Tobias Egner

Studying cognitive and neural mechanisms of control, attention, and memory

[Eren Günseli @eren_gunseli]

Excited to share our new paper on how distraction affects memory retrieval.

Using a continuous report paradigm, we show that distraction reduces whether memories are accessed but not how precisely they are represented.
https://t.co/vUDNw0VtyN

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres: We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual working memory against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference
https://t.co/ZwoBd8DYws

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

New review/theory paper out in PBR with Julie Bugg, Chris Nuno, and Changrun Huang. We muse about the "puzzle of profitless pre-cues" - why is it so hard to get people to engage proactive control from trial-to-trial? We hope it stimulates more research!
https://t.co/0bbv1hkdlw

[Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither]

🚨 I'm hiring! 🚨 @DukeIDLab
is looking for a new lab manager at Duke! If you love research on social identity, working with kids & adults, & mentoring undergrads, this one’s for you. 💡✨

🗓️ Priority deadline: March 31; Please share! 💙
Apply Here! https://t.co/vhWGvTWp1f

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

New paper from the lab now out online. Changrun Huang asked whether people use informative pre-cues to up-regulate cognitive control in the spatial Stroop task. Surprisingly, they do not, and we rule out some possible reasons for this:
https://t.co/XXLzYjmtIb

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

Princeton has just gone up in my esteem

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

Arrived in the mail today, a beautiful, monumental piece of work, my friend! @CelynBrazier

[Anastasia Kiyonaga @kiyonoggin]

Check out this new review w/ John Serences

We consider how and why visual cortical working memory codes can transform away from the sensory-evoked code

Free before Nov. 27: https://t.co/aagwSNTTzt

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

@Wessel_Lab @UIowaCLAS Woohoo, party time, well deserved!!! 🍾🎉

[Elena Benini @ElenaBenini3]

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
Thrilled to guest edit (w/ Luca Moretti & Julie Bugg) a special issue in JEP: Learning, Memory & Cognition.
“Conflict adaptation across single-task and multi-tasking paradigms” 🧠⚡
🗓️ Deadline: Oct 1, 2026
👉 https://t.co/n5imR0RdKp
More in the 🧵

[postlelab @postlelab]

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at ...

[Nathaniel Daw @nathanieldaw]

Come work with us! The Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: https://t.co/J51o21uDfQ

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

For fans of flexibility, new paper out in QJEP! Domain-specific cognitive flexibility: Shift-readiness adaptations for task- and attention-switching are non-transferrable https://t.co/tlRPRyMCIH

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

New paper, fronted by @RaphaelGeddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, 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: https://t.co/Kl1lvhdkNv

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

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".

[Joey Saito @jsaito25]

We are currently seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief at @Psychonomic_Soc journal, AP&P, whether it be you or a colleague you'd like to nominate! For details, see our announcement at https://t.co/ZP7KuO5w6y

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

Up in the gods at Cameron tonight - sweet! Go Duke…

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

@zzwziwei @monicarosenb Congrats, Ziwei, amazing!

[Ziwei Zhang @zzwziwei]

This work is now out! Check out our paper on generalizable brain network model of surprise. Grateful for @monicarosenb for being the most supportive mentor!

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

@JMGrohNeuro @taha_morshed @OLab_Duke The most reliable observation from the human cases reported in that paper (there are also dogs!) are what Berger refers to as "1st-order waves" (large amplitude, 10-11 Hz) and "2nd-order waves" (small amplitude, 20-30 Hz). He's not using alpha/beta labels.