'The judgment in the case brought against the Office for Students by the University of Sussex after it was fined more than half a million pounds could not be clearer, or more devastating for the OfS. Whether it can survive only time will tell.' (Sir Peter Scott) 1/2

Free speech, bias and the case of the OfS vs Sussex - HEPI

Over the weekend HEPI published a blog on subject-linked maintenance grants and a book review of Danny Scott’s book ‘The Undisputed King of Selston’. This blog was kindly authored by Professor Sir Pet...

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We are very excited to officially announced that ICOM - The International Conference on Memory - is back in 2027 from 26th-30th July! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Very excited to have this officially published: A neural state space for episodic memories A brief thread... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪 @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

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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Nice study looking at memory cuing when recalling information about a movie (Sherlock - obvs). Within-event cuing little better than between-event cuing. In fact, gist recall is better following a cue from the preceding event which may help "maintain contiguity". www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | Separating the details while maintaining the story: within event episodic integration and across event semantic contiguity in memory

The within > across effect refers to improved memory for information cued from within the same event compared to across events. Although this effect has been...

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... "mental imagery reactivates the same sensory codes used during visual stimuli, suggesting the existence of a generative model capable of synthesizing detailed sensory contents from an abstract, semantic representation."

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jonas Kransberg, Kristine B. Walhovd, et al: Failure to detect entorhinal grid-like signals in a passive navigation human fMRI study doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

The Memory Disorders Research Society (www.memorydisorders.org) is now seeking nominations for new members! Self-nominations are welcome. Application is open until April 15 @ 11:59pm PT. Reach out if you have questions about the society or its (amazing) annual meeting! forms.gle/Qn7mchoPpaqL...

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MDRS is a professional society dedicated to the study of memory. Members engage in basic and clinical research into how memory works and why it fails.

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New preprint by @sarahehenderson.bsky.social. The *real* blood, sweat, and tears of her PhD - trying to develop an intervention to improve episodic memory in older adults under naturalistic conditions. "Event tagging" is simple, but holds real promise. #PsychSciSky #memory doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Our new paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social shows different neural systems for integrating views into places--PPA integrates views *of* a location (e.g., views of a landmark), while RSC integrates views *from* a location (e.g., views of a panorama). Work by the bluesky-less Linfeng Tony Han.

SfN Journals@sfnjournals.bsky.social · 7mo ago

#JNeurosci: Using fMRI, Han and Epstein explored how people integrate different kinds of views to form mental maps of places, revealing two sets of brain regions involved in integrating views of landmarks into existing mental maps of a virtual city. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0187-25.2025

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.

Fresh off the press from all-star post-doc Blake Elliott: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We show that the HPC supports coincidence detection across VTA and lPFC in service of novelty-evoked invigoration. Stay-tuned for how these circuits are altered in psychosis risk.

🚀 We're hiring ! 🕵️ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations. 🧠 Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling Details 👉 tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e 🗓️ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT 🙌

Congratulations to the brilliant Xinyue (Joy) Zhang on passing her PhD viva with flying colours and no corrections! Many thanks to her wise examiners Ed Wilding and @chrismbird.bsky.social. It's been a pleasure to have you in our lab, @xyzhang.bsky.social!

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 brain represents the world around us as a series of neural states - stable patterns of activity that change as we move from one event to the next. New paper by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social showing that neural states get longer as people age. #PsychSciSky nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08792-4

Temporal dedifferentiation of neural states with age during naturalistic viewing - Communications Biology

Movie fMRI data reveals age-related lengthening of neural states in visual and prefrontal regions, reflecting reduced temporal differentiation while preserved alignment with perceived events suggests stable coarse event segmentation.

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📣 Helpful thread about a great paper alert! Okay - I am biased, but I am super proud of this paper and @dkvarga.bsky.social has done a truly awesome job of running this project (3 separate fMRI studies!). Thanks also to our amazing colleagues for their support.

Dominika Varga@dkvarga.bsky.social · 11mo ago

So happy to share our paper on the role of the hippocampus as a mismatch detector: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We show that the hippocampus detects mismatches between ongoing experiences and episodic memories but not generalised schematic knowledge. See 🧵for how we got here: #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

We make predictions based on general knowledge and/or specific memories. Different brain areas are active when these distinct predictions are violated – and hippocampus selectively responds to prediction errors based on episodic memory. Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!

Hippocampal mismatch signals are based on episodic memories and not schematic knowledge | PNAS

Prediction errors drive learning by signaling mismatches between expectations and reality, but the neural systems supporting these computations rem...

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Proud to share the first preprint of my PhD w/ @barense.bsky.social & Mursal Jahed: “Putting the testing effect to the test in the wild: Retrieval enhances real-world memories and promotes their semantic integration while preserving episodic integrity” See thread! 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

New preprint! How do we integrate new information into prior knowledge? We find that existing knowledge enables rapid new learning but that interleaved replay during sleep promotes integration of new and old information. Modeling suggests a sleep context suppression mechanism. osf.io/preprints/ps...

It's such a shame this article is framed by the headline as being about screens, when actually its about the paucity of outdoor space for play, and lack of time within education settings to make the most of what little outdoor space there is. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Children in England growing up ‘sedentary, scrolling and alone’, say experts

Raising the Nation Play Commission report recommends ban on ‘no ball games’ signs and raising digital age of consent to 16

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Medial temporal cortex supports object perception by integrating over visuospatial sequences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Looks like an interesting study from @dyamins.bsky.social and colleagues

Medial temporal cortex supports object perception by integrating over visuospatial sequences

Perception unfolds across multiple timescales. For humans and other primates, many object-centric visual attributes can be inferred ‘at a glance’ (i.e…

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Really nice study led by Claire Lancaster and supported by other brilliant Sussex colleagues - in particular former PhD student Jess Daly. Greebles task is sensitive to subtle perceptual deficits in APOE e4 carriers in mid-life (which get worse with age and number of e4 alleles).

Claire Lancaster@claire-lancaster.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 New paper alert- Detrimental gene dose effect of APOE on perceptual discrimination by mid-life. Published in Alzheimer's & Dementia, the Journal of the Alzheimer's Association @samberens.bsky.social @chrismbird.bsky.social alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We recently published a new paper investigating APOE effects in Cam-CAN @camcan-2010.bsky.social movie dataset. Examining various measures we failed to find any APOE effects in healthy individuals. You can read more about it in the paper doi.org/10.1177/2398... or the thread below

The BNS is delighted to present this first look at the 🧠 SPRING MEETING 🧠 2025 programme, and announce we've an 🚨 EXTENDED ABSTRACT DEADLINE (Feb 17th)! 🚨 All this great science for just a £15 registration fee. Or for free if your a BNS member. Visit www.the-BNS.org. #neuroskyence #psychscisky

New paper led by @silvia-anderle.bsky.social Lifestyle matters for genetic Alzheimer’s disease risk: APOE4 reduces neurovascular function most in an already-stressed system,  when neurons are active and mice do less exercise. I'll tell you all about it! 🧪 #neuroscience #alzheimers rdcu.be/d74uh

APOE4 and sedentary lifestyle synergistically impair neurovascular function in the visual cortex of awake mice

Communications Biology - Lifestyle matters for genetic Alzheimer’s disease risk: In vivo imaging of mouse blood vessels and neurons shows that APOE4 reduces neurovascular function most in an...

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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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🏆The BNS Elizabeth Warrington Prize 2025 will be awarded for distinguished work in neuropsychology/neuroscience by a person at an early stage in their career. 🧠 Call for nominations now open! Deadline: April 1st. ⏱️ More info: www.the-bns.org/prizes #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Great work and top-notch thread skills from @kasiamojescik.bsky.social ! Please take a look if you're a fan of memory, aging, subjective experience, or all three! #PsychSkySci #neuroskyence

Kasia Mojescik@kasiamojescik.bsky.social · 2y ago

The first paper of my PhD is out! See our findings in the thread below https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/10/1/116195/200614/The-Relationship-Between-Subjective-Memory (co-authors @chrismbird.bsky.social @flaviadielle.bsky.social @samberens.bsky.social @maureenritchey.bsky.social) (1/9)

Check out this epic sleep DRM false memory registered report from the amazing @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

Psychology Department, University of York (UK)@yorkpsychology.bsky.social · 3y ago

A registered report testing the effect of sleep on Deese-Roediger-McDermott false memory: greater lure and veridical recall but fewer intrusions after sleep @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social @mggaskell.bsky.social @aidanhorner.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

It was a joy to read this in a lab journal club. A really nice study with important implications for both event processing and decision making. And such a clever design! Top marks for all involved! "Visual event boundaries restrict anchoring effects in decision-making" #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky