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Ah, great point - thanks! I hadn’t really thought of serial dependence or those contextual biases in this context. Will check those out and see how they map onto what we’re finding.

... delay-related changes in bias, I’m not convinced they actually increase (or decrease) - even though my initial intuition was that they should. We're finalizing that work now and can share it with you in the next couple of weeks - would be great to hear if you think we're missing something.

Thanks for sharing these. My understanding of Gi-Yeul's work is that these biases (also in colour) are most likely perceptual, and the analysis of the data in Fig. 3 supports that. To be fair, I had W-S’s law in mind when asking you about data, because after a non-trivial amount of looking for...

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!

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Divisive attenuation based on noisy sensorimotor predictions accounts for excess variability in self-touch | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society When one part of the body exerts force on another part, the resulting tactile sensation is perceived as weaker than when the same force is applied by an external agent. This phenomenon has been studie...

New work on sensory prediction resolves some long-standing puzzles about attenuation of self-touch journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

Really interesting! Just skimming the paper - it looks like they focus on changes in decision-consistent biases with delay, which is new to me. Is that also the case for estimation biases? If so, could you point me to work showing changes in estimation biases with delay (besides Panichello et al.)?

New published paper with Ham Huang and @actlab.bsky.social! @cognitionjournal.bsky.social
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ONE MORE DAY til the #WorkingMemory event of the year! 👇

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

The 2025 WomWoM research fairy award Welcome, fellow working memory researchers! It's time to decide who should be this year's research fairy. If you are not yet aware of the story about this award or would like a refresher, please che...

#workingmemory researchers! It's time to nominate all of our brilliant and wonderful female colleagues for the 2025 #WomWoM research fairy award! 🧚‍♀️🪄 Please share widely -- deadline 2nd August! bit.ly/2025womwomfa...

Excited to see our Centaur project out in @nature.com.
TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.

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

🚨 Calling all colleagues who work on #workingmemory and #aging 🚨 Do you have any unpublished data on age differences in WM? 👴 👵 🧠 🌨️ We're working on a BIG meta-analysis, and I'd love any and all data that are currently not "out there" for us to find! 🔬 🤓 Please repost for reach, thanks! 🔁 😁

I am recruiting a postgraduate research assistant to work in the Cambridge Memory Lab, administering cognitive tasks and helping with lab administration. Would suit someone who's just finished their degree and wants to gain research experience before further study. Please apply!

🚨PhD position alert!🚨
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
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Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

#VSS2025 Super excited to present my poster “Categorical Representations in Sequential Evidence Accumulation” on Tuesday May 20, 2:45pm-6:45pm at Pavilion 56.440!

Come say hi if you are curious about how we study categorical decision-making and evidence accumulation 🧠👀

Yes indeed- please do consider submitting a commentary proposal!

Welcome #VSS2025! For those attending the sunny, beaches, and science at this years Florida conference, make sure not to miss the awesome talks and posters from our lab!

I’m excited to announce that I’m recruiting for a fully-funded 3.5-year PhD position in my lab in Southampton (UK). For details and to apply, see here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...

The Brady Lab @timbrady.bsky.social will be at #VSS2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social this year! Here's a thread with some of the cool work we're coming to share:

Home This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations. About this meeting The Metacognitive Science Meeting grew out of an ...

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countdown to the Metacognitive Science meeting submission deadline on May 20th, last timezone on earth!

Amsterdam, Aug 11 2025
keynotes by @simonag.bsky.social and Ingmar Posner
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t minus 6 days to submit or register to attend ⏰

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I'm super excited that our new preprint titled "Intrinsic rewards guide visual resource allocation via reinforcement learning" with Rodrigo Raimundo and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is finally out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (276920) | University of Bergen Job title: LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (276920), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, May 11, 2025

I just learned that there is an open postdoc position for AI in Psychology with us. The deadline is in two days, but if you are interested and willing to write a quick proposal, let me know. Potential topics: comp. modeling of VWM/perception, brain decoding.
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How does this magic work? bsky.app/profile/did:... - like this is some great magic!

Dear WM ECRs across the globe, please consider joining the BEST ONLINE conference ever!

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Abstract submission is now open for WMS2025 (Deadline: May 31st)! Working memory ECRs, we look forward to receiving your submissions!!!
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Intrinsic rewards guide visual resource allocation via reinforcement learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.25.650663v1

If you're into reinforcement learning, attention and memory, or metacognition, we'd love for you to check it out. Always happy to chat or hear feedback!
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Our key finding is that a resource allocation mechanism based solely on the history of accumulated rewards is sufficient to explain differences in estimation performance based on intrinsic as well as external rewards.
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To explain these findings, we built a neural resource model, constrained by a reinforcement learning rule! It describes how intrinsic and extrinsic rewards jointly shape the value assigned to different stimuli, which biases how processing resources are allocated in future encounters.
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