Congrats @sjo09.bsky.social! Your trailblazing engram discoveries are unforgettable. So happy that the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize is honoring YOUR Era's tour @sfn.org.

Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵

This is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...

New paper from the lab 🚨 Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...

New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...

How do we update our predictions when our environment changes? The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions. Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

👩‍💻 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...

New preprint from Yining Ding @liliand.bsky.social! People use semantic event knowledge and grouping to remember the temporal order of events. osf.io/preprints/ps...

We make predictions based on general knowledge and/or specific memories. Different brain areas are active when these distinct predictions are violated – and hippocampus selectively responds to prediction errors based on episodic memory. Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!

Fresh results now in bioRxiv! 🎉 We know about the function of NREM sleep for overnight memory consolidation. But what about REM sleep? We found that in aging, slow delta waves can intrude phasic REM periods, and this, is associated with worse overnight consolidation 🧠 (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Slowly making my way through that grad school data! Decoding memory function through naturalistic gaze patterns | PNAS share.google/vuOSbiRk9nBH...

Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.” doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

New paper with @mujianing.bsky.social & @prestonlab.bsky.social! We propose a simple model for human memory of narratives: we uniformly sample incoming information at a constant rate. This explains behavioral data much better than variable-rate sampling triggered by event segmentation or surprisal.

I was given the opportunity to write a brief highlight of a paper that is important to the field & personally meaningful, and I chose to write about @drjenryan.bsky.social's elegant work linking the hippocampus to eye movement markers of relational memory. Read more about it here! 👇🏼 rdcu.be/eyaXA

🚨 I set off today on research journey to the Marshall Islands! 🚨 UCL Voyage to Aur Here is the 1st instalment in a set of videos covering the project. I explain the background to the project and introduce a Marshallese stick chart held in a museum in London: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3m...

Are the brain's representational formats predetermined by its intrinsic architecture, or are they efficiently tuned to the statistical structure of the visual world? In our new study, we test these possibilities. So proud of this fantastic and inspiring work, led by @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social.

Happy to share our study showing a new role for ventromedial PFC in prospection. tinyurl.com/e7kudkby #neuroskyence #psychscisky

A new #Neurosalience episode is out! 🧠 The hippocampus, aging, memory and discovery with Rosanna Olsen and Peter Bandettini @rosannaolsen.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social youtu.be/cvPjImt9iv8

Gearing up to host the 2025 #CIHR Summer Program in Aging #SPA2025 at #Baycrest It's a 1 week intensive program for research trainees focused on training a healthcare workforce to meet the needs of older adults www.baycrest.org/summer-progr...

Adaptive compression as a unifying framework for episodic and semantic memory Perspective by David G. Nagy (@davidnagy.bsky.social), Gergő Orbán & Charley M. Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/3ZkmRLb PDF: rdcu.be/epAQ0

How does knowledge influence episodic memory? Perhaps we can find the answer using novel multi-method approaches. Read the new review of episodic #memory by Carla Macias and Kimele Persaud. Post by @hannahmech.bsky.social buff.ly/3XEkeDQ

A pleasure to speak to host Joe Murray of The Human Podcast about my research, career & journey through life Covering: London taxi drivers, dreaming rats, virtual worlds, my navigation test/game: Sea Hero Quest, & navigators of micronesia: youtube.com/watch?v=9eTz...

Scale matters: Large language models with billions (rather than millions) of parameters better match neural representations of natural language https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.12.598513v1

New paper out in PNAS!! "Collaborative imagination synchronizes representations of the future and fosters social connection in the present" in collaboration with Zoë Fowler, Daniela Palombo, and Brendan O’Connor doi.org/10.1073/pnas....

Just resubmitted a MONSTER of a revision on our giant consensus semantic paper. The original version was 113 pages long. The reviewers asked us to shorten it. We tried our best, and the revised version is now 147 pages long. ha ha ha ha -- NEVER HAVE I EVER osf.io/preprints/ps...

Farewell to a titan.

New preprint out with Hannah Thomas, Matthew Price, Caitlin Mahy & @karampbell.bsky.social We tested if age-related improvements in children’s associative memory was driven by the development of associative binding or attention. osf.io/preprints/ps...

So so excited to finally share this paper! Toddler’s spatial memory is durable over delays and benefits from relearning compared to temporal memory! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Our paper with showing that memory control improves immediate emotions of autobiographical memories just got published. Massive thanks to @robinhellerstedt.bsky.social, @memorycontrol.bsky.social and @zarabergstrom.bsky.social 🙏😁 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congrats Yongzhen! great to see this work come to fruition.

Look up Marya's, Ariana's and Keela's posters today 2:30-4:30.

Come check out our lab's posters at #CNS2024 Featuring work from @doryyongzhenxie.bsky.social , June-Kyo Kim, and Marcus Meng

I will be presenting my poster on Sunday at 5-7pm. Come to chat about edge functional connectivity and how it can be applied to study the neural dynamics in narrative event processing! #CNS2024

Interested in chatting about how retrieval can enhance real-world event #memory while also introducing disorganization and distortion? If so, check out my poster with Morgan Barense this Monday from 8-10 am (D49). We'd love to get feedback on this new work! #CNS2024

Check us out at #cns2024: Sat.: Erik Wing shows how experts’ schemas (🦆) accelerate training-induced functional & structural (!) cortical plasticity. Keela Thomson on how kids (👶) see the world differently (literally!).  Hannah Marlatte on youths’ PTSD symptoms & its impact on scene construction (🎑)

Check out our associated presentations at #cns2024!

New paper alert! In a new study led by Shalva Kvitelashvili we developed a novel task to investigate how people voluntarily use their visual working memory. Spoiler: we tend to underutilize our memory capacity. Check it out! rdcu.be/dDKmq

Very cool analysis of free-form verbal responses to gain an insight into experts' way of problem solving. Fantastic work.

Looking forward to reading this!

Yes, very interesting paper. Of course a challenge in interpreting the impact of CA1 lesions is that most (all?) of the hippocampal circuitry efferents go through CA1. We tested the same two patients on temporal integration tasks and discuss it here: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108755

Simply an amazing poem. (Seen here at the Bełżec extermination center.) #WorldPoetryDay

Excited our new paper is out now in PNAS with @vpmurty.bsky.social & @benrottman.bsky.social! We found that the benefits of the spacing effect on item and associative memory depend on the variability in the content and the timescale of the spacing intervals. Read more: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Final paper from @duramudder.bsky.social's PhD We varied the time spent imagining helping someone else (45s, 60s, 75s) and had older & younger adults describe what they imagined & rate their willingness to help. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are looking for a new Lead Technologist for the Toronto Neuroimaging Facility (ToNI). Join us for the highly interesting, dynamic research and stay for the great benefits offered by the University of Toronto. To apply: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please repost.

Good end to the week last week with an accept email from Journal of Neuroscience for Bardur Joensen's & Jennifer Ashton's fMRI study! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky

Unseen but influential associates🕵️‍♀️. In this new paper with Emiko Muraki, we find that semantic processing is influenced by properties of presented words' (non-presented) associates. Out today in @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social PB&R. Sharedit link here: rdcu.be/dAEtc

To test, we created BrainBench, a forward-looking benchmark that stresses prediction over retrieval of facts, avoiding LLM's "hallucination" issue. The task was to predict which version of a Journal of Neuroscience abstract gave the actual result. 2/6

Three years from idea to preprint but here it is: a macro-scale model combining functional and structural connectivity matrices of the human brain networks. This is a technical report so not applied to any clinical data yet. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroimaging #fMRI #dMRI #connectivity

Did you know that there were SS-run concentration camps on the Channel Islands with Jewish inmates? Check out Episode 6 of The Holocaust History Podcast with Caroline Sturdy-Colls! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/1456...