Beyond thrilled to share that I've been selected as the winner of the 2025 Dean's Award for Graduate Research Excellence! So grateful to my incredible mentors, Julie Bugg, Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social, and Todd Braver, who made this possible.

More here!
artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/gr...

Thrilled to announce our new paper in JEP: General!
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

We show how proactive control declines while reactive control remains robust across the lifespan, using multiple measures of both in a novel Stroop paradigm. A very rich, open dataset for future modeling projects!

New modeling paper, spearheaded by Raphael Geddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, now out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: "Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility".
Free read link: rdcu.be/epatc

We're organizing a symposium in Ghent on "Flexible Definitions of Cognitive Flexibility" on Wednesday, September 10th, with six exciting speakers: shengjiexu.ugent.be/CoCoFlex_Sem.... Registration is free, but seats are limited. You can also submit poster or talk abstracts by July 31st!

New paper out in JEP:HPP! 🚨
We showed that people flexibly and automatically use environmental cues to regulate attention, even when unpredictable, attention-grabbing distractors hit from multiple senses. Disruption was short-lived, and control bounced back quickly!
📃 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Two new preprints from my group at WashU!

First, Merve @mileritayar.bsky.social tests whether people place an effort cost on switching between cognitive control settings. We find that people avoid switching between focused and relaxed attentional states.

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First post with my first publication of 2025! 🎉 "Does item-specific cognitive control operate at the item level?" is now out in JEP:LMC! As a group of item-specific control enthusiasts, we put this idea to the test—does it really work at the item level? Check it out here!

doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...