Ziyao Zhang
bulezz.bsky.social
Ziyao Zhang
@bulezz.bsky.social
graduate student at UT Austin, studying memory and cognitive control. https://ziyaozz.github.io/
I’m now a proud alum of Lewis-Peacock lab🦚. I’ll be joining the @shenhavlab.bsky.social at UCB in January to study adaptive behaviors and dynamic cognitive control. So grateful for the great journey and excited for what’s next!
December 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reposted by Ziyao Zhang
Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io
December 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Check out my SfN poster if you are interested in how retrospective and prospective representations in working memory work together to create plans and replans when being distracted! I will present it at the early career poster session at 6:45 pm on Saturday or from 1-5 on Tuesday.
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Reposted by Ziyao Zhang
🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference?

In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hippocampal transformations occur along dimensions of memory interference
The role of the hippocampus in resolving memory interference has been greatly elucidated by considering the relationship between the similarity of visual stimuli (input) and corresponding similarity o...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We found attentional suppression might be related to re-coding salient singleton locations in a inverted format to target locations
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Rapid inversion of singleton distractor representations underlies learned attentional suppression
In visually complex and dynamically changing environments, humans often face the challenge of filtering out salient stimuli that are presently irrelevant to their tasks. Recent evidence suggests that ...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Excited to share my first fMRI paper in @pnas.org We found that suppressing the encoding of one event can strengthen the neural representation of the next in CA1, and bias retrieval-related neural restatement away from suppressed information. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Maintenance suppression enhances subsequent associative learning | PNAS
Removing irrelevant information from working memory (WM) can free cognitive resources and reduce interference with current task goals. Beyond these...
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August 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Excited to share our work @jarrod on reconciling divergent distraction effects in visual working memory. osf.io/preprints/psya…. This project began as a learning experience in modeling memory errors during my first year at UT, and I’m thrilled to see it will be out @psychscience.bsky.social
OSF
https://osf.io/preprints/psya…
March 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM