Christoph Bledowski
Cognitive Neuroscientist | Institute of Medical Psychology, Cooperative Brain Imaging Center - CoBIC, Goethe University Frankfurt | Working memory | fMRI | MEG | Behaviour | Website: imp-frankfurt.de/bledowski.html#welcome
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiMy first TEDx talk just came out. It's always fun to talk about your own research area to the general audience, and its even more fun when you are lucky enough to be supported by such a platform. Happy to hear your thoughts :-) youtu.be/UyUclyHx8d8?...
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiGreat work by Roni Tibon (not on BlueSky) - surprising that negligible difference in fMRI correlates of semantic vs episodic retrieval?
- Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, a new study found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiOver the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiIt won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:
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- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiHappy to share our new paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com: t.co/Ciq7AKvle5. Using 500k+ behavioral trials, we show that #serialdependence deviates from #Bayesian predictions, pointing to a new narrative about how recent experience shapes perception. @aozkirli.bsky.social @achetverikov.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christoph Bledowski🚨 new preprint alert! biorxiv.org/content/10.1... what is the architecture of an individual working memory? 1/n
- Reposted by Christoph Bledowskinew paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiReally excited to see this preprint out! Fernanda did an amazing job at demonstrating how you can accurately predict retinotopy from T1w scans alone. This is important for several reasons: 1/4
- Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiThe special issue celebrating John Duncan's retirement is now out! Check out all the gem articles here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10QN6R7VQSM and the editorial (see next figure in the thread for an entertaining analysis) doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiNew pre-print day! Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex 🧠 (with Ed Awh & @serences.bsky.social) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiNow out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiPlease repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiMonty Python understood p-hacking
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiAny early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
- Reposted by Christoph Bledowski📣 Out in TINS (@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social): Neural processing is often described as either externally or internally directed. In our new Forum article, we (@freekvanede.bsky.social & Kia Nobre) propose a multilevel framework for conceptualising external and internal continua of brain processes.
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiOnline Now: Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiThe human-neuroscience N2pc marker of covert and internal attention co-occurs with spatial biases in microsaccades, 200-300 ms after prompted to shift attention. (How) are these empirical phenomena related? Check it out in the latest work led by @baiweiliu.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiOn the 23rd of September we will welcome @tbchristophel.bsky.social for our IfADo colloquium at 16:00 (CET). The event is hybrid and open online. You can reach me out for Zoom invitation, or use the following link to sign up for both the link and our email list. www.ifado.de/en/press/eve...
- Check out our contributions at #ECVP Monday–August 25: 10:00–11:30 a.m. Poster Task status of items determines repulsive and attractive serial dependence in working memory Saskia Fohs 3:00 p.m. Talk Neuronal correlates of storing feature-feature bindings in working memory Anna Zier
- Reposted by Christoph Bledowski08:40 am Maria V. Servetnik 09:00 am Thomas Christophel 09:20 am Representational formats to encode context and priority in visual working memory Brad Postle | University of Wisconsin–Madison | United States 09:40 am Clayton Curtis | New York University | United States
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiSweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour. Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time: 'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.' Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiWho doesn't like a good model of the brain? Yet, from simple regression to neural nets, some limitations keep popping up (e.g., overfitting) @mjwolff.bsky.social & I saw some cool but puzzling data, ran a quick analysis & found one such limitation: model mimicry. Now in #naturecommunications &🧵below
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiCurious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add
- Our paper on the neural basis of serial dependence is finally published! In @elife.bsky.social: A direct neural signature of serial dependence in working memory doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Oh, and check out the commentary by Yang&Kiyonaga too! elifesciences.org/articles/101...
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- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiI am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago. 📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiAre short-term memories just noisier versions of what we perceive? Are they fundamentally different? We (Chaipat Chunharas, @mjwolff.bsky.social, @meikehettwer.bsky.social and myself) delved into this in a paper out now in #elife: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre.... For a quick summary, a 🧵 below:

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- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiOur latest findings showing how internal and external visual selection do not necessarily ‘take turns’ but can run in parallel, led by @baiweiliu.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiThe Working Memory Symposium will return in 2025 (Tentative date: July 8-11)! We are now seeking a new post-doc organizer to join our organizing team. To apply, fill out the google form linked on our home page (www.wmsymposium.org) by March 16!
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiI hope you enjoy some of the ideas I put forward in “Metacognition in the listening brain”: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro... — out now.
- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiInspired by this year's Working Memory Symposium, we wrote an article looking toward the future of WM Big shout-out to Anastasia Kiyonaga for spearheading & to co-organizers @lauraklatt.bsky.social, @neurojacob.bsky.social, M. Rösner, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
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- Reposted by Christoph BledowskiVery happy to see this out! In this work I demonstrate the potential of OPMs for laminar MEG and investigate the impact of factors such as sensor counts, number of measurement axes, co-registration errors, misestimated forward models… Already looking forward to Imaging Neuroscience’s 2025 collage!
- New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling: Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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