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🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology

Looking for kids (4-10) and adults (18-35) for an online memory study. Don't pass up this chance to tour some adorable magical cities!

In yet another preprint, Tiange (Summer) Lu collaborated with @alexatompary.bsky.social to examine whether sleep promotes generalization in a large online cohort (N=137). Not only did she not find a benefit of sleep, but some evidence also suggested that wakefulness promotes generalization. 3/12

Saturday evening at #psynom25, I’m presenting research I did with @alexatompary.bsky.social on whether items bound to a source context change memory for the visual details of the context itself. And there will be pretty good (& not so good) participant drawings! Come check them out at Poster 93

Still time to apply - the deadline is Oct 23!

Alexa Tompary@alexatompary.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

Check out my interview in the CNS newsletter about my graduate research on free recall in children 😊

Cognitive Neuroscience Society@cogneuronews.bsky.social · last yr.

"Sometimes when it seems like young children don’t remember something you ask them about, it may be more of an issue of cognitive search and verbal fluency than memory per se." Read a new Q&A with @susanbenear.bsky.social about the development of free recall: #neuroscience #scicomm 🧪

Hey everybody! #CNS2025 bleepstorm incoming! 9 POSTERS! I work with an amazing group of scientists, celebrating them this weekend in Boston is makes me so excited and hopeful (and I usually abhor the use exclamation points!) (All posters available on the lab website): mnemology.org/conferences/...

Come visit us at CNS, we have two exciting projects to share and we're looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

MAC lab@maclab.bsky.social · last yr.

Poster and data blitz alert! Come check out the latest from the MAC lab at #CNS2025 Sat 10:30am - Data Blitz @devayani.bsky.social Sun 5pm - Posters C85 @devayani.bsky.social C118 @katelyncliver.bsky.social #neuroscience #scicomm

Come join us!!

MAC lab@maclab.bsky.social · last yr.

The MAC lab is hiring a full-time lab manager to start in June! You will have the opportunity to conduct research projects relating to long-term memory and concept knowledge (methods include online and in-person behavioral experiments, fMRI, TMS). Apply by March 26 careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

I want to highlight a special issue in honor of Sarah DuBrow, a brilliant scientist and dear friend who passed away in 2022. We contributed a paper in which we disentangled the importance of temporal and causal relationships while participants recalled the non-linear narrative, Memento. 🧵 ⬇️ 1/9

Deepu Murty@vpmurty.bsky.social · 2y ago

I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

Excited to share this perspective with @yaelniv.bsky.social about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

A computational account of how schemas are learned through experience is lacking. In this Perspective, Bein and Niv synthesize schema theory and reinforcement learning research to derive computational...

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I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (JoCN)@jocn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Come see our posters this afternoon and tomorrow evening! #psynom24

MAC lab@maclab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited for the MAC lab's debut at OPAM & Psychonomic! Please come find us today and tomorrow ⬇️

So happy to see this published! Lila and I looked at how memory representations of sequences became integrated over time through their shared predictive cues. We had fun thinking about the different aspects of systems consolidation that may play a role in this transformation

Gareth Gaskell@mggaskell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exciting new study from @alexatompary.bsky.social and Lila Davachi: consolidation-related restructuring and integration doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Happy to share our latest preprint, wrapping up an exciting project with Dr. Omri Raccah, Phoebe Chen, Dr. David Poeppel, and Dr. Alexa Tompary!

Alexa Tompary@alexatompary.bsky.social · 2y ago

What semantic relationships have you been using to test how prior knowledge influences new memories? Turns out it matters! Thematic associations are more likely to boost memory but also generate false memories (relative to taxonomic ones). osf.io/preprints/ps...

So proud of @weijiacao.bsky.social for spearheading this cool set of experiments. Weijia is applying to PhD programs this cycle so snap her up while you still can!

Alexa Tompary@alexatompary.bsky.social · 2y ago

What semantic relationships have you been using to test how prior knowledge influences new memories? Turns out it matters! Thematic associations are more likely to boost memory but also generate false memories (relative to taxonomic ones). osf.io/preprints/ps...

What semantic relationships have you been using to test how prior knowledge influences new memories? Turns out it matters! Thematic associations are more likely to boost memory but also generate false memories (relative to taxonomic ones). osf.io/preprints/ps...

If you're interested in episodic & semantic memory, apply to come work with us! We'd love to have you be a part of our team!

Alexa Tompary@alexatompary.bsky.social · 2y ago

What better first post than an annoucment that my lab is recruiting a PhD student! The deadline for the PhD program in Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Drexel University is 12/1 - join us in fabulous Philadelphia!

What better first post than an annoucment that my lab is recruiting a PhD student! The deadline for the PhD program in Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Drexel University is 12/1 - join us in fabulous Philadelphia!

How are multiple interconnected memories reactivated during #sleep? We've published our opinions, but here I'd like to highlight recent findings from other groups. Tl;dr: multiple memories can be (almost) simultaneously reactivated & shared contexts drive this reactivation 1/8