Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought — a Review by Michael C. Anderson, Maite Crespo-Garcia & S. Subbulakshmi @memorycontrol.bsky.social‬ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #neuroskyence

🚨This is the most exciting step of my scientific career🚨 25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:

Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital [email protected] sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Excited to share our new study on how respiration modulates neural dynamics during successful memory retrieval—led by @estebanbt.bsky.social, alongside the exceptional team of @fabian31415.bsky.social, @maritpetzka.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, and @bstaresina.bsky.social. 👇

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government. Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea. eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...

Happy to share our new paper on the inhibition of memory retrieval in dissociative amnesia, with @dcdace.bsky.social, Hirokazu Kikuchi, Nobuhito Abe &, Jun Kawaguchi, Mike Kopelman & @memorycontrol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Music helps attentional focus. I hope so. I'm not going to stop listening to music when I work. Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties www.nature.com/articles/s42... #neuroscience

A thread🧵 on application systems for postdoc jobs in the UK (applies to my university, but I've seen others and they're similar). I have seen (too many times) good applicants who don't seem to understand how recruitment is done on our side - not their fault! it's a privilege! - so here's how

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

@mrccbu.bsky.social are happy to announce Cognitive Neuroimaging Skills Training In Cambridge (#COGNESTIC) on 15-26 Sep 2025. We will provide training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and related methods. Look here for more information: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

Happy publication day to us! New paper just landed: The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition 🧪

I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start. go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE

Paper accepted!!! The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects osf.io/preprints/ps... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

As part of an exciting new UKRI-funded interdisciplinary study of the vividness of memory, we are recruiting two post-doctoral researchers, one in cognitive neuroscience (www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48823/) and one in intellectual and cultural history (www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48767/). Please share!

🚨Long-awaited revised preprint thanks to rigorous and helpful reviewers🚨. We validated LDA approach, obtained reactivation to index neural reinstatement, and updated inferential models w @alexamorcom.bsky.social, Matt Plummer + new co-author Ivor Simpson www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... . Summary👇🧵

Submitted my first paper today and released it as a preprint! Murray, E., Goebel, S. M., & @aidanhorner.bsky.social (2024). More Steps, Same Effect: Spacing Increases the Retention of Mathematics Procedures of Varying Complexity. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

eps.ac.uk/kuppuraj-bis... Grant helps finance postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from the ‘Global South’ working in experimental psychology to complete a study visit in a lab hosted by an EPS member Deadline is 1st December.

I’m going to keep repeating this: ChatGPT was designed to do the impressive feat of making a computer produce a natural sounding response to a question (or other prompt). It was not designed to provide factual answers to questions.

New "forum" (short opinion piece) with Scott Cairney is out and available to read at your pleasure! Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Cognition 🧪

How are multiple interconnected memories reactivated during #sleep? We've published our opinions, but here I'd like to highlight recent findings from other groups. Tl;dr: multiple memories can be (almost) simultaneously reactivated & shared contexts drive this reactivation 1/8

Fun new paper on meaning & memory in the brain. Retrieval is often seen through the lens of encoding success, but we find a unique "flip" in which the parietal ctx mediates enc failure but retrieval success. Cool implications for theories of parietal function. direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Got Butterflies in your Stomach? 😵‍💫 I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social ! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date 🧵👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.05.597517v1

Happy publication day to us, but most importantly Bardur Joensen! An Enduring Role for Hippocampal Pattern Completion in Addition to an Emergent Nonhippocampal Contribution to Holistic Episodic Retrieval after a 24 h Delay www.jneurosci.org/content/44/1... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

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....

New phase learned today: p slacking Being quite happy to fail to find a difference between two conditions and not really doing much in the way of exploratory analysis to see if it really is that null.

Deadline for this is next Friday (12th). Send me your applications! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

I received word recently that a dear colleague, Larry Jacoby, had passed. Larry made countless contributions to cognitive psychology and the cognitive sciences #cognition #cogsci #cogpsy

Very excited that @akulsatish.bsky.social's MEG paper on spatial representations and theta/alpha is officially published in Hippocampus! Theta and alpha oscillations in human hippocampus and medial parietal cortex support the formation of location-based representations #neuroskyence #psychscisky

In humans, highly selective brain lesions are rare. This study tests two unique patients with relatively selective lesions to dentate gyrus (DG) vs. CA1 subfields of the hippocampus. DG lesions impair discrimination of similar memories, whereas CA1 lesions impair recognition memory overall.

Fully funded PhD position to work with me & @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social on the Leverhulme funded project: Boosting long-term memory via environmental structure in virtual reality Funding covers PhD stipend and UK fees. Please email me with a cover letter and CV. #neuroskyence #psychscisky

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

So happy that this was accepted😄🎉 loved working on this and congrats to you too aidanhorner.bsky.social + Vanessa, Maya and Shona!

Postdoc alert! Come work with me on an ESRC project on the role of narratives in the learning and retention of educational material. 2 year position, start date flexible but no later than 1st September. Application deadline 1st March. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

Interested in how people control unwanted memories? Davide Nardo and I published a detailed guide to the Think/No-Think task in Behavior Research Methods with best practice advice, including a training package with videos, spreadsheets and code. rdcu.be/dzbwA

The final version of @memorycontrol.bsky.social and my article "Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control" is now featured in the current version of TiCS www.cell.com/trends/cogni... Downloadable version here: wessellab.org

A Leading Memory Researcher Explains How to Make Precious Moments Last www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #neuroscience

Join us for another two weeks of Cognitive Neuroimaging Skills Training In Cambridge, #COGNESTIC, 16-27 September, 2024. We provide training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis, focussing on MRI, fMRI and EEG/MEG. www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

PhD funding alert! A second round of up to 4 School of UK + International Psychology studentships at Sussex this year - deadline 15th Feb. Application FAQ: t.ly/ZLoEJ - contact potential supervisor/s first to check fit! For my lab, episodic memory + ageing #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky

I'll be advertising a 2-year postdoc in a few weeks supported by an ESRC grant. An interesting project looking at the role of narratives in the learning and retention of educational material. Feel free to get in touch via email if you are interested! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky

Hi neuroSky, thanks to Lynn Nadel & Sarah Aronowitz I wrote a book chapter on multiscale predictive representations that connect the past to the future, memory to prediction & planning. There's still time to edit it & I'd love to read your comments! Am I missing citations? arxiv.org/abs/2401.09491

The Primary Function of MTL is Memory, not Navigation: Grid Cells are Non-spatial (what) and Place Cells are Memories (what and where) that Cause Grid Fields through Retrieval https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.30.573694v1

Last publication from me in 2023 Research led by @shahararzy.bsky.social and his wonderful lab. I played a small role in this: A neural circuit for spatial orientation derived from brain lesions academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...

! Job alert ! Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu The ad currently closes on January 2nd. Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply!  See thread below.  Please share!

OPMs are going social! First two person data looking promising 🤞

Competing memories may be integrated or differentiated based on how much their representations co-activate. Using real-time fMRI neurofeedback, this study finds that high co-activation of memories in visual cortex leads to less memory discriminability in hippocampus. #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Long-term memories can guide eye movements automatically, even if they are not relevant to the task. But what happens if we attempt to suppress a long-term memory? Attempts to regulate memory retrieval reduce incidental viewing of objects whose memories are being suppressed. #PsychSciSky

We're looking for someone to image the thalamus at 7T. We want to combine 7T structure with 3T EEG-fMRI to understand what's happening in the thalamocortical system during sleep and divided attention. Please circulate and get in touch if you're interested! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Our review on scene perception is now freely available in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience! doi.org/10.1093/acre... We discuss object-, space- and affordance-based scene representations and behavioral, fMRI and M/EEG evidence for their presence in the human brain (plus DNNs)!

Really proud of this work! We used our item-wise RSA to show that interaction terms describing how the hippocampus and cortical regions speak the same language (hipp RSA ❌ cortical RSA) are the best predictors of memory success I.e., hipp codes memory information, but only in simultaneity w cortex