Brad Postle

#CNS2026 Hooray for travel fellows!

If you are at #CNS2026, come check out Jingyi Wang's talk in the symposium "Neural Time Machine: Temporal Organization of Experience in the Brain" (starting now!), and tomorrow PM I will be sharing some of our new work at the symposium "Emotion and the organization of temporal context in memory".

@jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellows @cogneuronews.bsky.social , repping Türkiye, India, Wisconsin ;-), Morocco, & Columbia

Check this 👇🏽 out if you’re interested in brain resilience & aging. #cns2026 @cogneuronews.bsky.social

Excited to announce my first postdoc project at @UChicago with @WilmaBainbridge is now published in PNAS! Using computer vision and gen AI, we engineered memorable and forgettable symbols, showing memory can be optimized with data-driven visual design.

www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

New preprint 🚨

Across multiple tasks, we show that higher-level info is more readily accessible in WM before evidence accumulation begins. Attention then boosts perceptual detail.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A lot of fun with my colleagues @ckerren.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

Must-see at CNS 2026:
Poster

Sunday pm C36
Priority-Driven Transformation of Visual Working Memory Content, Jung Woo Hur & me
Tuesday am

Tuesday am F45
Beta oscillatory—not burst—dynamics support priority coding in working memory

Jacqueline M. Fulvio & me

... or, of course, hosting an archived discussion (debate? lovefest?) about the work 😎

yeah, someone whispered it in my ear a few years ago? ;-)

Beta oscillatory—not burst—dynamics support priority coding in working memory

... or a full copy of your poster, like this doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Priority-Driven Transformation of Visual Working Memory Content

New this year at @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2026: All abstracts will be published in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society jocnf.pubpub.org/cns2026. Functionality includes ability to append a visual abstract, like this: doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Philip Chalk, U. of Queensland, Australia
"Threat and Prediction Modulations of Early Neural Responding to Facial Inputs are not Pre-Attentive"
F3, Tues am

Adem Yazici @ademyazici.bsky.social, Bilkent University , Turkey
“What Gets Decoded in Frontoparietal Cortices?”
Tues. am

Juan Pablo Abril Ronderos, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
"Sequential vs. Simultaneous Encoding and Spatial vs. Temporal Retro-Cueing: Dissociating Working Memory Access Mechanisms". Mon. pm

Manal Lamouine Al Akhawayn U., Morocco
"Enhanced Cognitive Processing in Musicians: A Comparative ERP Study of Executive Functions" Sun. pm

attending @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2026? Check out these posters from @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellows:
Adithya Anil, Indian Institute of Technology
"Toward Translational Mechanisms of Learned Helplessness: Linking Behavior, Computation, and Neural Modulation"
D123 Mon am

I am happy to be attending #CNS2026 with the Yale Wu Tsai Institute travel award to present this paper👇🏻 as a poster - it’ll be on Monday from 2:30-4:30pm (session E), come check it out!

Lack of reviewers threatens robustness of neuroscience literature Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias peer review.

Broad peer review is crucial for a healthy scientific literature, but neuroscientists turn down review requests too often. Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias the literature, writes @jvoigts.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/l...

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

For that reason I always try to have 2 reviews on the go at any time..

… intentions? (Chpt 17: @donnisa.bsky.social …, & @rodbraga.bsky.social , 2024)

Typo: book does not include “About the Cover” statement (so here it is):
“How does the brain represent objects, including faces? (From Chpt 10: @olivercontier.bsky.social et al. 2024). How do we recognize familiar faces? (From Chpt 12: She et al. 2024) How do we read someone else’s intentions?

#MultilingualCritical

Author: @bradpostle.bsky.social
Publisher: Wiley (' @wiley.com ')

Join our lab in Geneva, as a postdoc working on #workingmemory, with both Jarrod Lewis-Peacock and myself !

This week's cover @thelancet.com

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It appears that they didn’t include “About the cover”? How do we identify faces as different from other objects? How do we recognize familiar faces? How do we infer, from facial expression, what someone else is thinking? (Feat. recent work from Hebart/Baker, Tsao, & Braga)

I know… there is a rent-for-the-semester option

Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects Abstract. Visual working memory is a core cognitive function that allows active storage of task-relevant visual information. Contrary to the common assumption that the capacity of this system is fixed...

New paper with @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in JoCN! "Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects" doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...

It’s out!