Igor Utochkin
@utochkin.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist interested in everything about human visual perception, attention, and memory. Working at the Awh/Vogel lab @UChicago
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We see the forest, but what do we know about the trees? Our perception of ensembles may be richer than previously thought. Read more in a post by @ankosov.bsky.social on a new #psynomPBR paper by Vladislav Khvostov @khvo100v.bsky.social, Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson, & Árni Kristjánsson buff.ly/3NCjHIz
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We see the forest, but what do we know about the trees? Our perception of ensembles may be richer than previously thought. Read more in a post by @ankosov.bsky.social on a new #psynomPBR paper by Vladislav Khvostov @khvo100v.bsky.social, Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson, & Árni Kristjánsson buff.ly/3NCjHIz
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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...
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
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"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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
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.
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1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
September 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
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Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory
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September 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory
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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
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.
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Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add
PhD position — Rademaker lab
www.rademakerlab.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add
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Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread!
cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/
cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/
June 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread!
cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/
cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/
Seems like visual awareness of ensemble information goes beyond summary statistics. Vlad Khvostov and colleagues show that people can report the prevalence of each specific feature in a set of objects and the shape of a feature distribution can be recovered from these reports. Neat!
Hot off the press:
Vlad Khvostov's work at the @icevislab.bsky.social on how the Feature Frequency Report method reveals rich and explicit representations of feature distributions.
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Vlad Khvostov's work at the @icevislab.bsky.social on how the Feature Frequency Report method reveals rich and explicit representations of feature distributions.
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Explicit access to detailed representations of feature distributions - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
The human visual system can quickly process groups of objects (ensembles) and build compressed representations of their features. What does the conscious perception of ensembles consist of? Observersʼ...
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June 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Seems like visual awareness of ensemble information goes beyond summary statistics. Vlad Khvostov and colleagues show that people can report the prevalence of each specific feature in a set of objects and the shape of a feature distribution can be recovered from these reports. Neat!
In a new preprint with Nick Chiang and Wilma Bainbridge, we show that our visual recognition memory is often asymmetric, and sometimes even hugely asymmetric. These asymmetries are consistent across people, and we know how to predict them
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May 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
In a new preprint with Nick Chiang and Wilma Bainbridge, we show that our visual recognition memory is often asymmetric, and sometimes even hugely asymmetric. These asymmetries are consistent across people, and we know how to predict them
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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🚨New job alert! My lab is hiring a lab manager. Perfect position for a graduating senior who is interested in full-time research before applying to graduate school. #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #MLSky Apply here: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
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March 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🚨New job alert! My lab is hiring a lab manager. Perfect position for a graduating senior who is interested in full-time research before applying to graduate school. #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #MLSky Apply here: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
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We are accepting applications for the new round of IACCP SPARK grants! Apply by April 30 for up to $1000 to fund networking, capacity-building, and other initiatives to promote cross-cultural psychology. Read more about the grant here: www.iaccp.org/about-us/res...
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
March 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We are accepting applications for the new round of IACCP SPARK grants! Apply by April 30 for up to $1000 to fund networking, capacity-building, and other initiatives to promote cross-cultural psychology. Read more about the grant here: www.iaccp.org/about-us/res...
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
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If you would like to teach theoretical modeling skills to your psychology or cognitive science students, or would like to learn these skills yourself, check out our open online textbook: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/
February 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
If you would like to teach theoretical modeling skills to your psychology or cognitive science students, or would like to learn these skills yourself, check out our open online textbook: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/
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The Working Memory Symposium will return in 2025 (Tentative date: July 8-11)! We are now seeking a new post-doc organizer to join our organizing team. To apply, fill out the google form linked on our home page (www.wmsymposium.org) by March 16!
Working Memory Symposium
We will return this summer for WMS 2025!
Tentative date: July 8-11 Click here to apply for a postdoc organizor! (Application Deadline: March 16th)
www.wmsymposium.org
February 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Working Memory Symposium will return in 2025 (Tentative date: July 8-11)! We are now seeking a new post-doc organizer to join our organizing team. To apply, fill out the google form linked on our home page (www.wmsymposium.org) by March 16!
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Did you ever wonder how much you can trust your Bayes Factor estimates? Klaus Oberauer, @frederikaust.com and I did and investigated variance, bias, and computational costs for estimating Bayes Factors via bridgesampling and the Savage-Dickey density ratio.
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osf.io/preprints/ps...
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February 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Did you ever wonder how much you can trust your Bayes Factor estimates? Klaus Oberauer, @frederikaust.com and I did and investigated variance, bias, and computational costs for estimating Bayes Factors via bridgesampling and the Savage-Dickey density ratio.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
1/2 This project started in my old lab and taken over by
@icevislab.bsky.social. @antonlukashevich.bsky.social showed that attended ensemble mean changes easily detectable and causing a large P3, fail to produce a signal (i.e. ERP component MMN) when unattended
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@icevislab.bsky.social. @antonlukashevich.bsky.social showed that attended ensemble mean changes easily detectable and causing a large P3, fail to produce a signal (i.e. ERP component MMN) when unattended
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The role of attention in basic ensemble statistics processing
The visual system can represent information about multiple objects in the form of ensemble statistics, such as their mean feature. Although ensemble r…
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February 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
1/2 This project started in my old lab and taken over by
@icevislab.bsky.social. @antonlukashevich.bsky.social showed that attended ensemble mean changes easily detectable and causing a large P3, fail to produce a signal (i.e. ERP component MMN) when unattended
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@icevislab.bsky.social. @antonlukashevich.bsky.social showed that attended ensemble mean changes easily detectable and causing a large P3, fail to produce a signal (i.e. ERP component MMN) when unattended
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Who are Open Science Tools❓
We're proud to provide a free #OpenSource tool for making experiments that is used by so many. We needed a way to sustain it!
Open Science Tools is our company that provides services➡️The revenue from these help to sustain and improve PsychoPy https://buff.ly/3YrhiZH
We're proud to provide a free #OpenSource tool for making experiments that is used by so many. We needed a way to sustain it!
Open Science Tools is our company that provides services➡️The revenue from these help to sustain and improve PsychoPy https://buff.ly/3YrhiZH
October 1, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Who are Open Science Tools❓
We're proud to provide a free #OpenSource tool for making experiments that is used by so many. We needed a way to sustain it!
Open Science Tools is our company that provides services➡️The revenue from these help to sustain and improve PsychoPy https://buff.ly/3YrhiZH
We're proud to provide a free #OpenSource tool for making experiments that is used by so many. We needed a way to sustain it!
Open Science Tools is our company that provides services➡️The revenue from these help to sustain and improve PsychoPy https://buff.ly/3YrhiZH
If you are still at #VSS come to listen to me Wednesday at 8:15am (Visual Memory session). I'll tell what we learned about the consequences of encoding speed for subsequent retrieval using ERP's (w/ Chong Zhao and Ed Vogel).
May 21, 2024 at 10:44 PM
If you are still at #VSS come to listen to me Wednesday at 8:15am (Visual Memory session). I'll tell what we learned about the consequences of encoding speed for subsequent retrieval using ERP's (w/ Chong Zhao and Ed Vogel).
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The Awh/Vogel Lab is excited to share our research on visual #workingmemory at #VSS2024! Of note, we have a few talks pursuing the idea of item-based 'pointers' using multivariate classification of EEG. You can find all the presentations here: awhvogellab.com/conferences#....
Conferences
The Awh Vogel Lab at the University of Chicago uses behavioral and neural methods to study attention and visual working memory
awhvogellab.com
May 13, 2024 at 2:15 PM
The Awh/Vogel Lab is excited to share our research on visual #workingmemory at #VSS2024! Of note, we have a few talks pursuing the idea of item-based 'pointers' using multivariate classification of EEG. You can find all the presentations here: awhvogellab.com/conferences#....
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PhD positions available in our #workingmemory lab!
There is still time to apply for one of the PhD positions offered in the Working memory, Cognition, and Development Lab in Geneva! Apply until May 17th (5 pm, CEST UTC/GMT +2)! 🦩📃✨🎓 Students currently in the final months of their Master's will also be considered.
Come work with us and study working memory in young adults and children! 🦩🧠💾 We are opening two PhD positions in the Working memory, Cognition, and Development Lab (University of Geneva, Prof. Dr. Evie Vergauwe), starting Sept-Dec 2024. Please share!
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/214148
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/214148
May 7, 2024 at 9:53 AM
PhD positions available in our #workingmemory lab!
I'm honored to join the Fellowship :)
Congratulations to our new Fellows! This honor recognizes members who demonstrate clear evidence of independent scholarship, active engagement in methodologically rigorous and theoretically interesting high-level research. bit.ly/3wkCh6M Apply: www.psychonomic.org/page/fellows
May 5, 2024 at 4:13 PM
I'm honored to join the Fellowship :)
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Postdoc position at our faculty on AI & psychology/neuroscience! If you are interested in computational modeling in memory, perception, or decision-making (with a focus on normative models) or decoding of neural data in VWM, get in touch, I'd be happy to support. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (259905) | University of Bergen
Job title: LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (259905), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Tuesday, May 21, 2024
www.jobbnorge.no
May 1, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Postdoc position at our faculty on AI & psychology/neuroscience! If you are interested in computational modeling in memory, perception, or decision-making (with a focus on normative models) or decoding of neural data in VWM, get in touch, I'd be happy to support. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Come and join us, for lots of #workingmemory fun 🤩
Two PhD positions in cognitive psychology/cognitive development University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
The successful applicants will work with Prof. Dr. Evie Vergauwe in the Working memory, Cognition and Development Lab.
Application deadline: 17 May 2024
The successful applicants will work with Prof. Dr. Evie Vergauwe in the Working memory, Cognition and Development Lab.
Application deadline: 17 May 2024
Two PhD positions in cognitive psychology/cognitive development (4 years) | EURAXESS
Applications are invited for two funded doctoral positions (4 years), with flexible starting date between September and December 2024. The successful applicants will work with Prof. Dr.
www.euraxess.ch
April 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Come and join us, for lots of #workingmemory fun 🤩
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Arni Kristjansson and I have just published a review on how we process variability in the visual world. It's been a fun topic to work on, related to my long-time interest in how we process the 'noise' in the environment. The review is in free access for two weeks: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Representing Variability
Cambridge Core - Biological Psychology - Representing Variability
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March 1, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Arni Kristjansson and I have just published a review on how we process variability in the visual world. It's been a fun topic to work on, related to my long-time interest in how we process the 'noise' in the environment. The review is in free access for two weeks: doi.org/10.1017/9781...