Tim Ricker

If you are teaching any kind of statistics, probability or modeling classes, you'll love this website. Contains dozens of interactive simulations of random processes, with sliders, different visualizat options, and full numeric log ouput: www.randomservices.org/random/apps/...

WorkingMemoryDiscussionMeeting Working Memory Discussion Meeting 2026 Wednesday 1st of July to Friday 3rd of July Parcevall Hall, Skipton, North Yorkshire. For all information about this meeting, use the menu at the top of the page...

Bookings for the 2026 Working Memory Discussion Meeting at Parcevall Hall are now open! 1st-3rd July, 2026.

All information here ->
sites.google.com/site/working...

Check out our new preprint, which presents object-based retrieval processes in multisensory working memory. Here we show that unimodal feature probes incidentally reactivate untested tones and orientations of audiovisual objects. +

poor bee GOLD_07, whose embarrassing mistake has been immortalised in a way beyond his comprehension

Long-term effects of working memory retrieval from prioritized and deprioritized states - Communications Psychology Testing items in working memory improves long-term memory, especially for deprioritized items. This benefit shows when WM retrieval requires continuous recall, suggesting self-generated reports streng...

Briefly not attending something may help you remember it later 🪄: new paper led by phenomenal PhD student Frieda Born (not on Bsky) out now in Comms Psychology:

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

This work👇 is now published in PB&R 🥳🎉 #workingmemory link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Image of the visual foraging task where a participant "collects" items on a tablet PC using a stylus. The screen content (blue berries) is AI generated.

🧠 #Psych & #CogNeuro people — #attention!

Hiring a Research Associate (WissMA) in #Cologne to study #SelectiveAttention in action-related contexts (e.g., #VisualForaging)! PhD opportunity! Some teaching in German ...

karriere.crf-education.com/job/wissensc...

Please forward, repost!

Recent work has shown how vulnerable online survey research is to LLMs. Motivated by this, we examined our online Posner cueing data from Prolific. It's concerning. We now must carefully consider when (or whether?) online behavioral data can be trusted.
see our comment:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Postdoctoral researcher (80%) in Cognitive Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

The successful applicant will work with the head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Klaus Oberauer, and the Cognitive Psychology team.
Application deadline: 20 March 2026

NIH scraps policy that classified basic research in people as clinical trials The policy aimed to increase the transparency of research in humans but created “a bureaucratic nightmare” for basic neuroscientists.

Although the reporting requirements are over for basic experimental studies in humans, the principle of making research plans and results public and accessible is “a good one that we should all continue to work on,” Jeremy Wolfe says.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred.
Apply here:

jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/po...

Lab website: wessellab.org

New preprint with @SamJung @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/

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Join us 7-15 Feb for Python for Computational Science Week!

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➡️ Take the pledge: airtable.com/appIQSZMZ0Jx...

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The decline effect (Protzko & Schooler, 2017) is an observed phenomenon where effect sizes in experiments apparently diminish in size from the first paper demonstrating the effect to later replications. This has been taken as a symptom of an unhealthy scientific ecosystem, possibly caused by the "winner's curse" (selection on significance and regression to the mean), publication bias or opportunistic analyses. I show that decline effects can arise as an artifact from a much simpler source: the original article determining the sign of the effect in a meta-analysis. Moreover, such artifactual decline effects will show correlations with some of the same experimental properties that one would expect from biases from poor behavior, such as the sample size of the original study.

New draft: "Decline effects, statistical artifacts, and a meta-analytic paradox". In this manuscript I show how a common practice in meta-analysis (eg the 2015 Open Science Collaboration) creates artifactual signatures of poor scientific behavior. PDF: raw.githubusercontent.com/richarddmore... 1/x

🚨New paper altert🚨

As a synthesis of my PhD research, we revisited the prevailing assumption about the mechanisms underlying repetition learning, and re-evaluated these assumption in light of recent findings.

Now out in Perspectives on Psychological Science:
doi.org/10.1177/1745...

This was such a joy!!! In this work, the brilliant @fridaprintzlau.bsky.social demonstrates the core features of VWM representations, namely its dynamicity and flexibility. TLDR: VWM dynamically shifts its representational geometry during maintenance depending on its task demand! What an ART!

"Repetitions lead to better memory." Sure - but how? Our new paper led by former lab member @philippmusfeld.bsky.social shines new light on this question, and challenges some longstanding assumptions. Now published in Perspectives on Psychological Science.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🎉 My first first-author paper was just accepted in JEP:HPP! We asked what “active” vs “passive” WM states do - do they protect against interference? Across 4 behavioural experiments we find no reliable protection. Updated preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.05.578913 @elkanakyurek.bsky.social

Are you interested in adding Bayesian analyses to your next project so you can finally start interpreting your null results? Then join us tomorrow where Dr. Johnny van Doorn from @jaspstats.bsky.social will give a workshop how easy Bayesian stats can be using JASP! Sign up below!

Ignorance is bliss: Exploring the dual role of knowledge in event segmentation - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Episodic memories are segmented. This study explores the dual role of prior knowledge in event segmentation, hypothesizing that knowledge leads to coarser segmentation when experiences align with it, ...

How does prior knowledge affect the way we experience the world?

In our new paper, we show that prior knowledge can both increase and decrease how often experience is segmented into events.

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

🎉 New preprint 🎉 with Olya Bulatova, @drmack.bsky.social & @keisukefukuda.bsky.social! We decode shapes in working memory from EEG and show that representations are task-dependent, flexibly integrating information about category and task during the memory delay

It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:

In defense of thinking Writing to retain the practice of thought

I do my most considered thinking when I am writing. In an effort to think more, I've started a blog to write on whatever has my attention. It's a reminder to myself to keep thinking and discovering; maybe it will serve the same purpose for others to preserve their desire and time to think.

We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe!

Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you!

massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...

Our paper is now available online! Check out the Kudos summary here:
link.growkudos.com/1ed9uhpo8w0

Research Specialist The Attention, Distractions, and Memory (ADAM) Lab at Rice University is recruiting a full-time Research Specialist (Research Specialist I). The ADAM Lab (PI: Kirsten Adam) conducts cognitive neurosci...

The ADAM lab is hiring a Research Specialist to join us! This role involves conducting human subjects research (EEG experiments on attention + working memory) and assisting with the execution and administration of ongoing projects.

Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

OpenWMData A collection of publicly available working memory datasets

Make it your New Year resolution to add a #workingmemory dataset to OpenWMData so that we can curate our field's precious data, start testing theories and benchmarking models across datasets, conduct secondary analyses and meta-research using the data itself, and help me feel like I'm, like, alive.

Photo of Daniel J. Simons with the One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar Series logo against a light blue background with a white globe. 

Registration is now open for the upcoming One World Seminar, "Inattentional blindness in and out of the lab," presented by Daniel J. Simons on February 26: buff.ly/Oz2S1Hk

New preprint alert! 📢 Event segmentation allows us to parse continuous experience into meaningful events. Working memory (WM) is suggested to play a key role in this process, but how?

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Happy to share a new chapter of my academic journey: as a DAAD PRIME fellow, I’ve recently joined the @dondersinst.bsky.social 🧠

Grateful for this opportunity & looking forward to what’s ahead! Get in touch if you’d like to connect!

#CognitiveNeuroscience #AcademicLife #WomenInScience