The SPOHAD LAB has a homepage! www.spohadlab.com The next step on a two-year journey that started as a crazy study idea and slowly transformed into a full-fledged international collaboration - the Spohad Lab now has its own homepage.

New Paper out! My colleague Julia Pronoza used data from two of our previous studies to set up a computational model and gain insights into when prediction errors update existing memories vs create new ones. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

NEW PREPRINT Ukrainians are more positive about their collective future than Germans and Poles. They also see their personal future as more intertwined with their country's and feel more agency to be able to change their country's future.

The Memory Lab congratulates @mariusboeltzig.bsky.social to the successful defense of his PhD! Well done Dr. Boeltzig! 👨‍🎓 Marius did excellent research in the @schubotzlab.bsky.social on understanding how the size of prediction errors shapes episodic memory. 🧠 Make sure to check out his work!

After 3.5 years, I defended my PhD in Psychology, with my thesis "Learning From The Unexpected: How Prediction Error Size Shapes Episodic Memory". So grateful to colleagues, collaborators, and friends who were part of this journey!

Exactly three weeks before my PhD defense, the third and last paper of the thesis was published! We tested the neural correlates and representational and behavioural consequences of updating vs separating events after prediction errors. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Three studies of EU, UK, and US elections show that self-serving bias moderates the relationship between future thinking and remembering. @mariusboeltzig.bsky.social @scottcolepsych.bsky.social @clarerathbone.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Remembering and future thinking are related - but self-serving biases can influence their relationships. This is what our new paper shows in the context of political elections. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We are excited to share out new study investigating the importance of temporal and content structure when watching movies! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Just kicked off the Kyiv Winter School of Memory 2026 with over 70 participants of different universities in Ukraine. So rewarding to see this slightly crazy idea become a reality. Thanks to @linniplidot.bsky.social and Karine Malysheva (National University of Kyiv) for organising this with me.

Happy to belatedly share some good pre-Christmas news: My colleague Karine Malysheva from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and I secured a Collaborative Diversity and Inclusion grant from @officialsarmac.bsky.social.

I'm excited to share our new paper about initial prediction errors, which arise spontaneously at first exposure to coherent novel stimuli. In this study we investigated the neural and mnemonic consequences of initial PEs compared to those of experimentally induced PEs. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

If there is an account on Bluesky that deserves way more followers, it is this one!

How do gaze patterns and hand movements differ between actors in naturalistic manipulation tasks when one person's action respond to the other's? New research from our lab, led by post-doc Anoush, using eye tracking and motion capture elucidates these processes. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

We secured a grant from Lund University, allowing us to invite two collaborators, Karine Malyesheva and Illia Zarubin, from Taras Shevchenko University Kyiv for a week. Great discussions on future possibilities. @mikael-johansson.bsky.social @linniplidot.bsky.social @lund-memory-lab.bsky.social

That was an exciting week with NAC (Natural and Artificial Cognition) and the SweCog (Swedish Cognition) conference in Lund!🤩 We had the opportunity to present our research on eye tracking and multi tasking, social inferences, how our brain extracts specifics and gist, and war memories in Ukraine.

It was great to present my poster on distinct encoding after large predictions errors at ICON last week. Thanks to all who passed by to have a chat (i.e., shouting at each other at the top of one‘s lungs).

New Paper Out! Why do some prediction errors (PEs) lead to changes in episodic memories and others do not? Our new research supports the idea that the size of the episodic PE plays a crucial role in shaping mnemonic and neural outcomes. These are the 4 most important results:

Presenting our work on future thinking and remembering around elections today at @sarmac2025.bsky.social - Session 7, 11:40 (my talk starts around 12:10) in Moore Abbey. Pass by if you’re around! @studentssarmac.bsky.social

It was great to present this work for the first time - and looking forward to doing this again at @officialsarmac.bsky.social in Ireland next week!

Marius @mariusboeltzig.bsky.social presented his poster on the influence of prediction error size on memory - showing that large prediction errors lead to distinct encoding of new episodes, while keeping old ones intact.

The first paper of my PhD is out now in Neuroimage: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great experience to present at @teap2025.bsky.social this year!

Register by tomorrow for this lovely conference!

The deadline to submit abstracts for posters, talks and symposia for GEM 2025 is fast approaching. Have your submissions in by 15.03.2025 The deadline will not be extended! for2812.rub.de/gem2025 #DFG_for2812 #gem2025 #interdisciplinaryresearch #generative_episodic_memory #memory #neuroscience

This gets more true by the second.

We are looking for German or Ukrainian people participants for a 20-40 minutes survey. Topics are Flashbulb Memories, Negative Memories, and Future Thinking - and there are vouchers to be won.

The abstract submission of GEM 2025, which is organised by my research consortium @for2812.bsky.social is now open. It's a great interdisciplinary conference on constructive memory - and I will organise the PhD symposium, so I'd be happy to see some Blueskyers there :) for2812.rub.de/gem2025/

The ultimate test of a social network for psychologists is whether they can recruit participants... So - if you are German or Ukrainian: Please consider taking part in our online survey (25-40 minutes). It is about how you imagine the future,...

New paper from our lab in NeuroImage on cortical chronotopy, led by Falko Mecklenbrauck! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper from our lab on prediction errors in episodic memory. This is the first paper with our new stimulus material in the PEGI project - a lot more is to come.

My new paper on the effect of prediction errors on episodic memory is out now in Memory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our lab member Benjamin Jainta successfully defended his PhD! In a great presentation, he summarised his work about prediction errors in episodic memory and highlighted effects of repetition, repeated learning, agency, and perspective.

If you are from the UK or have colleagues there, please consider participating or sharing our survey on the upcoming general elections. It would help us tremendously for this passion project. Thank you! @scottcolepsych.bsky.social @clarerathbone.bsky.social

🔍 We are looking for participants for a study about politics and the UK general election. 🎁 Every participant gets a chance to win one of four 50 GBP Love2Shop vouchers. ➡️ Link: run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...

Excitingly, the Scientific American reported on our paper showing that we are better at making connections across episodes when information is associated with people from our own groups. Read the catchy short story here... www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-l...

Our post doc Sophie won one of the poster prizes at PUG with her work on episodic memory after prediction errors. Congratulations! Read the paper here: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Went to my first PUG conference in Hamburg last week - presented some very fresh analyses on memory representations after prediction errors, and got lots of interesting new input on all things cognitive neuroscience.

🔍🇪🇺Wir suchen Teilnehmende für eine Studie zu Politik und der Europawahl. 🎁Unter den Teilnehmenden werden 10x 25€ Wunschgutscheine verlost. 📝Zwei Fragebögen, je 15 Minuten - einer ab jetzt bis zum 2. Juni, der zweite kommt später per Mail. run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...

Great journal club article by my friend and colleague Linn Petersdotter about @memorycontrol.bsky.social's review paper on active forgetting. Worth reading and worth following what she's up to in the future!

Rather excited that my poster won the first poster prize at the TeaP conference in Regensburg last week. Certainly a new and interesting experience to present research in front of a jury. Thanks to @pastotter.bsky.social & colleagues for organising!

After starting out as my Master's project almost three years ago, my first paper is out! Associative inference, a process which uses pre-existing memories to derive new knowledge, is enhanced when information stems from an ingroup source. Do check it out :) www.nature.com/articles/s44...