I am glad to attend #CNS2026 in beautiful Vancouver🇨🇦! I will present my work on action planning in visual working memory. In this project, we focus on the factors leading motor planning such as selective attention, affordances and task requirements. Meet me at the Poster Session B (B38)!
💡New Preprint 💡
Can you trust effect size estimates from your Bayesian sequential design / optional stopping sampling plan? Yes, you can!
In this simulation study, I show that effect size estimates from samples obtained via optional stopping with Bayes Factors are unbiased
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I am happy to be attending #CNS2026 with the Yale Wu Tsai Institute travel award to present this paper👇🏻 as a poster - it’ll be on Monday from 2:30-4:30pm (session E), come check it out!
Excited to share our paper (with @jzacks.bsky.social), now out in JEP:LMC!
Event boundaries sometimes disrupt temporal order memory in list-based paradigms—but what happens in narratives with more complex structures that better resemble real life?
✨ Link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...
Ever since the last big update that overhauled the interface at OSF the entire site runs poorly overall. Very long load times, timeouts for no clear reason, and weird errors. Seems like they should just roll the whole thing back to the previous version that worked.
- The third article suggests that aphantasia could offer advantages for reasoning, potentially linked to a more 'abstract' cognitive style.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- The second article reveals spatial and verbal cognitive profiles in aphantasia using unsupervised clustering.
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In recent months, our team has published three articles on aphantasia ✨:
- The first article puts forward an implicit priming paradigm for the objective assessment of aphantasia
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Join our lab in Geneva, as a postdoc working on #workingmemory, with both Jarrod Lewis-Peacock and myself !
Dr. Vergauwe and Dr. Lewis Peacock are an great mentors and scientists. I highly recommend Postdocing with them in Dr. Vergauwe's lab. A great opportunity!
If you are a visual #workingmemory researcher that has a dataset from a delayed recall task with continuous report (the ones using a circular response wheel) and want to share it, please drop a reply. Would love a link to both paper and dataset! See: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData
I've got a bunch hosted on OSF with data keys (e.g. Ricker, Souza, & Vergauwe 2023, osf.io/bv6fh/overview). I'd be happy to have you include them if you are interested but don't have the time to reformat/rekey everything.
Academic Councillor (100% tenured civil service position), Cognitive Psychology Unit of University of Trier, Trier, Germany
The application deadline is the 30th of March 2026.
Claude Opus 4.6 is a surprisingly huge jump for a .1 upgrade. I've been astonished by how independently it can work and in the past month it has substantially helped me in projects in a way that I would absolutely think deserves co-authorship if it were a human collaborator.
Excited to share this work! The consistent lack of cue-driven proactive control challenges assumptions about our ability to readily deploy top-down control. We rule out S-R mappings, task pace and task difficulty as explanations, while showing that implicit, experience-driven control remains intact.
Come and join OPAM as an organizer for 2026/7!!🎉 We are still looking for two new early career researchers (phd/postdoc) to join the OPAM team to help run everyones favorite one day miniconference! Express your interest by this weekend!
It’s out!
Honored to receive a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and to join Prof. Kia Nobre at Yale University. Excited to continue my work on the role of working memory in event segmentation. Grateful for this opportunity!
www.brognition.yale.edu/%f0%9f%8c%8d...
We're looking for a postdoc starting this summer to join our efforts in understanding the capacity limits of cognition: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
Delighted to share that this year's Working Memory Discussion Meeting, held at the beautiful Parcevall Hall in North Yorkshire on 1st-3rd July, is now open for bookings. Hurry, because places are filling up fast! I will be co-hosting again this year with Alicia Forsberg and @richjallen.bsky.social 🙌
New preprint! We mapped out how ‘diffuse’ predictions affect neural representations. We show predictions reshape the geometric layout of the neural representations by compressing the representational spread and stabilize the neural code by reducing the neural variance during memory encoding.
We are excited to announce that we will host WMS2026!
The tentative dates are July 14th-17th, and we are currently looking for a postdoc to join the WMS2026 organizer team.
If you are interested, please submit your application using the link below (Deadline: March 29th)
forms.gle/noqsuEja2tB8...
Can We Process Information Without Encoding It into Working Memory?
Our findings with @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @koberauer.bsky.social suggest that processing entails encoding. Task-irrelevant information enters working memory during processing, impairing memory for relevant information.
If you are teaching any kind of statistics, probability or modeling classes, you'll love this website. Contains dozens of interactive simulations of random processes, with sliders, different visualizat options, and full numeric log ouput: www.randomservices.org/random/apps/...
Bookings for the 2026 Working Memory Discussion Meeting at Parcevall Hall are now open! 1st-3rd July, 2026.
All information here ->
sites.google.com/site/working...
Check out our new preprint, which presents object-based retrieval processes in multisensory working memory. Here we show that unimodal feature probes incidentally reactivate untested tones and orientations of audiovisual objects. +
poor bee GOLD_07, whose embarrassing mistake has been immortalised in a way beyond his comprehension
Briefly not attending something may help you remember it later 🪄: new paper led by phenomenal PhD student Frieda Born (not on Bsky) out now in Comms Psychology:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This work👇 is now published in PB&R 🥳🎉 #workingmemory link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Image of the visual foraging task where a participant "collects" items on a tablet PC using a stylus. The screen content (blue berries) is AI generated.
🧠 #Psych & #CogNeuro people — #attention!
Hiring a Research Associate (WissMA) in #Cologne to study #SelectiveAttention in action-related contexts (e.g., #VisualForaging)! PhD opportunity! Some teaching in German ...
karriere.crf-education.com/job/wissensc...
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