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armanbehrad.bsky.social
Wanna compare dynamics across neural data, RNNs, or dynamical systems? We got a fast and furious method🏎️
The 1st preprint of my PhD 🥳 fast dynamical similarity analysis (fastDSA):
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2511.22828
💻: github.com/CMC-lab/fast...
I’ll be @cosynemeeting.bsky.social - happy to chat 😉
January 8, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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nuttidanuttida.bsky.social
New preprint from the lab!
January 6, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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We recently published a theoretical review about how compositional and generative mechanisms in working memory provide a flexible engine for creative perception and imagery.

Pre-print:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Illustration of the hypothesized flows of information between perception, memory and cognitive control in a conceptual model of working memory. Stimuli attributes are processed to varying degrees of abstraction and parts of these representations can be loaded into working memory under the guidance of cognitive control. Familiar stimuli such as the letter B activate visually abstract representations while less familiar stimuli are limited to sensory representations. Information can be shifted both up and down levels of the perceptual hierarchy to build either more or less abstract representations of either perceived or imagined stimuli. Working memories can be shifted into or out of the hierarchy as needed.
January 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
serences.bsky.social
new paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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. This is thought to occur in part by recruiting early...
www.cell.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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kirsten-adam.bsky.social
New pre-print day! Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex 🧠 (with Ed Awh & @serences.bsky.social)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex
Increasing working memory (WM) load incurs behavioral costs, and whether the neural constraints on behavioral costs are localized (i.e., emanating from the intraparietal sulcus) or distributed across ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
serences.bsky.social
I gave a talk in 2009 about feature-based attention and a famous vision scientist asked how top down signals from PFC could possibly target the right sensory neurons. The best I could do was "uh, dunno". sunyoungp.bsky.social has a much more thoughtful answer journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Near-random connections support top-down feature-based attentional modulations in early sensory cortex
Author summary In everyday life, we focus on what matters—like finding our car keys on a messy desk—by sending signals from higher control brain areas to earlier sensory brain areas. These “top-down” ...
journals.plos.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
serences.bsky.social
Cool new paper from @luisdr.bsky.social, Feiyi Wang, and Sam Ling on the impact of attention on spatial frequency processing: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
Attention Alters Population Spatial Frequency Tuning
Spatial frequency (SF) selectivity serves as a fundamental building block within the visual system, determining what we can and cannot see. Attention is theorized to augment the visibility of items in...
www.jneurosci.org
June 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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jannawennberg.bsky.social
Come chat with me about visual working memory and sensory recruitment this Tuesday! Work with the fabulous @kirsten-adam.bsky.social and @serences.bsky.social #VSS2025
hkular.bsky.social Holly Kular @hkular.bsky.social · May 16
Tue, 5/20 3:00PM, @jannawennberg.bsky.social will show fMRI evidence that voxel population codes in EVC transform under distraction.
Janna Wennberg's vision science society poster
May 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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maggiehende.bsky.social
How do we flexibly categorize objects under changing task requirements? Our new paper in Nature Communications (@serences.bsky.social & @nuttidanuttida.bsky.social) examines this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dynamic categorization rules alter representations in human visual cortex - Nature Communications
This study shows that neural representations of shape stimuli in human visual cortex are adaptively modulated when participants switch between different variants of a categorization task, becoming mor...
www.nature.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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timbrady.bsky.social
My department, Psychology at UC San Diego, just posted an assistant professor position focused on computational approaches to understanding behavior. Open area search, and more information can be found here: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04049
Assistant Professor - Computational Mechanisms of Behavior (Department of Psychology)
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu
August 30, 2024 at 9:19 PM