Ivan Tomic
@ivntmc.bsky.social
Computational cognition. Vision. Working memory.
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What is the representation underlying cognition? Formal models rely on multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments to derive the representation. In this preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social, we take an alternative approach; we build Bayesian generative models for three cognitive tasks. /1
Similarity judgments and visual working memory do not share the same cognitive representation: https://osf.io/fm9vz
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
What is the representation underlying cognition? Formal models rely on multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments to derive the representation. In this preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social, we take an alternative approach; we build Bayesian generative models for three cognitive tasks. /1
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Happy Fechner Day, to those who celebrate
October 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happy Fechner Day, to those who celebrate
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Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available<br>working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
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Join @matthiasmichel.bsky.social and me (over Zoom), won't you, for next speaker at the MIT Consciousness Club. Today at noon EDT
Rachel Denison (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University) - "Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception"
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
Rachel Denison (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University) - "Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception"
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
October 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Join @matthiasmichel.bsky.social and me (over Zoom), won't you, for next speaker at the MIT Consciousness Club. Today at noon EDT
Rachel Denison (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University) - "Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception"
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
Rachel Denison (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University) - "Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception"
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
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The final bit of work from my PhD just got published at JOV! We looked at similarity judgements made for naturalistic image patches, and whether these are predicted by simple image statistics… (spoiler: yep!)
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1167/jov....
1/11
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1167/jov....
1/11
Low-level features predict perceived similarity for naturalistic images | JOV | ARVO Journals
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The final bit of work from my PhD just got published at JOV! We looked at similarity judgements made for naturalistic image patches, and whether these are predicted by simple image statistics… (spoiler: yep!)
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1167/jov....
1/11
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1167/jov....
1/11
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I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025
The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...
ellis.eu
October 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
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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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New preprint with Sebastian Schneegans and @bayslab.org
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
New preprint with Sebastian Schneegans and @bayslab.org
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
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@matthiasmichel.bsky.social and I are beavering away reading and responding to all the excellent commentaries on our BBS paper outlining an evolutionary account of visual consciousness.
In the meantime, if you missed our target article, it's available here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In the meantime, if you missed our target article, it's available here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision
www.cambridge.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
@matthiasmichel.bsky.social and I are beavering away reading and responding to all the excellent commentaries on our BBS paper outlining an evolutionary account of visual consciousness.
In the meantime, if you missed our target article, it's available here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In the meantime, if you missed our target article, it's available here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Dynamics of variability and bias in working memory: https://osf.io/y2bjv
September 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Dynamics of variability and bias in working memory: https://osf.io/y2bjv
New preprint with Sebastian Schneegans and @bayslab.org
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
New preprint with Sebastian Schneegans and @bayslab.org
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here, we ask whether the key limits of working memory - load and retention interval - are independent, or do they interact? Despite years of research, this question is still much debated.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence 1/6
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Equal Pay Day for women with children falls on 1 September this year. From this date, mothers are working for free for the rest of the year compared with fathers.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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UK mothers earn £302 a week less than fathers, analysis shows
ONS data shows they are working for free from 1 September, almost three months earlier than Equal Pay Day for all women
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Equal Pay Day for women with children falls on 1 September this year. From this date, mothers are working for free for the rest of the year compared with fathers.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky
Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator
As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...
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August 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky
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Due to a recent influx of problematic submissions, PsyArXiv has switched to pre-moderating its content. If your submitted preprint had not yet been approved, it will be temporarily inaccessible to the public (you can still view your preprint when logged into your OSF account). #PsychSciSky
August 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Due to a recent influx of problematic submissions, PsyArXiv has switched to pre-moderating its content. If your submitted preprint had not yet been approved, it will be temporarily inaccessible to the public (you can still view your preprint when logged into your OSF account). #PsychSciSky
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Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing.
Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!
Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!
August 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing.
Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!
Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!
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📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢
🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.
Please RT
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.
Please RT
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢
🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.
Please RT
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.
Please RT
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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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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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 work on sensory prediction resolves some long-standing puzzles about attenuation of self-touch journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
Divisive attenuation based on noisy sensorimotor predictions accounts for excess variability in self-touch | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society
When one part of the body exerts force on another part, the resulting tactile sensation is perceived as weaker than when the same force is applied by an external agent. This phenomenon has been studie...
journals.physiology.org
August 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
New work on sensory prediction resolves some long-standing puzzles about attenuation of self-touch journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
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New published paper with Ham Huang and @actlab.bsky.social! @cognitionjournal.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
July 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
New published paper with Ham Huang and @actlab.bsky.social! @cognitionjournal.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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ONE MORE DAY til the #WorkingMemory event of the year! 👇
🚨 Hey #WorkingMemory folks! 🚨
#WMS25 is coming up next week! Join us for 4 days of cutting-edge science, featuring amazing work by #ECRs.
✅ No registration – join our Slack and tune in via Zoom!
👉 More info: www.wmsymposium.org
If you’re interested in WM, this is the event you can’t miss!
#WMS25 is coming up next week! Join us for 4 days of cutting-edge science, featuring amazing work by #ECRs.
✅ No registration – join our Slack and tune in via Zoom!
👉 More info: www.wmsymposium.org
If you’re interested in WM, this is the event you can’t miss!
July 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
ONE MORE DAY til the #WorkingMemory event of the year! 👇
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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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#workingmemory researchers! It's time to nominate all of our brilliant and wonderful female colleagues for the 2025 #WomWoM research fairy award! 🧚♀️🪄 Please share widely -- deadline 2nd August! bit.ly/2025womwomfa...
The 2025 WomWoM research fairy award
Welcome, fellow working memory researchers! It's time to decide who should be this year's research fairy.
If you are not yet aware of the story about this award or would like a refresher, please che...
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July 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#workingmemory researchers! It's time to nominate all of our brilliant and wonderful female colleagues for the 2025 #WomWoM research fairy award! 🧚♀️🪄 Please share widely -- deadline 2nd August! bit.ly/2025womwomfa...
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Excited to see our Centaur project out in @nature.com.
TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.
TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.
July 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Excited to see our Centaur project out in @nature.com.
TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.
TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.