📍2003 marked the year in which the retro-cue paradigm was born. Fast forward, 23 years later, we adapt this logic to long-term memory and ask how does attention shape retrieval from long-term memory? 🤔 w/ @william-nm.bsky.social Kia Nobre, Nahid Zokaei and Nora Roüast osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n

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/...

Attentional resources vary rhythmically, but what about susceptibility to #[email protected] &co show that theta & alpha phases modulate sensitivity & distractor impact, revealing rhythm-specific mechanisms shaping #attention & distractability @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4tU0vh4

🎉 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

So excited to see this lovely paper with @benjyb.bsky.social, @matanmazor.bsky.social and @giuliacabbai.bsky.social published in @nconsc.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe! Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...

Interested in studying Neurocognitive Psychology? The application period for this excellent Master's program at LMU Munich is starting NOW! Apply here: www.lmu.de/psy/de/studi...

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

🚀 New preprint alert 🚀 How easily can working memory create interference in long-term memories? Our new preprint, Interference Across Memory Systems: Disrupting Long-Term Memories Through Working Memory examines this osf.io/preprints/ps... w/ @sahcan.bsky.social Anna Lena Mantei, Daniel Schneider

Thrilled to say that we’re now officially led by a multi-award-winning PI – congratulations Sage on being awarded the Women in Neuroscience UK Rising Star Award for Early Group Leaders! #WiNUKAwards2025

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...

🌟 We’re delighted to announce Dr Sage Boettcher (@ox.ac.uk) as the Rising Star: Early Group Leader winner at the #WiNUKAwards2025! Sage leads the Dynamic Cognition Lab, studying how attention and memory interact to guide behaviour. A dedicated mentor, teacher, and advocate for inclusive science.

New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵...

📣 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.

Spatial attention and working memory are popularly thought to be tightly coupled. Yet, distinct neural activity tracks attentional breadth and WM load. In a new paper @jocn.bsky.social, we show that pupil size independently tracks breadth and load. doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...

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... A short thread [1/5]👇

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👇 [1/6]

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.

Kohl et al. report that sensorimotor network dynamics can distinguish patients with Parkinson’s disease from controls and highlight the importance of network context of motor cortical activations. buff.ly/489DYfB #Parkinsons

How the brain shifts between external and internal attention www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #neuroscience

Great perspective!👏 My thoughts: - we should stop saying 'attention lapses', they are 'attention shifts' - what % of motor imagery M\EEG signal is internal attention? what % of Libet's readiness potential is internal attention?🤔 - individual differences in shifts may be relevant for many tasks

This project has only been possible through a real team effort! In the same spirit, we hope these resources continue to grow, and we really welcome any feedback or contributions to help us improve and expand what we've shared.

Out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social now! Kia and I argue that attention research would benefit from a stronger focus on how the brain shifts between external and internal attention. We outline competing hypotheses, review existing behavioral and neural findings, and highlight open questions.

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Looking for a summer read? Look no further! ☀️ Our most recent paper with Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social and @kianobre.bsky.social is out @plosbiology.org! 🪩 Sensory and motor working-memory contents are both prioritised dynamically, but their prioritisation can be temporally decoupled 🧠

Dani provides a comprehensive overview of our newest work, out now in JoN. We are so proud to see this work out – and big shout out to Dani and Larissa for leading the charge!

📢 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...

New preprint alert from our very own @gwenlliams.bsky.social 🚨

🎉 Excited to share the first preprint from my PhD research! Huge thank yous to Sage Boettcher (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social) and Kia Nobre (@brognition.bsky.social) and everyone else that supported this work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

4/n @danielagresch.bsky.social presented her latest work about visual and motor working memories retrieval using EEG. She showed exciting results both from visual and motor oscillatory results.

I’m planning to hire an RA for my new lab at the University of Miami (www.jam-lab.org) to start August 1st! Please feel free to get in touch or share with anyone who may be interested! umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCareerStaff/job/Coral-Gables-FL/Research-Associate---Psychology_R100085344-1

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

new preprint by Hanna Hillman now out, showing correlations between distinct motor working memory codes and distinct motor learning processes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks to EPS and everyone who stopped by the poster!

First post on here to share our fresh-from-the-oven preprint showing the flexible and dynamic (yet, dissociable) nature of visual and motor working-memory content prioritisation 👀 🙌 With the brilliant Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social, and Kia Nobre ✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 Check out our (Sage Boettcher, Chetan_Gohil, @freekvanede.bsky.social, Kia Nobre) latest publication in @PNASNews on the neural dynamics associated with shifting attention within vs. between external and internal attention. (🧵 below) (1|6) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2406061121

📢 Check out our (Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social, @kianobre.bsky.social) latest preprint: In a MEG study, we unveiled distinct patterns of brain activity accompanying shifts between perception and working-memory contents as opposed to shifts within domains. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 So happy to see our (Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social, @kianobre.bsky.social) paper out in @CognitionJourn! Across two experiments, we investigated the dynamic interplay of perception and working memory (🧵below). (1|7)   www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are attentional templates preparatorily activated even in the absence of search? Check out this publication to find out doi.org/10.5334/joc....

Huge congrats to @kianobre.bsky.social on receiving the CNS Distinguished Contributions Career Award! Get a sneak peek of her award lecture in this interview where Kia shares insights into her early inspirations in cognitive neuroscience and her latest work. www.cogneurosociety.org/bringing-new...