Philipp Musfeld
@philippmusfeld.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher in the Cognition Lab at University of Zurich. Interested in working memory, long-term memory, computational modeling, theory development and open science.
This is alarming. It’s not only about the struggle an individual researcher has when all his public records suddenly disappear. It’s about trust in a reliable open archival system that we need to continue the rise of open and transparent science. Highly recommended read!
A recent redesign of OSF by @cos.io led to widespread access failures. What began as a few broken download links became for me a total disappearance of eight years of DOI-registered work. What happened, how was it resolved, and what it reveals about trust and infrastructure in open science
Open Science needs reliable infrastructure – Ven Popov
After OSF’s October 2025 redesign, I discovered that eight years of DOI-linked preprints and materials were silently hidden by an automated spam flag. What happened, how it was resolved, and what it r...
venpopov.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is alarming. It’s not only about the struggle an individual researcher has when all his public records suddenly disappear. It’s about trust in a reliable open archival system that we need to continue the rise of open and transparent science. Highly recommended read!
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A recent redesign of OSF by @cos.io led to widespread access failures. What began as a few broken download links became for me a total disappearance of eight years of DOI-registered work. What happened, how was it resolved, and what it reveals about trust and infrastructure in open science
Open Science needs reliable infrastructure – Ven Popov
After OSF’s October 2025 redesign, I discovered that eight years of DOI-linked preprints and materials were silently hidden by an automated spam flag. What happened, how it was resolved, and what it r...
venpopov.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A recent redesign of OSF by @cos.io led to widespread access failures. What began as a few broken download links became for me a total disappearance of eight years of DOI-registered work. What happened, how was it resolved, and what it reveals about trust and infrastructure in open science
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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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What annotations / metadata do you wish was included with every #cogsci dataset (especially #workingmemory folks 👀)? My current list includes the experiment task, stimulus, level of data (trial-, subject-, or group-level), format, and whether analysis code is provided. Any more?
October 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
What annotations / metadata do you wish was included with every #cogsci dataset (especially #workingmemory folks 👀)? My current list includes the experiment task, stimulus, level of data (trial-, subject-, or group-level), format, and whether analysis code is provided. Any more?
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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
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!
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Presenting my talk at #ESCOP2025 today at 4pm in the symposium "Cognitive Mastery in Play: From Board to Digital Games as Models of Expertise" in LT2 🎮🎲 Hope you see you there!
September 3, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Presenting my talk at #ESCOP2025 today at 4pm in the symposium "Cognitive Mastery in Play: From Board to Digital Games as Models of Expertise" in LT2 🎮🎲 Hope you see you there!
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Exciting #rstats news for Bayesian model comparison: bridgesampling is finally ready to support cmdstanr, see screenshot. Help us by installing the development version of bridgesampling and letting us know if it works for your model(s): pak::pkg_install("quentingronau/bridgesampling#44")
![R code and output showing the new functionality:
``` r
## pak::pkg_install("quentingronau/bridgesampling#44")
## see: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bridgesampling/vignettes/bridgesampling_example_stan.html
library(bridgesampling)
### generate data ###
set.seed(12345)
mu <- 0
tau2 <- 0.5
sigma2 <- 1
n <- 20
theta <- rnorm(n, mu, sqrt(tau2))
y <- rnorm(n, theta, sqrt(sigma2))
### set prior parameters ###
mu0 <- 0
tau20 <- 1
alpha <- 1
beta <- 1
stancodeH0 <- 'data {
int<lower=1> n; // number of observations
vector[n] y; // observations
real<lower=0> alpha;
real<lower=0> beta;
real<lower=0> sigma2;
}
parameters {
real<lower=0> tau2; // group-level variance
vector[n] theta; // participant effects
}
model {
target += inv_gamma_lpdf(tau2 | alpha, beta);
target += normal_lpdf(theta | 0, sqrt(tau2));
target += normal_lpdf(y | theta, sqrt(sigma2));
}
'
tf <- withr::local_tempfile(fileext = ".stan")
writeLines(stancodeH0, tf)
mod <- cmdstanr::cmdstan_model(tf, quiet = TRUE, force_recompile = TRUE)
fitH0 <- mod$sample(
data = list(y = y, n = n,
alpha = alpha,
beta = beta,
sigma2 = sigma2),
seed = 202,
chains = 4,
parallel_chains = 4,
iter_warmup = 1000,
iter_sampling = 50000,
refresh = 0
)
#> Running MCMC with 4 parallel chains...
#>
#> Chain 3 finished in 0.8 seconds.
#> Chain 2 finished in 0.8 seconds.
#> Chain 4 finished in 0.8 seconds.
#> Chain 1 finished in 1.1 seconds.
#>
#> All 4 chains finished successfully.
#> Mean chain execution time: 0.9 seconds.
#> Total execution time: 1.2 seconds.
H0.bridge <- bridge_sampler(fitH0, silent = TRUE)
print(H0.bridge)
#> Bridge sampling estimate of the log marginal likelihood: -37.73301
#> Estimate obtained in 8 iteration(s) via method "normal".
#### Expected output:
## Bridge sampling estimate of the log marginal likelihood: -37.53183
## Estimate obtained in 5 iteration(s) via method "normal".
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September 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Exciting #rstats news for Bayesian model comparison: bridgesampling is finally ready to support cmdstanr, see screenshot. Help us by installing the development version of bridgesampling and letting us know if it works for your model(s): pak::pkg_install("quentingronau/bridgesampling#44")
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New preprint alert! 🤩 Together with Klaus Oberauer, I wrote a review article on how focused attention in #workingmemory affects long-term memory formation. osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
osf.io
August 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New preprint alert! 🤩 Together with Klaus Oberauer, I wrote a review article on how focused attention in #workingmemory affects long-term memory formation. osf.io/preprints/os...
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New content: Rodriguez, A., Musfeld, P., & Bartsch, L. M. (2025). The Flexibility of Working Memory in Drawing on Episodic Long-Term Memory Representations in Serial Recall. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 40, pp. 1–26. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky
The Flexibility of Working Memory in Drawing on Episodic Long-Term Memory Representations in Serial Recall | Journal of Cognition
doi.org
August 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
New content: Rodriguez, A., Musfeld, P., & Bartsch, L. M. (2025). The Flexibility of Working Memory in Drawing on Episodic Long-Term Memory Representations in Serial Recall. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 40, pp. 1–26. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky
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😎Check out this new paper by my brilliant phd student Ana Rodriguez!
Together with @philippmusfeld.bsky.social we investigated how prior knowledge contributes to a serial recall #workingmemory task!
Together with @philippmusfeld.bsky.social we investigated how prior knowledge contributes to a serial recall #workingmemory task!
New content: Rodriguez, A., Musfeld, P., & Bartsch, L. M. (2025). The Flexibility of Working Memory in Drawing on Episodic Long-Term Memory Representations in Serial Recall. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 40, pp. 1–26. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky
The Flexibility of Working Memory in Drawing on Episodic Long-Term Memory Representations in Serial Recall | Journal of Cognition
doi.org
August 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
😎Check out this new paper by my brilliant phd student Ana Rodriguez!
Together with @philippmusfeld.bsky.social we investigated how prior knowledge contributes to a serial recall #workingmemory task!
Together with @philippmusfeld.bsky.social we investigated how prior knowledge contributes to a serial recall #workingmemory task!
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Excellent post-doc opportunity available!
🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓
August 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Excellent post-doc opportunity available!
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🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓
August 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓
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New content: Bhanap, R., Bartsch, L. M., & Rosner, A. (2025). Tracking Reactivation of Location Information during Memory Strategies: Insights from Eye Movements. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 38, pp. 1–26. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
#psychscisky
#psychscisky
Tracking Reactivation of Location Information during Memory Strategies: Insights from Eye Movements | Journal of Cognition
doi.org
August 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
New content: Bhanap, R., Bartsch, L. M., & Rosner, A. (2025). Tracking Reactivation of Location Information during Memory Strategies: Insights from Eye Movements. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 38, pp. 1–26. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
#psychscisky
#psychscisky
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Now out in JEP:G! We (@fridaprintzlau.bsky.social & @keisukefukuda.bsky.social ) resolve inconsistent attentional protection in WM by addressing discrepancies in cueing. Upshot: Attention changes how perception biases memory, but *not* how memory biases perception!
doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
July 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Now out in JEP:G! We (@fridaprintzlau.bsky.social & @keisukefukuda.bsky.social ) resolve inconsistent attentional protection in WM by addressing discrepancies in cueing. Upshot: Attention changes how perception biases memory, but *not* how memory biases perception!
doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
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🚨 New paper with @leabartsch.bsky.social and Agnes Rosner! Our results show that location information is similarly reactivated for rehearsal and visual imagery. #workingmemory #eyetracking
Out now in @jcgntn.bsky.social
Read more:
journalofcognition.org/articles/10....
Out now in @jcgntn.bsky.social
Read more:
journalofcognition.org/articles/10....
Tracking Reactivation of Location Information during Memory Strategies: Insights from Eye Movements | Journal of Cognition
journalofcognition.org
July 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🚨 New paper with @leabartsch.bsky.social and Agnes Rosner! Our results show that location information is similarly reactivated for rehearsal and visual imagery. #workingmemory #eyetracking
Out now in @jcgntn.bsky.social
Read more:
journalofcognition.org/articles/10....
Out now in @jcgntn.bsky.social
Read more:
journalofcognition.org/articles/10....
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Postdoc position open in our #workingmemory lab! See here for more info: www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...
June 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Postdoc position open in our #workingmemory lab! See here for more info: www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...
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Postdoc position in cognitive psychology or cognitive development, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Applications are invited for a postdoc position in cognitive psychology or cognitive development.
Application deadline: 11 August 2025
Applications are invited for a postdoc position in cognitive psychology or cognitive development.
Application deadline: 11 August 2025
Home - Mémoire de travail, cognition et développement - UNIGE
www.unige.ch
June 30, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Postdoc position in cognitive psychology or cognitive development, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Applications are invited for a postdoc position in cognitive psychology or cognitive development.
Application deadline: 11 August 2025
Applications are invited for a postdoc position in cognitive psychology or cognitive development.
Application deadline: 11 August 2025
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Has anyone ever checked the average number of studies per publication in cognitive psychology? There's got to be variation in how many times one chooses to conduct a follow-up study before writing it up (and I wonder how my average of 2.5 experiments per paper stacks up.)
June 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Has anyone ever checked the average number of studies per publication in cognitive psychology? There's got to be variation in how many times one chooses to conduct a follow-up study before writing it up (and I wonder how my average of 2.5 experiments per paper stacks up.)
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New #counter-strike available to participate in 🎮 Complete a 40-minute online cognitive task and questionnaire, and receive a £5 Amazon Voucher and be entered into a prize draw! 💸Read more and take part here 👉 coglab.xyz/publix/05ado...
@cvonbastian.bsky.social @philippmusfeld.bsky.social #CS2
@cvonbastian.bsky.social @philippmusfeld.bsky.social #CS2
June 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New #counter-strike available to participate in 🎮 Complete a 40-minute online cognitive task and questionnaire, and receive a £5 Amazon Voucher and be entered into a prize draw! 💸Read more and take part here 👉 coglab.xyz/publix/05ado...
@cvonbastian.bsky.social @philippmusfeld.bsky.social #CS2
@cvonbastian.bsky.social @philippmusfeld.bsky.social #CS2
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New paper alert🚀
Episodic memory is structured by event boundaries—moments of critical change. The common view suggests that prediction errors drive them—but is that true? We show that contextual stability, not prediction errors, is the key driver of segmentation.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Episodic memory is structured by event boundaries—moments of critical change. The common view suggests that prediction errors drive them—but is that true? We show that contextual stability, not prediction errors, is the key driver of segmentation.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Prediction error is out of context: The dominance of contextual stability in structuring episodic memories - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Our everyday experiences unfold continuously, yet we segment them into distinct memory units—a phenomenon known as event segmentation. Although extensively studied, the underlying mechanisms of event ...
link.springer.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
New paper alert🚀
Episodic memory is structured by event boundaries—moments of critical change. The common view suggests that prediction errors drive them—but is that true? We show that contextual stability, not prediction errors, is the key driver of segmentation.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Episodic memory is structured by event boundaries—moments of critical change. The common view suggests that prediction errors drive them—but is that true? We show that contextual stability, not prediction errors, is the key driver of segmentation.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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🚨 Calling all colleagues who work on #workingmemory and #aging 🚨 Do you have any unpublished data on age differences in WM? 👴 👵 🧠 🌨️ We're working on a BIG meta-analysis, and I'd love any and all data that are currently not "out there" for us to find! 🔬 🤓 Please repost for reach, thanks! 🔁 😁
June 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🚨 Calling all colleagues who work on #workingmemory and #aging 🚨 Do you have any unpublished data on age differences in WM? 👴 👵 🧠 🌨️ We're working on a BIG meta-analysis, and I'd love any and all data that are currently not "out there" for us to find! 🔬 🤓 Please repost for reach, thanks! 🔁 😁
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Our paper is accepted in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! 🎉
We challenge the idea that prediction errors drive event segmentation, showing that contextual stability plays a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories.
🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
We challenge the idea that prediction errors drive event segmentation, showing that contextual stability plays a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories.
🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
June 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Our paper is accepted in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! 🎉
We challenge the idea that prediction errors drive event segmentation, showing that contextual stability plays a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories.
🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
We challenge the idea that prediction errors drive event segmentation, showing that contextual stability plays a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories.
🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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New Preprint with @edamizrak.bsky.social! Performance in immediate memory tasks reflects a flexible mixture of contributions of #workingmemory and LTM. Distraction disrupts WM, while PI impairs retrieval from LTM; when both are in play, performance depends on the relative reliability of each system
Interactions of Working and Long-term Memory - Evidence from Proactive Interference in the Brown-Peterson Task: https://osf.io/zemkw
May 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
New Preprint with @edamizrak.bsky.social! Performance in immediate memory tasks reflects a flexible mixture of contributions of #workingmemory and LTM. Distraction disrupts WM, while PI impairs retrieval from LTM; when both are in play, performance depends on the relative reliability of each system
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Dear WM ECRs across the globe, please consider joining the BEST ONLINE conference ever!
May 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Dear WM ECRs across the globe, please consider joining the BEST ONLINE conference ever!