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

Here we come VSS 2026! We have an amazing group of people presenting some great vision science! Please see our schedule below. See you there!!

@vssmtg.bsky.social l | Distracted during talks? Maybe your brain has better things to do. 🌊☀️🍹🏖️ Sunday, May 17, 9:30am, Talk Room 1 — I’ll present our new goal-competition theory with @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social.

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...

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.

Our new preprint w/ @zhaochong.bsky.social and Ed Vogel investigates two major memory effects, list-length and serial position, with ERPs and EEG decoding. We find that neural correlates of these effects are dissociable osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excited to announce my first postdoc project at @UChicago with @WilmaBainbridge is now published in PNAS! Using computer vision and gen AI, we engineered memorable and forgettable symbols, showing memory can be optimized with data-driven visual design. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

Check out our new Cognition paper about tracking capacity and aging. I'd like to highlight a new modeling framework for recovering the signal strength from sequential click distributions

The Visual Learning Lab is hiring TWO lab coordinators! Both positions are ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Application deadline is Feb 10th (approaching fast!)—with flexible summer start dates.

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/...

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.

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...

The newly minted Dr. Dr. (medical and now Ph.D.) @antonlukashevich.bsky.social is pictured here with his proud advisor @heidasigurdar.bsky.social -- not pictured is the newly minted Ph.D.'s advisor @utochkin.bsky.social and doctoral committee member @shansmann-roth.bsky.social Congratulations!🥳🥳🥳🥳

We see the forest, but what do we know about the trees? Our perception of ensembles may be richer than previously thought. Read more in a post by @ankosov.bsky.social on a new #psynomPBR paper by Vladislav Khvostov @khvo100v.bsky.social, Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson, & Árni Kristjánsson buff.ly/3NCjHIz

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...

Check our new Psych Science paper w/Daniil Azarov & Daniil Grigorev. Although an ability to recognize a familiar object among new ones clearly depends on how many and which objects there are, we show a remarkable stability of underlying "representational spaces" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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.

1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.

Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items. authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

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

Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread! cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/

Seems like visual awareness of ensemble information goes beyond summary statistics. Vlad Khvostov and colleagues show that people can report the prevalence of each specific feature in a set of objects and the shape of a feature distribution can be recovered from these reports. Neat!

In a new preprint with Nick Chiang and Wilma Bainbridge, we show that our visual recognition memory is often asymmetric, and sometimes even hugely asymmetric. These asymmetries are consistent across people, and we know how to predict them osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/4

🚨New job alert! My lab is hiring a lab manager. Perfect position for a graduating senior who is interested in full-time research before applying to graduate school. #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #MLSky Apply here: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

We are accepting applications for the new round of IACCP SPARK grants! Apply by April 30 for up to $1000 to fund networking, capacity-building, and other initiatives to promote cross-cultural psychology. Read more about the grant here: www.iaccp.org/about-us/res... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

If you would like to teach theoretical modeling skills to your psychology or cognitive science students, or would like to learn these skills yourself, check out our open online textbook: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/

The Working Memory Symposium will return in 2025 (Tentative date: July 8-11)! We are now seeking a new post-doc organizer to join our organizing team. To apply, fill out the google form linked on our home page (www.wmsymposium.org) by March 16!

Did you ever wonder how much you can trust your Bayes Factor estimates? Klaus Oberauer, @frederikaust.com and I did and investigated variance, bias, and computational costs for estimating Bayes Factors via bridgesampling and the Savage-Dickey density ratio. osf.io/preprints/ps...

1/2 This project started in my old lab and taken over by @icevislab.bsky.social. @antonlukashevich.bsky.social showed that attended ensemble mean changes easily detectable and causing a large P3, fail to produce a signal (i.e. ERP component MMN) when unattended www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Who are Open Science Tools❓ We're proud to provide a free #OpenSource tool for making experiments that is used by so many. We needed a way to sustain it! Open Science Tools is our company that provides services➡️The revenue from these help to sustain and improve PsychoPy https://buff.ly/3YrhiZH

If you are still at #VSS come to listen to me Wednesday at 8:15am (Visual Memory session). I'll tell what we learned about the consequences of encoding speed for subsequent retrieval using ERP's (w/ Chong Zhao and Ed Vogel).

The Awh/Vogel Lab is excited to share our research on visual #workingmemory at #VSS2024! Of note, we have a few talks pursuing the idea of item-based 'pointers' using multivariate classification of EEG. You can find all the presentations here: awhvogellab.com/conferences#....

PhD positions available in our #workingmemory lab!

I'm honored to join the Fellowship :)

Postdoc position at our faculty on AI & psychology/neuroscience! If you are interested in computational modeling in memory, perception, or decision-making (with a focus on normative models) or decoding of neural data in VWM, get in touch, I'd be happy to support. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Come and join us, for lots of #workingmemory fun 🤩

Arni Kristjansson and I have just published a review on how we process variability in the visual world. It's been a fun topic to work on, related to my long-time interest in how we process the 'noise' in the environment. The review is in free access for two weeks: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

What allows us to visually select relevant stuff when it is intermixed with other heterogeneous stuff? Can we do ensemble processing of what we are trying to select? Our new paper w/Vlad Khvostov, Aleksei Iakovlev, and Jeremy Wolfe offers some interesting answers: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

'Noisy and hierarchical visual memory across timescales', a new Review by Timothy F. Brady (@timbrady.bsky.social), Maria M. Robinson & Jamal R. Williams (@jamalamal.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/42Bhac0 PDF: rdcu.be/dyb6G #psychology #psychscisky #cogpsyc

Postdoc! Join an interdisciplinary effort to build better tools for computer vision by drawing inspiration from the ways that human children learn.  Deadline to apply is Feb 29.    psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Our article in the Annual Review of Psychology, on The Relation between Attention and Memory, is open access, we just learned: www.annualreviews.org/eprint/J4IQF...

Our group at George Wash. Univ. has a possible opportunity for a postdoctoral fellow to work with us and a US Army research team. The position needs to be filled *very* soon; if you (or someone you know) is interested, contact me! funding for 2 years. No need to be a US citizen

Check our new preprint about highly invariant recognition-memory spaces tested item-wise in over 1,200 participants (with a flavor of Signal-Detection Theory and Memorability): osf.io/preprints/ps...

Some exciting personal news - I will become a Lecturer at the University of Adelaide, starting in June! I'm thrilled to return home and continue my journey in cognitive science.

The APPLY Lab at UofT is looking to hire a postdoc to help lead the lab's SSHRC-funded work on digital readability. We're looking for someone interested in the intersection of vision science and how the appearance of text on screens can help readers. Happy to answer questions!

UD’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is looking for a new chair of our department! We start considering applications Feb 1. Letters are not required for the first round of review. careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

🚨New #WorkingMemory PhD position!🚨 Come work with me at the University of Sheffield starting October 2024! All the details at the link, very happy to answer any informal questions, and can put you in touch with former mentees of mine 😄 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...