Şahcan Özdemir

Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.

Sustained alpha oscillations serve attentional prioritization in working memory, not maintenance Recent theory on the neural basis of working memory (WM) has attributed an important role to "activity-silent" mechanisms, suggesting that sustained neural activity might not be essential in the reten...

New preprint!

Working memory contents can be decoded from alpha band power. But does working memory maintenance really depend on these oscillations?

We say no, because we found that alpha power decoding only works for prioritized items, not deprioritized ones. 1/3

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

CDS’ Grace Lindsay Launches YouTube Channel on “AI for the Planet” Grace Lindsay’s new YouTube series turns climate-AI research into five-minute videos for a wide audience.

CDS Asst. Prof. @neurograce.bsky.social has launched a YouTube channel, “5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet,” translating climate-AI research into short video explainers, inspired by her course at CDS, “Machine Learning for Climate Change.”

nyudatascience.medium.com/cds-grace-li...

The final part of my PhD work is now published in JEP:LMC 🤩 Special thanks to my wonderful PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🤗 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Microsaccades strongly modulate but do not directly cause the EEG N2pc marker of spatial attention Researchers often study human attention using microsaccades and the N2pc EEG marker, but it is unclear to what extent microsaccades contribute to N2pc. This study shows that microsaccades modulate N2p...

The human-neuroscience N2pc marker of covert and internal attention co-occurs with spatial biases in microsaccades, 200-300 ms after prompted to shift attention. (How) are these empirical phenomena related? Check it out in the latest work led by @baiweiliu.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

I set out to write the book that I would want to read. The result is Een Wereld vol Denkers (A World of Thinkers) Here’s how and why the book came to be! 🤩✍️ cogsci.nl/blog/my-expe... #booksky #popularscience #psychology #ai #eenwereldvoldenkers @theodanes.bsky.social @uitgeverijbalans.bsky.social

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.

The IfaDo sessions have become really a community staple and I am very glad to be able to chip in.

On the 23rd of September we will welcome @tbchristophel.bsky.social for our IfADo colloquium at 16:00 (CET). The event is hybrid and open online. You can reach me out for Zoom invitation, or use the following link to sign up for both the link and our email list.
www.ifado.de/en/press/eve...

On the 23rd of September we will welcome @tbchristophel.bsky.social for our IfADo colloquium at 16:00 (CET). The event is hybrid and open online. You can reach me out for Zoom invitation, or use the following link to sign up for both the link and our email list.
www.ifado.de/en/press/eve...

🚨 This is TODAY!

📍Auditorium

⏰ 13:45

#ICON2025 #CogNeuro #AcademicSky #MetaScience

1/4 I’m really excited to share that my first PhD manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience 🎉! Until it becomes available, don’t forget to check out our updated preprint (with some additional insights) #JNeurosci

4/4 Thanks to our reviewers, the accepted manuscript now includes a more comprehensive discussion and additional insights.

This has been a very exciting journey, and I’m truly grateful for the support of my PI, Daniel Schneider, and our collaborator, @erengunseli.bsky.social, on this project!

3/4 Our new analyses reveal that this facilitates a bias in WM toward interference (rather than a swap of the target with the interference). And when this happens, we observe a control mechanism at work, evident in frontal theta activity, that mitigates further disruption of WM from this process.

2/4 Our main results provide novel evidence for selective WM gating that depends on motor control. We show that when the main task and the interfering task share motor components, visual WM interacts more strongly with distracting perceptual information.

1/4 I’m really excited to share that my first PhD manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience 🎉! Until it becomes available, don’t forget to check out our updated preprint (with some additional insights) #JNeurosci

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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Excited to share that the last paper of my PhD is out in Communications Psychology! This project has been a long journey, with the tremendous challenge of collecting EEG data from 86 participants. That’s why it feels soo rewarding to see it published. Grateful for every step along the way! 1/n

Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) with a consumer monitor: A proof-of-concept Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) enables neural frequency tagging at rates above the flicker fusion threshold, eliciting steady-state responses to flicker that is almost imperceptible. While R...

🚨 New preprint: Invisible neural frequency tagging (RIFT) for the underfunded researcher:
👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.

Attending #ECVP next week? Please seek me out if you're potentially interested in a postdoc:
Thursday – 08-28-2025 - 08:30 am
Out of sight, but not out of mind: How the human brain represents images that are not directly seen
Chair, Rosanne Rademaker

Hi everyone, I have recently joint the @uni-magdeburg.de and the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology #teamLIN.

The LIN is hosting the XV #learning & #memory Conference (28.09-02.10). Looking at #memory &
😴 sleep
🧠 #hippocampus
👂 auditory #learning
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Information & Registration: lnkd.in/d-Q6J8JV

New preprint alert! 🤩 Together with Klaus Oberauer, I wrote a review article on how focused attention in #workingmemory affects long-term memory formation. osf.io/preprints/os...

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Position (80%) at the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich. The ideal start date would be January 1st, 2026 but could be somewhat earlier or later. The position is for initially 3 years, with possible renewal for another 1.5 years. The successful applicant will work with the head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Prof. Dr. Klaus Oberauer, and the Cognitive Psychology team. The post involves research and teaching (one course per semester). Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental, individual-differences and aging studies and computational modeling. For further information see: https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec/allgpsy.html We offer: - An attractive research environment with close collaboration within the team - Excellent lab infrastructure - Salary according to Cantonal regulations We expect: - a PhD in psychology or a related discipline - experience with experimental research - excellent method knowledge and skills - very good command of English - interest in pursuing an academic career in cognitive psychology In addition, it would be desirable if you had: - experience with publishing in international journals - programming skills - experience with mathematical / computational modeling Please send applications including your CV and motivation letter no later than September 10, 2025 electronically as a single PDF to: Michaela Oestmann, michaela.oestmann@psychologie.uzh.ch For questions about the position please contact Klaus Oberauer, k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

Now out in JEP:G! We (@fridaprintzlau.bsky.social & @keisukefukuda.bsky.social ) resolve inconsistent attentional protection in WM by addressing discrepancies in cueing. Upshot: Attention changes how perception biases memory, but *not* how memory biases perception!

doi.org/10.1037/xge0...

🚨PhD student position in #cognitive_psychology and #neuroscience, on a project directed by André Knops and in collaboration with the Dugué Lab!

@upcite.bsky.social | @cnrs.fr

Funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social (Agence nationale de la recherche)

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Sensory and motor contents are prioritized dynamically in working memory Attention flexibly modulates sensory contents in working memory, but the dynamics of motor content modulation in working memory remain unclear. This study shows that brain representations of both sens...

Looking for a summer read? Look no further! ☀️

Our most recent paper with Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social and @kianobre.bsky.social is out @plosbiology.org! 🪩

Sensory and motor working-memory contents are both prioritised dynamically, but their prioritisation can be temporally decoupled 🧠

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

Only a small % of people engage in toxic activity online, but they’re responsible for a disproportionate share of hostile or misleading content on nearly every platform

Because super-users are so active, they dominate our collective impression of the internet www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Interested in working memory, EEG, and computational modeling? @elkanakyurek.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting project in lovely @rug.nl #Groningen in The Netherlands 👉 www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... 👈 @rug-gmw.bsky.social

PhD position — Rademaker lab

Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add

Postdoc position open in our #workingmemory lab! See here for more info: www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...