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Post-Doctoral Researcher at UCSD studying voluntary memory control. For all my science: https://josephmsaito.github.io/
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Today afternoon I’ll be presenting my poster at #vss2025 titled “Perceptual and conceptual contributions of the real-world object benefit in visual working memory: Is looking like an object good enough to enhance memory?” See you at Pavillion!

We previously showed that affordable eye movements are preferred over costly ones. What happens when salience comes into play? In our new paper, we show that even when salience attracts gaze, costs remain a driver of saccade selection. OA paper here: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Dynamic categorization rules alter representations in human visual cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

The Brady Lab @timbrady.bsky.social will be at #VSS2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social this year! Here's a thread with some of the cool work we're coming to share:

Signal Intrusion Explains Divergent Effects of Visual Distraction on Working Memory - Ziyao Zhang, Jarrod A. Lewis-Peacock, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Do Memories of Inferred Visual Representations Guide Low-level Perception? | bioRxiv @willjharrison.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Predictable object motion is extrapolated to support visual working memory for surface features pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40306223/

Abstract submission is now open for WMS2025 (Deadline: May 31st)! Working memory ECRs, we look forward to receiving your submissions!!! wmsymposium.org

In @eLife: Re-focusing visual working memory during expected and unexpected memory tests doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Binding in visual working memory is task dependent jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Dissociating external and internal attentional selection: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Happy to share our new paper exploring how the brain might represent decision confidence. A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Neural mechanisms of resource allocation in working memory | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How do we flexibly categorize objects under changing task requirements? Our new paper in Nature Communications (@serences.bsky.social & @nuttidanuttida.bsky.social) examines this: www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵👇

Excited to share a preprint from work with @rewaniw.bsky.social and Serra Favila, where we show that visual cortex responses during memory retrieval are spatially tuned to the locations of objects previously seen only once It's an early draft — feedback is welcome! See 🧵 for more #neuroskyence 1/7

Proactive control CAN be updated on a trial-by-trial basis jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/d448vzo9

New work from my brilliant former student, Jacob Norman, shows that reactivation of a memory suppresses neural representations of competing neural populations. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A uniquely cognitive surprise on today’s @nytimes.com Mini Crossword

Expectation-driven sensory adaptations support enhanced acuity during cateogrical perception www.nature.com/articles/s41...

my actual unironic advice to undergrads is to major in something you're actually passionate about/interested in, and then try and *minor* in either CS or stats. you would be surprised how how much being the person who knows a substantive thing and can do some basic computer/stats stuff can pay off

Double-decision response time models of recall and recognition support resource accounts of visual working memory osf.io/preprints/ps...

Bringing together our findings on microsaccade biases during rehearsal and selection in visual working memory, suggesting a 'silent spatial scaffold' for working memory whereby spatial organisation stays preserved even if active space-based rehearsal has ceased www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Out now in AP&P!

Exciting new preprint with former lab member @sahcan.bsky.social and his supervisor, Daniel Schneider. Şahcan's work reveals how action correspondence influences working memory gating, increasing atraction bias toward distractors that share action plans with working memory items.

Effects of perceptual and decisional uncertainty on serial dependence in orientation perception link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Very proud of this latest paper, which shows that reading two unrelated words in a meaningful sentence will push these words closer in semantic space—an effect observed 5min, 20min, and 12 hrs after initial exposure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My favorite remote conference is coming back this year, and we are looking for a postdoc to join the team of organizers! If you LOVE working memory research and its wonderful community, join us!

A while ago, I wrote a review on temporal integration as an adaptive process in perception, attention, and working memory. I’m very happy that it has now appeared (Open Access) in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews! 1/3 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Deadline Alert: AP&P, a journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3AXZLk6 #psynomAPP

There is still time to submit your nominations for the new EIC at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social journal, AP&P! See the original post below.

Serial dependence predicts generalization in perceptual learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In eLife: Adaptive chunking improves effective working memory capacity in a prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia circuit doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

It's finally out! Visual experience orthogonalizes visual cortical responses Training in a visual task changes V1 tuning curves in odd ways. This effect is explained by a simple convex transformation. It orthogonalizes the population, making it easier to decode. 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115235

AP&P is a fantastic journal that is close to my own heart (for which I have served as Associate Editor for the past few years). @sarahshomstein.bsky.social is leaving big shoes to fill as she departs as Editor in Chief, so please help the Journal find the best possible person for the job!

AP&P is looking for its next Editor-in-Chief to follow in the footsteps of the great Sarah Shomstein! If you're interested or know someone who might be, check out the details. The deadline for nominations is Feb 15, 2025! www.psychonomic.org/page/2025app...

✨👀✨ AP&P is currently searching for a new Editor-In-Chief! Now is the time to throw your hat in the ring (or to gently nudge a colleague who would be great)

How about an editor-in-chief from the #workingmemory field? 👑🧠

This looks like a great opportunity for someone to good for our field!