Kimberly Chiew
@kimberlychiew.bsky.social
associate professor of psychology at university of denver | motivation, affect, cognitive control, memory | she/her 🇨🇦 🧠🏔🐱✌️ | lab: www.dumaclab.org
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Coming up on November 11! Dr. Corinna Loeckenhoff @loeckenhoff.bsky.social (Cornell University) will be presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Aging Differences in Decision Making: A Conceptual Framework" 1/
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Coming up on November 11! Dr. Corinna Loeckenhoff @loeckenhoff.bsky.social (Cornell University) will be presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Aging Differences in Decision Making: A Conceptual Framework" 1/
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🚨 New publication! Our registered report in Journal of Educational Psychology examines whether common executive function (EF) tasks demonstrated measurement invariance across racial/ethnic groups. Spoiler: they don’t. ⚠️
doi.org/10.1037/edu0...
doi.org/10.1037/edu0...
APA PsycNet
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October 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚨 New publication! Our registered report in Journal of Educational Psychology examines whether common executive function (EF) tasks demonstrated measurement invariance across racial/ethnic groups. Spoiler: they don’t. ⚠️
doi.org/10.1037/edu0...
doi.org/10.1037/edu0...
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🚨🚨New precision imaging study and open dataset 🚨🚨 Featuring almost 200 functional runs acquired in 3-4d intervals and behavioral manipulations focused on intraindividual study of the reward response - The Night Owls Scan Club (NOSC) With @dvsmith.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social!
September 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🚨🚨New precision imaging study and open dataset 🚨🚨 Featuring almost 200 functional runs acquired in 3-4d intervals and behavioral manipulations focused on intraindividual study of the reward response - The Night Owls Scan Club (NOSC) With @dvsmith.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social!
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I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
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Saw this art posted on FB & wanted to share it.
Indigenous Blue Jays logo (made by Kory Parkin/@paintsbyparkin)
#LetsGoBlueJays !
Indigenous Blue Jays logo (made by Kory Parkin/@paintsbyparkin)
#LetsGoBlueJays !
October 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Saw this art posted on FB & wanted to share it.
Indigenous Blue Jays logo (made by Kory Parkin/@paintsbyparkin)
#LetsGoBlueJays !
Indigenous Blue Jays logo (made by Kory Parkin/@paintsbyparkin)
#LetsGoBlueJays !
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I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
Interactive Cognition Lab | USC
Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.
rouhanilab.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
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Coming up on October 28! Dr. Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social (UPenn/Rice) will be presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Motivational States Bias Choices, Information Consumption, and Memory" 1/
October 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Coming up on October 28! Dr. Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social (UPenn/Rice) will be presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Motivational States Bias Choices, Information Consumption, and Memory" 1/
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Motivations are like emotions about (what we know about) possible outcomes. Sometimes incentives spur urgency to act, other times to comprehend. Neuromodulatory systems reflect these motivational moods and shape memories. Out now w @jiahou-poh.bsky.social!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Motivation as Neural Context for Adaptive Learning and Memory Formation
Our memories shape our perception of the world and guide adaptive behavior. Rather than a veridical record of experiences, memory is selective. An accumulating body of work suggests that motivational ...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Motivations are like emotions about (what we know about) possible outcomes. Sometimes incentives spur urgency to act, other times to comprehend. Neuromodulatory systems reflect these motivational moods and shape memories. Out now w @jiahou-poh.bsky.social!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We‘re hiring! 🏫⛰️☀️
Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
Details - Assistant Professor, Developmental Psychology CAHSS | University of Denver
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September 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We‘re hiring! 🏫⛰️☀️
Excited for the fall lineup of Motivated Cognition Meeting talks!
Announcing our FALL Schedule! Please like and share!
@kendraseaman.bsky.social @colleencfrank.bsky.social @sebastianshorn.bsky.social @kimberlychiew.bsky.social @zitamayer.bsky.social @srndna.bsky.social
@kendraseaman.bsky.social @colleencfrank.bsky.social @sebastianshorn.bsky.social @kimberlychiew.bsky.social @zitamayer.bsky.social @srndna.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Excited for the fall lineup of Motivated Cognition Meeting talks!
✨New preprint!✨ Excited to share this work by grad student Rachel Brough & honours student Chase Spurbeck @uofdenver.bsky.social: "Diverging influences of punishment motivation and negative affect on cognitive control" osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n
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September 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
✨New preprint!✨ Excited to share this work by grad student Rachel Brough & honours student Chase Spurbeck @uofdenver.bsky.social: "Diverging influences of punishment motivation and negative affect on cognitive control" osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n
Treatment resistant depression is incredibly cruel. This is beautiful
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
August 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Treatment resistant depression is incredibly cruel. This is beautiful
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🚨 Just about a week left to celebrate all our fantastic female colleagues in #workingmemory by nominating them for the #WomWoM research fairy award! 🚨
#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 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🚨 Just about a week left to celebrate all our fantastic female colleagues in #workingmemory by nominating them for the #WomWoM research fairy award! 🚨
Congratulations to my grad student Alyssa Asmar for receiving this year’s Harry Gollob award for best student publication at DU Psychology! Congrats to all of the other award winners as well. 🤗
June 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Congratulations to my grad student Alyssa Asmar for receiving this year’s Harry Gollob award for best student publication at DU Psychology! Congrats to all of the other award winners as well. 🤗
Proud of you Bailey! And looking forward to reading this 🤩
So excited to share our new preprint! We used behavior & pupillometry to examine how reinterpreting negative emotions shapes memory for emotionally charged events.
Huge thanks to my spectacular advisor, Dave, for all his help and support with my first project of grad school!
Check it out 👇
Huge thanks to my spectacular advisor, Dave, for all his help and support with my first project of grad school!
Check it out 👇
Emotions create vivid and lasting memories - but how are those memories organized? We find that negative emotions fragment experience, disrupting the flow of memory. Reframing negative feelings also carves up experiences, but in a way that supports integration and wellbeing.
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May 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Proud of you Bailey! And looking forward to reading this 🤩
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Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on 4 inhibitory control tasks, Lee et al. show that more than 1000 trials/participant are necessary to reduce within-subject variability and improve the reliability of the congruency effect.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Precise individual measures of inhibitory control - Nature Human Behaviour
Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on four inhibitory control tasks, Gratton et al. show that more than 1,000 trials per participant are necessary to reduce within-participant variabil...
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May 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on 4 inhibitory control tasks, Lee et al. show that more than 1000 trials/participant are necessary to reduce within-subject variability and improve the reliability of the congruency effect.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it.
We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dopaminergic processes predict temporal distortions in event memory
Our memories do not simply keep time - they warp it, bending the past to fit the structure of our experiences. For example, people tend to remember items as occurring farther apart in time if they spa...
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May 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it.
We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Von's work is super cool - uses a novel task we've built, the Denver Bespoke Gambling Paradigm (DBGP) to quantify and manipulate decision difficulty on a per-person basis, giving us unique opportunities to control and study how folks respond to variations in decision difficulty!
Stop by!
Stop by!
We're at #SANS2025 in Chicago! 🧠
Come hear lab PhD student @jvonmonteza.bsky.social present his poster on Saturday afternoon!
Von uses a cool novel task to study how effort during risky decision-making is sensitive to recent effort context. Stop by for modeling, decision times, & pupillometry!
Come hear lab PhD student @jvonmonteza.bsky.social present his poster on Saturday afternoon!
Von uses a cool novel task to study how effort during risky decision-making is sensitive to recent effort context. Stop by for modeling, decision times, & pupillometry!
April 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Von's work is super cool - uses a novel task we've built, the Denver Bespoke Gambling Paradigm (DBGP) to quantify and manipulate decision difficulty on a per-person basis, giving us unique opportunities to control and study how folks respond to variations in decision difficulty!
Stop by!
Stop by!
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We're at #SANS2025 in Chicago! 🧠
Come hear lab PhD student @jvonmonteza.bsky.social present his poster on Saturday afternoon!
Von uses a cool novel task to study how effort during risky decision-making is sensitive to recent effort context. Stop by for modeling, decision times, & pupillometry!
Come hear lab PhD student @jvonmonteza.bsky.social present his poster on Saturday afternoon!
Von uses a cool novel task to study how effort during risky decision-making is sensitive to recent effort context. Stop by for modeling, decision times, & pupillometry!
April 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We're at #SANS2025 in Chicago! 🧠
Come hear lab PhD student @jvonmonteza.bsky.social present his poster on Saturday afternoon!
Von uses a cool novel task to study how effort during risky decision-making is sensitive to recent effort context. Stop by for modeling, decision times, & pupillometry!
Come hear lab PhD student @jvonmonteza.bsky.social present his poster on Saturday afternoon!
Von uses a cool novel task to study how effort during risky decision-making is sensitive to recent effort context. Stop by for modeling, decision times, & pupillometry!
At #SANS25? 🤗 Von Monteza, advised by @p1sh.bsky.social & myself, is presenting "Temporal contexts of effort and arousal: decision speed and pupillometry illuminate the experience of choice difficulty during a novel risky decision-making paradigm" 👁️ Poster P3A6, Sat 12-3 @sansmeeting.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
At #SANS25? 🤗 Von Monteza, advised by @p1sh.bsky.social & myself, is presenting "Temporal contexts of effort and arousal: decision speed and pupillometry illuminate the experience of choice difficulty during a novel risky decision-making paradigm" 👁️ Poster P3A6, Sat 12-3 @sansmeeting.bsky.social
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POSTPONED to May 14: Matthias Gruber - How Curiosity Shapes Spatial Exploration and Cognitive Map Formation
April 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
POSTPONED to May 14: Matthias Gruber - How Curiosity Shapes Spatial Exploration and Cognitive Map Formation
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Interested in dopamine? Have fMRI data? We’ve identified a temporal BOLD feature that carries rich information about dopamine physiology. This measure, obtainable from resting-state and task fMRI, opens new ways to indirectly probe dopamine’s role in cognition and disease. 1/n tinyurl.com/bddyz67b
Temporal fMRI Dynamics Map Dopamine Physiology
Spatial variations in dopamine function are linked to cognition and substance use disorders but are challenging to characterize with current methods. Because dopamine influences blood vessel dilation,...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Interested in dopamine? Have fMRI data? We’ve identified a temporal BOLD feature that carries rich information about dopamine physiology. This measure, obtainable from resting-state and task fMRI, opens new ways to indirectly probe dopamine’s role in cognition and disease. 1/n tinyurl.com/bddyz67b
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We're hiring a postdoc in the FEEL lab at the University of Melbourne. Deadline May 12: get in touch if you have questions! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...
Details : Postdoctoral Research Fellow (FEEL Lab) : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
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April 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We're hiring a postdoc in the FEEL lab at the University of Melbourne. Deadline May 12: get in touch if you have questions! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...
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📢 The 2025 Call for Abstracts is open! Join us at the Psychonomic Society’s 66th Annual Meeting: Nov 20-23 in Denver, Colorado, USA. 🗓 Deadline: June 5. Guidelines: bit.ly/4lnWkWW #psynom25
April 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
📢 The 2025 Call for Abstracts is open! Join us at the Psychonomic Society’s 66th Annual Meeting: Nov 20-23 in Denver, Colorado, USA. 🗓 Deadline: June 5. Guidelines: bit.ly/4lnWkWW #psynom25