@postlelab

Cognitive neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience @postlab@mstdn.social

 Madison, WI USA
postlab.psych.wisc.edu
Joined May 2020
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BCS is hiring! Search now underway for tenure-track assistant professor across all areas of brain and cognitive science, potentially including computation, cognitive science, or experimental neuroscience. Deadline Dec. 1, 2026. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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Lossy compression when items are chunked in working memory. Chunking: What working memory gains and loses cell.com/current-biology/abs… #neuroscience

Chunking: What working memory gains and loses

Chunking compresses information into fewer meaningful units, reducing working memory demands. During chunking, neural representations in the prefrontal cortex exhibit reduced dimensionality and are...

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Lucy Li@lucy3_liOct 21
We are hiring!! "Artificial intelligence, broadly construed. This includes embodied AI and robotics, machine learning and the systems that support it, and AI developed for problems in science, engineering, medicine, education, and society." jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…

Assistant / Associate / Full Professor of Computer Sciences - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Reg...

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Without nonhuman primates, the neuroscience field could miss out on insights into vision, motor control, cognition and development, according to our interviews with 17 neuroscientists. By Alissa de Chassey bit.ly/4irw519

The neuroscience questions that need nonhuman primates

The Transmitter asked 17 neuroscientists what questions might remain unanswered if support for nonhuman primate research continues to decline.

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Will you be at the Memory Disorders meeting in Toronto. Or in Toronto? Come see Pavlov’s Dogz, the legendary brain punks you've heard so much about. Friday night at The Pilot. Get yr tix NOW! Pavlov's Dogz Date: Oct 23 • 19:00 eventbrite.ca/e/pavlovs-dogz…

Pavlov's Dogz

The Pilot Presents Pavlov's Dogz

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"What" and "where" in frontal cortex, together again. In this case, in a relational code that ties objects to their arrangement. A Relational Code for Objects in Primate Frontal Cortex doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.17.… #neuroscience

A Relational Code for Objects in Primate Frontal Cortex

When we remember a scene, we recall both the locations of individual objects and their spatial arrangement. Yet, how neurons encode this arrangement alongside individual locations is unknown. In this...

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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.a.2625
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Join SfN and Elsevier for this webinar of publishing! Link below👇 #NeuroTwitter #SciTwitter #AcademicTwitter
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Join SfN and Elsevier to learn strategies on how building a more balanced evidence base during early research can dissolve citation bias. Register now: vist.ly/5mqqn
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The foundational claim that newborns visually prefer upright over inverted face-like configurations is a myth, as the original data actually showed no such preference. This review reveals that a false narrative constructed in subsequent literature was projected back onto the source, overturning the primary evidence for innate face knowledge in infant psychology. researchgate.net/publication…
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Thom Elston@ThomElstonOct 13
New paper out in @NeuroCellPress! Using Multi-Site Neuropixels recordings in NHPs, we show that automatic behaviors are interrupted by the OFC "jamming" rather than "suppressing" the striatum! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Exploring Neural Mechanisms Underlying Error-related Impairments in Active Working Memory Suggests an Adaptive Shielding of Contents during Cognitive Control dlvr.​it/TVvYW7
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Transformer Mechanisms Mimic Frontostriatal Gating Operations When Trained on Human Working Memory Tasks dlvr.​it/TVvYXs
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Stephen Smith@fmrib_steveOct 9
Imaging Neuroscience: The First 3 Years—Editorial Thanks to our Editorial Board, reviewers, and authors, who trusted that this would work, and moved with us to the new journal. Its success belongs to that community. doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1392

Imaging Neuroscience: The First Three Years—Editorial

Abstract. In April 2023, the editors of NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports resigned, and a month later launched Imaging Neuroscience. NeuroImage had been the leading journal in our field, but its...

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Paul Bays@BaysLabOct 7
The rich get richer in visual processing: latest study with Ivan Tomic shows that we allocate resources preferentially to stimuli that we feel confident in estimating, which makes us better at estimating them...even if the initial confidence was misplaced doi.org/10.1038/s41562-026-0…

Intrinsic rewards guide visual resource allocation via reinforcement learning

Nature Human Behaviour - Tangible rewards are known to sharpen visual processing of associated objects. Tomić et al. show that an internal sense of confidence—acting as an intrinsic...

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Traveling waves may underlie working memory (and many other functions). Traveling brain waves support flexible storage of human working memory doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.01.… #neuroscience
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Paul Bays@BaysLabOct 5
Do the contents of visual working memory deteriorate more quickly when more items are being remembered? Seems a straightforward question but we had to bring together 13 studies and >120,000 trials to get definitive answers... doi.org/10.1037/rev0000645
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When you focus on one item in working memory, beta rhythms may help “park” the other in a protected, set-aside state. Prioritization in Working Memory Reduces Interference via Beta Band-Linked Stimulus Transformations doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.04… #neuroscience

Prioritization in Working Memory Reduces Interference via Beta Band-Linked Stimulus Transformations

We studied the effects of prioritization in a two-step retrocuing task in which male and female humans hold two items in working memory, and the item not cued by the first cue cannot be dropped...

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Really chuffed about this one. It's impt for our efforts to understand neural and computational bases of controlling the contents of WM. It also highlights a control-related signal in the beta band that is NOT "inhibitory" in the way often assumed doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.04…

Prioritization in Working Memory Reduces Interference via Beta Band-Linked Stimulus Transformations

We studied the effects of prioritization in a two-step retrocuing task in which male and female humans hold two items in working memory, and the item not cued by the first cue cannot be dropped...

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same content at doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.24.…
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