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Bernhard Pastötter
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Cognitive neuroscientist. Psychology department at Trier University. https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=60427
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🎉 Start unserer Vorstellungsreihe der DGPs-Fachgruppen! Den Anfang macht die FG Geschichte der Psychologie. Sie erforscht, wie psychologische Ideen, Institutionen & Praktiken entstanden – und warum das heute zählt. Seit 1988: Austausch & Nachwuchsförderung. Vernetzt Euch: @dgpsgeschichte.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New paper published: Having free choice over what to learn improves memory, even in the presence of distraction.
Across two experiments, free choice selectively enhanced recognition for relevant, but not irrelevant items. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The influence of free choice on recognition memory in the face of distraction
Recognition memory is typically better for items learned after a free choice (independent of study material) than after a forced choice. However, previous studies presented to-be-remembered items i...
www.tandfonline.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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📢 The submission phase for talks & posters at #TeaP2026 starts on October 27! 🎉 Submit your contribution by November 16: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼 Present in a symposium, mixed-topics session, early-career session, or poster session 😍
Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen 2026
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October 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online!

Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany

More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up.

pug2026.org

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social
PUG2026 – PUG 2026: June 4–6, 2026, Heidelberg, Germany
pug2026.org
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Perception–Action Integration Is Linked to Posterior Alpha/Beta Desynchronization. Our EEG study out now and open access in @jocn.bsky.social.

direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
Perception–Action Integration Is Linked to Posterior Alpha/Beta Desynchronization
Abstract. Stimulus–response (S-R) bindings, which integrate sensory stimuli and motor responses into event files, are transient yet essential for adaptive behavior. This study investigated the EEG osc...
direct.mit.edu
October 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Principles for proper peer review
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
Why I left academia and neuroscience
Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.
mikexcohen.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Das ICAN der @unitrier.bsky.social präsentiert EEG, fNIRS und vieles mehr interessierten Kindern und Erwachsenen beim City Campus in Trier. Besucht uns gerne!
September 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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📢 SAVE THE DATE for #TeaP2026 in Tübingen 😍 Symposium submissions open on October 1! 🎉 For details, check out our website: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼
September 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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It can take weeks to write a grant proposal, so how would it feel to have a machine reject it in seconds?

go.nature.com/42hLWrv
When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions
A Spanish foundation using an artificial-intelligence tool to screen grant applications says it makes the peer-review process more efficient, but other researchers say it’s a breakdown in trust.
go.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The Young Scientist Retreat is the perfect event to get to know fellow PhD students and postdocs working in biopsychology and related fields. I highly recommend it! 👐
Mark your calendars, early career scholars!! ⬇️

This year's Young Scientist Retreat #YSR2025 will take place in Hamburg from October 21 until October 24!

Lab visit & workshop topic/speaker info will be released soon, stay tuned 🔥
August 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions
August 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style?

In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...
May 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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After you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper:
“Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences”
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...
August 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
Annual Meeting - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster CNS 2026 Annual Meeting – March 7 – March 10, 2026 We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2026 Annual Meeting, March...
www.cogneurosociety.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
🧠 Interested in EEG (and fNIRS) correlates of action control? Join our symposium and let's talk brains and bindings! 📅 Friday, 10:30–12:00 @pug2025.bsky.social #PuG2025
June 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...).

We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills.

Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
DFG Research Unit 5389
www.uni-hamburg.de
June 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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New modeling paper, spearheaded by Raphael Geddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, now out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: "Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility".
Free read link: rdcu.be/epatc
June 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Universität Trier: Techn. Beschäftigte*r (m/w/d) im Psychophysischen Labor (n39/25) leibniz-psychology.org/produkte/job... #Stellenangebot
Trier: Techn. Beschäftigte*r (m/w/d) (n39/25)
Universität: Techn. Beschäftigte*r (m/w/d) im Psychophysischen Labor (n39/25)
leibniz-psychology.org
June 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
May 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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First post on Bluesky! Check out our new paper (w/ @abclab.bsky.social @brognition.bsky.social) in Nature Communications @natcomms.bsky.social (featured in Editors' Highlights🌟)!

We investigated how attention operates differently within WM and LTM:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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May 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.

rdcu.be/el18q

A short thread follows for those interested.

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Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry
Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...
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May 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM