New paper! 🚨 ~1.8K Mooney images from THINGS + ~1K participants to study visual ambiguity resolution. Results suggest the visual system shifts from a top-down guess to bottom-up matching after disambiguation, and a U-shaped link between info gain and identification. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Nice review by @rhens.bsky.social of the >300 papers using CamCAN data to study the cognitive neuroscience of aging rdcu.be/e73yS - thanks to the authors of all those papers!

How does the brain build a memory? A common assumption is that the neurons activated during an experience collectively form the memory engram. In our new Nature Neuroscience paper (finally out!), we show that this is not the case. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Every time you experience something new, your brain faces a decision: Should it update an existing memory or create a new one? In our new paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social #JNeurosci, we isolate that exact decision, moment-by-moment during learning 🧵

I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠

📣New preprint out on False Memory With coauthors: Safak Erener, Simon W Davis, Roberto Cabeza When knowledge interferes with perception: Neural mechanisms of the semantic amplification of visual false memory Preprint at: doi.org/10.64898/202... @woodforbrains.bsky.social @synecphory.bsky.social

1/9 New paper with @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social and @lindedomingo.bsky.social : “Characterising semantic prioritisation in visual working memory.” Core question: when we hold visual info briefly in mind, what gets accessed first: perceptual details or semantic meaning?

New preprint 🚨 Across multiple tasks, we show that higher-level info is more readily accessible in WM before evidence accumulation begins. Attention then boosts perceptual detail. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A lot of fun with my colleagues @ckerren.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans Journal of Neuroscience January 2026 #interoception #neuroskyence www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...

Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum @erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:

"..hippocampal-prefrontal systems represent emotion concepts in a map-like way at multiple levels of abstraction.." Map-like representations of emotion knowledge in hippocampal-prefrontal systems by @yumengma.bsky.social and @pkragel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally: the fantastic #registeredreport from bsky-less Roni Tibon is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... showing less difference between #episodic vs. #semantic #memory than one might have thought. Proud to have contributed a tiny part to this great paper.

Last week to apply!

Our experiences have countless details, and it can be hard to know which matter. How can we behave effectively in the future when, right now, we don't know what we'll need? Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com , @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I find that people solve this by using episodic memory.

Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep. But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap. dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D... Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...

For those into sleep, memory, single units, and neural dynamics this one is for you! New preprint from the fantastic @fabian31415.bsky.social in collaboration with @humansingleneuron.bsky.social exploring how precisely timed sleep rhythms shape memory at the level of single neurons in humans.

Really thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!! This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay! elifesciences.org/articles/99931

Our new work on human navigation strategies and related neural correlates is out! Thanks to Nikolai Axmacher, @lukaskunz.bsky.social and others in the team for a great opportunity to look at this dataset of iEEG and fMRI. doi.org/10.64898/202... code: github.com/zits69/Arena

Nature research paper: Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context go.nature.com/4jCecge

Save the date for ICOM-7 (aka the Memory Olympics)

New preprint: Inference over hidden contexts shapes the geometry of conceptual knowledge for flexible behaviour. In this pre-reg study, our core claim was that we don’t just learn stimulus-reward. We infer hidden context and that inference re-wires attention and neural state space on the fly. 1/8

📣 We have a new PhD studentship (UK home students) at @fbmh-uom.bsky.social funded by @royalsociety.org. Interested in human memory, VR, and neuroimaging? This is the project for you 🧠 tinyurl.com/memoryVRPhD Application deadline January 31st!

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

Excited to share our new paper! By combining EEG and eye-tracking, we found that relational memory retrieval is supported by two distinct neural processes across sequential fixations: An early, general theta increase and a target-selective alpha decrease. doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

I'm happy to share my debut as first-author with the recent publication of our article in #JNeurosci: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Big thanks again to @tschreiner.bsky.social and the whole team who made this possible! 🧠🌬️

Memorability of visual stimuli and the role of processing efficiency Very cool review on image memorability (hint: priority coding is key) by Wilma Bainbridge, @dirkbwalther.bsky.social @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx rdcu.be/eSyjz

New lab paper: "Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis." Across 17 different studies, fear conditioning consistently distorted temporal source memory for information encoded before and after. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New study out today in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41..., in which we set out to test whether ultrasound could influence the reward-related learning computations of the nucleus accumbens, building on decades of work on dopaminergic prediction error and reinforcement learning. And it did.

New preprint alert! Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪

🚨New publication! I am extremely happy to share this new review article in elife on #Traveling_Waves! @erc.europa.eu @upcite.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/106...

🚀 New preprint alert 🚀 How easily can working memory create interference in long-term memories? Our new preprint, Interference Across Memory Systems: Disrupting Long-Term Memories Through Working Memory examines this osf.io/preprints/ps... w/ @sahcan.bsky.social Anna Lena Mantei, Daniel Schneider

Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx

I 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 🧪

✨My first first-author paper is out✨ Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2 Big thanks to everyone ‪@isabellacwagner.bsky.social‬, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social

Decoding performance (MVPA) better for OPM-MEG than SQUID-MEG 😎. The improved spatial specificity of OPM-MEG due to the reduced brain-sensor distance is key. And more sensors (beyond 40) don't improve decoding. Preprint from our recent @thechbh.bsky.social study: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣 🧠 We have a new PhD studentship at @fbmh-uom.bsky.social with Caroline Lea-Carnall & @tomdonoghue.bsky.social: Dopamine, brain networks & plasticity research. Computational modelling + multimodal neuroimaging: tinyurl.com/yr58xj8v Application deadline Nov 15th!

🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference? In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Super excited for this paper from postdoc @grahamflick.bsky.social who has used eye tracking and MEG to better understand how the timing of our eye movements can affect our visual perception and memory.

Foraging in conceptual spaces: hippocampal oscillatory dynamics underlying searching for concepts in memory www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How does motivation shape learning and memory? In a new review w @ralisonadcock.bsky.social, we propose that under different motivational ‘moods', neuromodulators set distinct neural contexts to determine information processing and memory formation. doi.org/10.1146/annu... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

Memory problems will change how you see the world...literally 👀 Across two new papers, we examined the eye movement patterns of younger adults, older adults, individuals with mild cognitive impairment, and amnesic cases. 1/5

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience. mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me! I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that. #psychscisky #neuroskyence

Job alert!🚨 Join us @uab.cat to investigate human memory representations with intracranial recordings, eye-tracking, immersive VR and deep learning. This is a fully funded, four-year PhD position at the Prediction and Memory Lab. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

New preprint from the lab and great work by Fei Wang. We show how subiculum trace vector cells can be modeled consistent with known effects in CA1. Traces are driven by a mismatch learning rule to keep associative memories in line with experience. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The less shouty version can be accessed here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

Years ago my lab tried to brainstorm ways to separately manipulate low-level (texture/pattern) and high-level (scene/object) image properties, for studying visual representations in the brain. Thanks to imaginative work by PhD student Zall Hirschstein, we now have a stimulus set that does just that!