❗New Paper❗Is children's attention more like a spotlight that darts across time, or one that diffuses across many things at once? How might children's immature attention help their learning? Our Dev Sci Paper has answers! 🧵🎯 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41549519/

Our stellar graduate alum Dr. Alexandra Decker is looking for a Lab Manager for her lab, the Learning and Development lab@WashU! 🧠 If you are interested in attention, learning and memory in children and adults, this is the place to be. See her posts for more details! #Research #Psychology

We're thrilled to announce the publication of our newest paper in @plosone.org 🎉 "Aging and episodic memory specificity: Evidence challenging a domain-general pattern separation decline" Read Dr. Youm's full paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... @melaniecohn.bsky.social #Memory #Psychology #Aging

Our graduate student @catalinayang.bsky.social shows that prediction errors only destabilize weakly reactivated memories. Strong memories? They are more impervious to surprise. Check out our #preprint with @barense.bsky.social to learn more osf.io/preprints/ps... #UofT #Psychology

Here is a link to our newest paper published with Wangjing Yu, Katherine Duncan and @megschlichting.bsky.social. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

New preprint in the Duncan Lab On a roll: Recent familiarity primes the brain to retrieve other memories via dopaminergic nuclei mechanisms www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come and check out recent Duncan Lab findings at CNS 2025!