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]

Time effects on working memory and long-term memory, are they similar or different? Our work with Alessandra Souza and Klaus Oberauer here.

Our new paper on how free time improves working memory and long-term memory differently at JEP:General with Klaus Oberauer and Alessandra Souza: Our results challenge a single explanation of the free-time benefit for memory retention across short and long intervals. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

I am pleased to share that "the bird study" is now accepted at Psychology and Aging! A great collaboration with visiting intern Kishen Senziani, @leabartsch.bsky.social & @edamizrak.bsky.social 😀 Check out the pre-print below and a short thread on the study design and main takeaways 🧵👇

New Preprint with @edamizrak.bsky.social! Performance in immediate memory tasks reflects a flexible mixture of contributions of #workingmemory and LTM. Distraction disrupts WM, while PI impairs retrieval from LTM; when both are in play, performance depends on the relative reliability of each system

Honey, we fixed Signal Detection Theory (SDT)! In this preprint, Constantin Meyer-Grant, David Kellen, Sam Harding, and I critically evaluate the (unequal-variance) Gaussian SDT model in recognition memory and pursue the Gumbel-min model as a principled alternative: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵

The Special Issue on "the information exchange between working memory & long-term memory" at Memory & Cognition which I had the pleasure to Co-Edit with @keisukefukuda.bsky.social,@vmloaiza1.bsky.social and @edamizrak.bsky.social is out now! rdcu.be/d0GjA #workingmemory #cogSci #Psychology #psynom24

This one is interesting. The results contradict all existing explanations about the detrimental effect of distractors in complex span tasks and the use of free time to "counteract" this. Distractors impair items encoded before them, however, time does not help counteract this.

Free Time Benefits Working Memory and Long-Term Memory differently: http://osf.io/ckz76/

I am super excited about our highly antcipated forthcoming special issue on the information exchange between working memory & long-term memory! It's been a pleasure to work with @leabartsch.bsky.social @edamizrak.bsky.social and @keisukefukuda.bsky.social on it -- check out our editorial!