Conference poster with title "schema-related memory effects are differentially modulated by age and memory performance"
If you're at #CNS2026 and interested in aging, schemas and episodic memory, check out Sophie O'Reilly's poster tomorrow 8-10am (D71)
How my memory works before someone reminds me that my favourite albums are 20 years old 🫣😂.
Every time you experience something new, your brain faces a decision: Should it update an existing memory or create a new one?
In our new paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social #JNeurosci, we isolate that exact decision, moment-by-moment during learning 🧵
Hey #CNS2026, a fun set of posters for you to check out from the Mnemology Lab!
Kicking it off Saturday morning is Maxi Becker's Datablitz (how German!):
Neural mechanisms of insight: nonlinear cortical representational change
This won her the CNS Postdoc Fellowship Award!
(also Poster A67)
Thanks a lot, Maria! Continuing working on this has been really fun 🤓. Would be cool to check whether this semantic bias in LTM is also mainly related to pre-decisional stages (retrieval?) and not to selection (once all feature has been retrieved).
Very interesting! And a nice task! It does overlap a lot with some of our projects. Although I am not totally sure with some of their claims.
Hopefully, they will add other approaches to support the claim of a null result.
True but, from my experience, pinging makes me feels even more worried about what we are decoding in some settings.
I’ve become more skeptical about decoding visual WM content in delay periods from EEG. In my experience, when we control for many things results often disappear 🫠.
Not saying other results are wrong, just wondering, as always, how many informative null results are sitting on old hard drives.
📢 Workshop announcement.
We are super excited to announce the workshop Perceptual Inferences, from philosophy to neuroscience, organized by Alexander Schütz and Daniel Kaiser.
📍 Rauischholzhausen Castle, near Marburg, Germany
🗓️ June 8 to 10, 2026.
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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Recently, van der Stigchel and colleagues posted a provocative commentary suggesting that we should be wary of bots in online behavioral data collection (🧵by @cstrauch.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/cstr...). But should we? Here is my response letter osf.io/preprints/ps.... 1/5
Agree. That is a more optimal approach
I thought many of us were trying to follow THE simple rule: review at least as many papers per year as we submit.
To be honest, we’ve experienced quite a few delays due to difficulties finding reviewers or getting their responses.
Peer review would be easier if we stopped treating it like combat with the authors. Results want to be free, and perfect is the enemy of good. Do the data support the conclusions? If so, that’s enough. A paper isn’t a blank slate for projecting your own ideas.
🔥 New preprint!
Excited to share Johannah's fantastic work -> a preregistered study with two replications showing how uncertainty shapes perceptual insight.
As always, it’s been a great ride working with Johannah and Carlos.
I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠
Happy 30th birthday, Pokémon! Since 1996, the Japanese media sensation has inspired generations of researchers in fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrity. go.nature.com/4bcjZ9w
🚨🚨 We are hiring a Postdoc at CIMCYC – University of Granada (Spain) 🚨🚨
2 year position in Neuroscience of Human Experience
Building new ways to study lived experience as it unfolds in time and maps onto brain, body and behavior
Please share‼️
Why do people seem to prioritize semantic stuff when holding info in working memory? Had lots of fun trying to shed some light on this question, together with the great @ckerren.bsky.social and @lindedomingo.bsky.social
1/9 New paper with @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social and @lindedomingo.bsky.social : “Characterising semantic prioritisation in visual working memory.”
Core question: when we hold visual info briefly in mind, what gets accessed first: perceptual details or semantic meaning?
Interesting reading
How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories?
We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate!
Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!
Can we just say that spring has arrived?
The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think.
We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science.
Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com
New preprint 🚨
Across multiple tasks, we show that higher-level info is more readily accessible in WM before evidence accumulation begins. Attention then boosts perceptual detail.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A lot of fun with my colleagues @ckerren.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans
Journal of Neuroscience January 2026
#interoception #neuroskyence
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...
Remember: The happiness of an accepted paper lasts exactly until you open the editorial checklist 🫠
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