Tobias Egner
Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. Studying cognitive control, loving lots of other stuff.
www.egnerlab.org
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerAssistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position at Western Washington University. This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology. Short 🧵 about this position. 1/? Here is the link with details and for applying: hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
- Just spotted this on an afternoon walk in Princeton- kudos!
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerNext: Sun. Nov 16 1pm-5pm: 137.10 / HH2 Intracranial EEG Correlates of Concurrent Demands on Cognitive Stability and Flexibility Undergraduate Erin Burns and CNAP PhD Student Jim Zhang will present work from our lab and @tobiasegner.bsky.social Lab on cognitive control
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerColumbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerThe MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerCome work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896 I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.
- For fans of flexibility, new paper out in QJEP! Domain-specific cognitive flexibility: Shift-readiness adaptations for task- and attention-switching are non-transferrable. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerThese job ads have now been posted! 🎉 Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please spread the word!
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerWe put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication. At first, what we found was very confusing! But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736 🧵
- 🎉New project 🎉 doi.org/10.1101/2024... How do we navigate between brain states when we switch tasks? Are dynamics driven by control, or passive decay of the prev task? We shed light on this classic debate by comparing high-d linear dynamical systems fit to EEGs and RNNs during task-switching 🌀
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerExcited to share this new story from the lab and led by the very talented @bendevlin.bsky.social! In collab with Anne Schaefer and grateful for funding from NIH and @curealzheimersfund.bsky.social. a brief 🧵
- Highly recommended!!!
- I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods. If you know anybody, please tell them to email me. Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org
- New modeling paper, spearheaded by Raphael Geddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, now out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: "Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility". Free read link: rdcu.be/epatc
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerWhen you successfully anticipate future events, what happens to your ability to encode the present? 🤔 Successful prediction increases the likelihood of successful encoding. We speculate about how switching between distinct encoding & prediction states can produce this effect. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerThe Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Tobias EgnerI'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!
- Since the hotel bar is closed, you may as well check out some posters! #CNS2025: find our excellent grad student Jim Zhang at poster A91, "Neural correlates of concurrent demands on cognitive stability and flexibility".
- For something pleasant on your timeline, let me introduce you to our new family member, Captain: 60% Great Pyrenees, 100% cute!
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- Up in the gods at Cameron tonight - a real treat!
- Wow, this place is really blowing up. Lots of new follower but nothing new to report from the world of cognitive psychology and neuroscience? Let's go with Sunday morning vibes instead...
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerSome great news to start the week: our paper on ideomotor theory and voluntary control over autonomic processes inside the body (“interoactions”) was accepted in Psych Review!🧠💓🥳 With @mgblr.bsky.social and Marcel Brass Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky #cogpsych #interoception
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- Reposted by Tobias Egnerthis is pretty amazing: @lucinauddin.bsky.social is taking on the giant, hugely profitable publishers of academic journals, on grounds of antitrust If you'd like to join the case as a plaintiff you can sign up at www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac... summary of the case:
- For fans of *Cognitive Controversies* -> my comments on others’ comments on my opinion! TLDR: I propose to unyoke the constructs of cognitive stability and flexibility; others disagree; we argue politely... Free read links: rdcu.be/dTxqb rdcu.be/dTxql
- Interested in cognitive stability and flexibility? Alright then: @RaphaelGeddert and I investigate contextual factors determining whether stability and flexibility tradeoff. Free read link: rdcu.be/dTvTI link.springer.com/article/10.3...
- A fun project with @eren_gunseli and his gang, now out in J Neuro: Effects of Context Changes on Memory Reactivation www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...
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- Reposted by Tobias EgnerWe are taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position on the topic of tracking cognitive dynamics using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing June 1st. Pls share 🔁👍 or reach out with any informal queries!
- Here's a free reading link: rdcu.be/dFVcg
- New paper alert! We probed the generalizabilty of one-shot stimulus-control learning. Upshot: one-shot associations between objects and control states generalize over different object viewpoints and exemplars, but not to other object category members. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
- New paper alert! We probed the generalizabilty of one-shot stimulus-control learning. Upshot: one-shot associations between objects and control states generalize over different object viewpoints and exemplars, but not to other object category members. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerOur paper on how blocked training supports learning of multiple schemas, with Andre Beukers, @collinsilvy.bsky.social, Ross Kempner, Nick Franklin, and @gershbrain.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/dEeaG #neuroskyence #psychscisky
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- Reposted by Tobias Egner📣 Now hiring for two positions at the (newly minted) Mind & Culture Lab at Duke University! I'm seeking a full-time lab manager & a full-time postdoctoral associate to join the team, ideally this August (flexible). See below for more information and QR codes to access the application portals.
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- Reposted by Tobias EgnerMy lab is recruiting new members for an NIH-funded project to uncover neural mechanisms of motivation and its regulation w fMRI neurofeedback and innovative multivariate modeling. Please share! Full postings: careers.duke.edu/job-invite/2... Postdocs careers.duke.edu/job-invite/2... ResearchCoord
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- Reposted by Tobias EgnerThe Braver, Bugg, and Kool labs at WashU are looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher for an ONR-funded project on the cognitive neuroscience of attentional control. Please share! A detailed ad can be found here: cdmlab.wustl.edu/docs/MURI_po...
- New paper out! Awesome grad student Ricardo Morales-Torres shows that task sets do not only entail information about how to perform a task, but they can also acquire information about how much attention you need to invest to perform the task successfully. #PsychSciSky
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- Reposted by Tobias EgnerThe final version of @memorycontrol.bsky.social and my article "Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control" is now featured in the current version of TiCS www.cell.com/trends/cogni... Downloadable version here: wessellab.org
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerOur group at George Wash. Univ. has a possible opportunity for a postdoctoral fellow to work with us and a US Army research team. The position needs to be filled *very* soon; if you (or someone you know) is interested, contact me! funding for 2 years. No need to be a US citizen
- I completed January early! Hey, a win's a win...
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerWe are looking for a new colleague - please share 👇 Full #professorship in general #psychology at TU Dresden It's a great psych department with fantastic resources and colleagues. Get in touch w/ questions @dgps.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @s4sn.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/11075
- If you can't get enough of papers on cognitive flexibility, here's another one: Lead by Toni Sali (WFU, not on this site), we used model-based fMRI to track neural correlates of adapting flexibility to changing environments/demands.
- Another legend gone - RIP, Kaiser
- If you're into cognitive control and your new year's resolutions included reading more papers, here's a little offering: Audrey Siqi-Liu (not on this platform) and I review recent advances in our understanding of cognitive flexibility. Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iN3H8MqMi...
- Very happy to have made a small contribution to this fine preregistered report in Cortex.
- New 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 Tobias EgnerPlease 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 Tobias EgnerGOOD MORNING BLUESKY! Very excited about this new paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300671120 Key Q: what predicts how much young kids (👶)talk? How much 🗣 kids heard predicted how much 👶talked, but other factors, e.g. mom’s education, didn’t. #PsychSci #DevPsy 🗣💬 INCOMING SUMMARY🧵ALERT 1/14
- One of my most cherished Thanksgiving traditions: pour delicious German red cabbage from a store-bought jar into a pretty serving dish and pass it off as home-made. Highly recommended (flavor- and reputation-wise)!
- Psychonomics poster alert: if you're into cognitive control (and learning), please check out Ricardo Morales' poster on Friday afternoon (session III, poster 11): "Beyond Stimulus-Response Rules: Task Sets Incorporate Information About Performance Difficulty". It's a neat study, I promise!
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerNow out in Psychological Review, with Andre Beukers, Maia Hamin, and Jon Cohen: our model of how episodic memory can support performance on the n-back task, "When working memory may just be working, not memory". Free version here: osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #neuroskyence
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- Now out in the November issue of Nature Reviews Psychology: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerPlease repost: Assistant or Associate Professor of Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. apply.interfolio.com/132419
- I did a podcast interview thingy, in case anyone’s interested: open.substack.com/pub/mindandm...
- I love senior academics starting tweets with "People often ask me..." Here's a handy translation: "I'm a very important person who wants to share their hot takes but make it sound like I'm doing you a favor."
- I have an old friend who goes through life thinking “passing the acid test” means “I would enjoy this on acid”. Not a bad criterion if you think about it.
- A little blue sky (and supporting cast) from the outer banks… can’t post this kind of feel good stuff on Twitter!
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- New job opening in the Psych & Neuro Dept here at Duke that might interest recent Psych/Neuro BS/BA grads who enjoy teaching. It involves running a "neuroscience teaching lab", that integrates hands-on research activities in our undergrad classes. For details, see: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-M...
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- New paper alert! I offer some (idiosyncratic) musings on the conflict-control and task-switching literatures in this Perspective: "Principles of cognitive control over task focus and task switching". Hope it's useful/stimulating to some folks... #PsychSciScy
- Reposted by Tobias EgnerNew preprint focused on how the hippocampus interacts with cortical representations to support memory, by an amazing grad student in our lab, Shenyang Huang. Hippocampal functions modulate transfer-appropriate cortical representations supporting subsequent memory osf.io/nkd4h/
- New review paper at PBR, led by graduate student Candice Yuxi Wang. We argue that in addition to changes in the external world, shifts in internal states (e.g., affective states, goals, and motivational states) also play a key role in structuring event memory: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
- Paper A: we use classic ANOVA. Reviewer: use linear mixed models! Paper B: we use linear mixed models Reviewer: use classic ANOVA! (Rinse and repeat with use of Bayesian modeling/stats) It feels like we're in "between-times" in cog psych stats conventions right now, it's tedious...
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- We are looking to hire a new postdoc this fall. This is an NIH-funded position investigating computational and neural mechanisms of regulating cognitive stability and flexibility. #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky Details and application: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24852 P
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