Brain and Cognition Lab

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We are excited to announce that we will host WMS2026!
The tentative dates are July 14th-17th, and we are currently looking for a postdoc to join the WMS2026 organizer team.
If you are interested, please submit your application using the link below (Deadline: March 29th)

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Check out the newest preprint on the interaction of attention and long-term memory spearheaded by @sabomelinda.bsky.social, @william-nm.bsky.social, Kia, and lab almumni: Nahid and Nora.

⏱️ Strikingly, this difference was specific to periods of uncertainty about which action was required and when - precisely when temporal structuring demands were greatest - and disappeared once action identity and timing became predictable. n/n

👐 We found that lateralised sensorimotor mu/beta (8-30 Hz) activity modulation related to hand action prioritisation differed between the groups. 4/n

🧠 To address this question, we recorded magnetoencephalography (MEG) in a group of people who stutter and a group of typically fluent speakers while they performed a visuomotor working-memory task which encourages dynamic selection and shifts between hand actions. 3/n

🗣️ Stuttering is related to differences in the temporal structuring of speech, but do these differences generalise to the temporal structuring of other actions? 2/n

❗ New preprint from the Brain and Cognition lab spearheaded by @irenetxeberria.bsky.social, Sage Boettcher, Kia Nobre and crafted together with friends from the Brain, Speech, and Language lab,
@birtandemirel.bsky.social and @kateewatkins.bsky.social 🫂
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

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:

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Lab website: wessellab.org

Neuroscientist @clionamurray.com knows the power of community. Murray explains how @blackinneuro.bsky.social expanded from its humble beginnings as a Slack channel to connect Black neuroscientists across the diaspora.

By @alainaglevine.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻

Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems.

See below for + details and retweet 🙏

We are hiring! We are looking for a postdoc to join our group.

Join us to study how the human brain processes and recognizes music with iEEG recordings.

Please share and apply!

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🎉 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

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...

Happy New Year folks!! Start the year off with a submission into Black In Neuro’s first ever special issue. 18 days until the deadline, keep an eye out for the release 📝 ✨
@binmanhattan.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

We celebrate our interdisciplinary research community!

Look back + learn more about the humans, science + technologies advancing our understanding of cognition in the Wu Tsai Institute’s Year in Review: wti.yale.edu/year-in-review

#KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale

WTI is hiring a Research Software Engineer.

Join our interdisciplinary community at Yale to collaborate with researchers on brain + behavioral data. Learn more at the link below + share this opportunity with your network!

🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities

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Putting the 'Spotlight' on a recent article by @fannycazettes.bsky.social et al. by discussing how “brain leakage” can expose cognitive computations in bodily movements – in turn opening new ways to track cognition. Now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mDCZ4sIRv...

Calling Yale undergrads from all majors + research experience levels! Applications are now open for WTI's Undergraduate Fellowships, supporting full-time summer research.

🔗 wti.yale.edu/initiatives/undergraduate
🗓️ Info Session | 12.8.25 | 1p | 100 College Rm 1167

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OpenWMData A collection of publicly available working memory datasets

Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!

Worth checking out this paper showing how we can use temporal expectations to shift between different search templates 🔎

Or, technically: We used daily sampling of mood and cognitive measures in a large group of volunteers with high x low mood instability and showed impaired contextual cueing across days but not within days for high mood-instability participants. n/n

✨New paper alert ✨

Our newest publication shows that mood instability also impacts how we integrate experience to guide attention.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/n

Make sure to check out the new preprint on the topic of working memory-long-term memory interaction led by our postdoc, @sabomelinda.bsky.social

Also, be sure to visit Yale's Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program at the #SfN25 Grad School Fair.

Find INP at booth #42 from 1:00 - 3:00 pm on Saturday + 12:00 - 2:00 pm, Sunday through Tuesday: s19.a2zinc.net/clients/sfn/...

#KnowTogether #NeuroscienceAtYale @yaleneuro.bsky.social

WTI is heading to #SfN25! Connect with us at #Booth3724 to chat with Yale scientists about the interdisciplinary research opportunities at the Institute + grab some swag!

🌴 November 15-18 | San Diego, CA
🤝🏽 Find us here Sunday - Tuesday: s19.a2zinc.net/clients/sfn/...

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WTI Inspiring Speaker: Kang Shen, "Understanding neuronal cell biology: From development to diseases"

THURSDAY 11.12 | 10:00a
🔗 wti.yale.edu/event/2025-1...

Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.

Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search Internal and external selection processes can codevelop in time to yield efficient search behavior.

Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

November 10 is the application deadline for WTI's Postdoc Fellowships. Apply today + join our mission to understand human cognition!

Learn more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/postdoctoral
Explore mentors: wti.yale.edu/humans/faculty
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174525

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