Working Memory Early-career Researchers all around the world! A reminder that it’s 3 more days until WMS abstract submission deadline (May 31st).
If you have cool WM research that you want to share to the vibrant community of WM researchers, please submit your abstract (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...)
We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be...
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I defended my PhD thesis last week 🥳 I felt so happy to celebrate the end of this journey with so many wonderful people. It meant more to me than I can put into words. A special thank you to my supervisor @lauraklatt.bsky.social for her constant support over four years 🍀
It was AWESOME to see lots of EXCITING WM research spearheaded by early career researchers at @vssmtg.bsky.social!!! WMS community would LOVE to see your cool research in a form of talks and blitz! Abstract deadline is May 31st! (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...)
🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/
Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵
New preprint (doi.org/10.64898/202...) shows that where you look next is an economic decision.
Saccades trade off effort-costs (measured via pupil) against monetary rewards.
1) By default, participants have strong saccade direction preferences (e.g., cardinal over diagonal, up over down)
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By combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ...
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Large image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi...
🧠🎶 Letting participants choose their own music during the SART appears to reduce vigilance decline.
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Christoph Strauch
Michelle Greene
Now out in Current Opinion in Neurobiology! We propose that biases in perception & memory emerge naturally from an adaptive, hierarchical human learning system. w/ @timbrady.bsky.social + sky-less et al.
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Visual perception is imperfect. Fortunately, the environment contains an incredible amount of structure that observers can learn to exploit through ex…
Now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social ! We show that the persistence of memory biases across retrieval episodes may critically depend on attention to inducer stimuli during initial interference. w/ @keisukefukuda.bsky.social
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Matthieu Chidharom
Humans constantly compare their visual memories with similar visual inputs to modify their behavior adaptively. However, basic and applied studies sug…
