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Kirsten Adam
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Assistant Professor at Rice University studying attention and working memory. Also likes: speculative fiction, long dog walks, & food adventures. (she/her)
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An auspicious start to today’s #SfN meeting 🌈
View of the San Diego convention center seen from the street, with a rainbow arcing over the street
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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bulezz.bsky.social
We found attentional suppression might be related to re-coding salient singleton locations in a inverted format to target locations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Rapid inversion of singleton distractor representations underlies learned attentional suppression
In visually complex and dynamically changing environments, humans often face the challenge of filtering out salient stimuli that are presently irrelevant to their tasks. Recent evidence suggests that ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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freekvanede.bsky.social
The human-neuroscience N2pc marker of covert and internal attention co-occurs with spatial biases in microsaccades, 200-300 ms after prompted to shift attention. (How) are these empirical phenomena related? Check it out in the latest work led by @baiweiliu.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Microsaccades strongly modulate but do not directly cause the EEG N2pc marker of spatial attention
Researchers often study human attention using microsaccades and the N2pc EEG marker, but it is unclear to what extent microsaccades contribute to N2pc. This study shows that microsaccades modulate N2p...
doi.org
October 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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manojdoss.bsky.social
Have you had an insight related to your work/hobby after taking a psychedelic (not a personal insight)? We're running a survey backed by the Center for Minds to understand such insights. It takes ~30 mins & pays $15.
tiny.cc/Psychedelics...
October 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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actlab.bsky.social
Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!

@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social

By me +
Hanna Hillman

We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue

Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...
September 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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
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matthewrobison.bsky.social
Notre Dame is hiring in Psychology! We have an open-rank, tenure/TT position in Cognitive Neuroscience: apply.interfolio.com/170229

Application deadline is soon (Sept. 15)
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September 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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foswald.bsky.social
The Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University, partnering with the Center for African and African American Studies, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of associate or full professor to begin July 1, 2026.

apply.interfolio.com/172829

@ricesocsci.bsky.social
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August 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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bradpostle.bsky.social
Attending #ECVP next week? Please seek me out if you're potentially interested in a postdoc:
Thursday – 08-28-2025 - 08:30 am
Out of sight, but not out of mind: How the human brain represents images that are not directly seen
Chair, Rosanne Rademaker
August 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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carohautekiet.bsky.social
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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August 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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leabartsch.bsky.social
🚨 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 🥰🤓
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Position (80%) at the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich. The ideal start date would be January 1st, 2026 but could be somewhat earlier or later. The position is for initially 3 years, with possible renewal for another 1.5 years. The successful applicant will work with the head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Prof. Dr. Klaus Oberauer, and the Cognitive Psychology team. The post involves research and teaching (one course per semester). Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental, individual-differences and aging studies and computational modeling. For further information see: https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec/allgpsy.html We offer: - An attractive research environment with close collaboration within the team - Excellent lab infrastructure - Salary according to Cantonal regulations We expect: - a PhD in psychology or a related discipline - experience with experimental research - excellent method knowledge and skills - very good command of English - interest in pursuing an academic career in cognitive psychology In addition, it would be desirable if you had: - experience with publishing in international journals - programming skills - experience with mathematical / computational modeling Please send applications including your CV and motivation letter no later than September 10, 2025 electronically as a single PDF to: Michaela Oestmann, michaela.oestmann@psychologie.uzh.ch For questions about the position please contact Klaus Oberauer, k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch
August 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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bradpostle.bsky.social
2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
Annual Meeting - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster CNS 2026 Annual Meeting – March 7 – March 10, 2026 We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2026 Annual Meeting, March...
www.cogneurosociety.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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ngaspelin.bsky.social
Excited this review paper is out! We update the signal suppression account to explain recent findings related to attention capture by salient stimuli. We also propose new mechanisms of learned attentional control. Written with Steve Luck and @xiaojinma.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Signal suppression 2.0: An updated account of attentional capture and suppression - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
The signal suppression account of attentional capture was proposed in 2010 to resolve a longstanding debate between bottom-up and top-down theories of capture by proposing that a top-down suppressive ...
link.springer.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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asinclair.bsky.social
New preprint for the SCIMaP project: we show how accounting for commuter flows reveals the broad extent of economic losses that will result from NIH funding cuts
malar0ne.bsky.social Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · Jul 25
#SCIMaP estimates current & future economic losses in local communities across the US (counties & Congressional Districts). We explain our approach in a new preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

(w @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social)
Faceted plot with panels for Atlanta, Pittsbrugh, and Houston. Focal counties (Dekalb, Alleghany, and Houston) are outlined. Surrounding counties are shaded by future estimated annual economic loss due to the proposed cap on indirect costs based on commuter flows that connect to a focal county (indicated by light pink outline).
July 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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vmloaiza1.bsky.social
🚨 Just about a week left to celebrate all our fantastic female colleagues in #workingmemory by nominating them for the #WomWoM research fairy award! 🚨
July 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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bradpostle.bsky.social
EEG Correlates of Active Removal from Working Memory
Jiangang Shan and Bradley R. Postle
Journal of Neuroscience 9 July 2025, 45 (28) e2414242025; doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
EEG Correlates of Active Removal from Working Memory
The removal of no-longer-relevant information from visual working memory (WM) is important for the functioning of WM, given its severe capacity limitation. Previously, with an “ABC-retrocuing” WM task...
doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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brynnsherman.bsky.social
I'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share!

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Research Associate
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July 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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wmsymposium.bsky.social
Can you believe that WMS2025 (July 8-11) is less than a week away? If you are interested in Working Memory Research, WMS2025 is THE BEST online conference with THE AWESOMEST community of researchers across the globe! So DON'T FORGET TO CHECK IT OUT!
www.wmsymposium.org/home
Working Memory Symposium
Date: July 8-11 Program is now Available!
www.wmsymposium.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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rademaker.bsky.social
Who doesn't like a good model of the brain? Yet, from simple regression to neural nets, some limitations keep popping up (e.g., overfitting) @mjwolff.bsky.social & I saw some cool but puzzling data, ran a quick analysis & found one such limitation: model mimicry. Now in #naturecommunications &🧵below
Model mimicry limits conclusions about neural tuning and can mistakenly imply unlikely priors
Nature Communications - Model mimicry limits conclusions about neural tuning and can mistakenly imply unlikely priors
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July 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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rademaker.bsky.social
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
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standupforscience.bsky.social
The proposed budget slashes NIH by ~40%, devastating medical research, clinical trials, treatment breakthroughs—life-saving work.

Thousands of lives at risk for tax cuts for the rich? NO THANKS.

Tell your senators to oppose the cuts HERE:
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#CutsCostLives
Will the Senate Save NIH?
Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.
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June 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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amiyake.bsky.social
I'm now ready to share a rough DRAFT of the teaching resources list for cognitive psychology I've been compiling. As you'll see, I could use further help from you, esp. where there are no entries yet. Pls take a look & share your favorite resources.🙏 I'll keep updating the list this summer. Thanks!
June 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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jimgrange.bsky.social
New pre-print: The impact of dimension switching on visual short-term memory. This is some of the PhD work of Stuart Moore.

osf.io/preprints/ps...
June 19, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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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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andresahakian.bsky.social
About time our latest project about time got out!

How do self-paced encoding and retention relate to performance in (working) memory-guided actions?

Find out now in Memory and Cognition: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
(or check the short version below)🧵
The rise and fall of memories: Temporal dynamics of visual working memory - Memory & Cognition
Visual working memory (VWM) is a cognitive system, which temporarily stores task-relevant visual information to enable interactions with the environment. In everyday VWM use, we typically decide how l...
doi.org
May 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM