Berna Güler
Postdoc @ Memory, Attention & Cognitive Control Lab | gunselilab.com |
PhD, experimental psychology
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- New preprint alert! 📢 Event segmentation allows us to parse continuous experience into meaningful events. Working memory (WM) is suggested to play a key role in this process, but how? osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Using WM load-sensitive EEG indices, we tested two possibilities: 1⃣ WM gradually accumulates information during events 2⃣ WM reactivates information at event boundaries
- Our results support boundary-triggered reactivation as the primary mechanism, with only moderate evidence for continuous accumulation. These findings suggest that WM mainly supports event organization by reinstating recent information at moments of event transition
- Huge thanks to my collaborators @erengunseli.bsky.social @davidclewett.bsky.social @odedbein.bsky.social & Sumeyye Karahamza & Yağmur D. Şentürk
- Reposted by Berna GülerSuper excited to see this out in the world!
- Our new preprint is out! Using a continuous-report paradigm, we show that divided attention reliably disrupts long-term memory retrieval by reducing accessibility—not precision. Two experiments + mixture modeling + TCC. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Happy to share that I’ll be an Editorial Fellow for Journal of Experimental Psychology: General in 2026, working with Sarah Brown-Schmidt on the journal’s editorial process. Grateful for this opportunity! ✨ www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
- New paper alert🚀 Episodic memory is structured by event boundaries—moments of critical change. The common view suggests that prediction errors drive them—but is that true? We show that contextual stability, not prediction errors, is the key driver of segmentation. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
- Across three experiments, we manipulated contextual stability while keeping prediction errors constant. In a separate experiment, we manipulated prediction errors while holding the context stable. To assess event segmentation, we used temporal distance and temporal order tasks.
- In sum: It’s not surprising changes, but contextual stability, that determines how we segment continuous experience into discrete events.
- It is so moving to see my colleagues raising their voice and awareness. Proud moment ✨ @erinmorrow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...
- Our paper is accepted in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! 🎉 We challenge the idea that prediction errors drive event segmentation, showing that contextual stability plays a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Across 4 experiments, we both manipulated contextual stability and prediction error. Findings consistently showed that contextual stability, not prediction error, better accounts for how people segment continuous experience into memory units.
- Bilim Akademisi'ne tüm destekleri için içtenlikle teşekkür ederim! / I sincerely thank the Science Academy for supporting my attendance at the VSS by providing travel funding 😊 @bilimakademisi.bsky.social bilimakademisi.org/sen-de-bilim...
- I’ll share findings from my recent research — which has been accepted for publication in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review — on how contextual stability, rather than prediction errors, might play a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories. Hoping to see you there! 😊
- First time in #VSS2025 and it was a wonderful experience both academically and socially 🌸
- Reposted by Berna GülerNew from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it. We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Excited to share a new study from ACME Lab on how emotional processing shapes event segmentation! It shows that both negative stimuli and their down regulation impact how events are segmented in memory. osf.io/preprints/psya…
- Corrected link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Preprint update! We tested roles of contextual stability and prediction error in event segmentation, independently manipulating each factor in 4 experiments. We found contextual stability as the primary driver - challenging the event segmentation theory osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Berna GülerStanding up for science is standing up for truth, reason, and wellbeing. So proud of my lab and colleagues for coming out to the march today!
- Honored to receive the scientific travel grant from Bilim Akademisi! Grateful for their support and motivation. Thank you, @bilimakademisi.bsky.social! ✨ #RunForScience bilimakademisi.org/sen-de-bilim...
- Raise your voice and stand up for science! standupforscience2025.org
- Reposted by Berna GülerThanks to the organizers of the 10th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science for a fun meeting. Burhan Bağlar, Sinem Subaşı, and Yaren Kaynar did a wonderful job presenting their work despite being swamped with final projects and presentations. Well done! See our posters below.
- Reposted by Berna GülerExcited to share our new review paper! Episodic memories comprise segmented units. The role of working memory (WM) in such segmentation is implemented but not sufficiently studied. We explore the potential roles of WM and attention in event segmentation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- 📣New paper alert! We discuss the role of working memory in event segmentation. We propose accumulation and reactivation models that explain how working memory may be accumulating memoranda within events and reactivating memoranda at event boundaries www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- We also propose possible underlying mechanisms and experimental predictions to test these models
- Many thanks to @erengunseli.bsky.social for providing great mentorship, and to Zeynep Adıgüzel and Bilge Uysal for their support and roles in developing super cool ideas ✨
- Reposted by Berna GülerNew paper alert! Congrats to Yağmur D. Şentürk and Nursima Ünver for constructing a complex design & collecting 65 EEG datasets (each 4 hours)!🎉Our study reveals that switching to a new task rule triggers memory reactivation of previously learned items. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iIjT2VHY8...
- Reposted by Berna GülerPlease spread the word! A 24-month postdoc position is available in my lab. A 12-month extension may be possible. Experience in coding and data analysis is needed. Knowledge of memory, attention, or a related topic is preferred. Please get in touch via email if interested! gunselilab.com
- Reposted by Berna GülerExciting News! Our new review paper explores the impact of divided attention on episodic memory retrieval, a topic with mixed findings. Often, studies discuss the relationship between attention and retrieval as if each is a unitary phenomenon. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Berna GülerEvent segmentation—continuous experiences divided into distinct memory units. But what fuels this process? Our study compares two theories: prediction error and contextual stability. We found that transitions across stable contexts matter more. osf.io/preprints/ps...
