Tim Ricker

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

So excited about this! GazeR is now a shiny app (notice the corneal reflection ;))! I hope this makes it easier for folks to use with their pupil data. Please report features you want or bugs. github.com/jgeller112/s...

Hiring a postdoc in quantitative methods for a study examining predictors of treatment response in childhood apraxia of speech. You get use R! and Bayes! and IRT! Boston (hybrid) or remote. massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...

Does knowing that distractions are coming change how we use working memory? In two EEG experiments, anticipating interference did not change how strongly previously learned information was reactivated in working memory. doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...

Excited to share our work, now published in Neuropsychologia! We show how temporal expectation shifts priorities in working memory—and can lead to long-term forgetting. Huge thanks to Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock and @bulezz.bsky.social for their help and support! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now out in Psychophysiology! We show that ppl still use exemplar-specific representations to search, even when category-level features are 'good enough'. w/ Ryan Williams, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, + Susanne Ferber doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

I will be accepting a Master’s or PhD student to join my lab at University of North Carolina Wilmington! If you know any students that may be interested, please share this post with them. My lab: calmlab.science Master’s: www.uncw.edu/academics/ma... PhD: www.uncw.edu/academics/ma...

Gonzaga University is hiring (TT) in neuroscience for Fall 2027. Gonzaga is a great place focused on undergraduate education with strong support for research. Deadline Oct 26! employment.gonzaga.edu/jobs/assista...

Noisy memories should drift toward the past. We show the opposite: when the attentional blink degraded a target, its #WorkingMemory representation is pushed further away from the one before. Less attention boosts repulsive serial dependence. #visionscience doi.org/10.1186/s129...

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

Some months ago, I wrote a skeptical reply to a commentary on bots in online studies in PNAS, arguing that no evidence yet exists for such bots. Together with the authors of the original commentary, we now show that bots can pass (almost?) all online cognitive studies with human-like performance 1/n

If you don't feel a bit stupid, are you even trying? #science

New paper w/ @edvogel.bsky.social & Wilma Bainbridge: we showed that aphantasic participants, who lack mental imagery, had lower visual working memory performance for simple colors & complex fractals (Exp 1), & visually presented words/pseudowords (Exp 2). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint! Are attentional lapses the result of disengagement or simply response failure? Using EEG, we tested how attention fluctuations impact visual representations in the brain. (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

how does memory support perceptual decisions made under uncertainty? this question has scaffolded my entire PhD, and I'm so excited to share part of it in this ✨new preprint ✨ w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social! link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

a fun collaboration with yanni and the self-regulation lab. We tested neural distinctions between anticipating social and monetary reward in a large sample study

Patterns of Alpha-band Power Reflect Prioritization of the Most Recently Encoded Location in a Working Memory Sequence

Long-term Memory Contributions to Working Memory: A Contralateral Delay Activity Study

This is a regular editorial PSA: please do not ignore "Suggest reviewers" field when submitting, or add them to the cover letter if there is no special field. Also try to include not only the top names - they receive tons of invitations. Please also inform your PhD students about it.

Job Alert: Our department is looking to recruit an eminent scholar for a distinguished, endowed professorship (full professor, tenured) in the domain of human neuroscience with high clinical relevance. Please broadcast widely! For application information, see academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32753

I made an interactive demo with different visual illusions to replace the old videos we used before. Feel free to play with it here illusions.andreychetverikov.org and to use it yourself (the code is on my Github; if I missed to include somebody in the credits - please let me know).

So nice to have been part of this project! Fresh preprint on mental transformations in working memory 🧠

Please spread the word about this post-doctoral position to work at UNLV's new MRI facility with Dr. Ayan Sengupta, the facility's assistant director, and a fantastic cognitive neuroscientist. nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNLV-Externa...

New preprint! We asked why neural representation of the original item that is encoded for mental rotation persists even after it becomes irrelevant. Given working memory's limited capacity and evidence for efficient storage, why keep irrelevant information around? 1/4 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Looking for a new Editor in Chief at Cognitive Psychology: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cogn...

Is your lab doing research in developmental cognitive psychology? Are you looking for (online) speakers for your lab meetings? Then perhaps reach out to Jenny.

Very excited to share my first first-author paper! Big thank you to my co-authors @cvonbastian.bsky.social and @alonzivony.bsky.social 😊 If you are interested in familiarity, attention and memory research, you can read our paper using the link below! 😄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Sharing a big first: the first 1st-author paper from my first PhD student, Abi Wyllie. Definitely a first worth celebrating. So here's a summary, if you're interested in familiarity, memory, and attention. rdcu.be/2uSWUCg3PBia

📢 New preprint with @edvogel.bsky.social & @monicarosenb.bsky.social When we encode a long list of items into memory, do we simply repeat the encoding process we use for short lists, or does the brain adaptively reconfigure its neural architecture to accommodate the encoding of a long list?

Call for Applications: Science Communication Editor. Work with editorial teams to ensure content shared is informative, engaging, and accessible to diverse audiences. The deadline to apply is October 26. buff.ly/RtmaMib

The Department of Psychology at Notre Dame is hiring! We have two TT Asst Prof ads out, one in cognitive psychology and another in developmental psychology. Come be my colleague in South Bend!

Has anyone taught a course of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision (w/ emphasis on the neuro side)? Would you be able and willing to share your slides etc. to help me develop a course?

I'm recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2027 at the University of Maryland — Cognitive Flexibility Dynamics Lab, studying cognitive control via brain recording (M/EEG, MRI), stimulation (TUS), and computational modeling. Please email me: cfd-lab.com/join

What is the role of working memory in segmenting continuous experience into events? Does information gradually accumulate in working memory, or is the preceding event reactivated when we encounter a boundary? Check our new paper in JoCN🧵: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Had a really lovely week in Lyon, France 🇫🇷 at the European Working Memory Symposium where I got to share my findings about children’s gaze patterns when they are remembering visuospatial or verbal information (poster below). And when they need to recall spatial info in forwards or backwards order.

Please talk to me or @arnig.bsky.social at #ecvp2026 if you know of an interested potential Ph.D. student -- or are that interested student ;) #ECVP #visionscience #neuroskyence #psychscisky #psychology #imagery #visualimagery #phd #cogsci

The research fairies 2026 in the field of #workingmemory 🧠🧚‍♂️🥳 @carohautekiet.bsky.social and @marleneroesner.bsky.social

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Our new preprint w/ @edvogel.bsky.social presents a neural marker of a competition/interaction taking place in working memory between memory and current goals. We label it r-CDA Check out preprint for details about r-CDA and other interesting neural dynamics osf.io/preprints/ps...

James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me

A second paper by Nelson Cowan on his parietal funneling theory of consciousness. Looking forward to reading this soon! #consciousness #psychology #neuroscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So excited to share a new publication! Here, my advisors @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social @erikblaser.bsky.social and I discuss the theoretical model underlying our recent projects on WM use across the lifespan, and we suggest a more ethological approach to studying WM. www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

So happy to see this published! 🎉 Meet **deadleaves**, an #OpenScience Python package for generating Dead Leaves images to study #vision, segmentation, natural image statistics, and beyond. 📄 Paper (JOSS): doi.org/10.21105/jos... 📚 Documentation: deadleaves.readthedocs.io For more info 🧵

We're wrapping up our annual workshop on "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience." I wanted to take this opportunity to share some things that I have learned from teaching a coding course. Useful info for students and instructors. On my blog: gaspelinblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/w...

New content in the journal: Hautekiet, C., & Oberauer, K. (2026). Does Attending to Information in Working Memory Improve Long-Term Memory? Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 41, pp. 1–11. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... @carohautekiet.bsky.social

On a quick skim, the core function that OSF will fulfil is registration of studies (plus protocols and analysis plans) and hosting preprints. This means we will need to find data repositories for new projects following mid-November; perhaps Github, Zenodo, or university-operated commons.

A project from my master's research with @erengunseli.bsky.social is out in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience :) In this paper across two EEG experiments we showed that the level of reactivation of long-term memories in working memory is not influenced by anticipating upcoming interference. 1/3