Excited to share the publication of our work which explores the application of LLMs in event segmentation and memory research. For researchers interested in applying these validated methods, an open-source module is available on GitHub (github.com/ryanapanela/EventRecall).

Our new preprint is out! Using a continuous-report paradigm, we show that divided attention reliably disrupts long-term memory retrieval by reducing accessibility—not precision. Two experiments + mixture modeling + TCC. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper just published with @evelinaleivada.bsky.social @garymarcus.bsky.social, Vittoria Dentella, Raquel Montero and Fritz Günther Fundamental Principles of Linguistic Structure Are Not Represented by ChatGPT bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bi...

Just finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:

Beyond Likert scales: We introduce a novel self-report method for measuring RHI strength using inverse multidimensional scaling. Ownership scores emerge from arrangements of bodily experiences in psychological bodily space as distances between RHI and baseline cases of no and full body ownership.

New preprint alert! Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪

First Psychonomics in the books! Heading home full of inspiration and excitement after 4 days of fascinating talks, poster sessions, and conversations. Thanks to everyone who shared their research, insights, and questions, and especially to the organizers who made it all happen! #psynom25

Super excited to share my first preprint with Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense (@barense.bsky.social) -- "Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error driven updating of naturalistic event memory"! 🧠🎉https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/q9rkn_v1

I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com

A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues! osf.io/preprints/ps...

This is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...

I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7

How to develop good research questions "This Comment describes the iterative creative process for designing good research questions, and includes practical suggestions and ways to avoid common traps." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428

I’m excited to share my recent preprint on a neural network model of free recall that learns multiple memory strategies including the memory palace! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review? Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments. 9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference? In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw

You learn better when you test yourself on an answer before you study it? Even more counterintuitive, our findings showcase that there is not one direct mechanism to this effect. Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...

Our new paper explores an analogy between representations of objects and representations of events, finding that similar illusions arise for both! Check it out 👇

Next up, from @atabk.bsky.social and @wouterkool.bsky.social: Free recall is shaped by inference and scaffolded by event structure. In sum, Ata stuck hidden (and shifting) rules into a word list learning task, creating "events" that influenced the structure of recall. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I'm a behind on shouting out new papers! From Angelique Delarazan: Narrative Coherence Warps the Timeline of Recalled Naturalistic Events. In sum, when recalling stories, people systematically deviate from temporal organization to follow the narrative threads. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience? Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as event familiarity increases. Fine-tuning predicts memory recall. Excited to share this work with Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

Check out a new preprint from Adi, postdoc working with me and Jeff Zacks. I’m *extremely* excited to finally, officially get this out into the world 🙂

the rare paper in which authors can describe their own work as "strange," "trippy," "crazy," or "bonkers" 😂

If you're interested in multisensory integration, illusory embodiment, or body representations, check out our new paper exploring the cognitive mechanisms underlying the Anne Boleyn illusion! Thank you @jaredmedina.bsky.social for your guidance & collaboration on this project.

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

Had a blast at #SARMAC2025 presenting error correction research I’ve been working on with Dr. Hannah Hausman @ the UCSC Memory & Metacognition Lab. Thanks to everyone who stopped by for your insightful questions, and to my fellow presenters for a fascinating 3 days! Excited for the finale tomorrow!

There are ways to keep crucial research going https://go.nature.com/3GWY3m3

I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!

Excited to share our new preprint! Using a narrative reading paradigm, we showed that temporal order memory reconstruction can depend on multiple sources of information - factors like knowledge about typical event order and hierarchical event structure can both play important roles! 📖🧠

Listen to every word.

Our memories are not encoded with timestamps. How do we reconstruct the passage of time from our memories? In a new paper (accepted at Psych Science) @samiyousif.bsky.social and I demonstrate a powerful illusion of time that results from repeated experience osf.io/preprints/ps...

Rethinking memory impairments: Retrieval failure - new long-form synthesis in APA Psychological Review with Joaquín Alfei, Ralph Miller & @gurcelay.bsky.social : psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Another funding opportunity is gone. NSF archived the the Career-Life Balance program which provided supplemental funding when researchers are on family leave. The small strides we had made toward improving representation in science are being undone so fast. new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

Adding “so rogue governments can’t delete your stuff” to the list of reasons why researchers should share their data

Hi! I'm giving a free talk on Friday. I'll be sharing some easy-to-implement, engaging ideas for teaching stats. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Deadline Alert: AP&P, a journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3AXZLk6 #psynomAPP

The Not So Illusory Truth Effect: A Rational Foundation for Repetition Effects: http://osf.io/qvwdy_v3/

Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue of MASKing (Making Assumptions based on Skewed Knowledge). www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Available March 4, Memory Lane by @ciaragreene.bsky.social & @gillian-murphy.bsky.social provides an illuminating look at the adaptive nature of our memories—& how their flexibility & fallibility help us survive & thrive. 🎧 Pre-order the #audiobook today: press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...

Scientists have ~36 hours to mobilize intense pressure on 8 republican senators to oppose leadership of #RFK at HHS (which controls #NIH). This is a critical, direct way to say no to the chaos and reign in Trump admin. Each essential state below w/ journalists & senate contact. 1/many 🧵

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

500 classrooms have signed up for Skype a Scientist 2025! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&A sessions. It's FREE! We have an advertising budget of $0. So tell an educator in your life that we exist SkypeAScientist.com

Fascinating paper from Roddy Roediger on the fuzzy boundary btwn cognitive and social psychology. As someone who now finds herself living on that boundary it was cool to realize that my undergraduate research mentor lived there too. 1/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...