+ umbrella (eg, trans/non-binary) 1/2
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Atsushi Kikumoto @kikumotoatsushi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We're hiring a full-time Lab Manager for the Cognitive Flexibility Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland, studying cognitive control via brain recording, stimulation, and computational modeling. Ideal for research experience before grad school: cfd-lab.com/join
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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
If I were the King of Universities (which, heaven forbid), I would place this finding at the exact centre of every single policy decision from teaching to research to estates to capital investment. At every level in every process, the question would be: are we as humane as education demands we be?
Screenshot from a Higher Education Policy Institute report. The key sentence is: "students are used to and want human teaching, human feedback, and human connection."
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
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Learning shapes neural geometry in the primate prefrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Learning transforms prefrontal cortex activity from flexible, high-dimensional representations into compact, task-relevant and abstract codes, enabling efficient generalization of learned rules to new...
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Sophia Wilhelm @sophiawilhelm.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🔔 Our new preprint is out! Here we asked whether sleep spindles - a hallmark NREM rhythm linked to plasticity and memory - changes how well latent working memory representations can be accessed after a nap.
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou @proffrancesca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3
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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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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Interested in a Postdoc on how brains/ANNs learn and represent visual/semantic concepts in Osaka, Japan? Check out the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships (up to 2 yr). I'd be happy to host postdocs to come work in my lab at CiNet, Osaka! Info🧵👇 Please repost! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #mlsky 🧠💻 /1
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
who wants to come work with us, on whether AIs can introspect? e.g. something similar to this - transformer-circuits.pub/2025/introsp... - but maybe especially in the perceptual domain? we just got some new funds to collaborate with our friends at Yale (on foundational models for fMRI data), & ...
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Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models
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Nick Myers @nick-myers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New paper with @paulm-k.bsky.social and Mark Stokes on how we switch internal attention between working memory contents. Beta-band oscillations tracked the magnitude and success of these switches. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... #neuroskyence
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Human Beta Oscillations Reflect Magnitude and Fidelity of Priority Shifts in Working Memory
Flexible prioritization in working memory (WM) is supported by neural oscillations in frontal and sensory brain areas, but the roles of different oscillations remain poorly understood. Recordings in h...
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
If you wish to support our efforts, you can do so here. Any funds donated here will be used to off set any loss income suffered by those of us mabbing. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... You can also donate here: UCU Nottingham LA63 Hardship Fund Account number: 20346359 Sort code: 60-83-01
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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
To conclude: It’s looking like feedback is a plausible mechanism to invoke latent states in EVC, and is necessary to maintain flexible and distractor resistant visual thoughts. As usual, there’s much more cool stuff in the preprint, so check it out! 11/11
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Nearly 2000 signatories now, inc 6 Nobel Laureates! An outpouring of love for the Nottingham group: tremendous physicists, first-rate reasearch, sci-comm & teaching. So confused why Nottingham would decide to kill off such a jewel of a thriving group. ✍️: nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵
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LAION-fMRI - a 7T fMRI dataset of human vision
LAION-fMRI (LfMRI / LAION MRI dataset): 5 subjects, 25,052 launch-release natural images, 165 acquired 7T fMRI sessions with single-trial GLMsingle betas, retinotopy, localizers, and diffusion.
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MarleneRoesner.bsky.social @marleneroesner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
@wmsymposium.bsky.social 📢 📢 📢 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS OPEN 📢 📢 📢 The #workingmemory Symposium will be held online July 14-17, 2026. 🥳 🎤🎤🎤Talks will be either a standard 12-minute length (with 3 minutes for Q&A), or a 3-minute data "blitz" style presentation. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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WMS 2026 Abstract Submission Form
The Working Memory Symposium (WMS) is a virtual conference promoting scientific discourse on working memory for researchers using any model system, targeting any population, and using any research met...
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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Very excited to share our latest paper led by @nbinish.bsky.social in @natneuro.nature.com We demonstrate how a communication subspace channels higher-dimensional PFC dynamics into lower-D motor activity to enable efficient behavior using human iEEG. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
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A communication subspace relays context-dependent actions from human prefrontal to motor cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Context-dependent behavior selects actions according to task demands. Using direct brain recordings in humans, Binish et al. uncover how coordinated population activity efficiently channels informatio...
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John Duncan @john-duncan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
johnduncananimalandthinker.substack.com First four posts – operating principles; “the other”; two things to teach schoolchildren.
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The Animal and the Thinker blog | John Duncan | Substack
This blog is an add-on to my book The Animal and the Thinker, discussing how the principles of instinct and reason illuminate the big questions of our lives. The principles are in the first two posts ...
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Nick Myers @nick-myers.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New preprint led by @mateuspsi.bsky.social and @andrecravo.bsky.social dissociating absolute from relative time estimation in the brain. Thanks for having me along! Nice to see this out even though it's also a reminder of how much we miss Mark...
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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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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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