We're hiring a full-time Lab Manager for the Cognitive Flexibility Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland, studying cognitive control via brain recording, stimulation, and computational modeling. Ideal for research experience before grad school: cfd-lab.com/join

Excited to share this preprint from my undergrad thesis work! Using a novel paradigm to give participants control over transitions in the environment, we found that control improved memory beyond predictability of transitions and resulted in differences in the shape of within-event memory.

Jeff Zacks@jzacks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New preprint from Ashwin Srinivasan! TL;DR: Giving people control over transitions in a TikTok-like interface improved subsequent memory; predictability of transitions did not. Segmentation and control: Control over transitions differentially impacts within-event memory osf.io/preprints/ps...