In the context of the Sycamore Gap tree sentencing today, I've written a short opinion piece for @lbc.co.uk on the role of landmarks in shaping place identity and connectedness. Find it here: www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view... 🧠🌎 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

Re-posting for the weekday crowd - MR Physics job available at our site in West London. We do cool stuff. Clinical trials, psychedelics/other drugs, lots of different MRI modalities, scope to do your own projects, etc.

We’re all set for #RHULPSYCHFEST25 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Very pleased to share that our latest paper, "The limited place in cognitive space", is now out in Topics in Cognitive Science. Link below👇🏻 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V

In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

This is a great (and accessible) summary of our latest @commspsychol.bsky.social paper, which examines the link between curiosity, spatial exploration, and memory within virtual environments. www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29... Paper link 👉🏻: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Curious about spatial memory in 3D? Our new preprint explores how environmental boundaries and the way we move affect our memory for locations in volumetric space! Huge congrats to co-1st @theoschaefer.bsky.social w/ Leonard König, Misun Kim, Christian Doeller. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category, and eccentricity from birth, and develop in parallel within each cytoarchitectonic area from infancy to adulthood. https://www.nature.c...

New work from us led by the brilliant @drjk.bsky.social from our grant with the @britishacademy.bsky.social ⭐ Social exclusion increases paranoia and reduces self and other learning flexibility in adolescents A brief explainer below... 📜 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

What are we talking about, when we talk about 'representations'? My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience. We are seeking interested participants in the below survey: tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv

@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Since we all should be currently boycotting Amazon, a reminder that Bezos owns Goodreads and there is a great, Black woman owned, alternative that you can easily migrate to. Highly recommend. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

@drberry.bsky.social testing his new VR anxiety and exploration paradigm on an unsuspecting @kavishinia.bsky.social!

Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms @cjhodgetts.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social, @danlucen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Loved being part of this project w/ @danlucen.bsky.social & @mjgruber.bsky.social! Using a virtual exploration task, Danlu showed curiosity not only drives exploration but also leads to more precise spatial memories (i.e., curiosity shapes spatial knowledge). Link below! @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

Very saddened to hear this. I didn't know Eleanor personally, but her work and perspectives profoundly shaped the memory field and my own path studying the hippocampus. Many who worked in her lab spoke highly of how she supported and empowered them as scientists. A huge loss.

Please repost! Open PhD position on curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence with the amazing @yanafandakova.bsky.social at the University of Trier (Germany). The project is part of a cool international collaboration. :-) #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #neurojobs

So happy for @eleanoralderman.bsky.social, who won the the best poster prize at the AVA conference! She presented her planned analyses on linking visual exploration to scene memory! @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

In today’s research tea event, @ashleysymons.bsky.social gave an inspiring talk on mistakes in research and led fruitful discussions on how we can create a culture that collectively mitigates the impact of mistakes in research

Great to see that @rhulpsychology.bsky.social has arrived at BlueSky! Please follow for psychology and neuroscience research updates from Royal Holloway's amazing Department of Psychology! #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Happy to share an updated version of our paper, which explores how everyday variability in social and spatial experiences influences how we perceive events. In collab w/ @drberry.bsky.social, Mark Postans, and Angharad Williams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Such a vivid and lovely summary of knowledge on the human brain by Kerri Smith and Nik Spencer at Nature mag. I was particularly struck by this figure about the relative proportion of oligodendrocytes and other cells between mice and humans... Connections matter. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I'm pleased to share that the Department of Psychology @ Royal Holloway will be supporting Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship applications: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... (internal deadline for one-page EOI = 22nd November!) Please reach out if you are interested (see link for eligibility)!

Wonderful to see that the first paper from @kavishinia.bsky.social's PhD is now online! Here, Kavishini explores how the #hippocampus and #cerebellum are functionally connected across the adult lifespan. Check out her thread below to find out more! 👇🏻 #neuroskyence #neuroimaging

We're thrilled to announce the release of the Visual Experience Dataset — over 200 hours of synchronized eye movement, odometry, and egocentric video data. This dataset will be a game changer for perception and cognition research. arxiv.org/abs/2404.18934 1/

New from @annaschapiro.bsky.social's group, results suggesting that there is a continuum of plasticity in the medial temporal lobes: doi.org/10.7554/eLif... This would certainly make sense as a strategy for the brain to adopt, but I'd love to know what cellular mechanisms implement it. 🧠📈 🧪

Nice study showing that the presence of a spatial boundary within a visual scene increases engagement of hippocampus and extended scene network: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Spot the fash. Well done Brighton!

Effect of Loneliness on Older Adults' Autobiographical Memory Retrieval: http://osf.io/r8gy5/

Only one week left (!) to apply for this opportunity to work with me @alexandrapike.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social and Catia Oliveira as a computational scientist on an exciting project funded by the @wellcometrust DM me or email for an informal discussion about the post :)

Very happy to see that our new 7T MRI paper examining gradients of scene and face selectivity within hippocampal subfields is now online in Neuropsychologia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (in tribute to Andrew Mayes) Amazing work led by @drberry.bsky.social and Lucie Read.

Thank you to the great @cjhodgetts.bsky.social for inviting me for a talk and lots of inspiring discussions at Royal Holloway London!

BRAIN prefrontal cortex: from monkey to man academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

I whipped up a basic Shiny app (using the PubMedWordCloud R package) to generate word cloud summaries of any researcher based on their abstracts in PubMed. Here's mine! The app is available here: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/pu...

Some serious autumnal action went down after the @connectedmemorylab.bsky.social meeting today. Great to explore the woods around Royal Holloway! 🍁🍂

The @hipposubfields.bsky.social boundary working group meeting has officially kicked off at Johns Hopkins! #neuroskyence #neuroimaging #hippocampus

**POSTDOC KLAXON** We are have *FOUR* postdoc positions. Come and work with myself, @danakarca.bsky.social , Petra Vertes and a host of great scientists. We'll be working on computational models of network formation, learning how early environments shape development. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/

Awesome talk today from @kavishinia.bsky.social, where she presented her new PhD work examining hippocampal-cerebellar connectivity across the lifespan @connectedmemorylab.bsky.social

🚨REMINDER!!!🚨 UCR Psychology has THREE open faculty searches: 1. CCN (app review starts Nov 10th so get 'em in while you can!) aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01788 2. Developmental: aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01840 3. Social/Personality: aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01810

My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!

New paper by Zou et al. using the Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) to show that activity reinstatement in entorhinal cortex & CA1 predicts how well people remember when stimuli were first encountered (over months!) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PsychPsySky #NeuroSkyence #Psychology

Happy Monday HSGers! 🧠🫶 A reminder that our Marcus Wallenberg Symposium on "Activities of the Hippocampal Subfields Group - a progress update" takes place LIVE on zoom one week from today! Register to get your link and view the final program here: tinyurl.com/hsg-symposiu...

Fascinating lab meeting today (in hon. of Endel Tulving) where we discussed this fantastic paper from Rosie Cowell and colleagues: www.eneuro.org/content/6/4/... An important discussion on the need for greater formalisation when studying the neural basis of recollection #neuroskyence

New study generates probabilistic atlas of hippocampus' structural connectivity with the reward system (e.g., VTA, NAcc): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We're looking for an RA and PhD student! The project looks at retrosplenial directional processing using in vivo physiology in behaving rodents, in collaboration with Mick Craig & Michael Kohl RA details here https://jefferylab.com/recruitment and PhD details here https://tinyurl.com/2p8d2hxw

Looks interesting: Route sequence knowledge supports the formation of cognitive maps onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Love this. The "memory palace" technique, often traced back to ancient Greece, relies on links between memory & spatial processing. Here's a study highlighting the effectiveness of a related Australian Aboriginal technique, tens of thousands of years older. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...