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cognitive neuroscience, U Nottingham
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Kirsten Adam
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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...
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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...
https://emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/5346
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William Ngiam | 严祥全
1 day ago
Make it your New Year resolution to add a
#workingmemory
dataset to OpenWMData so that we can curate our field's precious data, start testing theories and benchmarking models across datasets, conduct secondary analyses and meta-research using the data itself, and help me feel like I'm, like, alive.
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OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available working memory datasets
https://williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData
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Charlotte Reese Marshall used to be Tom Rhys Marshall
30 days ago
In this position you will work with TMS and neuroimaging (next-gen OPM sensors developed here at
@thechbh.bsky.social
@uob-sop.bsky.social
) to understand the effects of the menstrual cycle on the excitability of the brain.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Menstrual-cycle driven fluctuations in cortical excitability: A basis for temporally-targeted rTMS in depression at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Menstrual-cycle driven fluctuations in cortical excitability: A basis for temporally-targeted rTMS in depression at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/menstrual-cycle-driven-fluctuations-in-cortical-excitability-a-basis-for-temporally-targeted-rtms-in-depression/?p192407
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William Ngiam | 严祥全
about 1 month ago
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!
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OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available working memory datasets
https://williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData
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Damian Cruse
about 1 month ago
🚨 Fully funded PhD scholarship to work with me, Ali Mazaheri, Dhruv Parekh, and Katrien Segaert at the University of Birmingham on new brain-based tools to improve diagnoses of consciousness after severe brain injury. 🚨 Deadline: 9th January 2026 Full details and application form:
lnkd.in/ejZkfFbW
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https://lnkd.in/ejZkfFbW
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Juan Linde-Domingo
about 1 month ago
Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!
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SfN Journals
about 1 month ago
Looking to improve your PeerReview skills? The Reviewer Mentor Program pairs trainees with
#JNeurosci
&
#eNeuro
editors & top reviewers to conduct strong manuscript reviews. Open to SfN members at any career stage:
http://www.jneurosci.org/rmp
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Konstantinos Tsetsos
about 2 months ago
🧠 We’re hiring! Join the Irrationality Lab @ Trinity College Dublin for ERC-funded postdoc positions in Decision Neuroscience. Work with OPM-MEG + computational modeling to uncover how the brain shapes, maintains and revises preferences. Apply & info:
www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...
#NeuroJobs
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Randolph Helfrich
about 2 months ago
New work from the lab published in
@cp-neuron.bsky.social
by
@jonasterlau.bsky.social
and Jan Martini. We describe that trial-by-trial variability indexes recurrent connectivity across the cortical hierarchy, which supports reliable and flexible coding
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
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Structure in noise: Recurrent connectivity shapes neural variability to balance perceptual and cognitive demands in the human brain
Does neural variability reflect random noise or a feature that benefits adaptive behavior? Using intracranial recordings in humans, Terlau et al. demonstrate that neural variability results from the r...
https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(25)00796-2
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about 2 months ago
🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
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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!
https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/postdoc-position-neural-circuitry-underlying-working-memory
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Tomer Ullman
about 2 months ago
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* > These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees > They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
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Hugo Spiers
about 2 months ago
A bit of doom and gloom reading for the UK Science sector. There are all sorts of things happening outside big pharma, but for that area things look bleak.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.K. science sector is ‘bleeding to death,’ lawmakers say in report
House of Lords committee urges government to stem exodus of science and technology companies
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-k-science-sector-bleeding-death-lawmakers-say-alarming-report
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Martin Hebart
2 months ago
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at
@jlugiessen.bsky.social
. Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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Eleanor Holton
2 months ago
When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge in people and ANNs? Great to have this out today in
@nathumbehav.nature.com
Work with
@summerfieldlab.bsky.social
,
@tsonj.bsky.social
, Lukas Braun and Jan Grohn
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mona Garvert
2 months ago
🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀 🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L) 🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour. 📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3! More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt
#CognitiveNeuroscience
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Sam Gershman
2 months ago
In case you don't know already, the journal Open Mind has a Bluesky account that automatically posts new papers:
@openmindjournal.bsky.social
The journal is diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) thanks to the support of MIT Press, Harvard Library, & MIT Library.
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William Ngiam | 严祥全
2 months ago
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.
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OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available<br>working memory datasets
https://williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData
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Dani Gresch
3 months ago
📣 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.
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Joel Reithler
3 months ago
We have an exciting 4-year PhD position available
@maastrichtu.bsky.social
focusing on intracranial EEG recordings to investigate how hippocampal ripples contribute to human memory processing. For more info:
tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy
(closing date Nov 2nd) Please help spread the word!
#neurojobs
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PhD Candidate: Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying human memory
PhD Candidate: Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying human memory
https://tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy
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Tom Donoghue
3 months ago
📜🎉 I'm happy to share that my review of clinical research investigating aperiodic neural activity is now published! It examines 177 reports of aperiodic activity in clinical disorders summarizing findings, discussion topics, & making some recommendations!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A Systematic Review of Aperiodic Neural Activity in Clinical Investigations
This systematic literature review examines aperiodic neural activity in clinical disorders, summarizing current findings and discussion topics. One-hundred seventy-seven reports from across 38 distin...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.70255
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Mark D Humphries
3 months ago
🚨Registration for Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 closes October 20th 🚨 Speakers
@mkflugge.bsky.social
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social
@benhayden.bsky.social
@ellileadbeater.bsky.social
@davidrobbe.bsky.social
@dlbarack.bsky.social
@becketebs.bsky.social
uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
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Home - The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging
https://uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanistic-basis-of-foraging/
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Aidan Horner
3 months ago
If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me! I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.
#psychscisky
#neuroskyence
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Randolph Helfrich
3 months ago
New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to
@yale.edu
and the
@wutsaiyale.bsky.social
this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇
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Helen Barron
3 months ago
** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet ** Deadline: 2nd December 1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR:
tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj
Happy to chat to interested applicants.
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Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu
https://tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
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Rosanne Rademaker
3 months ago
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.
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Konstantinos Tsetsos
3 months ago
This programme will benefit from Trinity's outstanding neuroimaging facilities, including a cutting-edge OPM-MEG system—one of the first in Europe. PhD and postdoc recruitment will begin soon (details to follow). If you are interested, or know someone who might be, please get in touch!
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Simon Faghel-Soubeyrand
9 months ago
Preprint alert! 🚨 1/ How does deep sleep reshape our memories? Our new study shows that slow-wave sleep (SWS) reorganises episodic memory networks, shifting recall from the parietal cortex to the anterior temporal lobe (ATL). With Polina Perzich and
@bstaresina.bsky.social
. A thread below👇
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Gonzalo Urcelay
4 months ago
Only a few days left to apply for this 3-year postdoc position in Nottingham (deadline Sept 5th!). If you're considering applying please get in touch. If you're already a PI, then repost this!
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Ryszard Auksztulewicz
4 months ago
Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply!
#NeuroJobs
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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PhD Candidate: cognitive computational neuroscience of individual differences
PhD Candidate: cognitive computational neuroscience of individual differences
https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-PhD-Candidate-cognitive-computational-neuroscience-of-individual-differences/828268102/
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New paper using M/EEG to look at attractive and repulsive serial dependence in working memory, led by the excellent Jiangang Shan, with Jasper Hajonides.
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4 months ago
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Qiaoli Huang
4 months ago
Happy to share our new preprint. We found that brain adaptively switches between relational and item-based coding strategies based on the structure of memory contents.
@doellerlab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Efficient coding in working memory is adapted to the structure of the environment
Working memory (WM) relies on efficient coding strategies to overcome its limited capacity, yet how the brain adaptively organizes WM representations to maximize coding efficiency based on environment...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.20.671058v1
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5 months ago
We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience
@mpicybernetics.bsky.social
M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
@timingresforum.bsky.social
@gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
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PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation
Job Offer from August 11, 2025
https://tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
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5 months ago
I gave a talk in 2009 about feature-based attention and a famous vision scientist asked how top down signals from PFC could possibly target the right sensory neurons. The best I could do was "uh, dunno".
sunyoungp.bsky.social
has a much more thoughtful answer
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Near-random connections support top-down feature-based attentional modulations in early sensory cortex
Author summary In everyday life, we focus on what matters—like finding our car keys on a messy desk—by sending signals from higher control brain areas to earlier sensory brain areas. These “top-down” ...
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013396
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Bernhard Spitzer
5 months ago
Pushing past my social-media fatigue to spotlight our lab’s new posters at
#CCN2025
in Amsterdam. Come say hi to: (1/7)
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Denis Lan
5 months ago
My first PhD paper - with
@lhuntneuro.bsky.social
and
@summerfieldlab.bsky.social
- is now out in
@plosbiology.org
! We ask: how do humans (and deep neural networks) navigate flexibly even in unfamiliar environments, such as a new city? Link:
plos.io/45uSwNm
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Joey Saito
5 months ago
Learning-dependent modulation of working memory
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Learning-dependent modulation of working memory - Memory & Cognition
Category knowledge helps us make inferences and decisions but may also bias how information is perceived and remembered. Previous studies have reported categorical biases in working memory (WM), but m...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-025-01754-5
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Vanessa Loaiza
5 months ago
📣 Tomorrow is the last day! 📣 Get those nominations in and celebrate those awesome female scientists in our field 🤩
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Athina Tzovara
6 months ago
We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG
#iEEG
#Neurojobs
Postdoc:
neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD:
neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
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https://neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announcement.html
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Rob Mok
6 months ago
JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST!
#postdocjobs
#neuroskyence
#neuroscience
#psychscisky
#compneurosky
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Dani Gresch
6 months ago
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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How the brain shifts between external and internal attention
Focusing on relevant contents to guide adaptive behavior is a core property of the brain. For decades, scientists have investigated mechanisms to anti…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627325004714
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Irene Echeverria-Altuna
6 months ago
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 🧠
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Sensory and motor contents are prioritized dynamically in working memory
Attention flexibly modulates sensory contents in working memory, but the dynamics of motor content modulation in working memory remain unclear. This study shows that brain representations of both sens...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003273&?utm_id=plos111&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=author
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MarleneRoesner.bsky.social
6 months ago
What a week! 🤩I can´t believe it is over already 😱 But more than just good memories remain - you can (re-)wacht all the amazing and inspiring talks from
#WMS2025
drive.google.com/file/d/1cSrp...
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Nature Human Behaviour
6 months ago
In this Article, Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe.
@jankaminski.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Unattended working memory items are coded by persistent activity in human medial temporal lobe neurons - Nature Human Behaviour
Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02235-0
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Elkan Akyurek
6 months ago
Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project!
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
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Vacatures bij de RUG
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000BEAP&cat=wp
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Nottingham Summer Scientist Week
6 months ago
Booking are now open for this years Summer Scientist Week. Make sure you get booked on, we can't wait to see you all so we can deliver a little dose of Science.
www.summerscientist.org
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Summer Scientist booking system
Summer Scientist Week is a free event for 4-11 year-olds and their parents, which gives a fun introduction to the mind and brain.
http://www.summerscientist.org/?fbclid=IwAR3HfMwOqctgmPMwqpOjByZgR0MSzyPCcW6c2g3HvwtBju5VaQ5JnLNGBdA
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Rosanne Rademaker
6 months ago
Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details:
www.rademakerlab.com/job-add
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PhD position — Rademaker lab
https://www.rademakerlab.com/job-add
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Christoph Bledowski
6 months ago
Our paper on the neural basis of serial dependence is finally published! In
@elife.bsky.social
: A direct neural signature of serial dependence in working memory
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Oh, and check out the commentary by Yang&Kiyonaga too!
elifesciences.org/articles/101...
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A direct neural signature of serial dependence in working memory
Magnetoencephalographic recordings revealed a direct neural signature of serial dependence, that is, an attractive bias of current toward previous representations, which emerged at late, post-encoding...
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.99478
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Vanessa Loaiza
7 months ago
🚨 Calling all colleagues who work on
#workingmemory
and
#aging
🚨 Do you have any unpublished data on age differences in WM? 👴 👵 🧠 🌨️ We're working on a BIG meta-analysis, and I'd love any and all data that are currently not "out there" for us to find! 🔬 🤓 Please repost for reach, thanks! 🔁 😁
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Laura Theis
7 months ago
Dear
#poetsonbluesky
today I have something really exciting to share with you: The beautiful cover for my
@theemmapress.bsky.social
children's debut 'Poems from a Witch’s Pocket' designed by the incredibly talented Kate Foster...Pre-orders are open now!
theemmapress.com/shop/childre...
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Micah G. Allen
7 months ago
🚨 Two PhD positions open in Barcelona! Work with Diego Vidaurre on machine learning at the intersection of methods, neuroscience, and clinical applications. Details: 🔗
www.crm.cat/call/89/phd-...
🔗
www.crm.cat/call/88/phd-...
#neuroskyence
#psychscisky
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Call - Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
https://www.crm.cat/call/89/phd-student-ref-2025-009-p04632-/107/
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