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Xinchi Yu @xinchiyu.bsky.social · 7d

A pleasant surprise for our work 🙏. Grateful to my co-authors Sanikaa and Zane. (psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...)

nacs.umd.edu/news/paper-n...

Paper by NACS alum Xinchi Yu selected as Editor's Choice | NACS l Neuroscience and Cognitive Science l University of Maryland

Dr. Yu's paper was recognized by the the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

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Xinchi Yu @xinchiyu.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Mid Autumn 中秋 to those who celebrate it! It usually falls in the middle of the semester, so I’m often away. This year I am having the privilege of doing it back home, with grapes 🍇, nanguoli (a local specialty pear; www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/9/...), rice-field crabs 🦀, and mooncakes 🥮.

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 13d

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:

A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!

psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

psychiatry.ucsd.edu

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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · 14d

My talk at the ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference (ESISyNC) 2025 on "Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST", Frankfurt, 9.9.2025, to be found here on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDq...

Dr. Marc Wittmann, Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST

YouTube video by ESI Frankfurt

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 14d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Rutvik Desai @rutvikdesai.bsky.social · 20d

In addition to the 7 jobs in brain/language at University of South Carolina, we also have a philosophy job on issues related to AI
philjobs.org/job/show/29754

Assistant Professor in Philosophical Issues in Artificial Intelligence, University of South Carolina - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor in Philosophical Issues in Artificial Intelligence, Universi...

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 18d

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Careers at Drexel - Human Resources

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Heida Maria Sigurdardottir @heidasigurdar.bsky.social · 15d

This data collection started in COVID times, seems like eons ago. First paper is out ❤️ -- thank you
@bpitchford.bsky.social & Hélène Devillez for doing so much of the hard work. Free to read until November 2nd (or msg me): authors.elsevier.com/c/1lmUB6TBG5... #dyslexia #visionscience #neuroskyence

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Xinchi Yu @xinchiyu.bsky.social · 15d

ahahahahahahah🤣

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Xinchi Yu @xinchiyu.bsky.social · 15d

Just had the new Shakshuka McMuffin today at McDonalds, and it was divine... 😋 Apparently this item is only available in McDonalds in China right now, but I sincerely hope it gets available everywhere...

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Brent Pitchford @bpitchford.bsky.social · 20d

Excited to share a new article from @icevislab.bsky.social! In a sample of over 60 people, we found distinct neural differences underlying object and face recognition in dyslexia. These findings highlight crucial domain-general visual processes that may contribute to word reading challenges.

Distinct neural processing underlying visual face and object perception in dyslexia

Developmental dyslexia is a disorder marked by difficulties in reading, spelling, and connecting sounds to written language. The high-level visual dys…

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 21d

New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Planning to be incremental: Scene descriptions reveal meaningful clustering in language production

How do speakers plan complex descriptions and then execute those plans? In this work, we attempt to answer this question by asking subjects to describ…

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 26d

New work led by Jackie Fulvio that adds to growing evidence that dynamics in parietooccipital low-beta oscillations play an important role in the encoding of priority in visual working memory. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Effects of TMS on the decoding, electrophysiology, and representational geometry of priority in working memory

The flexible control of working memory (WM) requires prioritizing immediately task-relevant information while maintaining information with potential future relevance in a deprioritized state. Using do...

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William Matchin @wmatchin.bsky.social · 28d

@davidpoeppel.bsky.social receiving the well-deserved @snlmtg.bsky.social Distinguished Career Award

David has had a lasting and deep impact on the field and on his many successful trainees. David is also known for his enjoinders to engage positively with the world.

#SNL2025

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 29d

Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!

@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social

By me +
Hanna Hillman

We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue

Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...

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Hu Chuan-Peng @hcp4715.bsky.social · 29d

on my way to Porto for ICON, be very pleased to grab a cup of coffee with anyone interested in evidence accumulation model, self cognition, and OpenScience/metascience

Gabriel Weindel @gweindel.bsky.social · 29d

Will you be at #ICON2025 in Porto?
Then drop at our symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" (SY23, Thursday at 13.45) with @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social @hcp4715.bsky.social organized by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst

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Adam Morgan @adumbmoron.bsky.social · Sep 13

Excited to present this (now-published) project at the 11am poster session today. Poster C36 for the elevator version! #SNL2025

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure-dependent temporal dynamics - Communications Psychology

Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a different order than they are ...

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · Sep 13

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study

Tomoya Nakamura's first fMRI project

... in which we hereby release a preprint as a way of pre-registration

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Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study

This study aims to compare the neural representational geometry of visual perception and visual working memory using human fMRI. In our pilot experiment, observers viewed a face-scene blended image (s...

www.biorxiv.org

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Nic Porot @nicporot.bsky.social · Sep 12

Our entry (with @ericman.bsky.social ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out.

doi.org/10.21428/e27...

The Language of Thought Hypothesis

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Xinchi Yu @xinchiyu.bsky.social · Sep 12

How I wish I could be at SNL in DC! If you are there, please do check in on my University of Maryland folks (tons of fun stuff happening over there), and eat some soft-shell crabs 🦀️ on my behalf! xD linguistics.umd.edu/news/marylan...

Maryland at SNL in DC | Department of Linguistics

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Johannah Völler @jvoeller.bsky.social · Sep 12

👩‍💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · Sep 12

New preprint! 🚨We discuss the long-term memory consequences of fast visual perceptual learning: "From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective"

It's so great to work with @jvoeller.bsky.social and the team! Congrats for your first author manuscript, Johannah!

Johannah Völler @jvoeller.bsky.social · Sep 12

👩‍💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Isabel Courage @isabelcourage.bsky.social · Sep 12

A huge thanks to all participants, my fellow workshop co-organizers @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @ruhibhanap.bsky.social, and #ESCOP2025 for hosting our workshop introducing cognitive measurement models with the #bmm R package (venpopov.github.io/bmm/) - it was such a rewarding experience!

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Gidon Frischkorn @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yes, this was a really great experience! Thanks for @cvonbastian.bsky.social and @vmloaiza1.bsky.social for asking us to do this as part of #ESCOP2025! And if you are interested in having a similar workshop for your PhD Programm or similar, feel free to reach out!

Isabel Courage @isabelcourage.bsky.social · Sep 12

A huge thanks to all participants, my fellow workshop co-organizers @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @ruhibhanap.bsky.social, and #ESCOP2025 for hosting our workshop introducing cognitive measurement models with the #bmm R package (venpopov.github.io/bmm/) - it was such a rewarding experience!

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Sep 12

Intrinsic interval timing, not temporal prediction, underlies ramping dynamics in visual and parietal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.673960v1

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