Maria Wimber
Prof at University of Glasgow, School of Psychology & Neuroscience. Trying to understand how the human brain reconstructs memories of past events. She/her
#Memory #Neuroscience #Cognition #LoveGlasgow
- Freudian slip of the day: called another department the “School of Wealth & Hellbeing”. US politics invading my subconscious?
- Reposted by Maria Wimberthe reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation. hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
- Reposted by Maria WimberNew preprint alert! Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
- Reposted by Maria WimberNew preprint w/ Malin Styrnal & @martinhebart.bsky.social Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Applications are open for James McCune Smith PhD Scholarships to support Black UK students with full (up to 4 years) PhD funding. Interested in a project on #memory in #psychology & #neuroscience? Do message me to have a chat! Deadline 31st Jan. #phd #blacksky www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
- Reposted by Maria WimberWhat makes visual stimuli memorable? Wilma Bainbridge, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx, and I investigate the role of processing fluency for memorability in a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology. Check it out! rdcu.be/eSyjz
- Reposted by Maria WimberThrilled that my recent paper, Hippocampal Ripples during Offline Periods Predict Human Motor Sequence Learning, was selected for the “This Week in The Journal” highlight! 🤩 Huge thanks to @bstaresina.bsky.social and our collaborators who made this work possible! doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #JNeurosci
- This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | How Partial Occlusion Influences Visual Processing; Hippocampal Ripples during Rest May Promote Motor Learning vist.ly/4f8bg
- Reposted by Maria WimberAsking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!
- Reposted by Maria WimberExciting news from the chairs of Biomag 2026, Prof. Jiahong Gao and Prof. Huan Luo — the conference website is now live: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn The meetings take place in Beijing, 23–25 August 2026. Save the date and start thinking about ideas for posters and symposia! Please share with colleagues
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Life Sciences PhD studentships available in amazing Glasgow! Deadline Jan 12 General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... - Reposted by Maria WimberI wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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- Bonjour Montréal, pleased to meet you! Look forward to seeing the memory family at #MDRS2025!
- Reposted by Maria WimberJEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour
- Reposted by Maria WimberLet this be a motto for all of us, when we peer review: “Review the manuscript in front of you, not the one you wish existed.” @earlkmiller.bsky.social
- New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review" doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
- Reposted by Maria WimberI continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)
- A very rich, comprehensive resource on multiple memory traces, covering parallel evidence in humans and other animals!
- A memory can be represented at different levels of granularity, from highly specific to generalized. Different representational formats of a memory can be used at different times or in different contexts, and draw on different neural representations. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by Maria Wimber📣 Helpful thread about a great paper alert! Okay - I am biased, but I am super proud of this paper and @dkvarga.bsky.social has done a truly awesome job of running this project (3 separate fMRI studies!). Thanks also to our amazing colleagues for their support.
- So happy to share our paper on the role of the hippocampus as a mismatch detector: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We show that the hippocampus detects mismatches between ongoing experiences and episodic memories but not generalised schematic knowledge. See 🧵for how we got here: #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
- Reposted by Maria Wimber🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫 I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
- Reposted by Maria WimberDelighted to share that we are currently hiring for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at McGill University. Come join a great department! Link to apply: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill....
- Reposted by Maria WimberJoin us - hybrid event - 135 registrants - 10 speakers over two days
- Day 1 of Amnesia and Identity workshop is tomorrow (24 Sept) at @stir.ac.uk (Pathfoot C22 + online). Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons. ⏰ 14:00–18:00 (UK) 🔗 Full schedule + online link: placememory.net/events-2/#am...
- Stratos’ poster on now!
- Gutted to miss #ICON2025! Judging by the flood of posts rolling in, it’s clearly THE place to be right now. Stratos is there to represent the lab though! Swing by at poster P6.66 (😈?) to say hi & hear about our latest work, trying to measure directional plasticity in behaviour. Input very welcome!
- Weirdly satisfying experience to use a hedge trimmer for the first time. Cut it all down. Highly recommend for anger management. #chainsawTherapy
- Reposted by Maria WimberLooking forward to #ICON2025 next week! We will have several presentations on mental imagery, reality monitoring and expectations: To kick us off, on Tuesday at 15:30, Martha Cottam will present: P2.12 | Presence Expectations Modulate the Neural Signatures of Content Prediction Errors
- Gutted to miss #ICON2025! Judging by the flood of posts rolling in, it’s clearly THE place to be right now. Stratos is there to represent the lab though! Swing by at poster P6.66 (😈?) to say hi & hear about our latest work, trying to measure directional plasticity in behaviour. Input very welcome!
- Reposted by Maria WimberLooking forward to #ICON2025! Apart from posters (updates coming), we’ll be at the “Sudden Learning Across Systems” symposium talking about factors behind solving visual disambiguation 👀, memory traces of one-shot perceptual learning and more. Excited to share and get inspired by your work! 🚀
- Reposted by Maria WimberAlso on the way to #ICON2025 in beautiful Porto? Check the lab’s latest work: @xiongbowu.bsky.social: Talk in SY16, Tuesday 9.00, room Boavista; Aditya Chowdhury: Poster P1.11, Tuesday 10.45 @julia-sc.bsky.social: Poster P3.18, Wednesday 10.45 @tafgmcb.bsky.social: Poster 4.32, Wednesday 15.30
- Reposted by Maria WimberNew preprint! 🚨We discuss the long-term memory consequences of fast visual perceptual learning: "From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" It's so great to work with @jvoeller.bsky.social and the team! Congrats for your first author manuscript, Johannah!
- 👩💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social "From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by Maria Wimber👩💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social "From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Traveling on from beautiful Switzerland to beautiful Edinburgh for #BACN25. Hope to see many of you tomorrow morning, for our symposium on neural re-use of resources for external & internal processing! With @rademaker.bsky.social @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @larsmuckli.bsky.social & Ed Silson
- Reposted by Maria WimberVery much looking forward to #BACN25 in Edinburgh this week. We'll have five posters from the lab on the first day of conference, so come check them all out! #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition
- In Crans-Montana for the SPS conference, and will wake up to this view for the next 4 days… joie de vivre, I say.
- Reposted by Maria WimberNew opinion piece! @amirtal.bsky.social and I argue that "wake reactivation" is not a scientifically useful construct; It encompasses nonconscious & conscious processes w/ varying levels of elaboration & diverging consequences, leading to conflicting results authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgli4sIRvW-LQ
- Reposted by Maria WimberFor >5 years, the International Sleep Replay Workshops (ISRW) have brought together scientists studying sleep & memory. The next ISRW will be on March 6th in Vancouver (before @cogneuronews.bsky.social). Follow the link for details and to join the mailing list. isrw.bio.uci.edu Pls repost! #sleep
- Grant submitted - first as PI in quite a while. Feels good to be past the writer’s block & 100% excited about an idea!
- Reposted by Maria WimberVery happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
- Reposted by Maria WimberDelighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social #compneuro #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Maria WimberDeadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?! #neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs
- 2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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- Reposted by Maria Wimber🚨 New preprint alert! Excited to share our latest work on alpha/beta activity, eye movements, and memory. Across 4 experiments combining scalp EEG/iEEG with eye tracking, we show that alpha/beta activity directly reflects eye movements, and only indirectly relates to memory. 👇 Highlights (1/7):
- Low-frequency brain oscillations reflect the dynamics of the oculomotor system: a new perspective on subsequent memory effects biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Maria WimberNew paper led by @codydong.bsky.social now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, exploring the relationship between memory-augmented LLMs and human episodic memory – see Cody’s post below for a short thread and a non-paywalled paper link! #NeuroAI doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
- My first, first author paper, comparing the properties of memory-augmented large language models and human episodic memory, out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV174sIRv... Here’s a quick 🧵(1/n)
- Collecting my first 7T data with Ed Silson & @catrionascrivener.bsky.social. Very exciting!
- Reposted by Maria WimberDespite recent criticism from Quiroga to our claim that Concept Neurons emerge from Conjunctive Coding Neurons we claim: “And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively!”. We hope it sparks a smile (and maybe a few debates). Read here: tinyurl.com/3ycv3vj2
- Reposted by Maria Wimber🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9l
- Reposted by Maria WimberCurious 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
- Reposted by Maria Wimber🚨 NEW postdoc position 🚨 Join our Royal Society-funded team (3+ years) to work on human memory and salience 🧠 with virtual reality, fMRI, computational modelling and clinical collaborations 👉 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Please spread the word! 📣
- Reposted by Maria WimberExcited to share our latest work spearheaded by @anikaloewe.bsky.social & @maritpetzka.bsky.social. 20 min naps increased the chance to solve an insight task if sleep reached N2 stage; but the EEG spectral slope was the best predictor of insight dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... #compneuro #psychscisky
- Reposted by Maria WimberIncredibly excited and grateful to share that I’ll be starting a lab at The Ohio State University this(!) fall! My lab will study human learning and memory, with related interests in sleep, stress, and time perception. More info soon, but do get in touch if you’re interested in joining!
- Reposted by Maria Wimberpreprint alert 🚨 1/ Can we accurately detect sequential replay in humans using Temporally Delayed Linear Modelling (#TDLM)? In our recent study, we could not find any replay and decided to dig deeper by running a hybrid simulation with surprising results. Link to preprint & details below 👇
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- Reposted by Maria WimberProud to share the first preprint of my PhD w/ @barense.bsky.social & Mursal Jahed: “Putting the testing effect to the test in the wild: Retrieval enhances real-world memories and promotes their semantic integration while preserving episodic integrity” See thread! 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Maria WimberWe have a *permanent* position available for a research engineer (ingénieur de recherche) to work in our new MEG-OPM facility. A strong scientific focus is possible. Speaking French is required. If you're interested, please let me know!
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- Reposted by Maria WimberI am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
- I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵
- Reposted by Maria WimberIf you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
- Reposted by Maria WimberHow does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital function.@mrccbu.bsky.social sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience
- Abstract deadline 25th May!
- Reminder! MEG-UKI 2025 registration is open until the 16th June! Register here: rb.gy/obqkw3 The registration fee includes welcome drinks on the first day (July 16th) and a social dinner on July 17th at: coinlaundry.co.uk
- Reposted by Maria WimberWant to present at MEG-UKI but funding is a barrier? We’re offering a limited amount of travel bursaries for presenters to help cover the cost of: - Registration - Accommodation - Travel expenses Click the link below to find out more: meguk.ac.uk/apply-for-bu...
- Love this! “Promiscuous” co-activation of engram neurons in CA1 & CA3 goes along with a gistification of event memories over time. Not only this, it is also causally related to neurogenesis!
- Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation. rdcu.be/el18q A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n
- Reposted by Maria WimberWe are hiring! PostDoc position on my ERC for wire-less electrophysiology in our 9mX5m rat HexMaze! Experience with tetrodes or silicone probes required. Contact me for questions! www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring
- Reposted by Maria WimberWe're hiring a lab manager! Ideal for aspiring researchers interested in sleep & memory in humans. Our inaugural manager is going to grad school after gaining experience w/ EEG, fMRI, coding, teaching & advanced analyses. He's now revising his 1st authored paper. This could be you! tinyurl.com/Uci81
- Reposted by Maria Wimber*** Come join us !! We are recruiting !! *** How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis? The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models
