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@duncanlabuoft.bsky.social · 6d ago

Please spread the word: We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣 We study how shifting brain & attentional states shape memory and how people experience their worlds. fMRI/iEEG + a fun, supportive lab community + space to pursue your own ideas. 📅 Apply by Aug 15 tinyurl.com/fx5k7teb

My fMRI study from the Mack Lab (@drmack.bsky.social) is now published on JNeuro! Here, we look into how hippocampal subfields flexibly update category knowledge representations in the face of novel exceptions. Check out the article here: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU....

Distinct Hippocampal Subfield Representational Shifts Underlie Category Exception Learning

When we encounter an exception to our prior category knowledge, such as a leaf-like butterfly that perceptually diverges from the butterflies we commonly see, we must update our knowledge to reconcile...

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It was a delight to co-edit this issue with @peterkok.bsky.social & @barense.bsky.social, who are every bit as amazing to work with as you might expect 😊 I'm grateful to the authors, whose papers make this such an exciting collection, and to @catalinayang.bsky.social for the gorgeous cover!

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · 4w ago

The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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New paper out w/ Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense! Why do some memories update when our expectations are violated, while others remain stable? What matters most is the strength of a memory at reactivation—not how old it is. And, I designed the cover! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error-driven updating of naturalistic event memory

Abstract. Prediction error during memory reactivation is posited to be a key driver of memory updating. However, prediction error leads to varied memory ou

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🧠 CNS Trainees! Join us Monday March 9 at #CNS2026 for our annual career panel: “Survival to Sustainability: Building a Career That Lasts” featuring Drs. Morgan Barense, Caterina Gratton, Regina Lapate, and Ajay Satpute 🎮 Then, join us at the trainee social at GRETA Arcade Bar! See you there!

Our lab will be presenting at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference this year #CNS2026! Learn more from our graduate students in their sessions! @catalinayang.bsky.social and @matthewdougherty.bsky.social

🧠 The MackLab (@drmack.bsky.social) will be presenting at #CNS2026! Stop by our posters to chat about learning, insight, and hippocampus!

new preprint! we generalize the retroactive memory enhancement from categories of objects (like animals, tools) to schemas of objects (things at the beach / camping), with a bit of a twist about whether you find all beaches threatening or just one specific beach 🤔 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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

#CNS2025 If you are curious about how hippocampal subfields distinctively support the learning of surprising exceptions to category knowledge, come check out my poster at Session C tomorrow between 5 and 7 pm!

If you're at #CNS2025 come check out our lab's Sunday line-up of posters from @catalinayang.bsky.social, @bryanhong.bsky.social, @nellymatorina.bsky.social, and @laurenhomann.bsky.social.

Curious about how individual differences in episodic memory traits relate to changes in memory performance over time? Come check out my poster on Sunday, 5-7pm, poster session C, board 66. #CNS2025