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Joey Saito
@jsaito25.bsky.social
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Post-Doctoral Researcher at UCSD studying adaptive memory processing. For all my science: https://josephmsaito.github.io/
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freekvanede.bsky.social
Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search
Internal and external selection processes can codevelop in time to yield efficient search behavior.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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jonathanamichaels.bsky.social
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
Explicit memory representations in decisions from experience https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684917v1
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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cconstan.bsky.social
New paper from the lab:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Longitudinal measures of monkey brain structure and activity through adolescence predict cognitive maturation - Nature Neuroscience
Working memory improves during adolescent brain development. Zhu et al. tracked monkeys through adolescence, revealing that maturation of white matter tracts and refinement of neural firing patterns s...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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utochkin.bsky.social
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"
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October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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cconstan.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Position in Computational Neuroscience at Vanderbilt. Please disseminate.

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October 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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danielagresch.bsky.social
📣 Out in TINS (@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social):

Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
October 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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bulezz.bsky.social
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
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Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory
A core function of visual working memory (WM) is to sustain mental representations of recent visual inputs, thereby bridging moments of experience. Th…
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October 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Slow change blindness from serial dependence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Slow change blindness from serial dependence
Slow change blindness, when attentive observers fail to notice large changes that happen gradually, raises questions about how visual information is combined across time. One plausible integration str...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Flexible Working Memory in the Peripheral Nervous System
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Flexible Working Memory in the Peripheral Nervous System
Working memory (WM) representations that are distributed across the brain can be flexibly recruited to best guide behavior[1][1]–[4][2]. For instance, information may be represented relatively more st...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas
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Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology
Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations across distinct cortical regions.
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October 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
jsaito25.bsky.social
A distinctive meaning makes a sentence memorable | Journal of Memory and Language

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A distinctive meaning makes a sentence memorable
Prior work on visual memory has suggested that humans have a high-capacity but imperfect memory: image representations accumulate noise over time, whi…
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October 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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rademaker.bsky.social
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.
September 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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tiffanyito.bsky.social
University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

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#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor
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September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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psyarxivbot.bsky.social
Decoupling lower-level and higher-level visual features in naturalistic scenes: https://osf.io/unv5g
September 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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mariamaly.bsky.social
Excited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings.

We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity.

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8x8 grid depicting the approach to stimulus creation. Feature pairs are on the axes and images are in the cells. The x-axis represents the high-level feature pairs: setting (green) and object (teal). For example, the first column of images all depict “truck” (object) in “field” (setting) rendered in various textures and patterns. The y-axis represents low-level feature pairs: texture (blue) and pattern (purple). For example, the first row of images all depict different objects and settings rendered as if drawn with crayon (texture) and containing large horizontal edges (pattern).
September 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Neurons in mouse primary visual cortex that respond emergently to illusory contours drive pattern completion

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Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference - Nature Neuroscience
Neurons that respond emergently to illusory contours drive pattern completion in V1. Pattern completion in lower cortical areas may therefore mediate perceptual inference by selectively reinforcing ac...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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michaelhout.bsky.social
The keynote speaker at this year's @opam.bsky.social Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting will be Dr Joy J. Geng of UC Davis. We're thrilled to have Joy join us, discuss her research, and impart some wisdom that she's gained throughout her incredibly impressive career.
September 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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aaronbornstein.bsky.social
Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.
Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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September 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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jthee.bsky.social
By integrating the 'pinging' technique with fMRI-based multivariate pattern analysis, we provide evidence for a dual-format representation of attention during the preparatory period.

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September 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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yonghoonchung.bsky.social
Tomorrow afternoon I'll be presenting my symposium talk at #ESCoP2025 titled "Meaningful and familiar stimuli support visual working memory for simple features"! See you there!
September 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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danwang7.bsky.social
🧠 Excited to share that our new preprint is out!🧠
In this work, we investigate the dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in the early visual cortex using rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT).

📄 Check it out on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in early visual cortex
Task-irrelevant yet salient stimuli can elicit automatic, bottom-up attentional capture and compete with top-down, goal-directed processes for neural representation. However, the temporal dynamics und...
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August 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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psyarxivbot.bsky.social
Memories that remain: Image memorability transfers to scene descriptions: https://osf.io/mg7zk
August 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM