Computational models are a key part of science but discovering new ones is hard! DataDIVER discovers concise models from data, which surface new mechanistic ideas and clear predictions for future experiments From Google Deepmind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Please improve acknowledgments sections to better credit research contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Our new paper on this topic begins by summarising three pathways to improve crediting of research contributors – 1. Loosen authorship restrictions.

There's ongoing discourse about whether digital technology is impacting attention spans, but the empirical research does not seem to connect with what is felt by the general public. So, to better understand the perceptions, we examined what was being said on the issue in four relevant subreddits.

New: A qualitative analysis of the perceived impact of digital technology on attention. From @williamngiam.github.io, Natasha van Antwerpen, @ellamoeck.bsky.social, and Carly Stagg doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Super excited about this paper by the amazing @talboger.bsky.social, now in press @ @nathumbehav.nature.com! Before you ask: No, it has no corresponding lab merch (cf www.perceptionresearch.org/anagrams/mer...). But yes, it has deep questions, creative experiments, and foundational implications!

Do you think in concepts? In pictures? A little bit of both? Thinking in pictures draws on parts of your brain also involved in seeing pictures: Early Visual Cortex (EVC). To learn how thinking in pictures may work, the amazing @noa tested 2 accounts in a neural network model. 🚨TWEEPRINT ALERT! 1/n

Tomorrow morning at 11am I'll be presenting my talk at #VSS2026 titled "Semantic understanding, not just coherent object structure, strengthens visual working memory"! (Talk Room 2) See you there!

If you are at #VSS2026 check out our poster 36.320 in the Sunday afternoon session. I'll tell what we learned about the neural signatures of stimulus memorability from EEG decoding in a large visual memory dataset In collaboration w/Leo Chang, Ed Vogel (@edvogel.bsky.social), and Ed Awh

I have found that a good way around signing my name to a critical or harsh peer review is to simply ask for a bunch of @jsaito25.bsky.social's papers to be cited. My reputation stays intact and Joey gets more cites/reads.

Abstract submission for WMS2026 (July 14th-17th) is now open! If you are an early career researcher of working memory, please let us hear about your cool work by submitting your abstract (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...). Deadline is May 31st.

Collin Scarince and I have a new paper out in QJEP. This is an impressive feat by Collin to modify the Guided Search model with a multidimensional scaling "plug in" that helps extend computational capacity to capture performance with featurally complex stimuli. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A multi-lab replication effort (@eegmanylabs.bsky.social) of the contralateral delay activity (CDA) has just been published online! In brief, the set-size effect appears to be robustly observed, but CDA correlation with VWM capacity is not reliably strong. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

If I could attend VSS, I would be putting up a pre-data poster. It would be blank with some markers and have the title - "What do you mean by representation in working memory?". I would have people tell me their current thinking and world views; surely, the whole point of a conference.

VSS (@vssmtg.bsky.social) is coming up! Do you have an idea for a vision experiment but want to check you haven't missed anything? Looking for collaborators or relevant resources? Wanting to chat about a theory or model? Consider the pre-data poster session! www.visionsciences.org/pre-data-col...

VSS (@vssmtg.bsky.social) is coming up! Do you have an idea for a vision experiment but want to check you haven't missed anything? Looking for collaborators or relevant resources? Wanting to chat about a theory or model? Consider the pre-data poster session! www.visionsciences.org/pre-data-col...

Last week for submissions (deadline April 30th)! If you do work in any part of experimental psych or vision science come join us in Auckland, New Zealand! It's shaping up to be a great conference.

We have 3 PhD positions at our department (www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...). Know a good student interested in working with me on perception / visual memory? I'd be happy to support the proposal! A catch: this person must speak a Scandinavian language as the position implies some teaching duties.

Wow, the 2-hour marathon was just broken in London (by two runners)! That's well under 3min/km for 42.2km; just incredible stuff. Inspiration to get back to running (maybe get that 20 minute 5K...)

🚨 Tom Griffiths has a podcast where he interviews cognitive scientists podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... This just went to the top of my list.

As someone who plays the NYT Spelling Bee daily / Scrabble enthusiast, this is a very fun paper. Neat correlation between time prediction error and the Aha! rating (though would be interesting to include perceived difficulty of the scramble as a mediator of this correlation).

Also, I’ll be giving a workshop on the first day about early vision theory and modelling. visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience" #neurojobs #neuroskyence #visionscience fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Anyone have thoughts on backward masking oriented lines for a working memory task? I reckon a pattern mask (probably some randomly rotated asterisk spider thing) would do alright, but wonder if there are more appreciated methods. Guessing @willjharrison.bsky.social and @visnerd.bsky.social know

I've been data editing manuscripts at AP&P for a while (71 checks of accepted submissions). If we were to evaluate an #opensci practice by uptake, preregistration HAS NOT been widely conducted (~25%; 18/71) relative to providing open data (63/71). Unlikely to have really achieved anything...

You know what problem we should throw AI at? Reducing the number of clicks required to read full articles on APA PsycNet to fucking zero (after accessing the URL).

I've been pondering whether #cogsci can/will be brute forced by AI. I put my thoughts down in this blogpost, covering the current harms and promising use cases of AI; I also try to generalise from the attempt to solve Erdös problems with AI to cognitive science with a bit of philosophy of science.

I've been pondering whether #cogsci can/will be brute forced by AI. I put my thoughts down in this blogpost, covering the current harms and promising use cases of AI; I also try to generalise from the attempt to solve Erdös problems with AI to cognitive science with a bit of philosophy of science.

Can published findings be reproduced from the same data + same analysis? As part of SCORE, Miske and 127 co-authors tested this across social and behavioral science papers from 2009–2018. www.nature.com/articles/s41... OA: osf.io/preprints/me... 1/

I'm so tired of seeing this argument – as working memory is a limited resource, and as the modern environment is now so information-rich and complex, and as our brains evolved in the olden times to have dopamine reward circuity - ATTENTION SPANS ARE CRATERING INTO THE GROUND. youtu.be/t0qq9R__XiQ

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Lauren C. Fong, Daniel Feuerriegel, et al: Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Visual #workingmemory peeps, you're going to love this. This is super challenging - might give you pause on how we are measuring color memory... My color memory is a 40.4/50. Please do worse so I feel better. dialed.gg?c=3PCHDE

New preprint with Chris Nolan and Kelly Garner in which we develop a new metric - transition entropy - that can be used to measure the extent to which behaviour in cognitive tasks is based on a routine. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

If only it were this easy to be an academic! A fun game by @forrt.bsky.social. I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in Tenure Run! 🎓 I published 40 papers and paid $2,500 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸 How far can you make it? Play now at forrt.org/TenureRun/

I think I'll have to wait for Nature Comms Psych Comms Advances to drop before I have a publication that has enough to make it into a Nature group journal. (Nature Human Behaviour Comms Advances also fine).

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 For those in favor or against, it seems like a good one to discuss in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon! #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our paper on double decisions in working memory tasks is now published in Computational Brain and Behaviour! When you give people a second chance, it reveals a lot about the contents of their memory. Led by @paulmgarrett.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social rdcu.be/e8SLX

This one is lovely - and if you check out the paper in @pec-ipe.bsky.social there's an interactive demo that allows you to play with the color of the dots, the speed, etc. #visionscience

A new edition of Chun & Most's Cognition textbook — out now! Our 2nd edition updates our coverage and explores the evolving role of cognitive psychology in today’s world — all while aiming to help students love the field as much as we do. Request an exam e-copy here: pages.oup.com/he/us/cognit...

Years of piloting my own visual psychophysics studies trained me for this moment. Any vision scientists out there that can do better than me? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

I can't tell which one is a better strategy: hopelessly applying for funding from the Australian Research Council and being told I'm in the bottom half of researchers, or asking exclusively people called Grant for donations. Maybe if I stop shitposting, I will be a grant-funded researcher one day.

Why stop there and not give up writing entirely? I suggest we all share our research and ideas exclusively via podcast. (1) No more annoying academic journal processes (2) Use enjoyable audio production software rather than clunky word processing software (3) Everything needs a podcast

Curious about how psychological theories are built, tested, and refined in practice? This summer, the Theory Methods Society is launching the very first edition of the summer school Theory Building in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (July 6–10, 2026). theorymethodssociety.org

Delete your socks, people. "We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization...at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator."

Really disappointed that we didn't evolve to have unidimensional linear psychophysical functions because it would be so much easier to fit and figure out the models!

It is frequently said that the next-generation of researchers need to be *trained* in open scholarship, but I don't think this is enough when they (we) will inherit broken academic systems. Remarkable reforms are needed to face present day challenges and I think more ECRs should be given the reins.

Here’s to Joey finding our preprint on biorxiv already before I saw the email it had successfully uploaded 🥂Tweeprint (/blueprint) will follow soon. With @amit-rawal.bsky.social and @mjwolff.bsky.social

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

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

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/...

i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions thread 1/