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Welcome, fellow working memory researchers! It's time to decide who should be this year's research fairy. If you are not yet aware of the story about this award or would like a refresher, please che...
Single and multiple systems in categorization and category learning www.nature.com/articles/s44...#neuroscience
Classifying the world into categories is fundamental to human cognition. In this Review, Minda et al. highlight the assumptions and operating characteristics of theories positing multiple versus singl...
Decoding load or selection in visuospatial working memory? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...#neuroscience
It takes half a second to remove visuospatial information from working memory. Applying MVPA to decode working memory load from EEG data can be confounded by selection decoding. Selection of visual i...
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Two PhD positions in cognitive psychology/cognitive development University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland The successful applicants will work with Prof. Dr. Evie Vergauwe in the Working memory, Cognition and Development Lab. Application deadline: 17 May 2024
Applications are invited for two funded doctoral positions (4 years), with flexible starting date between September and December 2024. The successful applicants will work with Prof. Dr.
Preparing a seminar session on questionable research practices and why to avoid them for my psychology Master students. I'm sure that there are tons of good papers and resources so I don't have to reinvent the wheel. Please share and post your favourites! #OpenScience#AcademicSky
Over the last few years, I have been reflecting a lot about my mentorship qualities, so much so that I made a slidedeck to be fully transparent to future mentees. In case it's helpful to others, and not just more evidence of how neurotic I am, here it is! osf.io/dk9wv
New paper alert! 🙌 In our new replication study led by @sjiang.bsky.socialwww.nature.com/articles/s44...#workingmemory
In contrast to recent findings, a replication study shows no effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on visual working memory.
Academic Bsky ❗️Need your expertise on a tricky situation! 👀 Recently, I stumbled upon the Leopoldina Postdoc Fellowship (leopoldina.org/en/funding/leo…), but hit a roadblock. The fellowship specifies German, Austrian, or Swiss nationality as a "requirement". 1/n
Was curious to see if ChatGPT is still having a breakdown so I asked it some anatomy and it has just generated rubbish as usual. This stuff is going to pollute the internet shortly. We should lock down Wikipedia while it is still unsullied, and conclude that human knowledge curation has peaked ☹️
It's out! 🤩 New paper led by my brilliant PhD student Christoph Löffler, in which we show that individual differences in executive functions (updating, inhibition, shifting) measure nothing but individual differences in the speed of information processing: doi.org/10.1007/s004...