We had a great time at #ESCOP2025 last week! 🤩 All lab members had the chance to present their work and engage in inspiring conversations. Many thanks to the organizers for such a well-run and engaging conference!🥳

Come work with us on #workingmemory !🦩🧠

Thank you @annemscheel.bsky.social for visiting us in Geneva, we were delighted to get to know & exchange with you!💬 Your insightful meta-science talk put the underlying structure of research (the different processes of scientific discovery, testing, & inference) into perspective - so helpful! ⚙️🤓

This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Benjamin Kowialiewski in our lab!🤩 He gave a very insightful talk on his work on the free time benefit, sparking some great discussions around the topic ⏰🧠

🔐⚛️💬🧠 Join us for a talk by Anne Scheel (open science/metascience researcher: www.uu.nl/staff/AMSche... It will be next Thursday, May 22nd at 12h15 – 13h45 (Salle Uni-Mail 1130) on "Detecting and explaining psychological phenomena" using exploratory vs. confirmatory research. Everyone is welcome!

Great atmosphere at the Open Science day of the KU Leuven when Evie Vergauwe @evievergauwe.bsky.social member of our steering committee, gave a keynote titled "Open Science needs more than enthusiasm". Photo: Aziza Menouni #openscience #swissrn #reproducibility

We’ve submitted our official statement on Switzerland’s 2027 austerity package. Why? Because cutting education and research means cutting our future. SwissRN stands for rigorous, transparent and reproducible science - this needs stable funding, not short-term savings. www.swissrn.org/contents/new...

Congratulations to our master student Meghana for her great poster presentation at the Neuroscience Master Day at Campus Biotech! She presented her project plan to use EEG to decode working memory content. 🧠💭

Item vs order: a battle for attention? @johannahein.bsky.social shared her research on how attention supports the maintenance of what’s remembered & in what sequence. We’re looking forward to the next series of results! And yes, we’ll be keeping everything in order for the line-up of lab updates 🧠📋

⏳⏰🧠 Tic-toc, it’s research o’clock! In today’s lab meeting, our teammate Ruiheng Zhang shared her latest work on how free time affects working memory. With some early results already on the table, it seems future insights are just a matter of time… we’ll definitely be sticking around for seconds!🧠⏰⏳

Congratulations to Kishen Senziani, master student and research assistant in the lab, who very successfully defended his thesis yesterday 🎉🥳🙌 He examined the role of gamma oscillations in improving learning in children and young adults

Happy to share that this work is now (finally) published in JEP:HPP 🕺 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

In this week’s lab meeting, @nlangerock.bsky.social presented her insightful research on the proactive maintenance of working memory representation in children and adults 🚀

‼️And another one, examining strategic prioritization in #workingmemory

🚨New preprint out by @carohautekiet.bsky.social @evievergauwe.bsky.social @as-souza.bsky.social 🚨

We were pleased to have Martin Constant (postdoc in the Visual Cognition Lab @Unige) as a guest speaker in our lab meeting, presenting research on how visual WM performance is influenced by relative &absolute salience depending on task design. Thank you for the interesting presentation &discussion!

In this week’s lab meeting, our lab member Christina Lutz @luchris.bsky.social presented her work on differences in conditional reasoning between adults and children, across different test modalities. We had great discussions and are already looking forward to hearing more about her results soon🤩

We are looking forward to this semesters’ program! 🤩 Starting off *this Friday* already, with a fun Game on Open Access by de Andrade and colleagues (2021, University of Antwerp) See you there!🚀

This week, we had the pleasure of having Alexandre Fortuna present his work in our lab meeting!😊 Alexandre is a PhD student at the University of Geneva, examining the effect of retro cue validity on memory resource allocation and attentional template efficiency.

Reminder: #LoveDataWeek25 starts Feb 10! Explore events or register yours at https://buff.ly/4aEq2lh. Get a head start with "Love Data: Persistent Identifiers - the ORCID Advantage" hosted by Rochester University on Feb 5. Register at: https://buff.ly/40F6icW.

Useful article on writing by the author Julia Rohrer: www.the100.ci/2024/12/01/w...

We are currently building the largest, cross-domain data set of human behavior as part of an open collaborative project. Contributions of any form are welcome, but especially experiments with meta-data from developmental, cross-cultural, or clinical studies. More details: github.com/marcelbinz/P...

Ever wondered why only some memories 🧠 come easily? Our latest work (osf.io/preprints/ps...) led by S. Haridi, with @ericschulz.bsky.social, shows that targeted memory retrieval speeds up with precise semantic and temporal retrieval cues. Hence, crafting cues can give you instant access to memories⚡

We love to share new papers on here. But how many of the studies that scientists preregister on the Open Science Framework are never shared publicly? In a new paper in AMPPS we estimate 40% of preregistered studies are never shared. That’s a lot. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🧵⤵️

Happy start of the Chinese New Year 2025! As we slither into the Zodiac Year of the Snake, let's shed old habits and embrace fresh ideas and discoveries. Here's to unraveling the mysteries of working memory, as if charmers of the brain 🐍✨🧠. Cheers to a year of breakthroughs!

Congratulations to Hiroyasu Mishima for successfully defending his master thesis!🎉 As part of the Master of Neuroscience program, he worked on decoding the content of working memory using EEG and MVPA🧠✨

🎄 A cheerful and heartfelt Merry Christmas from the Womcogdev Lab! 🌟 Here's to a joyful holiday season, and may our working memory stay sharp for all the wonders ahead in 2025! 🧠✨

Entering my final year as editor of @psychscience.bsky.social #AMPPS in 2025. I'd love for us to receive papers on open science practices in human neuroscience-- any of the sub-areas (social, affective, etc)! Send us a best practices paper. Also: which are the strong papers out there now?

New blogpost! I promised to write some with advice for different career stages, but first I've written about the why rather than the how - why we might be academics in the first place. Enjoy! #Cognition #CogSci #neuroskyence #psychscisky 🧪

Shout-out to Marion Bouffier for starting this great initiative, creating a supportive discussion space where academics can openly share their challenges and exchange valuable tips. Join the last session of 2024 on Dec 17th over lunchtime at Unimail (new dates will follow in 2025)!

Our last #reproducibilitea session of 2024 is gonna be great for ECRs & anyone interested in a new tool to ease the #peer #review process! 📖🧐 Be sure to join us this Friday in #Geneva (Uni Mail) or #online via Zoom (DM for link)! See you there & don't forget your mug! 🍵☕ @reproducibilitea.org

New paper from our lab!🙌

Thank you to all the CowanFest presenters for sharing your research and celebrating Dr. Nelson Cowan. Nelson’s unwavering dedication to the field—to the work and to its people—inspires so many. @ncowan51.bsky.social @candicemorey.bsky.social @lsuemily.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social

Last week, we were happy to welcome Dominic Guitard in our lab! He gave a very interesting talk on his Embedded Computational Framework of Memory and how it can predict verbal working memory. We really enjoyed having him as our visitor!😊

A highlight: celebrating @ncowan51.bsky.social at the Cowan Festschrift satellite conference!🛰️🌟 - @evievergauwe.bsky.social gave an engaging and inspiring talk!🎙️💬 - @johannahein.bsky.social & @luchris.bsky.social presented posters at both the Festschrift and Psychonomics.👏 #psynom24 #workingmemory

What an incredible conference in New York—city that never sleeps! 🍎🌇🗽✨ Right in the heart of Manhattan, with breathtaking views of Times Square’s bustling energy, we got to listen, present, and connect at #psynom24 (@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social)! 🤓📊 #conference #psychology #NYC #Psychonomics

It was wonderful to catch up with old friends &meet new ones at #psynom24! 🗽🌎 Big thanks to the organizers @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social for a seamless &inspiring event. Special thanks to #WomWoM for the amazing meetups! To everyone who made the event warm, friendly, and inclusive: THANK YOU. 💛

We also presented in the poster sessions! #ICWM @nlangerock.bsky.social: -dev. shifts in working memory (WM) control -WM span &cognitive load effects in action video game players @carohautekiet.bsky.social: -priorization in WM @johannahein.bsky.social: -individual differences in distractibility

@EvieVergauwe gave a talk about two families of focus of attention effects! #ICWM

We had a fantastic time at #ICWM ! 🙌 Thank you for the organizers for a great conference!

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We were delighted to have Berna Güler & Duygu Yücel visit us for 2 weeks 🙌🤓! In addition to wonderful presentations on event segmentation & WM for search vs recognition, we had the chance to connect and exchange in the lab, with fondue by the lake, at a street food festival, & evening drinks 😊☀️🌇🍹🫕.

There is still time to apply for one of the PhD positions offered in the Working memory, Cognition, and Development Lab in Geneva! Apply until May 17th (5 pm, CEST UTC/GMT +2)! 🦩📃✨🎓 Students currently in the final months of their Master's will also be considered.

We were delighted to have Mirko Thalmann visit us in Geneva! He presented his research on individual differences in exploration using few-armed-bandit tasks and modeling, and shared his experience and advice on career pathways in academia vs. industry in a lecture for Master students! Thank you!

Come work with us and study working memory in young adults and children! 🦩🧠💾 We are opening two PhD positions in the Working memory, Cognition, and Development Lab (University of Geneva, Prof. Dr. Evie Vergauwe), starting Sept-Dec 2024. Please share! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/214148

Want to learn how observational data can give insight into causal effects? How to specify a target trial & use prediction models for causal insight? Sign-up now for "Intro to Causal Inference and Causal Data Science", Aug 5-9 Utrecht: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/heal... @vanamsterdam.bsky.social

Hope to see you on April 8th at the Flux Outreach Meeting "Navigating the Teen Mind: Insights into Adolescent Mental Health"! There will be one broadcast for European timezones and one for US timezones. Register today: fluxsociety.org/2024-outreac... Everyone welcome, no science background needed!

FORRT is an international community of 850+ scholars aiming to integrate open scholarship principles into higher education and to advance research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics through pedagogical reform and metascience.

Explore the critical perspectives on metascience reform at COS’s upcoming symposium on March 7! Talks from @devezer.bsky.social, @penders.bsky.social, @tomhostler.bsky.social, @nicolecnelson.bsky.social, Stephan Guttinger, and Sarahanne Field. Register now: bit.ly/499ti6F.

Thank you @amandawaterman.bsky.social for visiting and for holding a tour-de-force talk on the development of working memory!