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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📢 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 preprint from the lab*** showing “Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits”. In sleep we show spiking sequences in V1 (sensory neocortex!) that represent information that has not been directly experienced www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits

To make flexible decisions, the brain needs to make inferences between events that were not directly experienced together. In sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events, during periods of rest and sleep, spiking ...

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Excited to share our review in @cp-neuron.bsky.social with @lauriebayet.bsky.social and @mickbonner.bsky.social! We describe how implementing principles from child development can advance the mechanistic plausibility and capacities of AI models We packed A LOT into this review, here's a quick 🧵

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 2w ago

Out today on @nature.com! Connecting neural specialization, population geometry, and their functional implications across the cortical hierarchy. So grateful for this beautiful and fun collaboration with @shuqiw.bsky.social, S Muscinelli, L Paninski, and @stefanofusi.bsky.social!

Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature

Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.

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Attention all prospective ICOMers! We've just sent out our first email newsletter. If you haven't received the newsletter despite signing up please check your spam folders. Otherwise, please sign up our website ASAP so you don't miss out on any further updates! icom-memory.org

ICOM - International Conference on Memory 2027

The International Conference on Memory 2027, will be held in Glasgow, Scotland between 26 - 30 July 2027.

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New review, forthcoming in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology: "From Seconds to Seasons and Days to Decades: Timescales in Development." Let me walk you through some key points. 👇 BC its a review, these are based on many others' work. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/

We updated our – free, open source, Rasch-compliant – receptive vocabulary test (oREV) to also include verbs. If you are looking for a task to measure vocabulary/language in German with children 3-8, look no further! Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... Task: devpsy.web.leuphana.de/orev-vn/

We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge from experience & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most. Please repost & share! 🧠

Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers

What we're getting wrong about teens and tech

For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...

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We are looking to fill a PhD position for an exciting project on the development of memory consolidation karriere.charite.de/tarifvertraege. This project is part of the DFG-funded CRC www.sfb1315.de/de/sfb1315-2/ and is a collaboration between my lab, Claudia Buss, and @yeeleeshing.bsky.social.

An interesting piece by former LIP colleague @zoengo.bsky.social and PhD student Pedro Espinosa-Villafranca out now in BOLD: boldscience.org/how-do-child...

How do children remember experiences?

Children’s memory growth is shaped by foundational cognitive abilities and the environment

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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!

Save the date for ICOM-7 (aka the Memory Olympics)

Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

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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Excited to share the latest from the lab on the molecular mechanisms of silencing and un-silencing a hippocampal engram ensemble. Was fun using a variant of the EPSILON technique developed by Adam Cohen's lab. (1/2) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Molecular mechanisms mediating engram ensemble retrievability state in mice

Engrams, ensembles of neurons that store memories, exist along a continuum of retrievability. Normally, sensory cues can reactivate a latent engram to…

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A deep dive with Libby Hills and Owen Henkel into why banning and blaming teens about their social media and smartphone use may backfire and, more importantly, prevent us from addressing the root causes of mental health problems among teens today.

BOLD@boldinsights.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🎧Is there a link between social media use and wellbeing in teens? Libby Hills and Owen Henkel speak with @candiceodgers.bsky.social, who calls for a more careful reading of the evidence. #EdTech boldscience.org/teen-mental-...

The contingency of generalization on memory specificity depends on age and level of abstraction.

Nora Newcombe@noranewcombe.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and @zoengo.bsky.social . We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠 Meet @zoengo.bsky.social, Developmental Psychologist & Principal Investigator at the @mpib-berlin.bsky.social #LEVANTE site.  Here, she explains just how critical cross-disciplinary collaboration is to her research into memory growth. Learn more 🔗 jacobsfoundation.org/levante-welc...

@zoengo.bsky.social, former LIP colleague and now leader of the new Emmy Noether Group RAVEN, is part of the Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE). Congratulations! 👍 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/awards/zoe-n...

Zoe Ngo part of the 2024 Jacobs Foundation LEVANTE Program

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🚨 We are hiring in Berlin 💫 Me, @zoengo.bsky.social @buchberger.bsky.social and the team are looking a motivated research assistant to contribute to our ongoing study on inference and generalization in 8-14 year olds. See attached advert for details. Feel free to reach out to me directly.

Our paper "Memory reactivation generates new, adaptive behaviours that reach beyond direct experience" is now out www.nature.com/articles/s41...! With Annie Rawson, Jill O’Reilly and Helen Barron at MRC BNDU @ndcnoxford.bsky.social 1/6

Now out in Psychological Review, with Andre Beukers, Maia Hamin, and Jon Cohen: our model of how episodic memory can support performance on the n-back task, "When working memory may just be working, not memory". Free version here: osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

Striking case of a patient with medial temporal lobe amnesia. He performs at chance in laboratory recognition memory tests, but has nearly perfect recognition accuracy for a real-world experience, with the memories persisting for 15 months! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Long-term retention of real-world experiences in a patient with profound amnesia

The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is known to be critical for healthy memory function, but patients with MTL damage can, under certain circumstances, dem…

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New paper by LIP colleagues @buchberger.bsky.social, @zoengo.bsky.social, Aaron Peikert, @brandmaier.bsky.social, & @markuswb.bsky.social out now! #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Estimating statistical power for structural equation models in developmental cognitive science: A tutorial in R - Behavior Research Methods

Determining the compositional structure and dimensionality of psychological constructs lies at the heart of many research questions in developmental science. Structural equation modeling (SEM) provide...

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It was our pleasure to host @zoengo.bsky.social at our lab meeting last week. She gave a captivating talk on her new mapping review of memory development. Can't wait to see it all come out.

Going to SfN? Come hear my talk during what is sure to be an excellent nanosymposium on "Learning and Memory" Sunday morning 8-11am! WCC 150, NANO19  #SfN2023

Infantile amnesia is due to a reversible retrieval deficit in engram expression - work by my talented labmate Dr. Sarah Power www.science.org/doi/full/10....

🧠📊 We examined longitudinal stability of gray matter measures (cortical thickness, surface area, and volume) across brain regions in ABCD data, also comparing different parcellations. #neurometrics Preprint on OSF: osf.io/rxmn2/ work led by brilliant Sam Parsons