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All things memory
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Ataol Burak Ozsu
10 days ago
I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘Building world models by learning to distinguish imagination from reality: why childhood imagination feels so real’ with Nora Petrova,
@tessamdekker.bsky.social
and
@nadinedijkstra.bsky.social
.
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It is back!
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The Milestones of Neurocognitive Development Lab, led by Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann, is now on Bluesky - follow us for exciting insights into the development of human cognition!
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Heidrun Schultz
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
26 days ago
Have you ever heard a
#child
proudly say “Schau mal, zwei Hünde!” What sounds amusing to us shows how hard forming plurals is for a 3yo. Cheslie Klein, Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann & Angela Friederici show how maturation of
#neural
pathways in 🧠 is linked to form plural of
#words
.
tinyurl.com/2mm5y5sy
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How “Highways” in the Brain Help Young Children Form Plurals
How “Highways” in the Brain Help Young Children Form Plurals
https://www.cbs.mpg.de/2451597/20260421
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Peters Lab
about 1 month ago
Postdocstelle in der Biopsychologie in Köln zu besetzen:
jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
Spannende Forschung, nettes Team und 4 SWS Lehre im Bachelor/Master Psychologie. Bewerbungsfrist endet am 17.04. - gerne Teilen.
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Adi Upadhyayula
2 months ago
1/ 🚨 New preprint Key Moments Scaffold the Semantic Structure of Narratives Using spoken recall and annotations from three naturalistic datasets with topic modeling, we ask: which parts of a narrative contribute most to its semantic structure and subsequently memory? Preprint:
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Heidrun Schultz
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
4 months ago
Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4
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Gordon Feld
3 months ago
Save the date for the 1st MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep: May 31st to June 3rd Keynote speakers:
@marwimber.bsky.social
@mgarvert.bsky.social
& Dan Bendor Sessions on: memory processes sleep & replay analysis and stimulation techniques
www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...
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MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep
Join our 4-day summer school on memory consolidation, neural replay, and sleep. May 31–June 3, 2026 in Heidelberg. For Master, PhD students & postdocs.
https://www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/abteilungen-ags-institute/klinpsych/arbeitsgruppen-klinpsych/psych-neurobio-sleep-memory/meep-heidelberg-summer-school-on-memory-and-sleep.html
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David Barner
4 months ago
Really cool new project from
@urvi.bsky.social
that finds that kids are much better at temporal reasoning than previously reported, if we test them with REAL passing time, rather than hypothetical past or future events and differentiate past and future at 3 years old.
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Cliona O'Doherty
3 months ago
1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
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New year, new job, even a new university (literally): Excited to start my new position as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Technology Nuremberg with Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann and the Cognitive Neuroscience research group.
3 months ago
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Hannah Tarder-Stoll
4 months ago
Can reward improve memory for what came before it? 🌟 In a registered report with
@duncanlabuoft.bsky.social
&
@megschlichting.bsky.social
, we reconcile mixed findings from past studies: reward retroactively boosts associative—but not item—memory, and only in reward-sensitive individuals!
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University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder)
4 months ago
Did you know that imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them more? New research led by CU Boulder and
@mpicbs.bsky.social
found that the brain responds to imagined events in similar ways to real experiences. Explore the findings ↓
https://bit.ly/3Y8WyGQ
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Your brain on imagination: Study reveals how the mind's eye helps us learn and change
A new study shows that merely imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them better by engaging brain regions involved with learning and
https://www.colorado.edu/today/node/55801?utm_campaign=research_news&utm_source=organic_social&utm_medium=bsky&utm_content=your_brain_on_imagination_12102025&utm_term=health
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Valentin Riedl
5 months ago
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
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
5 months ago
Your
#brain
on imagination: Study reveals how the mind’s eye helps us learn and change -
@rolandbenoit.bsky.social
from
@colorado.edu
and Aroma Dabas from MPI CBS show that merely imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them better:
tinyurl.com/bde6ttwk
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Your brain on imagination: Study reveals how the mind’s eye helps us learn and change
Your brain on imagination: Study reveals how the mind’s eye helps us learn and change
https://tinyurl.com/bde6ttwk
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Heidrun Schultz
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
5 months ago
Und hier sind sie – die 10 Preisträger*innen des Gottfried Wilhelm
#LeibnizPreis
' 2026 – ausgezeichnet für ihre exzellenten Forschungsarbeiten und Errungenschaften in der Wissenschaft! 🏆👏 Die Verleihung der Preise feiern wir am 18. März in Berlin. Einzelheiten & Kurzprofile:
sohub.io/1uv1
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Jorge Morales
5 months ago
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by
@dillonplunkett.bsky.social
, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
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Representational Momentum Transcends Motion
Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science
https://subjectivitylab.org/rm/paper
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Juan Linde-Domingo
5 months ago
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 ...
https://cimcyc.ugr.es/en/information/news/collaborative-projects
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Nicholas Menghi
6 months ago
Our new paper, now published in
@natcomms.nature.com
, asks a simple question: when two tasks share a common structure, does the brain learn them more efficiently? Surprisingly, this was not the case. Thread below (1/7)
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The effects of task similarity during representation learning in brains and neural networks
Nature Communications - Here, the authors show learning tasks with similar structures can initially cause interference and slow down learning, but both the brain and artificial networks gradually...
https://rdcu.be/eSwvU
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Philipp Kanske
6 months ago
Full professorship in general psychology open
@tudresden.bsky.social
We are a lively department with a fantastically equipped neuroimaing center. DM me with questions.
@dgps.bsky.social
@dgps-fgal.bsky.social
@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12517
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Martin Hebart
6 months ago
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at
@jlugiessen.bsky.social
. Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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Roland Benoit
6 months ago
Coming up at
#psynom25
-
@alexbarone987.bsky.social
presenting our recent attempt at Boosting the impact of episodic simulations on decisions via spatial scaffolding.
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
w/
@heidrunschultz.bsky.social
, pictured with awesome undergraduate RAs Lauren and Max.
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Alison Preston
6 months ago
(1/4) 🧠 Did you know that kids remember time differently than adults? Our new preprint review w/
@drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social
discusses the real implications for juvenile justice & why we need to ask about timing in ways that match kids' developing brains ⚖️ Paper:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Congrats
@stevengeysen.bsky.social
on this thorough work on the (lack of) effects of ghrelin on risky decision-making! So happy I could be a part of it! See Steven's post for a summary. Link to the preprint here:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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7 months ago
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Heidrun Schultz
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
9 months ago
New fMRI study shows the hippocampus signals mismatches only when our expectations are based on episodic memories — not general knowledge. Challenges theories of the hippocampus as a domain-general comparator. We also explore how brain networks respond to surprise:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Matthias Nau
9 months ago
Quantifying memory recall is hard! Luckily, natural language processing (incl.
#LLMs
) offers new, automated, and scalable ways to do that! Great new review by Fenerci &
@signysheldon.bsky.social
in
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
!
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Studying memory narratives with natural language processing
Cognitive neuroscience research has begun to use natural language processing (NLP) to examine memory narratives with the hopes of gaining a nuanced understanding of the mechanisms underlying differenc...
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(25)00054-3
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Matthias Nau
9 months ago
Excited to share our new paper w/
@cibaker.bsky.social
in
@natcomms.nature.com
linking active vision & memory! We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events - Nature Communications
When people recall a movie, their eye movements and brain activity resemble those observed during the viewing. These behavioral and neural reactivations are linked through a common process, likely ref...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62375-9
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Benjamin Straube
10 months ago
@tnm-lab.bsky.social
Kausalitätswahrnehmung, Erwartungen & fMRT begeistern dich? Bewirb dich auf die Promotionsstelle (3 Jahre, 75%) in Marburg (
www.theadaptivemind.de
) bis zum 17.08.:
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/1...
#Job
#Promotion
#fMRI
#Psychologie
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Homepage
https://www.theadaptivemind.de
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Matthew B
10 months ago
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS973/h...
We're recruiting for a new Head of School for Psychology
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
- please do get in touch if of interest.
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Head of School of Psychology at University of Birmingham
Apply for the Head of School of Psychology role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS973/head-of-school-of-psychology
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Marta Silva
11 months ago
🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories!
rdcu.be/eui9l
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Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries
Nature Communications - The neural processes involved in memory formation for realistic experiences remain poorly understood. Here, the authors found that ripple-like activity in the human...
https://rdcu.be/eui9l
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Helen Blank
11 months ago
Are you a specialist in the physics behind MRI and want to work at THINK
@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
? Apply:
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4...
Thanks for sharing with potential candidates!🧠🙏
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MRI Physicist (m/f/x)
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4220f17edf54764ef0fd88014e63e21438b6acda0?ref=homepage
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Marit Petzka
11 months ago
Interested in whether sleep and (a)periodic EEG activity increase the probability to have an insight? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Thanks to
@anikaloewe.bsky.social
,
@nicoschuck.bsky.social
& Maria Tzegka for a great teamwork. I really enjoyed it!
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PLOS Biology
11 months ago
That "Aha!" moment... Can sleep facilitate memory reorganization?
@nicoschuck.bsky.social
@anikaloewe.bsky.social
@maritpetzka.bsky.social
&co reveal that N2
#sleep
(but not N1) increases likelihood of having an 'aha' moment about a previous
#DecisionMaking
task
@plosbiology.org
🧪
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Heidrun Schultz
11 months ago
🎉 Excited to share our new paper in
#ImagingNeuroscience
! 👇
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
We found that older adults show reduced sensitivity to uncertainty reduction during
#decision-making
. Grateful to amazing co-authors I. Bundil,
@sschulreich.bsky.social
& S.-C. Li. 🙌
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Martin Hebart
11 months ago
What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in
@natmachintell.nature.com
led by
@florianmahner.bsky.social
&
@lukasmut.bsky.social
, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine Intelligence
An interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-025-01041-7
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Philipp Kanske
11 months ago
Join us for a talk by the fantastic
@noramraschle.bsky.social
GROWING BRAINS - STUDYING THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HUMAN BEHAVIORS ACROSS SPACE (BRAIN), TIME (DEVELOPMENT) AND GALAXIES (SOCIAL CONTEXTS) 1 July 2025, 1pm CEST
@tudresden.bsky.social
@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...
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Heidrun Schultz
Department of Imaging Neuroscience
11 months ago
Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at
#OHBM2025
. Try the beta for yourself at
github.com/spm/spm-python
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GitHub - spm/spm-python: The Python interface to SPM
The Python interface to SPM. Contribute to spm/spm-python development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/spm/spm-python
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At
#PuG2025
? Into memory? We've got just the symposium for you. "The emergence and transformation of memory representations in the human brain". Co-chaired with
@rolandbenoit.bsky.social
and featuring
@denizkumral.bsky.social
, Anne Bierbrauer, and
@mgarvert.bsky.social
. Today, 2:30pm in 0.004 Z6.
11 months ago
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Xianhui He
11 months ago
How does our brain learn that thunder follows lightning? We don't just remember two separate events; we build a predictive model to anticipate the world. My research dives into this very question: how we learn and predict the order of events. 🧵👇 1/9
#neuroscience
#memory
#sleep
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Nadine Dijkstra
12 months ago
I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in
@cp-neuron.bsky.social
! 🧠✨ See thread below!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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TU Dresden
12 months ago
Outstanding success: 🎉
#TUDresden
shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence.
@dfg.de
&
@wissenschaftsrat.de
announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century. ℹ️
tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
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Lillian Behm
12 months ago
So excited to share my *first* first-author paper, out now in
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
!! In this review, we argue that even if you don’t remember being a baby, evidence that infants form episodic-like memories is actually all around us:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1l82g4sIRv...
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Peter Kok
12 months ago
Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦
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Communication of perceptual predictions from the hippocampus to the deep layers of the parahippocampal cortex
High-resolution neuroimaging reveals stimulus-specific predictions sent from hippocampus to the neocortex during perception.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads4970
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DZNE research center
about 1 year ago
Paper alert!
@davidberron.bsky.social
and team tackled: What are the recent advances in remote and unsupervised digital cognitive assessment of preclinical AD? The review covers 28 studies and 23 tools, offering a clear overview of recent advances and challenges. 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A scoping review of remote and unsupervised digital cognitive assessments in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - A scoping review of remote and unsupervised digital cognitive assessments in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-025-01583-5
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Allie Sinclair
about 1 year ago
What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in
@pnas.org
w/
@falklab.bsky.social
,
@michaelemann.bsky.social
, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change | PNAS
Mitigating climate change requires urgent action at individual, collective, and institutional levels. However, individuals may fail to act because ...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2426768122#executive-summary-abstract
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Paul Frankland
about 1 year ago
Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.
rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n
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Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry
Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...
https://rdcu.be/el18q
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Tina Lonsdorf
about 1 year ago
⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely
uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...
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Laborleiter*in (m/w/d) Psychophysiologie und Verha...
In der Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle der*des Laborleiter*in (TV-L E12 bzw. E13) im B...
https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4270/laborleiter-in-m-w-d-psychophysiologie-und-verhaltensneurowissenschaft?page_lang=de
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Irina Barnaveli
about 1 year ago
Our paper in
@natcomms.nature.com
, we show how cognitive maps in the hippocampal system could solve the general problem of representing and relating multiple alternative action plans.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
With
@doellerlab.bsky.social
, Patrick Haggard,
@vigano.bsky.social
, Daniel Reznik
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Nicholas Menghi
about 1 year ago
🧠 Can a short period of awake, quiet rest help you generalize better? In our new study, we tested this with a learning paradigm comparing offline vs online wake period.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Delayed emergence of EEG-based task-relevant representations
This paper examines the effect of a period of quiet wakefulness (an “offline wake” state) on the performance of a decision making task. An initial fee…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074742725000334?dgcid=author
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Check out our latest preprint! "It’s about time: Specific and unspecific effects of episodic future thinking on farsighted decisions" with
@rolandbenoit.bsky.social
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osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/af2v4_v1?view_only=
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