the human hippocampus receives convergent input from multiple sensory systems, yet we lack a basic understanding of how this structure integrates across senses. we tackle this problem in our new preprint! paper: doi.org/10.64898/202... w/ Aryan Agarwal, @yannanzhu.bsky.social, & Nick Turk-Browne

Nowadays I really would prefer harsh reviews such that the paper can be rejected right way, so that it will not fall into a limbo with a friendly name "major revision".

Excited to share our paper (with @jzacks.bsky.social), now out in JEP:LMC! Event boundaries sometimes disrupt temporal order memory in list-based paradigms—but what happens in narratives with more complex structures that better resemble real life? ✨ Link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

🚨New preprint A recent model proposes that morphological processing is constrained by edge-alignment—only stems and affixes at word edges are subject to decomposition and subsequent activation. We investigate whether edge-alignment is a universal constraint that affects affix activation. Thread ⬇️

Came across this interesting Perspective piece from Nai Ding on the neuroscience of calligraphy appreciation: Ding, N. (2025). Triangular Network Model for the Neural Basis of Calligraphy. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

🚨Preprint! “Bayesian surprise tracks the strength of perceptual insight” - Work with @lindedomingo.bsky.social & @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social Ever wondered what factors influence the subjective experience of suddenly understanding a previously unclear input? Click below: doi.org/10.64898/202...

🔥 New preprint! Excited to share Johannah's fantastic work -> a preregistered study with two replications showing how uncertainty shapes perceptual insight. As always, it’s been a great ride working with Johannah and Carlos.

I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠

Episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz

Join our lab in Geneva, as a postdoc working on #workingmemory, with both Jarrod Lewis-Peacock and myself !

We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨ 🔗 bit.ly/wm2axes

So I happened to be pulling out my high school biology textbook, and apparently it said, "short-term memory is primarily related to the activities and connections among neurons, in particular to a subcortical region that looks like seahorses".

1/6 Happy to share our new paper with @grassocamille.bsky.social and @virginievanw.bsky.social: "Nested contextual change and the temporal compression of episodic memory". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How hierarchical structures affect the when (what, where) of event memory? Hint: temporal compression 👇 A first virtual reality study by @matthewrlogie.bsky.social as part of experience-project.eu

Our department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor!! This is a joint-appointed position with Computational Social Sciences (css.ucsd.edu). It's 75+ degrees F and sunny today, just thought I'd mention apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04461

If you are a visual #workingmemory researcher that has a dataset from a delayed recall task with continuous report (the ones using a circular response wheel) and want to share it, please drop a reply. Would love a link to both paper and dataset! See: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData

Been tinkering with schemas for sharing language data over ATProto (the technology that underlies bluesky). Trying to support everything from acceptability and inference judgments to interlinear glossing to syntactic parses to eye and neural recordings. Discussion and comments appreciated. 🐦️🐦️

Excited to share new work on how the brain makes social inferences from visual input! 🧠👯‍♂️ (With @lisik.bsky.social , @shariliu.bsky.social, @tianminshu.bsky.social , and Minjae Kim!) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx... @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlbanbury.bsky.social

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom www.nature.com/articles/s41... - new paper with Clinton Haarlem, Cliodhna Hynes and colleagues Different species see the world as fast as they need to...

10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments. More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Please share!

📢 New paper in Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with my co-authors: Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social, Chris Jungerius @cjungerius.bsky.social, and Heleen A. Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social. Grateful to have collaborated with you on this work: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... [1/5]

first empirical paper from the Aulet lab! What does learning to count do to a brain? We trained neural networks on different tasks and only counting (i.e., predicting the number of dots in a dot array) reorganized representations around number. New preprint:

So @reubenrideaux.bsky.social and I decided to run an image-processing workshop at this year's EPC/APCV. We will be teaching people how to compute the contrast energy of kiwi fruit, I guess. Sign up now: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/ @expsyanz.bsky.social

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) forms.gle/noqsuEja2tB8...

A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social: The Deliberation Taboo Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/ osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our new preprint is out on bioRxiv! @doellerlab.bsky.social We show that eye-movement sequences actively organize information by aligning with underlying structure and flexibly adapting to cognitive demands in working memory. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper with @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in JoCN! "Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects" doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...

Perhaps this is one of the last real-deal Hong Kong-style kung-fu movies as the key people (incl. the director, Yuen Woo Ping) are getting too old and kung-fu is not trendy any more. Do check it out especially if you like action scenes; they are non-stop! www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blades_of_...

New preprint 🚨 Across multiple tasks, we show that higher-level info is more readily accessible in WM before evidence accumulation begins. Attention then boosts perceptual detail. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A lot of fun with my colleagues @ckerren.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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...

Our paper is now out at JNeuro! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... How do we avoid attentional capture by salient stimuli? We found that inversions of singleton distractor representations support attentional suppression of salient items.

Our new preprint is now on bioRxiv: doi.org/10.64898/202... There’s been a long-standing conflict about the role of angular gyrus in semantic processing: Why is it more active for concrete than abstract semantics? Does it play any role in abstract concepts despite its less activation?(part 1 of 3)

bsky.app/profile/did:... another custom bluesky feed using regular expressions, this time for jobs in the realm of neuroscience 🙃 matches: (brain|psycho|neur|cogni|physio) and (postdoc|phd|coordinator|professor|fellow|researcher) and some keywords like job/opportunity/hiring/...

Happy New Year if it’s new year for you! 过年好！🧨

Job: Managing editor at @universitypress.cambridge.org The managing editor will work remotely as a freelance worker. See the full job description here: www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philjobs

🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 Check out @alpekinci.bsky.social 's preprint: “Shared gaze reflects shared aesthetic experiences” #neuroaesthetics 👀

Anyone want to do a PhD with me at the Sunny Coast? I'm recruiting, and I wanna do some fun psychophysics (but the possibilities for the PhD are very broad). Domestic students only, sadly. In case y'all happen to know someone: @nataliepeluso.com @reubenrideaux.bsky.social @visnerd.bsky.social

Population receptive field size in scene-selective visual cortex is related to the anterior-posterior organization. Spatial frequency preference is NOT related to pRF size! New results by Charlotte Leferink and @damianoc.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... @uoftpsychology.bsky.social @utoronto.ca

Very proud that this is finally out! Come for the new auditory illusion, stay for the brain imaging and speech analysis…..

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/

🧨 Preprint alert Is it easier to find a ball than a shoe? The answer lies in how variable we think these objects are in the real-world. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... w/ the amazing @dkaiserlab.bsky.social & @luchunyeh.bsky.social 🦄 🧵1/8

A Neural Model of Conscious Mental Imagery and Aphantasia, out in Neuropsychologia (open access) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Yes, we now have a model to study unconscious and conscious mental imagery. Looking forward to your thought!

The visual world is composed of objects, and those objects are composed of features. But do VLMs exploit this compositional structure when processing multi-object scenes? In our 🆒🆕 #ICLR2026 paper, we find they do – via emergent symbolic mechanisms for visual binding. 🧵👇

Huge thanks to my amazing co-first author @rassouel.bsky.social and the fantastic @taylorwwebb.bsky.social and @yoshuabengio.bsky.social! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15871

New Paper: Pupillary responses are not a reliable index of differences in imagery vividness. Our search for more reliable metrics of imagery continues... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨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...

Soon hiring a lab manager! Looking for someone who is really interested in language neuroscience, who is organised, motivated, a great communicator, and who works well in a research team. Express interest by submitting this form: tinyurl.com/glysn-labman... Reposts appreciated!

Passage of time in the brain, in the mind, both? Commentary on @lapate.bsky.social recent work #drift #fmri #human #time Please,👇 if we missed relevant observations in the field! w/ @vigano.bsky.social @beneuroscience.bsky.social & R. Bordas @sfnjournals.bsky.social @brainthemind.bsky.social