Brain and Cognition Lab

🔭JOB ALERT🔬 2 postdoc positions in my lab at the University of Trento, IT, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. TOPIC: Investigating predictive neural representations in naturalistic settings using MEG-based dynamic RSA. See thread and CALL below for details, or write me for more info!

PhD opportunity in our lab to investigate how the brain makes decisions. 4 year PhD through the BBSRC/MIBTP programme Interested in joining us? Please get in touch! ⏰ Application deadline: 23 November 2026 🔗 www.rezavallab.org #PhDOpportunity #Neuroscience #Drosophila

Why changing your diet is hard: researchers in the Levy lab (@ifatlevy.bsky.social) found that pre-existing food preferences can interfere with learning new food-value associations. But challenging preferences early may make it easier to update those associations.

I’m looking for two PhD students with competitively awarded scholarships: 1) Cognitive maps for causal inference warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... 2) Brain mechanisms of working memory removal and repetitive negative thinking midlandsmhndtp.ac.uk/project/2027...

I'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! We study how the brain perceives, remembers, and predicts naturalistic experiences like movies and games, using computational tools to analyze behavioral and neural data 🧠 App deadline is 12/2/26 - see our lab pubs on our website www.dpmlab.org/pubs.html

2003 saw the birth of the retro-cue task. 23 years later, we adapt this logic to LTM and ask how attention shapes LTM retrieval. Check out our paper in Communications Psychology: www.nature.com/articles/s44... w/ @william-nm.bsky.social, Kia, and lab alumni Nahid and @norarouast.bsky.social 1/n

Happy to share the final project from my PhD: "Simulated field potentials capture multiple simultaneous processes underlying human temporal attention," now a preprint on bioRxiv. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Open Postdoc (80%) in our Lab @uzh-ch.bsky.social (PI: Klaus Oberauer) Topics are: Working memory, long-term memory, attention; experiments, individual differences, computational modeling. Start Dec 2026 to Feb 2027, until June 2030. Apply by Oct 15; Questions to: k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

The deadline to apply for WTI's Postdoctoral Fellowships is October 1. WTI Fellowships provide a competitive salary, structured mentorship, access to world-class facilities + more. Apply today: apply.interfolio.com/189775 #ScienceAtYale

Recruiting a new PhD student to start Fall 2027. Research would focus on Visual Working Memory, possibly with a developmental approach (but not necessarily). Check out my lab website where the are links to the application and contact info if you have questions. rickermemorylab.com

New paper from the Neurosurgery Research Team at BCM! “Neural geometry in the human hippocampus enables generalization across spatial position and gaze” led by @assiachericoni.bsky.social! 🧵 www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

The ABCD Study at Yale is hiring a new post-baccalaureate research assistant! This is a great position to gain hands-on research experience in the field and to learn more about adolescent brain and behavioral development! 🧠 @theabcdstudy.bsky.social candlab.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

New preprint! In this study, the fantastic Apoorva Sharma demonstrates that the amount of time that passes during motor preparation can "tag" for retrieval otherwise competing motor memories. Modeling work links these fx to putative temporal basis sets in the cerebellar cortex. Feedback welcome!

📣 Check out our latest preprint with @kianobre.bsky.social, spearheaded by the incredible @dxywei.bsky.social! Across four experiments, we compare the behavioural and neural signatures of selecting real-world objects in perception and working memory. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our latest findings show that when we remember the duration of a visual event, we don’t use the same organisational format in working memory as when we retain other visual features such as colour. Check out our recent preprint, led by @annavanharmelen.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.64898/202...

New preprint from the lab. We think we have a solution (two, actually) to a long-standing problem in the field of response inhibition. Using two different mathematical approaches, we think we can identify long-hypothesized inhibitory 'trigger failure' trials. More in🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🌈 New preprint! With Sage, Melissa, and Kia (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social, @scenegrammarlab.bsky.social, @kianobre.bsky.social), we explore how attention is divided across external perception and internal working memory - revealing a dynamic trade-off between these two domains. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Happy #BINW26 !! I'm Dr. Clíona Murray and I am the Co-Director of Programming at Black In Neuro. The future that I'm reimagining is one where we can authentically show up in a space that was never designed for us. Each and every member of the BIN community remind me of that. So, thank you all 🫶🏽

My lab is hiring! We are recruiting a full time research coordinator to support our projects on memory brain states. More info and application: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

This recent post by @earlkmiller.bsky.social got my attention. It shows how abstraction could emerge in the primate PFC. The paper is hard, but the main idea can be simplified to low-dims, so I made fun a little animation. A🧵with my toy model and notes: #neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI

The B&C Lab is excited to take part in this year’s @wmsymposium.bsky.social Lab members @william-nm.bsky.social will give his talk on Wednesday (July 15) at 12 pm (CDT) and @sabomelinda.bsky.social on Friday (July 17) at 9 am (CDT). They will present work on the interaction between attention-WM-LTM

Preprint alert! 🚀 Spontaneous eye blinks are often treated as EEG artefacts. We show they can serve as temporal markers of internal attention, aligning with moments of attentional focusing in working memory. Check it out:

ATTENTION!!! The program of Working Memory Symposium (WMS) 2026 (July 14-17) is out! sites.google.com/view/wmsympo... This year, WMS will feature a single stream presentation of 52 talks (39 talks and 13 blitz) + 1 panel discussion across 4 days. Looking forward to seeing you all!!!

Our cerebellum+RL paper is now out in the Journal of Neuroscience! "The Human Cerebellum Encodes Temporally Sensitive Reinforcement Learning Signals" @sfnjournals.bsky.social @sfn.org www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...

Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

⏰ What time is it? 🧚‍♀️It's research fairy time! Please share widely and nominate early and often (by Aug 2) those fantastic female researchers that we are privileged to have have in our field ✨🪄 forms.gle/Znh4zgtXgWQK...

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

„Potential mechanisms and functional significance of aperiodic neural activity“ Timely review article by Michael Preston Jr, @syd-smith.bsky.social & Brad Voytek

🎉Save the date! Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug 2. We're celebrating our 6th annual BIN Week with returning favorites like #NeuroRacism, #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, and #BINRollCall plus a brand new theme: #BlackInTime. ✨ 🧠 #BINW26 #AReimaginedFuture