I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension.
Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests.
More details on gunselilab.com soon.
Excited to share our new paper on how distraction affects memory retrieval.
Using a continuous report paradigm, we show that distraction reduces whether memories are accessed but not how precisely they are represented.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Huge congratulations to Nursima Ünver (@nunvera.bsky.social), who initiated this project during her Master's and continued to spearhead it after moving abroad for her PhD. Well done!
We initially expected distraction to reduce precision, helping explain mixed findings in the literature on distraction costs: some tasks may tap into precision more.
However, distraction selectively reduced accessibility. Thus, the source of mixed findings remains unclear.
Across these profiles, segmentation differences map onto specific constraints:
• attentional lapses → misaligned or excess boundaries
• WM limits → difficulty maintaining event structure
• schemas → stabilization, but also systematic biases
Importantly, once disrupted, retrieval was not easily recovered.
After distraction, the same item was presented again at test, yet performance remained impaired, suggesting that retrieval is not easily re-established once interrupted.
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Check out @jonathannicholas.bsky.social 's new preprint measuring eye movements to infer individual memory retrievals during decision making, plus a cool RNN modelof that process. Can't express how excited I am about this new technique!
We make flexible choices in new situations by knitting together information from separate relevant memories.
But what governs which memories are retrieved and when?
In a new preprint, we captured how people build decision variables from different memories by tracking their gaze on a blank screen.
This work was very much driven by Berna’s independent work.
She led the synthesis and pushed the framework into a clear, mechanism-focused direction.
Curious to hear thoughts!
Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab at Sabancı University - Eren Günseli. We study how memory and attention interact, how humans control what to remember, what to forget, what to attend to, and...