The Working Memory Symposium is now open for abstract submissions! The deadline is May 31st, and the link and additional details can be found at our homepage: wmsymposium.org. Share with all the early-career researchers so we can hope to feature them and their work!

We applied GPT-4 to interpretability — automatically proposing explanations for GPT-2's 300k neurons — and found neurons responding to concepts like similes, “things done correctly,” or expressions of certainty. We aim to use Al to help us understand Al: openai.com/research/langu…

Now hiring 🎓! Excited that together with Tomas Knapen we are looking for a PhD student to use brain decoding to investigate at what level of the cortex hypnosis overrides automated instances of information processing (such as Stroop interference). Pls RT! workingat.vu.nl/ad/phd-4-years…

📢 Excited to share our (@SageBoettcher, Freek van Ede, Kia Nobre) new preprint! Our eye-tracking study sheds light on the fascinating dynamics of attention as it transitions between perception and working memory in the service of a common task. psyarxiv.com/qtsu7

1/5: Very happy to announce our new preprint "CDA and alpha lateralization reflect retinotopic and screen-centered reference frames in visual memory" with Wanja Mössing, Svea Schröder & Anna Lena Biel. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Short summary follows:

Introducing BrainGPT.org, a large language model (LLM) to assist neuroscience research. BrainGPT is trained on the vast neuroscience literature and can be used to optimize study design, detect anomalous results, and evaluate models against broad data patterns. (1/3)

Hope you find these findings as intriguing as we do - our latest on using fixational gaze behaviour to uncover the principles of attention and working memory: efficient spatial coding for covert selective attention: doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Our latest findings help explain why microsaccades and attention shifts are often correlated but not obligatorily linked: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Microsaccades and covert attention are closely related, but not always linked. Our new study tries to explain this relationship through a simple design: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In academia, there is always work to do. So, I've developed some rules that help me maintain my peace in this busy career. 1/4 1. No meetings on Mondays. -Mondays for me are for catching up on work and e-mails. This helps me feel productive at the beginning of every week.

Our findings of joint selection of past and future attributes in visual working memory led by Baiwei Liu now out as a reviewed preprint in eLife - the journal: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… Stay tuned for the final version in which we will incorporate the valuable feedback we received.

Excited to share my primer on simulation-based power analysis using R, Python, and Julia! Based on @debruine@tech🐘lgbt's approach applied todata collected by Kirsten Adam, I hope it's a helpful tool for those starting with simulations. Check it out: cjungerius.github.io/powersim/ #DataScience

"Indeed, there are good theoretical reasons to believe that happiness should be hard to increase in a lasting way. Our emotional systems are attuned to change, but we quickly adapt to most stable life circumstances..." annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Over the past years, we have repeatedly shown how microsaccades are a powerful index for selection in visual working memory. We now show that microsaccades also track multi-item rehearsal through memorised locations: eneuro.org/content/11/1/E…

📢 So happy to see our (@SageBoettcher, Freek van Ede, Kia Nobre) paper out in Cognition! Across two experiments, we investigated the dynamic interplay of perception and working memory (🧵below). (1|7) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

How does previous decision impacts current decision? We find reactivation of past decision repels early sensory processing but attracts late decision-making in PFC, i.e., two-stage past-present interactions. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Big congrats Huihui Zhang Minghao Luo

Preprint alert👇: Sisi Wang and I studied how attentional focusing in working memory benefits long-term memory. Take-home: we show that faster attentional allocation during working memory instils stronger long-term memories, as revealed through gaze: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…