William Ngiam | 严祥全
Lecturer at the University of Adelaide | Perception, Attention, Learning and Memory Lab (https://palm-lab.github.io) | Open Practices Editor at Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics | Science reform through ReproducibiliTea | http://williamngiam.github.io
- A fascinating discussion; highly recommend for #workingmemory peeps. I'm more cog than I am neuro, so I don't know if I got it all, but good to reflect on "readout". My take is that a lot that is discarded in our models – such as preparatory dynamics (in PFC? hippocampal?) before encoding into WM.
- #neuroskyence people (maybe vision people in particular): how do you think information is "read out" from the visual system? Do downstream areas like PFC get to query anything from V1 to IT? Or just later areas? How plastic are these readouts? Etc. IMO this is always under constrained in modeling.
- Reposted by William Ngiam | 严祥全#neuroskyence people (maybe vision people in particular): how do you think information is "read out" from the visual system? Do downstream areas like PFC get to query anything from V1 to IT? Or just later areas? How plastic are these readouts? Etc. IMO this is always under constrained in modeling.
- Reposted by William Ngiam | 严祥全As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
- This looks really slick! Looking forward to seeing more units being build – can imagine this being embedded in many curriculums and being a very useful resource for research trainees and early-career researchers.
- In this latest podcast episode, Sarah and I chat about critical theory and positivism, using that framework to contextualise how qualitative psychology has been largely impacted but ignored by the open scholarship movement. We hope this sparks some reflection on what research rigour is across psych!
- A free training workshop on PsychoPy, perfect for research trainees! #visionscience #cogsci #workingmemory #vss2025
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- The deadline is coming up to present at the pre-data poster session at #VSS. It's the perfect venue for those who want to have a conversation about an idea or a topic (especially early-career researchers who may not have something in-the-works!). #visionscience www.visionsciences.org/2025-pre-dat...
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- I created this reading list on theory in psychology a while back, so it probably needs an update! Would love any recommendations for papers to include – maybe I can turn this into a syllabus of sorts. PDF of this reading list here: williamngiam.github.io/reading_list...
- Has anyone tried collecting data by directing participants from Prolific to a jsPsych task hosted on a Github Pages website? If so, what are some issues to look out for? I do want to support and use services like Pavlovia and cognition.run but I do not yet run a grant-funded lab!🧎♂️
- Reposted by William Ngiam | 严祥全Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
- NSF has posted an “update on priorities.” They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants. And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
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- Reposted by William Ngiam | 严祥全Are 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:
- For the #visionscience folks, the pre-data poster session is back at VSS for its third year. It only makes sense to get feedback at the conference at a point in time where you can actually action it! I think it is a great opportunity for ECRs to be involved in VSS as well!
- Why not make an impactful contribution to our field by organising the growing Working Memory Symposium? A great opportunity for a postdoc to demonstrate that they care about the researcher community, while having a lot of fun!
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- Not sure what to think about this. Each project can have a max of 2 "embedded fellowships", one must be for an ECR. The fellow gets funding for 2 years to focus on research, and can be used at any point in the project (i.e. first two years, last two years or anything in between).
- The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co... I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇 Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!
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- After attending a math psych conference for the first time, all I want to do is retreat to a cave, learn math and write code.
- Reposted by William Ngiam | 严祥全We at SciBeh are organizing an online workshop, entitled "Safeguarding Scholarship and Research in (Emerging) Autocracies", which will be held on 25 February 15:00-18:00 UK time (16:00-19:00 CET, 10 am - 1pm EST, 7 am - 10 am PST). www.scibeh.org/events/works... 2/n
- It's a little harsh to send me a review invitation with my name misspelled in both the email and in the reviewer account name. 😭
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- Reposted by William Ngiam | 严祥全Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
- I have a half-baked hypothetical - what if there was a peer review / publishing trading system? To publish anything, you trade in review credits (earned from doing a peer review). Overly prolific authors would have to proportionally contribute to the review system. Like an emissions trading scheme.
