Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab

How to change research culture with participatory workshops Nature Human Behaviour - Changing research culture begins with the kind of engaged, collaborative, critical reflection that can spark collective action. This Comment outlines how to design...

We wrote a short piece on conducting participatory workshops to change research culture, given our experiences in teaching workshops on climate activism & open scholarship.

With @anne-urai.bsky.social @clarekelly.bsky.social @annaveer.bsky.social

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🧪 #AcademicSky

Highly, highly recommended for persons interested in Bayesian methods and for persons not interested in Bayesian methods who should be.

🎄 Ho-Ho-Holiday Alert! 🎄
Wishing you happy holidays & happy new year!

A shout-out to all our collaborators, students, & colleagues for an inspiring year 2025. Grateful to be part of such a supportive & curious research community!🤓

Here’s to exciting new ideas, discoveries, & exchanges in 2026! 🥂🎊

🗣️👄Thank you Bryan Sanders (from the Neuro-psycho-linguistic research group in Geneva) for presenting your interesting PhD work on speech modulation!👄🗣️
He performed EEG analyses (e.g.,microstates) to compare neural timecourses of speech preparation for loud, whispered, regular,& fake accent speech.🧠

In our recent lab meeting, our PhD candidate Ruiheng presented her research on how free time might boost working memory, testing an action-offloading account⏰ we enjoyed discussing the first results and can’t wait to see how this project continues!✨

This semester, we were delighted to have @koberauer.bsky.social visit our lab for a few days. He gave a thought-provoking talk on his computational model of working memory ⚙️🧠

We greatly enjoyed the presentation and the engaging discussions that followed, and we hope to welcome him back again soon!

Are item &order memory separate or intertwined? Thanks @johannahein.bsky.social for positioning this dilemma for us in lab meeting, along with early findings from tasks with reduced item- or order load. We can see why you’re torn between the 2 positions &hope your research can help sort things out!

Join us next week for Reproducibility Day! 🌟 The morning session is open to all (no registration needed) and we are still accepting registrations for those who want to attend the Quarto afternoon workshop remotely (in-person spots are filled). Check out the flyer or contact us for more details! 🚀

In our recent lab meetings, Meghana presented her EEG internship experience, @luchris.bsky.social shared learnings from a project management workshop, &Antoine outlined his upcoming project &first pilot data on mechanisms of rapid forgetting (attribute amnesia).

Thanks for sharing your insights!🧑‍🏫🤓

💭⏱️🏁🏎️ In this week's lab meeting, our PhD candidate Mathieu (@tsouniz.bsky.social) shared his upcoming project plan to study the effect of free time on working memory: "Slow down the pace to win the recall race!"
Thank you for your presentation; we’ll be eagerly tracking the run of the project! 💭⏱️🏁🏎️

We had a great time at #ESCOP2025 last week! 🤩
All lab members had the chance to present their work and engage in inspiring conversations. Many thanks to the organizers for such a well-run and engaging conference!🥳

Come work with us on #workingmemory !🦩🧠

Thank you @annemscheel.bsky.social for visiting us in Geneva, we were delighted to get to know & exchange with you!💬

Your insightful meta-science talk put the underlying structure of research (the different processes of scientific discovery, testing, & inference) into perspective - so helpful! ⚙️🤓

This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Benjamin Kowialiewski in our lab!🤩 He gave a very insightful talk on his work on the free time benefit, sparking some great discussions around the topic ⏰🧠

🔐⚛️💬🧠 Join us for a talk by Anne Scheel (open science/metascience researcher: www.uu.nl/staff/AMSche...

It will be next Thursday, May 22nd at 12h15 – 13h45 (Salle Uni-Mail 1130) on "Detecting and explaining psychological phenomena" using exploratory vs. confirmatory research. Everyone is welcome!

Great atmosphere at the Open Science day of the KU Leuven when Evie Vergauwe @evievergauwe.bsky.social member of our steering committee, gave a keynote titled "Open Science needs more than enthusiasm".
Photo: Aziza Menouni
#openscience #swissrn #reproducibility

We’ve submitted our official statement on Switzerland’s 2027 austerity package. Why? Because cutting education and research means cutting our future. SwissRN stands for rigorous, transparent and reproducible science - this needs stable funding, not short-term savings.
www.swissrn.org/contents/new...

Congratulations to our master student Meghana for her great poster presentation at the Neuroscience Master Day at Campus Biotech! She presented her project plan to use EEG to decode working memory content. 🧠💭

Item vs order: a battle for attention? @johannahein.bsky.social shared her research on how attention supports the maintenance of what’s remembered & in what sequence. We’re looking forward to the next series of results! And yes, we’ll be keeping everything in order for the line-up of lab updates 🧠📋

⏳⏰🧠 Tic-toc, it’s research o’clock! In today’s lab meeting, our teammate Ruiheng Zhang shared her latest work on how free time affects working memory. With some early results already on the table, it seems future insights are just a matter of time… we’ll definitely be sticking around for seconds!🧠⏰⏳

Here’s a link to his most recent paper on this research: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Congratulations to Kishen Senziani, master student and research assistant in the lab, who very successfully defended his thesis yesterday 🎉🥳🙌
He examined the role of gamma oscillations in improving learning in children and young adults

Happy to share that this work is now (finally) published in JEP:HPP 🕺 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

In this week’s lab meeting, @nlangerock.bsky.social presented her insightful research on the proactive maintenance of working memory representation in children and adults 🚀

‼️And another one, examining strategic prioritization in #workingmemory

🚨New preprint out by @carohautekiet.bsky.social @evievergauwe.bsky.social
@as-souza.bsky.social 🚨

We were pleased to have Martin Constant (postdoc in the Visual Cognition Lab @Unige) as a guest speaker in our lab meeting, presenting research on how visual WM performance is influenced by relative &absolute salience depending on task design. Thank you for the interesting presentation &discussion!

In this week’s lab meeting, our lab member Christina Lutz @luchris.bsky.social presented her work on differences in conditional reasoning between adults and children, across different test modalities. We had great discussions and are already looking forward to hearing more about her results soon🤩

We are looking forward to this semesters’ program! 🤩
Starting off *this Friday* already, with a fun Game on Open Access by de Andrade and colleagues (2021, University of Antwerp)

See you there!🚀

This week, we had the pleasure of having Alexandre Fortuna present his work in our lab meeting!😊
Alexandre is a PhD student at the University of Geneva, examining the effect of retro cue validity on memory resource allocation and attentional template efficiency.