If you're at #CSBBCS, come hear me talk about @sarahehenderson.bsky.social's work on event tagging - a novel intervention aimed at improving event memory in older adults. 🌞 9am, HNE room 37 🌞

Excited for a few days of science at CSBBCS! I’ll be sharing a poster and talk on two different but exciting projects. Stop by Poster Session A (A03) today to chat about aging, attentional lapses at encoding, and the consequences for later memory of targets and distractors. @karampbell.bsky.social

Happy long weekend!

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

Great science and great friends at CNS. I shared new work from my postdoc @audreyduarte.bsky.social We find that depressive symptoms are linked to greater neural evidence of proactive interference at encoding which predicts subsequent errors at retrieval. This effect seems to be exacerbated by age.

You know what's better than eating ice cream?🍦Eating ice cream and seeing @retorresh.bsky.social's cool poster (C115) about the time it takes to decode high vs low memorability objects using EEG! Later today #CNS2026

If you're at #CNS2026 and interested in aging & memory, come see @emilyedavis.bsky.social's poster on implicit associative memory tomorrow at 8am (#63)

We had a great time at #LOVE2026 #psychscisky In case you missed it, message @hannahgthomas.bsky.social to learn about the relationship bw sustained attention & inhibition

If you're at #LOVE2026, check out our poster today! We are sharing some exciting (preliminary) fMRI data from a non-speaking Autistic individual who listened to intact and reverse audio clips in the scanner. We show that we can localize regions sensitive to language processing in this individual!

Localized regions sensitive to language processing in my own brain today!

PhD students: Do you have experience with structural or fMRI data analysis? Are you interested in data harmonization, open science, and cognitive aging? 🧠📊 💻 If yes, this post-doc position in my lab is perfect for you! Please share with your networks! jobs-ca.silkroad.com/Baycrest/Car...

Opportunity to move to Canada. 🍁 The Lifespan Institute @brocku.ca is looking to hire a Canada Excellence Research Chair In Healthy Development Across the Lifespan. More info in the job ad (salary negotiable). brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree....

Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell on the autism-microbiome theory www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/goi...

I couldn’t recommend working with Karen and Linda enough. Good people, good researchers. Bonus: office with a window that overlooks the Bruce Trail.

Women make up 2/3 of Alzheimer’s patients in Canada. On (MIS)Treated, @namshine.bsky.social talks to @mnrajah.bsky.social (@torontomet.bsky.social) about how menopause impacts brain health, and the need for more research.

The CDC amended its website to suggest that vaccines may cause autism. It now declares that experts “ignored” a potential link between infant vaccination and autism, and asserts that its earlier rejection of such a link was not “evidence-based.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...

If you'll be at the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition, check out @hannahgthomas.bsky.social's poster (#11) on the relationship between sustained attention and inhibitory control. Wish I could be there! #FOMO🗻🔬🎉🍻 @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom25 #SIDIC

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Happy Halloween! 🎃

🧪🧠 My lab is seeking Experimental Psychology (Psych Science) graduate trainees for Fall 2026. Please consider applying www.torontomu.ca/psychology/p... Deadline for applications is December 1, 2025 #neurosky #phd

Not every week of research is super exciting, but this week is! We had an awesome scanning day yesterday with a really special population. I’m downloading data now and hopefully we can share more soon! 🤞🏼

Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨! I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!

The genetic mystery of why some people develop autism bbc.com/future/artic...

Don’t trust the experts”? That’s not democracy, that’s recklessness. On a plane, I want a pilot. In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence. Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data. Ignore it and we all pay the price.

Corn husking contest at our lab BBQ yesterday had our newest members wondering if they've made a grave error. 🤔 🌽🌽🌽🤪😂

So proud of these two! I owe much of my lab's early success to these incredibly smart women, @emilyedavis.bsky.social & @sarahehenderson.bsky.social. Now on to bigger and better things - postdocs at Uni of Toronto & UT Austin, respectively. Can't wait to see what they accomplish next 🙌🏻🥲❤️

It was fun to have the chance to present our new data on associative memory in children! Thanks to the organizers for another great year #TAMeG2025

Thrilled to share this work now published in Cerebral Cortex! doi.org/10.1093/cerc... We apply Greedy State Boundary Search in EEG to identify neural state boundaries and show that the degree of shift, but not their temporal synchrony, predicts memory performance in both older and younger adults.

The amount of information and extra months rent you need to give to potential landlords these days just has to be contributing to the housing crisis. We've given them everything short of the blood of our first born son and they are unsure if we can pay rent that is a 1/3 of our income.

The boys!!!!!!!

New paper out with @karampbell.bsky.social and Caitlin Mahy! We tested whether associative memory improvements in children aged 8-12 were related to the development of associative binding or attentional control. We had children complete an implicit and explicit associative memory task.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence

To the NIH staff complying with these orders: grow a backbone. To the scientists who have had their money frozen: find a way to do the work anyway. Reach out to international collaborators. Scale back the project to focus on the main question. Use existing data. Don't let them stop you!

🧠 Excited to share our new preprint! 🧠 Check it out and let us know what you think! 👀✨

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...

New paper alert, led by my former PhD student Tiago Guardia! #PsychSciSky Self-reported physical activity and sleep quality is associated with working memory function in middle-aged and older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IW9WM...

The findings from this study are now available at Psychonomic Bulletin and Review! rdcu.be/dxAJm

Another successful LOVE conference! Undergraduate thesis student, Hannah Thomas, and I presented our findings on the differential attentional demands on implicit and explicit assocative memory in children 8 - 12 years old. Check out our poster!

Paper (finally!) out in Cognition w. Claire Matthews & Cathy Mondloch! We set out to see whether ensemble coding (specifically the extraction of a perceptual average) was an important face learning mechanism. Spoiler: Probably not! authors.elsevier.com/a/1iBdM2Hx2t...

Come see @emilyedavis.bsky.social at the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition (Thurs at 11:20am, #6) or again at #psynom23 (Fri at 12pm, #2147) to hear about how individual differences in attentional control relate to individual diffs in hyper-binding in YOUNG ADULTS