Brain and Cognition Lab

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/...

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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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We are very proud of Sage! So well deserved! 🥳

📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers!

WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...

Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525

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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...

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.

📣 Out in TINS (@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social):

Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.

POSTDOC Opening: I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me, @ayeletlandau.bsky.social, and Yuval Benjamini on a 4-year NSF funded project to understand timing and memorability in the visual system. fMRI, EEG, eye-tracking all included.

If interested, please DM or email me for more information!

Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
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📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?

Two calls are open:

Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review

🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities

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New paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’!
Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves!
Demos in thread👇
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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.

Thinking of running VR studies remotely but not sure where to start? 🧩 In this tutorial, Levi, Kia, Dejan & lab alumni give an overview on how to collect VR data from remote participants using Unity and Steam.🎮 Make sure to check out their work: osf.io/preprints/os... n/n

🚀 The B&C Lab has been on a roll lately, so we’re excited to start sharing what we’ve been up to! First up: our brand-new preprint tutorial “Running Virtual Reality Experiments Online: A Brief Introduction and Tutorial” by @levikumle.bsky.social, Kia, Dejan, and lab alumni. 1/n

Attention was paid and memories were made at the wonderful lab retreat in Oxford this week with @brognition.bsky.social and @dynacog-lab.bsky.social - serious punting, tasty BBQs, great conversations, and even better company 😀🧠

Started a new postdoc at Yale in @brognition.bsky.social Lab with Kia Nobre! Studying adaptive cognition in humans using brain recordings—both on and in the head. New lab, new city, new chapter!

Neural Dynamics of Reselecting Visual and Motor Contents in Working Memory after External Interference In everyday tasks, we must often shift our focus away from internal representations held in working memory to engage with perceptual events in the external world. Here, we investigated how our interna...

📢 New paper out in JoN [@sfnjournals.bsky.social]! With Larissa, Freek [@freekvanede.bsky.social], Kia [@brognition.bsky.social] and Sage [@dynacog-lab.bsky.social], we ask which and when WM contents get reselected after an interrupting external-attention task. 🧵 below (1|9) doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Excited to see this latest paper from my PhD out! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed!

Thanks to EPS and everyone who stopped by the poster!