Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab

💭⏱️🏁🏎️ 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.

Reminder: #LoveDataWeek25 starts Feb 10! Explore events or register yours at https://buff.ly/4aEq2lh.

Get a head start with "Love Data: Persistent Identifiers - the ORCID Advantage" hosted by Rochester University on Feb 5. Register at: https://buff.ly/40F6icW.

Writing about technical topics in an accessible manner A wise man – I’m quite sure it was Brian Wansink – once pointed out that it is impossible to both read and write a lot. So, maybe reading a post about how to write just steals time from the more urgen...

Useful article on writing by the author Julia Rohrer: www.the100.ci/2024/12/01/w...

GitHub - marcelbinz/Psych-201 Contribute to marcelbinz/Psych-201 development by creating an account on GitHub.

We are currently building the largest, cross-domain data set of human behavior as part of an open collaborative project. Contributions of any form are welcome, but especially experiments with meta-data from developmental, cross-cultural, or clinical studies.

More details: github.com/marcelbinz/P...

Ever wondered why only some memories 🧠 come easily? Our latest work (osf.io/preprints/ps...) led by S. Haridi, with @ericschulz.bsky.social, shows that targeted memory retrieval speeds up with precise semantic and temporal retrieval cues. Hence, crafting cues can give you instant access to memories⚡

An Inception-Cohort Study Quantifying How Many Registered Studies Are Publicly Shared - Eline N. F. Ensinck, Daniël Lakens, 2025 We quantified how many studies registered on the OSF up to November 2017 are performed but not shared after at least 4 years. Examining a sample of 169 register...

We love to share new papers on here. But how many of the studies that scientists preregister on the Open Science Framework are never shared publicly? In a new paper in AMPPS we estimate 40% of preregistered studies are never shared. That’s a lot. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Happy start of the Chinese New Year 2025! As we slither into the Zodiac Year of the Snake, let's shed old habits and embrace fresh ideas and discoveries. Here's to unraveling the mysteries of working memory, as if charmers of the brain 🐍✨🧠. Cheers to a year of breakthroughs!

Congratulations to Hiroyasu Mishima for successfully defending his master thesis!🎉 As part of the Master of Neuroscience program, he worked on decoding the content of working memory using EEG and MVPA🧠✨

This week, we celebrated the end of the year with a potluck dinner, a personalized Christmas song, and a fun quiz! Spreading the joy and warmth as we wrap up 2024! 🎉

🎄 A cheerful and heartfelt Merry Christmas from the Womcogdev Lab! 🌟 Here's to a joyful holiday season, and may our working memory stay sharp for all the wonders ahead in 2025! 🧠✨