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Cognitive (neuro)scientist @ University of Granada
https://ugr.es/~cgonzalez/
If you're at APS in Barcelona this week, please go check out Mattia's tour de force on object typicality!
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Having a manuscript sent out for review at eLife is equally exciting and terrifying 😅
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As undergraduate, would you like to come for a short summer research stay in our research center? Take a look to these options at the CIMCYC:
cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
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Undergraduate short summer research stays at the CIMCYC
During the month of July 2026, the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) will host national and international undergraduate talented students with research interests aligned with work car...
https://cimcyc.ugr.es/en/information/news/estancias-cortas-investigacion-verano-estudiantes-universitarios
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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC
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Spend your July doing research in Granada! The CIMCYC is calling for talented undergraduate students (non-UGR) to join our Summer Research Stays 2026. 📍 9 Placements available 💶 €1,600 scholarship 🔬 8 specialized Research Groups (see next post!) 🏡 Housing support included Apply by May 11
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Respect to
@erc.europa.eu
for listening to the community and having the courage to change course 👏🇪🇺
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Oded Rechavi
about 1 month ago
Academia feels increasingly like playing Monkey Island, if you miss something as absurd as picking up a rubber chicken with a pulley in the first scene, you only realize much later that you’re stuck and can’t pass to the next stage (👇 see below 1/3)
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Abrupt change to European funder’s rules leaves researchers shut out
Flood of proposals to European Research Council—perhaps unleashed by AI—means unsuccessful applicants must wait longer to reapply
https://www.science.org/content/article/abrupt-change-european-funder-s-rules-leaves-researchers-shut-out
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Communications Psychology
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Analyzing more than 100k human ratings, This study shows that ambiguity resolution relies on high-level visual features. After disambiguation, the visual system shifts from top-down processing to bottom-up matching.
@lindedomingo.bsky.social
@gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
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Determinants of visual ambiguity resolution - Communications Psychology
Analyzing more than 100k human ratings, we show that ambiguity resolution relies on high-level visual features. After disambiguation, the visual system shifts from top-down processing to bottom-up mat...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-026-00441-8
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Rosemary Mosco
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Behold the snake.
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Mike Frank
about 1 month ago
Introducing Datapages, a new project from Mika Braginsky and me. Datapages are open-source templates for creating interactive websites that make research datasets easy to find, explore, and reuse. No coding required for the basic setup.
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Datapages for reusable (and pretty!) data sharing
Blog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science.
https://babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/datapages-for-reusable-and-pretty-data.html
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Michael Friendly
about 1 month ago
#statsmeme
Greeks & shields
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Johanna Joyce
about 1 month ago
What should Europe do when demand for
#ERC
funding keeps rising? Restrict access or invest in excellence? Please read our open letter calling for reconsideration of the ERC 2027 resubmission restrictions & for constructive alternatives that preserve openness Consider to share & sign - see below 🧪
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#erc | Johanna Joyce
What should Europe do when demand for its most successful frontier research programme keeps rising? Restrict access, or invest in the excellence it has created? A new open letter, spearheaded by Sara...
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7452453570664275968/
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Manifiesto COSCE por un Sistema Español de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación más eficiente y de mayor impacto Estimadas socias, estimados socios: La Confederación de Sociedades Científicas de España (COSCE) ha redactado el Manifiesto “Por un Sistema Español de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación…
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Manifiesto COSCE por un Sistema Español de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación más eficiente y de mayor impacto
Estimadas socias, estimados socios: La Confederación de Sociedades Científicas de España (COSCE) ha redactado el Manifiesto “Por un Sistema Español de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SECTI) más eficiente y de mayor impacto”. Este documento reúne una batería de propuestas orientadas a modernizar el marco regulatorio de la investigación en España, reducir la carga burocrática que soporta el sistema y reforzar la competitividad de la ciencia española. El manifiesto puede consultarse aquí. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX.
http://websepex.com/2026/04/21/manifiesto-cosce-por-un-sistema-espanol-de-ciencia-tecnologia-e-innovacion-mas-eficiente-y-de-mayor-impacto/
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Yasin Koc
about 1 month ago
Wrong. Absolutely wrong move. With increasing number of applications, what we need is a basic scientific quality and feasibility check, then lottery. Writing full proposal, interview etc all are absolute rubbish. The outcome is only slightly better than chance. It’s waste of everyone’s time.
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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪
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Dear funders, if you want to improve the success rate of your calls for scientific proposals, increase the budget instead of introducing new rules to try to reduce the number of applications.
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Juan Linde-Domingo
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Is anyone else seeing papers sit at journals for 2 months or more before a desk rejection or before being sent out for review? Is this becoming more a more common? Bit frustrating given what some of these journals charge and when contracts, grants, and career evaluations have strict deadlines.
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Águeda Fuentes-Guerra Toral
about 2 months ago
Ever wondered whether external stimuli can exogenously ping representations temporally held in our memory? 📍🧠✨ Joint work with Elisa Martín-Arévalo,
@freekvanede.bsky.social
and
@gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
Check it out!! 🔗
www.eneuro.org/content/13/4...
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Exogenously Driven Neural Reactivation of Spatially Matching Visual Working-Memory Contents
Selective attention is often divided into voluntary (goal-directed) and involuntary (stimulus-driven) forms, a distinction extensively studied for attention to external sensory input. In contrast, internal selective attention—directed toward representations held in working memory (WM)—has been considered primarily for voluntary influences. Recent behavioral evidence suggests that task-irrelevant external stimuli can also influence internal selection of feature-matching WM representations involuntarily, yet the neural mechanisms underlying these effects remain unclear. Here, we tested whether an uninformative exogenous spatial retro-cue presented during a WM delay can act as a selective “ping” and reactivate spatially matching WM content at the level of its representational category. Male and female human participants memorized complex contents presented at distinct locations, followed by unpredictive and task-irrelevant spatial retro-cues that conveyed no category information. Using temporally resolved multivariate electroencephalography decoding, we observed category-specific reactivation of spatially matching WM representations following these cues, providing direct neural evidence for stimulus-driven, involuntary attentional selection within WM, ahead of the memory test. Moreover, neural responses to the subsequent memory–probe were also modulated by cue congruency, consistent with the notion that exogenous influences begin early during sensory processing while also shaping later decision-related processes. Finally, drift diffusion model analyses revealed that this involuntary cueing effect was primarily driven by increased evidence accumulation. Together, these findings illuminate the mechanisms by which external events can automatically and involuntarily penetrate the internal cognitive workspace.
https://www.eneuro.org/content/13/4/ENEURO.0076-26.2026
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📢 We are thrilled to announce the CIMCYC International Doctoral Summer School: "Psychological Approaches to Misinformation in Minds and Society," taking place in Granada from September 15–18, 2026. 💡Full program and applications:
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Runhao Lu | 陆润豪
about 2 months ago
Using time-resolved EEG/MEG decoding?🧠 Here’s a new approach! No feature engineering (decode from raw signals), but capturing info that standard decoding often misses (oscillatory/aperiodic activity, connectivity). Lightweight, INTERPRETABLE, and easy to use. (1/6)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.04.716475v1
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Henry Mance
about 2 months ago
The Art of War 1. Start war 2. Kill people 3. Fail to achieve strategic objectives 4. Declare victory 5. Agree ceasefire
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I’m quite surprised by how slow the assistance has been at Prolific
@joinprolific.bsky.social
.It feels inconsistent: sometimes responses are great, but other times they take a very long time. I’ve sent three emails over the past two weeks and haven’t received any reply.
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Ida Momennejad
about 2 months ago
Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit. You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?
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Ingmar de Vries
about 2 months ago
JOB ALERT: PhD opening in my lab!
@cimecunitrento.bsky.social
in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. The project will use advanced analysis methods of MEG data to investigate how our world's naturalistic hierarchical structure facilitates predictive neural processing.
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Mark Histed
about 2 months ago
Quick bit of advice for everyone on Bluesky: We should switch to using the For You feed as our default feed. It will make things better
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2 months ago
🚨 2 PhD positions at the University of Granada. Work on AI + brain + language (NeurSpeechXAI): PhD1: Explainable AI for EEG/sEEG speech decoding PhD2: Multimodal neuroimaging (EEG/fMRI) & experimental design 3.5y contracts, interdisciplinary & international 👉
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Steve Fleming
2 months ago
Scientific publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published Review of how the loss of impact factor affected submissions at eLife - uneven drop across countries, but generally holding up remarkably well and shows a new model is possible
elifesciences.org/articles/110...
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Scientific Publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published
Taking a radical new approach to the publication process resulted in eLife losing its impact factor, but authors, reviewers, editors and funders support the journal and its efforts to reform scientifi...
https://elifesciences.org/articles/110392
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Kate Jeffery
2 months ago
It is absolutely astonishingly impressive how much work scientific publishers have managed to shunt onto authors, who aren't paid, while they continue to increase their enormous profits. The submission process itself takes about 5 hours. I miss the 90s 😢
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Our work exploring how we can resolve ambiguous visual inputs has now been accepted in Communications Psychology. Many thanks to the reviewers for their time and insights! Open-access link:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC
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Are you a female or gender-diverse
#psychology
student interested in learning
#coding
? 🤔 ✨ Join the workshop "SheCodesPsy 2026 Reprogramming stereotypes!" 📅 13–15 May | 💰 Free 📍CIMCYC - UGR 📝 Application deadline: 16 March
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Suddenly finding the solution to a problem sometimes feels more insightful than others, but why? Beautiful work by Johannah showing this is the result of both the accuracy of initial predictions and the uncertainty awarded to them. Feeling lucky to have shared this journey with her and Juan!✨
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3 months ago
Celebrating
#AndalusiaDay
at CIMCYC with a classic: bread, oil and sugar. 🥖✨ It was a wonderful opportunity to socialize, laugh and enjoy music. Happy
#28F
from our center!
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Why do people seem to prioritize semantic stuff when holding info in working memory? Had lots of fun trying to shed some light on this question, together with the great
@ckerren.bsky.social
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@lindedomingo.bsky.social
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Luis Ciria
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🚨🚨 We are hiring a Postdoc at CIMCYC – University of Granada (Spain) 🚨🚨 2 year position in Neuroscience of Human Experience Building new ways to study lived experience as it unfolds in time and maps onto brain, body and behavior Please share‼️
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Mark Histed
3 months ago
the benefit from writing the paper is not having a 30-page paper as a result the benefit is the thinking that goes along with writing the paper — that is part of writing the paper. If all that's done is the pre-analysis plan and the analysis then that limits the new thinking
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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
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@gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
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BAMB!
3 months ago
Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open! Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty:
@meganakpeters.bsky.social
@marcelomattar.bsky.social
@khamascience.bsky.social
@thecharleywu.bsky.social
Apply now here:
www.bambschool.org
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BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.
https://www.bambschool.org/
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Bob Calhoun
4 months ago
You could replace AI with cocaine in this Harvard Business Review article and it would totally fit. Working at a faster pace into more hours of the day at first soon giving way to "cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making." Sounds familiar.
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
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María Jesús Maraver
4 months ago
@wicseurope.bsky.social
event for women’s month is out! Join us on if you’re drawn to computational ways of thinking about the mind. 🗓️ 23 February 2026 ⏰ 13:00-14:30 (CET) More info & free registration here:
shorturl.at/Jqm4M
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4 months ago
🧠How does your brain turn a brand-new instruction into a precise action? A new study reveals how our brain organizes information to adapt to the unknown.
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A CIMCYC study reveals how the brain organizes information to adapt to new situations
Every day, we face new situations with surprising ease: from understanding a rule that has just been explained to reacting appropriately to an unfamiliar sign. But how does the brain manage to turn a ...
https://cimcyc.ugr.es/en/information/news/brain-organizes-information
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5 months ago
European alternatives for many digital products: email services, VPNs, alternatives to Slacks and more:
european-alternatives.eu
Btw, we use Elements at work and I really like it.
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European Alternatives
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Universidad de Granada
5 months ago
🧠 La ciencia no deja de descubrir secretos acerca del cerebro 👨🔬 El proyecto CONNECTS de la UGR busca resolver la paradoja del pensamiento 📺 Conoce más detalles en este reportaje de ConCiencia 👇
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CONNECTS, la paradoja del pensamiento - Canal UGR
Conciencia de Canal Sur dedica un reportaje al proyecto ERC Starting Grant «Cognitive and Neural Computations of Semantics» (CONNECTS) que dirige el investigador del CIMCYC y del Departamento de Psicología Experimental de la UGR, Javier Ortiz-Tudela. Esta iniciativa busca entender cómo el conocimiento semántico influye en nuestra forma de procesar y recordar nueva información. A… Seguir Leyendo CONNECTS, la paradoja del pensamiento
https://canal.ugr.es/ugrcomunica/connects-la-paradoja-del-pensamiento/
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Francisco Garre-Frutos
6 months ago
In Granada next week? Join us for the CIMCYC Workshop on Learning and Attention, with
@davluque.bsky.social
,
@mavadillo.bsky.social
, Teodóra Vékony and
@mikelepelley.bsky.social
discussing how learning and attention interact across different domains.
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Home – CIMCYC Workshop on Learning and Attention
https://franfrutos.github.io/learning_attention_workshop/#seminario
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Andrew Heiss
6 months ago
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning
#rstats
datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
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María Jesús Maraver
6 months ago
@cimcyc.bsky.social
is hiring! SIX postdoc positions are coming up to dive into collaborative projects bridging together psychological science. Amazing opportunity to boost a postdoc career in a cutting-edge research center with outstanding human teams! 👇🏽
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Bridging Fields in Psychology and Neuroscience with Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Strengthening collaboration to encourage novel research connections between scientific areas is central to the CIMCYC - María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence strategy . To encourage this, the CIMCYC has ...
https://cimcyc.ugr.es/en/information/news/collaborative-projects
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Javier Ortiz-Tudela
6 months ago
Postdoc job ad! Do you have a background in human learning in aseptic lab studies and wonder how to apply this to pressing societal issues? Or, have you worked in the formation of political attitudes from social psychology but always wanted to understand the cognitive mechanisms behind it? Read on!
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It’s official! The postdoc positions announcement is here 🚀 If you know great candidates interested in attention, memory transformation and EEG, please help spread the word: Project (ReDAS) ->
cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
Job offer ->
cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
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Bridging Fields in Psychology and Neuroscience with Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Strengthening collaboration to encourage novel research connections between scientific areas is central to the CIMCYC - María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence strategy . To encourage this, the CIMCYC has ...
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Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!
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Blake Richards
6 months ago
This raises what I like to call the "AI test for tasks". If many people use AI to do task X, then that tells you that task X is actually just a brainless administrative exercise. Any such task should probably be eliminated, and if that's not an option, modified to make automation even easier.
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So proud of Águeda and Germán for putting this together. A short, insightful opinion piece on how drift–diffusion modeling can deepen our understanding of the role of attention in prioritizing working memory contents. 📄 Accepted version:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Preprint:
shorturl.at/p5KA4
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Very happy to finally see this out! A while ago I had the wonderful opportunity to meet an awesome group of scientists from very diverse fields, interested in exchanging thoughts, experiences and ideas. In this book, we collect some of these exchanges as a celebration the richness of science.
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Mariam Aly
8 months ago
A memory can be represented at different levels of granularity, from highly specific to generalized. Different representational formats of a memory can be used at different times or in different contexts, and draw on different neural representations.
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OSF
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