Xinchi Yu

A pleasant surprise for our work 🙏. Grateful to my co-authors Sanikaa and Zane. (psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...)

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Happy Mid Autumn 中秋 to those who celebrate it! It usually falls in the middle of the semester, so I’m often away. This year I am having the privilege of doing it back home, with grapes 🍇, nanguoli (a local specialty pear; www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/9/...), rice-field crabs 🦀, and mooncakes 🥮.

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:

A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!

psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

YouTube video by ESI Frankfurt Dr. Marc Wittmann, Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST

My talk at the ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference (ESISyNC) 2025 on "Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST", Frankfurt, 9.9.2025, to be found here on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDq...

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

In addition to the 7 jobs in brain/language at University of South Carolina, we also have a philosophy job on issues related to AI
philjobs.org/job/show/29754

Careers at Drexel - Human Resources

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

This data collection started in COVID times, seems like eons ago. First paper is out ❤️ -- thank you
@bpitchford.bsky.social & Hélène Devillez for doing so much of the hard work. Free to read until November 2nd (or msg me): authors.elsevier.com/c/1lmUB6TBG5... #dyslexia #visionscience #neuroskyence

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Just had the new Shakshuka McMuffin today at McDonalds, and it was divine... 😋 Apparently this item is only available in McDonalds in China right now, but I sincerely hope it gets available everywhere...

Distinct neural processing underlying visual face and object perception in dyslexia Developmental dyslexia is a disorder marked by difficulties in reading, spelling, and connecting sounds to written language. The high-level visual dys…

Excited to share a new article from @icevislab.bsky.social! In a sample of over 60 people, we found distinct neural differences underlying object and face recognition in dyslexia. These findings highlight crucial domain-general visual processes that may contribute to word reading challenges.

Planning to be incremental: Scene descriptions reveal meaningful clustering in language production How do speakers plan complex descriptions and then execute those plans? In this work, we attempt to answer this question by asking subjects to describ…

New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC!

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Effects of TMS on the decoding, electrophysiology, and representational geometry of priority in working memory The flexible control of working memory (WM) requires prioritizing immediately task-relevant information while maintaining information with potential future relevance in a deprioritized state. Using do...

New work led by Jackie Fulvio that adds to growing evidence that dynamics in parietooccipital low-beta oscillations play an important role in the encoding of priority in visual working memory. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

@davidpoeppel.bsky.social receiving the well-deserved @snlmtg.bsky.social Distinguished Career Award

David has had a lasting and deep impact on the field and on his many successful trainees. David is also known for his enjoinders to engage positively with the world.

#SNL2025

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...

on my way to Porto for ICON, be very pleased to grab a cup of coffee with anyone interested in evidence accumulation model, self cognition, and OpenScience/metascience

Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure-dependent temporal dynamics - Communications Psychology Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a different order than they are ...

Excited to present this (now-published) project at the 11am poster session today. Poster C36 for the elevator version! #SNL2025

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study This study aims to compare the neural representational geometry of visual perception and visual working memory using human fMRI. In our pilot experiment, observers viewed a face-scene blended image (s...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study

Tomoya Nakamura's first fMRI project

... in which we hereby release a preprint as a way of pre-registration

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The Language of Thought Hypothesis

Our entry (with @ericman.bsky.social ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out.

doi.org/10.21428/e27...

How I wish I could be at SNL in DC! If you are there, please do check in on my University of Maryland folks (tons of fun stuff happening over there), and eat some soft-shell crabs 🦀️ on my behalf! xD linguistics.umd.edu/news/marylan...

👩‍💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

New preprint! 🚨We discuss the long-term memory consequences of fast visual perceptual learning: "From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective"

It's so great to work with @jvoeller.bsky.social and the team! Congrats for your first author manuscript, Johannah!

A huge thanks to all participants, my fellow workshop co-organizers @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @ruhibhanap.bsky.social, and #ESCOP2025 for hosting our workshop introducing cognitive measurement models with the #bmm R package (venpopov.github.io/bmm/) - it was such a rewarding experience!

Yes, this was a really great experience! Thanks for @cvonbastian.bsky.social and @vmloaiza1.bsky.social for asking us to do this as part of #ESCOP2025! And if you are interested in having a similar workshop for your PhD Programm or similar, feel free to reach out!

Intrinsic interval timing, not temporal prediction, underlies ramping dynamics in visual and parietal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.673960v1

If anyone is around for SNL down the block from me, I have a sandbox poster on Sunday! I present some very preliminary data examining cued sentence recall with MEG. If you care about sentence recall, MEG sentence production, or combining psycholing with memory tasks, stop by poster E19!

On our way to #SNL2025 as a big group, full NeLLab poster menu below, please come chat with our students and see you soon!!! @snlmtg.bsky.social

A neuronal correlate for time interval estimation in the crow’s telencephalon - Nature Communications It is unknown how birds estimate time using brains organized differently from mammals. Here, the authors show that neurons in the crow NCL encode duration categories, supporting abstract, cue-independ...

I'm delighted to share that, together with @crowbrain.bsky.social our paper on time estimation in crows is now published in @natcomms.nature.com

We found that crows not only keep track of time, but individual neurons prefer different time durations 🐦⏱️🧠

Check it out:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New study ✨!
⍺ regulates perceptual switches during binocular rivalry:
⍺↓ before dominant percepts, ↑ before mixed percepts + PO connectivity shifts from top-down to feedforward after perceptual alternations
Led by Janine Mendola @mcgill.ca, w/ E Mokri & @jasondasilvac.bsky.social

Coming to DC for SNL later this week?

Come check out our posters on speech decoding and verbal working memory using intracranial recordings!

@snlmtg.bsky.social
#SNL2025