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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Greetings from Lepin-le Lac, where we went together for research focus-work (and team-building). 👩‍💻 The writing was on fire (and so was the weather), but we could cool down in the evening with the fresh country air and a dip in the lake, a welcome reward. ☀️⛵🌅💦🌴🌳

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Spring vibes in the lab, sunny greetings to everyone! 😎☀️🪻🌺🌼🏵️

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

As the first presentation of this semester's lab meetings, @luchris.bsky.social presented the current state of her study and analysis plan on the "Influence of Mood on Emotional Prioritization in Working Memory". Little theatrical mood-setting demo included... 😁😅🥺😱😠

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

🎄 Ho-Ho-Holiday Alert! 🎄 Wishing you happy holidays & happy new year! A shout-out to all our collaborators, students, & colleagues for an inspiring year 2025. Grateful to be part of such a supportive & curious research community!🤓 Here’s to exciting new ideas, discoveries, & exchanges in 2026! 🥂🎊

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

🗣️👄Thank you Bryan Sanders (from the Neuro-psycho-linguistic research group in Geneva) for presenting your interesting PhD work on speech modulation!👄🗣️ He performed EEG analyses (e.g.,microstates) to compare neural timecourses of speech preparation for loud, whispered, regular,& fake accent speech.🧠

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

In our recent lab meeting, our PhD candidate Ruiheng presented her research on how free time might boost working memory, testing an action-offloading account⏰ we enjoyed discussing the first results and can’t wait to see how this project continues!✨

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This semester, we were delighted to have @koberauer.bsky.social visit our lab for a few days. He gave a thought-provoking talk on his computational model of working memory ⚙️🧠 We greatly enjoyed the presentation and the engaging discussions that followed, and we hope to welcome him back again soon!

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Are item &order memory separate or intertwined? Thanks @johannahein.bsky.social for positioning this dilemma for us in lab meeting, along with early findings from tasks with reduced item- or order load. We can see why you’re torn between the 2 positions &hope your research can help sort things out!

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

In our recent lab meetings, Meghana presented her EEG internship experience, @luchris.bsky.social shared learnings from a project management workshop, &Antoine outlined his upcoming project &first pilot data on mechanisms of rapid forgetting (attribute amnesia). Thanks for sharing your insights!🧑‍🏫🤓

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

💭⏱️🏁🏎️ In this week's lab meeting, our PhD candidate Mathieu (@tsouniz.bsky.social) shared his upcoming project plan to study the effect of free time on working memory: "Slow down the pace to win the recall race!" Thank you for your presentation; we’ll be eagerly tracking the run of the project! 💭⏱️🏁🏎️

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

We had a great time at #ESCOP2025 last week! 🤩 All lab members had the chance to present their work and engage in inspiring conversations. Many thanks to the organizers for such a well-run and engaging conference!🥳

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Thank you @annemscheel.bsky.social for visiting us in Geneva, we were delighted to get to know & exchange with you!💬 Your insightful meta-science talk put the underlying structure of research (the different processes of scientific discovery, testing, & inference) into perspective - so helpful! ⚙️🤓

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Benjamin Kowialiewski in our lab!🤩 He gave a very insightful talk on his work on the free time benefit, sparking some great discussions around the topic ⏰🧠

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🔐⚛️💬🧠 Join us for a talk by Anne Scheel (open science/metascience researcher: www.uu.nl/staff/AMSche... It will be next Thursday, May 22nd at 12h15 – 13h45 (Salle Uni-Mail 1130) on "Detecting and explaining psychological phenomena" using exploratory vs. confirmatory research. Everyone is welcome!

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Congratulations to our master student Meghana for her great poster presentation at the Neuroscience Master Day at Campus Biotech! She presented her project plan to use EEG to decode working memory content. 🧠💭

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Item vs order: a battle for attention? @johannahein.bsky.social shared her research on how attention supports the maintenance of what’s remembered & in what sequence. We’re looking forward to the next series of results! And yes, we’ll be keeping everything in order for the line-up of lab updates 🧠📋

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

⏳⏰🧠 Tic-toc, it’s research o’clock! In today’s lab meeting, our teammate Ruiheng Zhang shared her latest work on how free time affects working memory. With some early results already on the table, it seems future insights are just a matter of time… we’ll definitely be sticking around for seconds!🧠⏰⏳

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Congratulations to Kishen Senziani, master student and research assistant in the lab, who very successfully defended his thesis yesterday 🎉🥳🙌 He examined the role of gamma oscillations in improving learning in children and young adults

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

In this week’s lab meeting, @nlangerock.bsky.social presented her insightful research on the proactive maintenance of working memory representation in children and adults 🚀

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We were pleased to have Martin Constant (postdoc in the Visual Cognition Lab @Unige) as a guest speaker in our lab meeting, presenting research on how visual WM performance is influenced by relative &absolute salience depending on task design. Thank you for the interesting presentation &discussion!

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

In this week’s lab meeting, our lab member Christina Lutz @luchris.bsky.social presented her work on differences in conditional reasoning between adults and children, across different test modalities. We had great discussions and are already looking forward to hearing more about her results soon🤩

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This week, we had the pleasure of having Alexandre Fortuna present his work in our lab meeting!😊 Alexandre is a PhD student at the University of Geneva, examining the effect of retro cue validity on memory resource allocation and attentional template efficiency.

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Happy start of the Chinese New Year 2025! As we slither into the Zodiac Year of the Snake, let's shed old habits and embrace fresh ideas and discoveries. Here's to unraveling the mysteries of working memory, as if charmers of the brain 🐍✨🧠. Cheers to a year of breakthroughs!

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Congratulations to Hiroyasu Mishima for successfully defending his master thesis!🎉 As part of the Master of Neuroscience program, he worked on decoding the content of working memory using EEG and MVPA🧠✨

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

This week, we celebrated the end of the year with a potluck dinner, a personalized Christmas song, and a fun quiz! Spreading the joy and warmth as we wrap up 2024! 🎉

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🎄 A cheerful and heartfelt Merry Christmas from the Womcogdev Lab! 🌟 Here's to a joyful holiday season, and may our working memory stay sharp for all the wonders ahead in 2025! 🧠✨

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Shout-out to Marion Bouffier for starting this great initiative, creating a supportive discussion space where academics can openly share their challenges and exchange valuable tips. Join the last session of 2024 on Dec 17th over lunchtime at Unimail (new dates will follow in 2025)!

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Last week, we were happy to welcome Dominic Guitard in our lab! He gave a very interesting talk on his Embedded Computational Framework of Memory and how it can predict verbal working memory. We really enjoyed having him as our visitor!😊

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A highlight: celebrating @ncowan51.bsky.social at the Cowan Festschrift satellite conference!🛰️🌟 - @evievergauwe.bsky.social gave an engaging and inspiring talk!🎙️💬 - @johannahein.bsky.social & @luchris.bsky.social presented posters at both the Festschrift and Psychonomics.👏 #psynom24 #workingmemory

Cowan's embedded-processes model of working memory
(also sometimes referred to as "fried egg model")

https://www.lsuchse.com/event/CowanFest/summary

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

What an incredible conference in New York—city that never sleeps! 🍎🌇🗽✨ Right in the heart of Manhattan, with breathtaking views of Times Square’s bustling energy, we got to listen, present, and connect at #psynom24 (@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social)! 🤓📊 #conference #psychology #NYC #Psychonomics

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It was wonderful to catch up with old friends &meet new ones at #psynom24! 🗽🌎 Big thanks to the organizers @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social for a seamless &inspiring event. Special thanks to #WomWoM for the amazing meetups! To everyone who made the event warm, friendly, and inclusive: THANK YOU. 💛

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

We also presented in the poster sessions! #ICWM @nlangerock.bsky.social: -dev. shifts in working memory (WM) control -WM span &cognitive load effects in action video game players @carohautekiet.bsky.social: -priorization in WM @johannahein.bsky.social: -individual differences in distractibility

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

We had a fantastic time at #ICWM ! 🙌 Thank you for the organizers for a great conference!

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

We were delighted to have Berna Güler & Duygu Yücel visit us for 2 weeks 🙌🤓! In addition to wonderful presentations on event segmentation & WM for search vs recognition, we had the chance to connect and exchange in the lab, with fondue by the lake, at a street food festival, & evening drinks 😊☀️🌇🍹🫕.

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

We were delighted to have Mirko Thalmann visit us in Geneva! He presented his research on individual differences in exploration using few-armed-bandit tasks and modeling, and shared his experience and advice on career pathways in academia vs. industry in a lecture for Master students! Thank you!

The explore-exploit dilemma is ubiquitous in everyday life: Should you go to the same restaurant again or try out something new...? We went for the "explore" option :D! @Meskerem

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Thank you @amandawaterman.bsky.social for visiting and for holding a tour-de-force talk on the development of working memory!

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

To be repeated! This Tuesday, our lab organized our own little lunch apéro in Geneva! So nice! 🥘🍚🍴🥢🥧😃

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Congratulations to Kilian for very successfully defending his master thesis today 👏🥳🎉🎊

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Christmas lab-drinks 🎅🎄 lots of happy faces but unfortunately also the last days with @carohautekiet.bsky.social, @noraplethora.bsky.social, and Kilian in the lab 🥺

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

This week, @karampbell.bsky.social visited our lab and gave a very interesting presentation about hyper-binding 🤩 Thank you for the fruitful discussions and lovely company! 🤗

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

This week, @sabomelinda.bsky.social visited our lab and gave a very interesting presentation on the interface between #workingmemory and long-term memory 😎👏 Thank you for the very interesting and clear presentation, fruitful discussions, and the delightful company! 🤗

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Today, Katarina Gvozdic joined us in our labmeeting to present her very interesting work on how informal knowledge informs us about teaching and learning of school notions 👩‍🏫 👏

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

We also had some lovely visitors from Zürich 🤩 Thank you for joining us and the very interesting discussions @ruhibhanap.bsky.social @leabartsch.bsky.social @philippmusfeld.bsky.social and Ana! 🤗

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Last week, @erengunseli.bsky.social visited our lab for Caro’s PhD defense and gave a very interesting presentation on when #workingmemory reactivates information available in long-term memory! 🤩👏 Thank you for your visit and the fruitful discussions! 🤗

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Extremely proud of @carohautekiet.bsky.social who defended her PhD thesis yesterday! Congrats, Dr. Hautekiet! 🥳👏

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Chiara Scarampi joined us today in our labmeeting to present her very interesting past and future work on age differences in intention offloading! 🤓👏 #prospectivememory

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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab @womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Dinner with our lovely visitor @cvonbastian.bsky.social! Thank you for visiting us and a very interesting presentation on the mechanisms of cognitive training and transfer effects with nice work from Shuangke Jiang, Eleanor Hyde, and Billy Aryanto👏🤩

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