After hundreds of studies on the retro-cue effect in working memory, we thought that we understood what caused it. Not quite - check out our new paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Can we remove information from working memory and still maintain it in the long term - or the other way around? It turns out to be difficult. If you want to know more, check out our new paper: journalofcognition.org/articles/10....

New work from our lab: Can psychometric methods alone tell us what cognitive tasks measure? @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social, Ricardo Rebmann & @koberauer.bsky.social argue no – and show how computational models can do what correlations between tasks cannot. 🧵👇

We have a new PhD position at the University of Zurich to work on visual working memory. For more info see here: www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec...

Want to decompose your categorical recall data into latent memory sources? Check out this new tutorial by @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @chenyuli.bsky.social: four different examples for fitting M3 using the bmm R package

A sneak peak into hallway and lunch break discussion that we have at our lab: @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social, @joschadutli.bsky.social, @philippmusfeld.bsky.social, and @koberauer.bsky.social wrote up what we think is a reasonable workflow for specifiying priors in GLMs.

We're looking for a postdoc starting this summer to join our efforts in understanding the capacity limits of cognition: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

New work from members of the Cognition Lab Zurich! @chenyuli.bsky.social, @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social & @koberauer.bsky.social tested whether information can be processed without entering working memory. Results suggest that processing brings even task-irrelevant information into working memory.

Two traditions in action control research - BRAC and procedural WM - often talk past each other. This latest review from members of our lab and colleagues from the BRAC community connects them conceptually and computationally, showing how procedural WM can reproduce key BRAC effects.

"Repetitions lead to better memory." Sure - but how? Our new paper led by former lab member @philippmusfeld.bsky.social shines new light on this question, and challenges some longstanding assumptions. Now published in Perspectives on Psychological Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Big news from the lab today: @joschadutli.bsky.social has officially defended his PhD! 🎉 We’re grateful to @aidanhorner.bsky.social for serving as external examiner and as Joscha’s supervisors we @leabartsch.bsky.social and @koberauer.bsky.social are incredibly proud—congrats, Joscha!

Is WM a gateway to LTM? In this registered report we find that higher WM load rarely impairs LTM encoding - suggesting WM capacity is not a bottleneck for forming LTM traces. @as-souza.bsky.social @edamizrak.bsky.social @cognition-zurich.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... [1/3]

Memory researchers have known this: If we leave more free time between one study item and the next, memory is better. This is true for WM and LTM - but is it so for the same reason? Probably not. If you want to know more, have a look at our new paper in JEP:General: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Good news for all those of us who plan to grow old: Some forms of learning do not decline in old age. Our new paper in Psychology and Aging shows equivalent learning rates in older and younger adults in chunk learning, tested through the Hebb repetition effect.

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