Can context-sensitivity improve human–machine alignment in VFMs? We show that incorporating context improves modeling of human similarity decisions. 🎉Accepted to ReAlign ICLR! Now on @arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2604.13883 Joint first-authored work with amazing Frieda Born. 1/5

The Obleser lab will be hiring soon! New postdoc (fully funded) and new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded). Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct. Watch out for official announcements! Please be in touch. auditorycognition.com obleserlab.com hoerhanse.de lemmi.uni-luebeck.de

💥New paper out! Why do some people generalise threat more than others? We show that anxious people generalise more strongly, even after accounting for perceptual mistakes. A huge (!) thanks to @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social and @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social

We are looking for a new colleague in work and organizational psychology - full professor position @tudresden.bsky.social - Please share - @dgps.bsky.social tud.link/qt3r1g

Briefly not attending something may help you remember it later 🪄: new paper led by phenomenal PhD student Frieda Born (not on Bsky) out now in Comms Psychology: 
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We recently published a theoretical review about how compositional and generative mechanisms in working memory provide a flexible engine for creative perception and imagery. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps... Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Full professorship in general psychology open @tudresden.bsky.social We are a lively department with a fantastically equipped neuroimaing center. DM me with questions. @dgps.bsky.social @dgps-fgal.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12517

Humans can infer global relationships from local comparisons, but how do we adapt when these relationships change? New work by the brilliant @tgham.bsky.social used RL modelling to find out 👇

🥳 I am incredibly humbled and grateful to share that our work, "Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels," has been published today in @nature.com ⬇️

Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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.

Pushing past my social-media fatigue to spotlight our lab’s new posters at #CCN2025 in Amsterdam. Come say hi to: (1/7)

New preprint! 🚨→ Determinants of Visual Ambiguity Resolution. A new work with @ortiztudela.bsky.social @jvoeller.bsky.social @martinhebart.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We have a position open - if you’re interested in ambivalence in (social)decision making, check it out: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

Multiplexing of cognitive encoding by oculomotor networks leads to incidental gaze shifts doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #neuroscience

No April Fool's joke, one week left to apply! Because some asked, we are an international team and English is the working language in the lab. German language skills are beneficial, but not essential.

Science Alert 🚨: Our paper is now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social - We show that the firing phase of neurons in human MTL doesn’t reflect the order of events, challenging a long-standing theory of human memory. nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01893-7

One week left to submit individual contributions for this year's 50th Psychology and Brain (PuG) conference in Würzburg. We look forward to receiving abstract submissions for accepted symposia as well as poster contributions www.pug2025.org

Two weeks left to apply!

That city crow putting pizza on my thyme had me thinking for the rest of the day

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.

Join us at the new chair of Biopsychology at @tudresden.bsky.social! Fully funded university positions, broad topics in cognitive neuroscience, plus you get to work with the fabulous adaptive memory and cognition group (link below) 
www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste... (tinyurl.com/y6tjbptj)

We are looking for 2 new colleagues - #professorships in (A) Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy (B) Work & Organizational Psychology Join a lively and collaborative department @tudresden.bsky.social in #Dresden - Please share - @dgps.bsky.social #jobalert 📣 tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/a...

My favorite remote conference is coming back this year, and we are looking for a postdoc to join the team of organizers! If you LOVE working memory research and its wonderful community, join us!

BAMB! is happening again in 2025. Learn how to model your behavioural data, next to the beach in Barcelona! keynotes this year from @athenaakrami.bsky.social and Peter Dayan.

Impressive work from Liqiang Huang: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I'd like to see how this generalizes beyond 4-item color memory (e.g., different set sizes, retention intervals, memoranda, cueing, etc.). I'd also like to see comparison with earlier models. This model has "only" 57 parameters!

Nearly 250,000 people in Berlin showed up to protest fascism and the Musk backed AfD party.

Cool new findings by @luiantaverra.bsky.social, @ondrejzika.bsky.social, and @nicoschuck.bsky.social on value transfer in aversive generalization:

I am overjoyed to share that I will be joining the Faculty of Psychology @tudresden.bsky.social as Professor/Chair of Biopsychology! Thrilled and excited about this new chapter for both myself and the lab!

Very excited that our (@ingrdmrtn.bsky.social, Luianta Verra & myself) RLDM 2025 Workshop "Game on: Leveraging Gamification to Understand Cognitive and Computational Mechanisms" has been accepted! We will soon be opening a call for contributed talks - stay tuned if you are interested!

Overdue freehub maintenance lets my 2024 local traffic cost skyrocket to ca. 50 bucks in total. Happy New Year to my car-driving friends :D

Yay!!! 🎉 Excited to join #Bluesky! 🌟 We're sharing the latest updates on cutting-edge research and fresh insights into human development. Let's connect, learn, and explore together! 🚀 #Science #MaxPlanck

🚨Join our team! We’re hiring a PhD student in Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience 🧠 🎓 at @uni_wue & @UKW_Wuerzburg! Explore mechanisms of decision-making in healthy people & Parkinson’s using new deep brain stimulation methods. German & English required. Apply by 20 Dec! 🌟🎄 Details: shorturl.at/IcNa0

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I made a starter pack to follow your favorite WomWoMs (Women of Working Memory) go.bsky.app/78fcoth You can ping me to be added!

I am BEYOND honored to have received the women of working memory (WomWoM) research fairy award this year!! 🧚🪄 WomWom is such an amazing, supportive community that I feel lucky to be part of 💕💕💕

Thank you @dfgpublic.bsky.social for extending my Heisenberg funding. Quite happy about the progress, too!

More evidence that working memory is not persistent activity. Instead, it is dynamic on/off states with short-term synaptic plasticity. Intermittent rate coding and cue-specific ensembles support working memory www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

New preprint from the lab, led by excellent PhD candidate Frieda Born: how briefly not attending can help you memorize! doi.org/10.1101/2024...

I like to think of my grants as my children (thread)

#gehtwählen #wirsindmehr #wirsinddiebrandmauer

It’s been that time of the year again — not gonna brag about our time, but look how happy we are :)

After work, in Berlin, we always hang out in clubs and take drugs.

Music Theory and White Supremacy www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3q...

Students of psychology, neuroscience, or similar in the Berlin area: we are currently looking for Student Research Assistants to help with all things EEG, fMRI, eye-tracking, and other fun stuff in our lab at MPIB Berlin #neuroscience #neurosykence #PsychSkySci

Visit us in Hamburg for this years PuG conference!

Okay newbies, going viral here is having 3 likes and 7 reposts. Sometimes less.

The Working Memory Symposium is now on Bluesky, #workingmemory people 🥳

Out now in JEP: General - On why people over- or underweight extreme values in decision making. Great team effort with Verena Clarmann v. Clarenau, @stefanappelhoff.bsky.social, and ThorstenPachur psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-.... #PsychSkySci

In Berlin, after work, we always hang out in clubs and take drugs