If you have benefited from Stan, you can contribute back to the project also by nominating yourself to be part of Stan Governing Body (you don't need to be a developer) discourse.mc-stan.org/t/elections-...

Abstract submission for WMS2026 (July 14th-17th) is now open! If you are an early career researcher of working memory, please let us hear about your cool work by submitting your abstract (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...). Deadline is May 31st.

BOLD is not a simple monotonic readout of local firing. Instead, it reflects the net activity of two opposing neural populations. Interpreting it may require modeling their latent composition, not just overall activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

New paper out 🧠 We synthesize findings from aging, ADHD, dyslexia & OCD and propose that event segmentation emerges from the interaction of attention, working memory, and schemas/contextual modulation. Curious to hear your thoughts! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I wrote up something that's been in my head for a while: psychometric methods alone can't tell us what cognitive tasks and their indicators measure. Correlating indicators across tasks is circular when constructs are defined by those same correlations. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/3

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

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📢 PhD position in the @cognition-zurich.bsky.social at University of Zurich I’ve been part of the lab for 7+ years, and it’s a genuinely collaborative and supportive place to grow as a researcher and do research on working memory and cognition 👇

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

New preprint with @chenyuli.bsky.social! We wrote a hands-on tutorial for applying the Memory Measurement Model (M3) to categorical recall data using the #bmm R package. It contains four examples, complete R scripts, and a parameter recovery workflow. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Very happy to share that the first project of my PhD journey has been accepted for publication in Imaging Neuroscience 👩🏼‍🔬 Give it a read 📖 and let me know what you think! direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Just a few more days left to apply! Come join our lab!🥳

@philippmusfeld.bsky.social , @joschadutli.bsky.social, @koberauer.bsky.social and I wrote up the result of three years of in lab discussions on setting priors in GLMs. Hope some of you find the proposed workflow and our recommendations helpful! #bayes #glm #brms #rstats

We Are R-Ladies 200+ chapters. 60+ countries. 100,000+ members. Since 2012, we've been promoting gender diversity in the R community — building a global network of R leaders, mentors, learners, and developers. This is who we are. rladies.org #RLadiesIWD2026 #IWD2026

We are looking for a new colleague!🧠🇨🇭🦩 A new post doc position is available in our lab - check the link for more details! www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...

Can We Process Information Without Encoding It into Working Memory? Our findings with @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @koberauer.bsky.social suggest that processing entails encoding. Task-irrelevant information enters working memory during processing, impairing memory for relevant information.

In a new review paper in @jcgntn.bsky.social , we compare the #BRAC framework with procedural #WM theories. We clarify where they agree & diverge, and demonstrate with simulations that procedural WM can capture hallmark BRAC effects. journalofcognition.org/articles/10....

"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/...

Again more interesting work on bridging #psychometrics with #experimentalpsychology! Looking forward to reading this preprint and it is awesome to see that more and more people are working at the intersection of psychometrics and experimental psychology!

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!

Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!

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.

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-...

The Cognition Lab @ University of Zurich is on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on new papers & preprints, conferences that lab members attend & other news around research on #workingmemory, #attention, and #longtermmemory.

Simonsohn has now posted a blog response to our recent paper about the poor statistical properties of the P curve. @clintin.bsky.social and I are finishing up a less-technical paper that will serve as a response. But I wanted to address a meta-issue *around* this that may clarify some things. 1/x

3/3 My personal highlight of #ESCOP2025 was becoming this year‘s #WomWom research fairy! 🧚‍♂️ Thanks again to all my fellow #WomeninWorkingMemory. It means a lot ❤️

The next installment (October 8th) of our OPAM Training Workshop series will feature Dr Caro Hautekiet (of Vrije Universiteit), who will be discussing pre-registration and registered reports. Visit this page for info on all our (free!) workshops: www.opamconference.com/workshops-su...

It was an absolute pleasure and so much fun to teach this course at #ESCoP25! Huge thanks to my co-organizers, all the participants, and the ESCoP team for making it such a fantastic experience!

Yes, this was a really great experience! Thanks for @cvonbastian.bsky.social and @vmloaiza1.bsky.social for asking us to do this as part of #ESCOP2025! And if you are interested in having a similar workshop for your PhD Programm or similar, feel free to reach out!

With less than week until #ESCOP2025, we're super excited to kick-off our conference with something truly special - an Algorave! 🤩 (1/12 👀)

Hey #memory folks, check out this new preprint by @joschadutli.bsky.social , @koberauer.bsky.social, and @leabartsch.bsky.social showing that elaboration benefits are likely driven by aiding in establishing efficient retrieval cues.

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

New content: Rodriguez, A., Musfeld, P., & Bartsch, L. M. (2025). The Flexibility of Working Memory in Drawing on Episodic Long-Term Memory Representations in Serial Recall. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 40, pp. 1–26. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

Super excited to share that Ven Popov & me published a new release of the #bmm R package: venpopov.github.io/bmm/ We have added the Memory Measurement Model for categorical #workingmemory tasks to the package! Apart from that there are some minor fixes to already implemented models and functions.

🚨 Calling all colleagues who work on #workingmemory and #aging 🚨 Do you have any unpublished data on age differences in WM? 👴 👵 🧠 🌨️ We're working on a BIG meta-analysis, and I'd love any and all data that are currently not "out there" for us to find! 🔬 🤓 Please repost for reach, thanks! 🔁 😁

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

🚨 New paper with Klaus Oberauer and Agnes Rosner exploring retrieval strategies in associative recognition using eye movements! #workingmemory #eyetracking Out now in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢Job ad Postdoc position (full-time, 3 years) in the DFG project Reliability in Intensive Longitudinal Data in Aachen (topics: psychometrics, intensive longitudinal data / ambulatory assessment data) www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/kbag/f... Application deadline is June 16

I am delighted to report that SIDIC, the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition, will return in 2025 as a Psychonomics affiliate meeting, & Akira Miyake will deliver the Keynote address. Submissions will open 6/15-8/1; please consider joining us! Info: caliberlab.wixsite.com/sidic2025

🚀Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project: "Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models" (funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de) 📅Start: 01.10.2025 | ⏳4 years 🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/jhbCen 🔄 Thanks for sharing!

Excellent comment by Oliver Wilhelm, Jasmin Thelen & Florian Schmiedek on a recent paper by Burgoyne et al. (2024) in PB&R: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

@psych.peercommunityin.org is getting ready to launch! This is going to be a major advance for open and transparent psychological science via preprint peer review. Looking for more RECOMMENDERS-- similar role to an AE at traditional journals. Please consider it and share news about the psych PCI!

Excited to share this new preprint of a project I did with Klaus Oberauer 🕺 osf.io/preprints/ps... In this study, we investigated the origin of the retro-cue benefit and observed that performance benefits because the cue protects against memory decay and test-display interference 😎 #workingmemory

Dear WM ECRs across the globe, please consider joining the BEST ONLINE conference ever!

Can removing info from working memory reduce interference or free up capacity? Our new study finds that removal boosts memory by freeing resources—not by reducing interference. chenyuli.bsky.social @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social koberauer.bsky.social 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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 PCI Psychology website is live! psych.peercommunityin.org We're working hard to be ready for launch (planned May 2025) but there's plenty you can do in the meantime to help it along. Go check it out! #psychscisky #scipub

I am looking forward to expanding the scope of my professorship by combining cognitive and statistical modeling with LLMs😊 There will be two job openings for postdoc positions soon - one starting in September 2025 and another one a year later.

Finally, Ven Popov's & my paper introducing the Bayesian Measurement Models (bmm: venpopov.github.io/bmm/) R package is published in Behavior Research Methods: rdcu.be/ehKtv In the paper we show how to use bmm for fitting mixture models for visual #workingmemory tasks.