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Igor Utochkin

@utochkin.bsky.social
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Cognitive neuroscientist at UChicago interested in visual memory and attention Website: www.igorutochkin.org

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Doug Addleman @dougaddleman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gonzaga University is hiring (TT) in neuroscience for Fall 2027. Gonzaga is a great place focused on undergraduate education with strong support for research. Deadline Oct 26! employment.gonzaga.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor, Psychology (Neuroscience) - Spokane, Washington, United States
Title: Assistant Professor, Psychology (Neuroscience) Area: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Psychology Telework Availability: On-campus Position Employee Classification: Tenure Track Faculty ...
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Dr Anna Leshinskaya @annaleshinskaya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am recruiting graduate students for UCI's PhD in Cognitive Sciences - www.cogsci.uci.edu/graduate/pro... The lab's focus is on how relational structure and combinatorial reasoning is implemented in human brains and large language models--and if they are similar.
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GRADUATE PROGRAM
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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 01/10/2026
Our lab is growing! We're looking for a graduate student to start next fall (applications due on Dec 1) and a postdoctoral researcher to start soon (ad coming soon; starting date is flexible, probably some time next year). subjectivitylab.org
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The Subjectivity Lab · Duke University · Jorge Morales, PhD
Duke interdisciplinary research group led by Dr. Jorge Morales studying vision, mental imagery, consciousness, and introspection.
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JEP General finally published our paper about impressive recognition asymmetries. Ingredients: true and false "memorability" cooked with a good amount of signal-detection theory psycnet.apa.org/record/2028-... It was wonderful to collaborate w/ Nick Chiang and Wilma Bainbridge to make this happen
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Tim Ricker @timricker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Recruiting a new PhD student to start Fall 2027. Research would focus on Visual Working Memory, possibly with a developmental approach (but not necessarily). Check out my lab website where the are links to the application and contact info if you have questions. rickermemorylab.com
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Memory & Attention Laboratory
The Memory and Attention Laboratory at the University of South Dakota is part of the Human Factors & Applied Cognition  program in the Department of Psychology . We study memory, attention, and...
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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Now out in Nature Neuroscience: fantastic work by @cxue.bsky.social, Sol Markman et al who discovered a neural reason that performance suffers under cognitive load: “Feature interference underlies a neuronal basis for the behavioral cost of task uncertainty”. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧵1/
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Feature interference underlies a neuronal basis for the behavioral cost of task uncertainty - Nature Neuroscience
Using a combined approach of monkey electrophysiology, artificial neural networks and human psychophysics, Xue et al. show that neuronal interference from irrelevant information underlies behavioral e...
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thanks Janna! I think categorically similar foils would cause stronger familiarity competition. Maybe it would take more time for r-CDA to onset? On the other hand, we don't see any list-length effect on r-CDA, so I'm not sure. Definitely, it's on my pile of follow-ups to run
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our new preprint w/ @edvogel.bsky.social presents a neural marker of a competition/interaction taking place in working memory between memory and current goals. We label it r-CDA Check out preprint for details about r-CDA and other interesting neural dynamics osf.io/preprints/ps...
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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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Michael Hout @michaelhout.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We are hiring in the College of HEST. We're looking for a new Academic Department Head to lead our excellent Department of Kinesiology. Please consider applying, and share in your networks and with folks you know that might be interested. careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/academi...
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Academic Department Head - Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Department Contact: Christopher Aiken, aiken@nmsu.edu, (575) 646-4296 Internal or External Search: External - Open to all applicants   Advertising Summary: The College of Health, Education, and Social...
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Matthieu Chidharom @matthieu-mx.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
After five years in the US 🇺🇸, I'll soon be returning to my hometown of Strasbourg, where I'll join INSERM as a tenure-track Junior Group Leader and launch the MInD (Motivation, Inattention & Distraction) Research Group. 🇫🇷🇪🇺 Two graduate positions available: matthieuchidharom.wixsite.com/mind
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Come to visit UChicago, it's a few hours drive from Bloomington. There are many memory people here
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Official congratulations, Kirsten!
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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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Michael Hout @michaelhout.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We’re looking for an additional Associate Editor at AP&P, particularly in the field of auditory perception/attention. If you’re interested, please check out this flyer and please share this post so that this may find its way to others!
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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.
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Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab | Istanbul | Sabanci Uni.
Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab at Sabancı University - Eren Günseli. We study how memory and attention interact, how humans control what to remember, what to forget, what to attend to, and...
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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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PO-STL-AB
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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Vladislav Khvostov @khvo100v.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A very cool commentary by @timbrady.bsky.social, Chattarin Poungtubtim, and @mmrobinson93.bsky.social on my work about ensemble feature distributions: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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The Target Confusability Competition ensemble model predicts full feature distribution reports - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Khvostov et al. (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 32: 2903–2912, 2025) present compelling evidence that observers have explicit access to detailed ensemble feature distributions, challenging the traditio...
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
If you are at #VSS2026 check out our poster 36.320 in the Sunday afternoon session. I'll tell what we learned about the neural signatures of stimulus memorability from EEG decoding in a large visual memory dataset In collaboration w/Leo Chang, Ed Vogel (@edvogel.bsky.social), and Ed Awh
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Here we come VSS 2026! We have an amazing group of people presenting some great vision science! Please see our schedule below. See you there!!
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Matthieu Chidharom @matthieu-mx.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
@vssmtg.bsky.social l | Distracted during talks? Maybe your brain has better things to do. 🌊☀️🍹🏖️ Sunday, May 17, 9:30am, Talk Room 1 — I’ll present our new goal-competition theory with @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social.
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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 01/05/2026
A multi-lab replication effort (@eegmanylabs.bsky.social) of the contralateral delay activity (CDA) has just been published online! In brief, the set-size effect appears to be robustly observed, but CDA correlation with VWM capacity is not reliably strong. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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Andrey Chetverikov @achetverikov.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We have 3 PhD positions at our department (www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...). Know a good student interested in working with me on perception / visual memory? I'd be happy to support the proposal! A catch: this person must speak a Scandinavian language as the position implies some teaching duties.
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Tre stipendiatstillingar ved Institutt for samfunnspsykologi (299274) | Universitetet i Bergen
Stillingstittel: Tre stipendiatstillingar ved Institutt for samfunnspsykologi (299274), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: søndag 16. august 2026
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Our new preprint w/ @zhaochong.bsky.social and Ed Vogel investigates two major memory effects, list-length and serial position, with ERPs and EEG decoding. We find that neural correlates of these effects are dissociable osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Well, you can consider me a data point from that part of the spectrum
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It doesn't interact with color blindness, does it?
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Brady Roberts @bradyrtroberts.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Excited to announce my first postdoc project at @UChicago with @WilmaBainbridge is now published in PNAS! Using computer vision and gen AI, we engineered memorable and forgettable symbols, showing memory can be optimized with data-driven visual design. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience The Barnard Visua...
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Check out our new Cognition paper about tracking capacity and aging. I'd like to highlight a new modeling framework for recovering the signal strength from sequential click distributions
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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Visual Learning Lab is hiring TWO lab coordinators! Both positions are ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Application deadline is Feb 10th (approaching fast!)—with flexible summer start dates.
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe! Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...
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Postdoctoral Fellow Visual Attention Lab
Site: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts t...
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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 02/01/2026
Make it your New Year resolution to add a #workingmemory dataset to OpenWMData so that we can curate our field's precious data, start testing theories and benchmarking models across datasets, conduct secondary analyses and meta-research using the data itself, and help me feel like I'm, like, alive.
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OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available working memory datasets
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Kirsten Adam @kirsten-adam.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
The ADAM lab is hiring a Research Specialist to join us! This role involves conducting human subjects research (EEG experiments on attention + working memory) and assisting with the execution and administration of ongoing projects. Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Specialist
The Attention, Distractions, and Memory (ADAM) Lab at Rice University is recruiting a full-time Research Specialist (Research Specialist I). The ADAM Lab (PI: Kirsten Adam) conducts cognitive neurosci...
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Will read with great interest. I've become interested in the limits of representational flexibility some time ago
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Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The newly minted Dr. Dr. (medical and now Ph.D.) @antonlukashevich.bsky.social is pictured here with his proud advisor @heidasigurdar.bsky.social -- not pictured is the newly minted Ph.D.'s advisor @utochkin.bsky.social and doctoral committee member @shansmann-roth.bsky.social Congratulations!🥳🥳🥳🥳
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We see the forest, but what do we know about the trees? Our perception of ensembles may be richer than previously thought. Read more in a post by @ankosov.bsky.social on a new #psynomPBR paper by Vladislav Khvostov @khvo100v.bsky.social, Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson, & Árni Kristjánsson buff.ly/3NCjHIz
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Preprint can be found here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Check our new Psych Science paper w/Daniil Azarov & Daniil Grigorev. Although an ability to recognize a familiar object among new ones clearly depends on how many and which objects there are, we show a remarkable stability of underlying "representational spaces" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.
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Matthieu Chidharom @matthieu-mx.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items. authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
For the cross-stimulus effects, I thought that the adaptor could reduce contrast sensitivity I wonder what would happen if the stimulation is the same but the question is low-level - like "which color patch is more saturated"?
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Also, do you think participants really have the value information about an entire multi-color display almost with no practice?
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Cool idea. Your poster grabbed my attention at VSS this year. The exp with cross-dimensional transfer is smart. I still cannot stop thinking about low-level explanations... I can speculate some in each experiment, but I can be biased by the individual stimulus examples in the figures
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add
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PhD position — Rademaker lab
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Joel Voss @vosstacular.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread! cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Seems like visual awareness of ensemble information goes beyond summary statistics. Vlad Khvostov and colleagues show that people can report the prevalence of each specific feature in a set of objects and the shape of a feature distribution can be recovered from these reports. Neat!
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