Tobias Egner

Excited to share our new paper on how distraction affects memory retrieval. Using a continuous report paradigm, we show that distraction reduces whether memories are accessed but not how precisely they are represented. link.springer.com/article/10.375…

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres: We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual working memory against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-45…

New review/theory paper out in PBR with Julie Bugg, Chris Nuno, and Changrun Huang. We muse about the "puzzle of profitless pre-cues" - why is it so hard to get people to engage proactive control from trial-to-trial? We hope it stimulates more research! link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758/s…

🚨 I'm hiring! 🚨 @DukeIDLab is looking for a new lab manager at Duke! If you love research on social identity, working with kids & adults, & mentoring undergrads, this one’s for you. 💡✨ 🗓️ Priority deadline: March 31; Please share! 💙 Apply Here! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31826

New paper from the lab now out online. Changrun Huang asked whether people use informative pre-cues to up-regulate cognitive control in the spatial Stroop task. Surprisingly, they do not, and we rule out some possible reasons for this: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi…

Princeton has just gone up in my esteem

Arrived in the mail today, a beautiful, monumental piece of work, my friend! @CelynBrazier

Check out this new review w/ John Serences We consider how and why visual cortical working memory codes can transform away from the sensory-evoked code Free before Nov. 27: tinyurl.com/2nx66dkn

@Wessel_Lab @UIowaCLAS Woohoo, party time, well deserved!!! 🍾🎉

Big day in the household as my wife Kristi Hendrickson won the Dean's Scholar Award for outstanding tenure package, and I was named Clement T. and Sylvia H. Hanson Family Chair of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Many thanks to @UIowaCLAS for continuing to support both of us!

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 Thrilled to guest edit (w/ Luca Moretti & Julie Bugg) a special issue in JEP: Learning, Memory & Cognition. “Conflict adaptation across single-task and multi-tasking paradigms” 🧠⚡ 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 1, 2026 👉 apa.org/pubs/journals/… More in the 🧵

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at ...

Come work with us! The Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

For fans of flexibility, new paper out in QJEP! Domain-specific cognitive flexibility: Shift-readiness adaptations for task- and attention-switching are non-transferrable journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

New paper, fronted by @RaphaelGeddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: "Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility". Free read link: rdcu.be/epatc

Since the hotel bar is closed, you may as well check out some posters! #CNS2025: find our excellent grad student Jim Zhang at poster A91, "Neural correlates of concurrent demands on cognitive stability and flexibility".

We are currently seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief at @Psychonomic_Soc journal, AP&P, whether it be you or a colleague you'd like to nominate! For details, see our announcement at psychonomic.org/page/2025apped…

Up in the gods at Cameron tonight - sweet! Go Duke…

@zzwziwei @monicarosenb Congrats, Ziwei, amazing!

This work is now out! Check out our paper on generalizable brain network model of surprise. Grateful for @monicarosenb for being the most supportive mentor!

@JMGrohNeuro @taha_morshed @OLab_Duke The most reliable observation from the human cases reported in that paper (there are also dogs!) are what Berger refers to as "1st-order waves" (large amplitude, 10-11 Hz) and "2nd-order waves" (small amplitude, 20-30 Hz). He's not using alpha/beta labels.

@taha_morshed @OLab_Duke @EgnerLab any thoughts?

Does anybody know if an English translation of Hans Berger's 1929 paper exists? link.springer.com/article/10.100… I've been told by multiple textbooks & biographies that he names alpha and beta there himself, but I can't judge since I can't read German :)))