📢 New preprint with @aidanhorner.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social investigating how schematic violations shape memory for sequences of events. Memory Benefits for Schematically Incongruent Sequences Depend on the Type of Violation osf.io/preprints/ps...

Check out the new preprint from the amazing @adamjcurtis.bsky.social! Memory Benefits for Schematically Incongruent Sequences Depend on the Type of Violation #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Adam Curtis@adamjcurtis.bsky.social · last wk.

📢 New preprint with @aidanhorner.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social investigating how schematic violations shape memory for sequences of events. Memory Benefits for Schematically Incongruent Sequences Depend on the Type of Violation osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Selen Küçüktaş and Peggy L. St. Jacques: Functional specialization of angular gyrus and precuneus subregions for perspective-guided autobiographical memory retrieval doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

In our new paper we use 2 fMRI studies to put SLIMM to the test. We find the U-shape function of memory and expectancy, yet no differential hippocampal involvement at the different ends of the expectancy spectrum - highlighting the need to revisit SLIMM. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Predictions and declarative memory encoding: two fMRI paradigms provide slim pickings for SLIMM

Abstract. Memory is often better for both highly unexpected and highly expected information. To explain this U-shape relationship between memory and expect

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come check out my poster on how rest at encoding improves recall ft. some fun elaboration discussion ! PS06-09PM-494 ✨

Aidan Horner@aidanhorner.bsky.social · last mo.

Second we have @aidarc.bsky.social presenting behavioural work on how rest periods during encoding blocks improves recall

Let the games begin… #FENS2026

Jamie Cockcroft@jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · last mo.

Feel free to come to Poster Board #493 on Thursday to explore whether free time benefits memory and (potentially) why! You can also download the poster here. drive.google.com/file/d/149Yx... #FENS2026 #Poster #Barcelona #EpisodicMemory

If you’re at #fensforum2026, come say ¡hola! today at 14.00 poster 475. Also today, same time @aidarc.bsky.social (poster 494), and @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social (poster 493)! 🧠

Aidan Horner@aidanhorner.bsky.social · last mo.

For all those going to #fens2026 in Barcelona next week feel free to check out the posters from our lab! Go talk to @arimoccia.bsky.social, @aidarc.bsky.social and @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social. They are all awesome!

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a...

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Online Now: Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

New paper from our group: using simultaneous EEG-fMRI, we investigated the neural mechanisms underlying individual NREM sleep slow waves. Our findings suggest that slow waves are not a homogeneous phenomenon and may reflect distinct physiological processes. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Thalamic involvement defines distinct slow-wave subtypes in NREM sleep - Communications Biology

Using simultaneous EEG-fMRI, we identify two types of NREM slow waves with distinct thalamic profiles. Large, synchronized waves involve early thalamic activation and arousal markers, whereas smaller ...

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NEW PREPRINT Ukrainians are more positive about their collective future than Germans and Poles. They also see their personal future as more intertwined with their country's and feel more agency to be able to change their country's future.

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are happy to share our research, recently published in Nature Communication! Using a naturalistic memory task, we show that life events are represented in the brain in different formats, highlighting the flexibility of the memory system. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Episodic events are flexibly encoded in both integrated and separated neural representations - Nature Communications

People often need to remember unique details while also finding connections across experiences. Here, the authors show that the brain flexibly links related events while preserving their distinct feat...

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New paper out in NeuroImage, w/ @ra-neuro.bsky.social & Tim Andrews @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Statistically efficient neural encoding of natural object variability shapes the temporal dynamics of visual processing Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Code: osf.io/6w5ef

Statistically efficient neural encoding of natural object variability shapes the temporal dynamics of visual processing

Object perception unfolds dynamically over millisecond timescales, yet the organisational principles that shape the emerging neural responses are not …

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How does the brain rapidly distinguish similar memories? We use 7T fMRI to show dynamic shifts between pattern separation and reinstatement signals in hippocampal CA3 and DG with changing task demands: doi.org/10.64898/202...

📢Great paid placement in a great Memory Lab in York! *totally unbiased opinion* Please help share and contact @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social for questions/more info.

Jamie Cockcroft@jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Paid Undergraduate Research Internship within the Department of Psychology at the University of York, funded by NIHR. An 8-week summer placement is open to undergraduate students in Psychology (or related disciplines) interested in memory research. You can find out more here: shorturl.at/flepx

New paper out: Short review of Rait et al. (2025) on hippocampal drift and memory organisation. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #SoloAuthor #JoN #JournalClub

Shifts in Context Affect Hippocampal Activity and the Sequence of Recall

People often find that memories linked to the same place or period come to mind together. Visiting a former workplace can prompt recall of events that had not been thought about for years, such as con...

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📣 First paper from the lab! 🎉🧠 Led by brilliant MRes students Aysha and Zhiyun, we found exploring a novel, unpredictable VR environment retroactively enhanced memory in humans: rdcu.be/fc496

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

If you're at #CNS2026 and interested in aging, schemas and episodic memory, check out Sophie O'Reilly's poster tomorrow 8-10am (D71)

Human hippocampal theta–gamma coupling coordinates sequential planning during navigation Impressive study from Dan Bush's Lab at UCL: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

1/9 New paper with @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social and @lindedomingo.bsky.social : “Characterising semantic prioritisation in visual working memory.” Core question: when we hold visual info briefly in mind, what gets accessed first: perceptual details or semantic meaning?

📣New preprint out on False Memory With coauthors: Safak Erener, Simon W Davis, Roberto Cabeza When knowledge interferes with perception: Neural mechanisms of the semantic amplification of visual false memory Preprint at: doi.org/10.64898/202... @woodforbrains.bsky.social @synecphory.bsky.social

Job alert!! We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below: RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757 Please repost :)

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!

Repeated Viewing of a Narrative Movie Changes Event Timescales in The Brain

Many experiences occur repeatedly throughout our lives: we might watch the same movie more than once and listen to the same song on repeat. How does the brain modify its representations of events when...

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Anyone else going to #MEGNord at Aarhus next week? 🇩🇰 Interested in predictive coding of touch from sound, beta & gamma dynamics, or somatosensory echoes? 🧠 Boy do I have the poster for you! Come say hi 😊

Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx

Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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New paper from our lab by Ricardo Morales-Torres (@rmt93.bsky.social) on the visual and semantic properties that shape the vividness of mental representations for events past. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... The short answer to the title, "What Makes Memories Vivid?" is ... meaning!

Delighted to share our new preprint! We show that rhythmic light stimulation produces multiplexed oscillatory responses at fundamental and harmonic frequencies that are spatially, temporally, and functionally distinct. Read on for the details [1/6] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

Rhythmic light stimulation elicits multiple concurrent neural responses that separably shape human perception

Rhythmic light stimulation offers solutions to innumerable cognitive and neurological disorders. However, like any neuromodulatory technique, responses to rhythmic light stimulation are highly variabl...

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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 🧪

A neural state space for episodic memories

Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …

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The podcast is now available on Spotify! You can still take part in our survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Jon Simons@jonsimons.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The brilliant @kasiamojescik.bsky.social and Martha McGill join @claudiahammond.bsky.social and @catherineloveday.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind this morning to launch our new public survey of vivid memories. You can take part here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...