Richard Allen
@richjallen.bsky.social
Professor of Cognitive Psychology. Interested in working memory, long-term memory, and attention, based at the University of Leeds, Yorkshire. Dad of two boys and follower of bad football teams.
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I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
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#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
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#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
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November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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Here is your chance to become an associate editor of a fantastic journal! The incoming editor of @jcgntn.bsky.social, @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social, is looking for associate editors. Check out this cool opportunity to self-nominate or nominate someone you know!
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ESCOP - Journal
ESCOP is a dynamic scientific society that provides a venue within which current research in cognitive psychology and neighboring disciplines can be presented, discussed and encouraged.
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October 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Here is your chance to become an associate editor of a fantastic journal! The incoming editor of @jcgntn.bsky.social, @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social, is looking for associate editors. Check out this cool opportunity to self-nominate or nominate someone you know!
www.escop.eu/about-us/jou...
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New paper from Hatice Cinar's PhD, in Memory & Cognition....
Prioritising feature bindings across space and modality in working memory
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Prioritising feature bindings across space and modality in working memory
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Prioritizing feature bindings across space and modality in working memory
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October 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
New paper from Hatice Cinar's PhD, in Memory & Cognition....
Prioritising feature bindings across space and modality in working memory
rdcu.be/eLz40
Prioritising feature bindings across space and modality in working memory
rdcu.be/eLz40
Working memory and attentional control abilities predict individual differences in visual long-term memory tasks
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Redirecting
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October 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Working memory and attentional control abilities predict individual differences in visual long-term memory tasks
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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...
@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
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...
@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...
Leeds WoMCog group at the #ESCoP2025 conference in Sheffield!
September 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Leeds WoMCog group at the #ESCoP2025 conference in Sheffield!
Excited for the start of ESCoP 2025 (www.escop2025.com) in Sheffield this week. Our group has a bunch of things going on across the meeting...
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September 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Excited for the start of ESCoP 2025 (www.escop2025.com) in Sheffield this week. Our group has a bunch of things going on across the meeting...
Heading off to University of Queensland in Brisbane this week to help kick off a 3-year ARC-funded project on the causes & consequences of cognitive offloading in children. It's hosted at UoQ, & also involves collaborations with colleagues at Leeds (@amandawaterman.bsky.social), UCL, and Melbourne.
July 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Heading off to University of Queensland in Brisbane this week to help kick off a 3-year ARC-funded project on the causes & consequences of cognitive offloading in children. It's hosted at UoQ, & also involves collaborations with colleagues at Leeds (@amandawaterman.bsky.social), UCL, and Melbourne.
Heading to the 2025 Working Memory Discussion Meeting at beautiful Parcevall Hall today. Looking forward to three days of talks, chats, walks to the pub, and hopefully not too much rain.
June 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Heading to the 2025 Working Memory Discussion Meeting at beautiful Parcevall Hall today. Looking forward to three days of talks, chats, walks to the pub, and hopefully not too much rain.
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🚨 Calling all colleagues who work on #workingmemory and #aging 🚨 Do you have any unpublished data on age differences in WM? 👴 👵 🧠 🌨️ We're working on a BIG meta-analysis, and I'd love any and all data that are currently not "out there" for us to find! 🔬 🤓 Please repost for reach, thanks! 🔁 😁
June 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🚨 Calling all colleagues who work on #workingmemory and #aging 🚨 Do you have any unpublished data on age differences in WM? 👴 👵 🧠 🌨️ We're working on a BIG meta-analysis, and I'd love any and all data that are currently not "out there" for us to find! 🔬 🤓 Please repost for reach, thanks! 🔁 😁
New article now out in Epilepsy & Behavior!
Subjective and objective memory in a community-derived sample of people with epilepsy: Evidence from the Crimes and Four Doors tests
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Thanks again for support from @exppsychsoc.bsky.social and Epilepsy Action.
Subjective and objective memory in a community-derived sample of people with epilepsy: Evidence from the Crimes and Four Doors tests
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Thanks again for support from @exppsychsoc.bsky.social and Epilepsy Action.
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June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New article now out in Epilepsy & Behavior!
Subjective and objective memory in a community-derived sample of people with epilepsy: Evidence from the Crimes and Four Doors tests
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Thanks again for support from @exppsychsoc.bsky.social and Epilepsy Action.
Subjective and objective memory in a community-derived sample of people with epilepsy: Evidence from the Crimes and Four Doors tests
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Thanks again for support from @exppsychsoc.bsky.social and Epilepsy Action.
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🧠 Myself and the rest of the Beautiful Mind team for Pint of Science in Leeds hosted a brilliant first event last night, with great talks from @richjallen.bsky.social and @maddie-gilbert.bsky.social!
You can check out the other events we’re putting on here: pintofscience.co.uk/events/leeds #pint25
You can check out the other events we’re putting on here: pintofscience.co.uk/events/leeds #pint25
May 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🧠 Myself and the rest of the Beautiful Mind team for Pint of Science in Leeds hosted a brilliant first event last night, with great talks from @richjallen.bsky.social and @maddie-gilbert.bsky.social!
You can check out the other events we’re putting on here: pintofscience.co.uk/events/leeds #pint25
You can check out the other events we’re putting on here: pintofscience.co.uk/events/leeds #pint25
Doing this tonight! A whistle-stop tour through Nietzsche, Ebbinghaus, Epilepsy, deja vu, accelerated forgetting, and the Crimes Test, with Disney's Seven Dwarfs thrown in for good measure.
I'm doing Pint of Science on Monday in Leeds! Come along if you'd like to hear about memory and forgetting in epilepsy. Warning: will contain a memory test...
May 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Doing this tonight! A whistle-stop tour through Nietzsche, Ebbinghaus, Epilepsy, deja vu, accelerated forgetting, and the Crimes Test, with Disney's Seven Dwarfs thrown in for good measure.
I'm doing Pint of Science on Monday in Leeds! Come along if you'd like to hear about memory and forgetting in epilepsy. Warning: will contain a memory test...
May 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I'm doing Pint of Science on Monday in Leeds! Come along if you'd like to hear about memory and forgetting in epilepsy. Warning: will contain a memory test...
BNS Spring Meeting about to start. Looking forward to presenting our work on memory and forgetting in epilepsy.
April 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
BNS Spring Meeting about to start. Looking forward to presenting our work on memory and forgetting in epilepsy.
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** New paper with @richjallen.bsky.social, @mwarb.bsky.social and others (not on BlueSky) in Journal of Attention Disorders **
Here we demonstrate that the ability to direct attention in working memory is not impaired in adults with symptoms of ADHD:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Here we demonstrate that the ability to direct attention in working memory is not impaired in adults with symptoms of ADHD:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
April 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
** New paper with @richjallen.bsky.social, @mwarb.bsky.social and others (not on BlueSky) in Journal of Attention Disorders **
Here we demonstrate that the ability to direct attention in working memory is not impaired in adults with symptoms of ADHD:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Here we demonstrate that the ability to direct attention in working memory is not impaired in adults with symptoms of ADHD:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Great presentations over the last few days at #EPS from my colleagues/collaborators @lusuperbia.bsky.social @amyatkinson.bsky.social @louisenicholls.bsky.social & Daisy Roe
April 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Great presentations over the last few days at #EPS from my colleagues/collaborators @lusuperbia.bsky.social @amyatkinson.bsky.social @louisenicholls.bsky.social & Daisy Roe
Deep inside enemy territory
April 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Deep inside enemy territory
A sunny train ride through the north of England this morning, heading to #EPS in Lancaster. @exppsychsoc.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
A sunny train ride through the north of England this morning, heading to #EPS in Lancaster. @exppsychsoc.bsky.social
Cleaning out our very old and grubby car and found this… #retro #thosewhoknow
March 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Cleaning out our very old and grubby car and found this… #retro #thosewhoknow
New post-doc Research Associate position at University of Sheffield with @cvonbastian.bsky.social on our ESRC-funded project exploring cognition, ageing, and strategy use! Details here -> www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML040/r...
Research Associate at University of Sheffield
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March 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
New post-doc Research Associate position at University of Sheffield with @cvonbastian.bsky.social on our ESRC-funded project exploring cognition, ageing, and strategy use! Details here -> www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML040/r...
In one of my occasional music posts, I’ve again dipped back into enjoying how consistently brilliant REM were in the 80s. Look out for this post again in about a year’s time.
March 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
In one of my occasional music posts, I’ve again dipped back into enjoying how consistently brilliant REM were in the 80s. Look out for this post again in about a year’s time.
Really happy and somewhat dazed to be able to say that I've been promoted to Professor in Cognitive Psychology, at @universityofleeds.bsky.social!
Many thanks to all the people who have supported me through collaboration and friendship to this point. I'm looking forward to what comes next.
Many thanks to all the people who have supported me through collaboration and friendship to this point. I'm looking forward to what comes next.
February 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Really happy and somewhat dazed to be able to say that I've been promoted to Professor in Cognitive Psychology, at @universityofleeds.bsky.social!
Many thanks to all the people who have supported me through collaboration and friendship to this point. I'm looking forward to what comes next.
Many thanks to all the people who have supported me through collaboration and friendship to this point. I'm looking forward to what comes next.
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📣 We are recruiting a 1-yr neuroimaging postdoc @universityofleeds.bsky.social for our ESRC-funded project on strategies to support healthy cognitive ageing, working with Melanie Burke, @richjallen.bsky.social, @cvonbastian.bsky.social, Mario Parra Rodriguez, and me! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Cognitive Ageing and Brain Imaging
Are you looking for an exciting PostDoc position working in brain imaging and cognition? Do you have a PhD or near to completion using imaging methods? Are you interested in how strategies can improve...
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February 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
📣 We are recruiting a 1-yr neuroimaging postdoc @universityofleeds.bsky.social for our ESRC-funded project on strategies to support healthy cognitive ageing, working with Melanie Burke, @richjallen.bsky.social, @cvonbastian.bsky.social, Mario Parra Rodriguez, and me! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Subjective and objective memory in a community-derived sample of people with epilepsy: Evidence from the Crimes and Four Doors tests
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Subjective and objective memory in a community-derived sample of people with epilepsy: Evidence from the Crimes and Four Doors tests
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February 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Subjective and objective memory in a community-derived sample of people with epilepsy: Evidence from the Crimes and Four Doors tests
osf.io/fvz49/
osf.io/fvz49/