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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Jul 11

Huge kudos to @bernaguler.bsky.social for spearheading this project from design to writing, and to Fatih Serin for his critical contributions throughout. It was a privilege to collaborate with such brilliant and dedicated colleagues.
We'd love to hear your thoughts!

Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Jul 11

These results challenge the long-standing view that prediction errors are the key triggers of event segmentation. Instead, they suggest that stable contextual structure is what shapes episodic memory.

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Jul 11

In Experiment 4, we manipulated predictability: some context transitions were preceded by a counter, making them fully expected. Segmentation was equally strong, whether transitions were predictable or not.

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Jul 11

In Experiments 1–3, transitions across stable contexts (e.g., task rule, object category) produced stronger segmentation than prediction errors without stable context. Prediction error alone wasn’t enough.

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Jul 11

We directly compared these two views across four experiments by independently manipulating contextual stability and prediction error—something past studies often confounded.

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Jul 11

Event segmentation—the process of turning continuous experience into discrete memory episodes—is thought to be triggered by prediction errors. But an alternative account suggests it’s transitions between stable contexts that matter more.

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Jul 11

We just published a new paper in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review examining what drives how people segment continuous experience into distinct memory events.
The takeaway: contextual stability, not prediction error, is the main driver.🧵https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02723-4

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Lea Bartsch @leabartsch.bsky.social · May 22

New Preprint with @edamizrak.bsky.social! Performance in immediate memory tasks reflects a flexible mixture of contributions of #workingmemory and LTM. Distraction disrupts WM, while PI impairs retrieval from LTM; when both are in play, performance depends on the relative reliability of each system

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · May 22

Interactions of Working and Long-term Memory - Evidence from Proactive Interference in the Brown-Peterson Task: https://osf.io/zemkw

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · May 22

Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦

Communication of perceptual predictions from the hippocampus to the deep layers of the parahippocampal cortex

High-resolution neuroimaging reveals stimulus-specific predictions sent from hippocampus to the neocortex during perception.

www.science.org

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · May 20

Also by former lab members:

Nursena Ataseven: Revealing the effect of regularities on representations in visual working memory.

Nursima Ünver: EEG decoding reveals a link between visual working memory fidelity and the magnitude of similarity-induced memory bias.

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · May 20

3 more talks from our lab at #VSS2025:

1) Yaren on how trial ratios between memory and search tasks affect attentional capture

2) Eren (on behalf of Yakup) on how anticipating extra working memory (WM) load influences reliance on long-term memory

3) Şahcan on how action plans shape WM updating

Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · May 19

A correction for our #VSS2025 presentations: Berna's poster on the role of working memory in the temporal structuring of episodic memories is tomorrow morning at 8:30 in Pavilion. Here is the corrected list of our posters.

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · May 20

Correction on the first announcement: Berna Güler is presenting now in Pavilion. The poster (#481) is regarding the working memory's role on the temporal structuring of episodic memories. It is hidden among temporal processing posters. :)

Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · May 20

Correction on the first announcement: Berna Güler is presenting now in Pavilion. The poster (#481) is regarding the working memory's role on the temporal structuring of episodic memories. It is hidden among temporal processing posters. :)

Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · May 19

A correction for our #VSS2025 presentations: Berna's poster on the role of working memory in the temporal structuring of episodic memories is tomorrow morning at 8:30 in Pavilion. Here is the corrected list of our posters.

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · May 18

May 20, 2:45 - 6:45 PM, Pavilion
56.425 EEG decoding reveals a link between visual working memory fidelity and the magnitude of similarity-induced memory bias. Nursima Ünver, Rosanne Rademaker, Keisuke Fukuda

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · May 18

Also see posters of former lab members :)

May 20, 2:45 - 6:45 PM, Pavilion
56.430 Revealing the effect of regularities on representations in visual working memory. Nursena Ataseven, Sahcan Özdemir, Daniel Schneider, Wouter Kruijne, Elkan G. Akyürek

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · May 18

Dear #VSS2025 attendees! Our lab will be presenting 5 posters over the next two days. We’re excited to share our work: Come visit us!

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Apr 3

Our revised preprint demonstrates event boundaries are formed by transitions across stable contexts. Moreover, we show that prediction errors do not affect event segmentation as previously suggested. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Apr 3

and a small monthly stipend. Explore our projects here: pure.sabanciuniv.edu/projects?fac.... General information here: pure.sabanciuniv.edu/announcement...

Active Projects | PURE

Sabancı Üniversitesi, Orta Mahalle, Üniversite Caddesi No:27 Tuzla, 34956 İstanbul +90 216 483 90 00 +90 (216) 483 9005

https://pure.sabanciuniv.edu/projects?faculty=FASS&term=2024-2025+Summer&field_project_program_value=PSY

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Apr 3

Undergrads seeking hands-on research experience: Join one of our two cognitive psychology projects! Participate in data collection, attend meetings, interpret results, and engage in discussions. Free accommodation provided; selected students will also receive flight tickets...1/2

Active Projects | PURE

Sabancı Üniversitesi, Orta Mahalle, Üniversite Caddesi No:27 Tuzla, 34956 İstanbul +90 216 483 90 00 +90 (216) 483 9005

https://pure.sabanciuniv.edu/projects?faculty=FASS&term=2024-2025+Summer&field_project_program_value=PSY

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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · Mar 12

We make about 3-4 fast eye movements a second, yet our world appears stable. How is this possible? In a preprint led by @lucakaemmer.bsky.social we test the intriguing idea that anticipatory signals in the fovea may explain visual stability.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

a woman in a white shirt is standing in front of a refrigerator in a store .

ALT: a woman in a white shirt is standing in front of a refrigerator in a store .

media.tenor.com

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Mar 7

Exciting new preprint with former lab member @sahcan.bsky.social and his supervisor, Daniel Schneider. Şahcan's work reveals how action correspondence influences working memory gating, increasing atraction bias toward distractors that share action plans with working memory items.

Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · Mar 7

Preprint Alert!!

In our latest study, we describe a novel relationship between action planning and working memory. Our results show that action-item associations affect how working memory maintains the fidelity of sensory information during a task.

Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Motor control processes moderate visual working memory gating

Gating processes that regulate sensory input into visual working memory (WM) and the execution of planned actions share neural mechanisms, suggesting a mutual interaction. In a preregistered study (OS...

www.biorxiv.org

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Feb 23

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Bilişsel İşlevlerin Amaca Yönelik ve Adaptif Boyutları Kitabını indirimli fiyata Satın Al - Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık

Binlerce eğitim ve akademik kitapları basılı ve dijital kitap veriyonları ile ulaşabileceğiniz adres

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Jan 28

AP&P is looking for its next Editor-in-Chief to follow in the footsteps of the great Sarah Shomstein! If you're interested or know someone who might be, check out the details. The deadline for nominations is Feb 15, 2025! www.psychonomic.org/page/2025app...

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · Nov 22

This evening, Berna Güler (@bernaguler.bsky.social) will present her poster exploring how context transitions—not prediction errors—trigger event segmentation.

Come to discuss our findings at the Psychonomic Society Meeting!

Poster #4056 | Time: 7:45-9:15 pm

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