My lab is hiring two full-time research assistants! One position is for a project on spatial navigation across the lifespan, with a focus on midlife aging and menopause. The other is for functional imaging and spatial reference frames. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10136 recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10137

Junior/Assistant Specialist (Reference Frames) - Chrastil Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow as part of a recently funded R01 on memory and dementia. Please circulate widely: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Excited to announce our new paper in Trends in Cognitive Science (TICS) on the importance of naturalistic body movements and mobile immersive virtual reality to the study of cognition! Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

really nice and well done meta-analyses and review here...highly recommended!

Roddy Grieves@roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts? Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze. Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

We are still accepting applications for a tenure track position in cognitive and neural systems in the Psychology Department at University of Arizona. Please repost: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

how important are space and time to memory? the surprising result from a new paper with graduate student Sameer Sabharwal-Siddiqi is that several measures of space and time show no correlation with the richness of episodic memories! check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Naturalistic movements enrich episodic memories but not their spatiotemporal structure

It remains unclear how episodic memories, our memories for past events, are generated from the rich sensory details encompassing everyday experience. …

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what happens when you spend two weeks learning new navigation or memory skills? as shown in our recent paper below, brain network connectivity changes but not hippocampal or other brain volumes! special thanks to collaborators Li Zheng and Steve Weisberg elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Newly trained navigation and verbal memory skills in humans elicit changes in task-related networks but not brain structure

Learning new navigation or memory skills engages flexible brain network dynamics without altering gray matter, white matter, or hippocampal structure.

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This is truly amazing. 85% accurate test in 45 minutes. The work was funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Good thinking on the part of Trump/Musk to cut its funding. Make Cancer Great Again.

@kathychasler.bsky.social · last yr.

Goosebump producing news this week out of Oregon Health and Science University in the diagnosis of pancreatic CA. They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.

The university of arizona psychology department is hiring faculty with a strong interest in teaching to join our outstanding career track teaching unit! Please use this link to apply: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

A pleasure to speak to host Joe Murray of The Human Podcast about my research, career & journey through life Covering: London taxi drivers, dreaming rats, virtual worlds, my navigation test/game: Sea Hero Quest, & navigators of micronesia: youtube.com/watch?v=9eTz...

Life Story of Cognitive Neuroscientist | The Human Podcast Ep 34 (Hugo Spiers)

Dr Hugo Spiers is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and the director of the Spiers Lab. His work focuses on spatial cognitio...

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New role for a Project Coordinator at COS. Perfect for an early career researcher passionate about open scholarship and looking to gain research experience, whether to then go to grad school or stay in industry. jobs.lever.co/cos/ce551e5d...

Amazing opportunity to be a lab manager in @sarahsolomon.bsky.social's new lab!!

Sarah Solomon@sarahsolomon.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Job alert! My new lab at Binghamton University is hiring a full-time lab manager ("assistant"). This is a great fit for a recent grad looking for cog/comp neuro experience before grad school. Details below, feel free to reach out with questions! binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Thank you Benjamin for a fun conversation. Chance to learn about science...and more...from our discussion!

BJKS Podcast@bjkspod.bsky.social · 2y ago

New episode! I talked to @adekstreme.bsky.social about his work on spatial navigation & memory, invasive recordings in humans, the advantages of using multiple methods, his unusual path to a PhD, the problem with simple stories in cognitive neuro, & much more. Thanks Arne for being a guest! 1/3

We're looking for a new postdoc to join my lab group! Please help spread the word. Our project is collaborative study with the Washington State Twin Registry (WSTR) and affords incredible research opportunities related to the behavior genetic study of social relationships and health. Details in link

We have filled two positions but one is still open. Please apply to the position ending in 305– it’s a silly HR thing. Feel free to email me directly for more info.

My lab is recruiting new members for an NIH-funded project to uncover neural mechanisms of motivation and its regulation w fMRI neurofeedback and innovative multivariate modeling.  Please share! Full postings: careers.duke.edu/job-invite/2... Postdocs careers.duke.edu/job-invite/2... ResearchCoord

I really liked this as well!

Pam Davis-Kean, PhD@umpamdk.bsky.social · 3y ago

Excellent essay with incredibly important points about the generalizability crisis in psychology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Does the hippocampus play a time-limited or perpetual role in spatial memory? In naturalistic tasks, the hippocampus is NOT necessary for gross representations of large-scale environments. But it plays a long-lasting role in memory for local layouts and details. #neuroskyence @PsychSciSky

Impoverished details with preserved gist in remote and recent spatial memory following hippocampal a...

Cognitive Map Theory predicts that the hippocampus (HPC) plays a specialized, time-invariant role in supporting allocentric spatial memory, while Stan…

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I wrote a j-club commentary on a recent article published in #Jneurosci by @neurosteel.bsky.social et al. I discuss the phenomenon of retrieval-related 'anterior shift' and I highlight the implications that this work has on studies examining neural reinstatement. www.jneurosci.org/content/44/1...

Memory Retrieval of Visuospatial Context is Supported by the Anterior Portions of High-Level Visual ...

Memory retrieval is believed to be accompanied by a reactivation (reinstatement) of the neuronal populations that were active when the event was initially experienced (for review, see [Rugg et al., 20...

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Very pleased to announce our recent paper on aging and spatial memory in PNAS with research scientist Dr. Li Zheng! We find both age-related and performance-related heterogeneity that contribute to older adults having, on average, worse spatial memory. Check it out! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper in #Jneurosci !⭐ doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... Prior work suggests that age-related reductions in neural selectivity are restricted to the scene-responsive cortex. We show that age effects for other visual categories are observed when selectivity is measured at the level of individual stimuli.

Dissociative effects of age on neural differentiation at the category and item level

Increasing age is associated with age-related neural dedifferentiation, a reduction in the selectivity of neural representations, which has been proposed to contribute to cognitive decline in older ag...

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My Dept is hiring at asst or associate level, casting a broad net over cognitive/developmental and/or neuroscience. See full description and apply at apply.interfolio.com/132419

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Four new postdoc positions at University College London open for computational psychiatry study combining computational methods with two large RCTs to test whether different antidepressants treat depression via different RL mechanism