New paper from my lab! We show that the retrieval state is recruited during both episodic and semantic retrieval, but not for perceptual judgments, suggesting that the retrieval state tracks domain-general internal attention. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...

A Shared Brain State for Episodic and Semantic Retrieval

It is critical to identify which factors induce specific brain states as these large-scale patterns of coordinated neural activity drive downstream processing and behavior. The retrieval state, a brai...

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My lab is hiring! We are recruiting a full time research coordinator to support our projects on memory brain states. More info and application: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Other at University of Virginia

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New paper from my lab! We show that repeated extrinsic rewards following retrieval facilitate later memory link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

Learn about how mnemonic brain states support both episodic and semantic retrieval! Check out one of my lab’s posters (C72) at the 5-7p poster session tonight at #cns2026

New paper from my lab showing evidence that the retrieval state is engaged following rather than preceding stimulus onset. This suggests that the retrieval state reflects internal attention recruited once an attentional target has been specified. longtermmemorylab.com/wp-content/u...

New paper from my lab! @moorecogneuro.bsky.social shows that memory brain states are diminished or less robustly engaged in healthy older adults compared to young and middle-aged adults. longtermmemorylab.com/wp-content/u...

Check out my lab’s posters at #CNS2025 Sunday 5-7pm: C2, C15, and C63! Engage your encoding state to learn about memory brain states, false memories, and memory changes in healthy aging.

Check out this new paper from my lab in which we find that memory states are influenced by congruency across consecutive memory judgments.

Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · 2y ago

Using EEG recordings, this study shows that memory retrieval is influenced by prior judgments, suggesting that attentional effects may affect neural retrieval states. @dorsolateralpfc.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Check out my lab’s posters on the temporal dynamics of memory brain states and false memory in healthy aging this morning at #SFN24! N20 - N22 in the LTM Encoding and Retrieval section. eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?...

Neuroscience 2024

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My lab has a new paper out at jneuro showing that top-down task goals can induce the retrieval state even during novel items — suggesting that internal attention may be recruited in service of the attempt to access a stored representation. www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...

Top-Down Task Goals Induce the Retrieval State

Engaging the retrieval state ([Tulving, 1983][1]) impacts processing and behavior ([Long and Kuhl, 2019][2], [2021][3]; [Smith et al., 2022][4]), but the extent to which top-down factors—explicit inst...

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New paper from my lab! We show a post-response theta power “flip” following correct recognition responses — this suggests a potential feedback mechanism in response to successful retrieval longtermmemorylab.com/wp-content/u...

My lab is hiring! We are hiring a postdoc and a research coordinator to work on a project investigating the role of memory brain states in cognition. Please see job ads below! Postdoc: uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UVAJob... Research coordinator: uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/...

Research Associate in Psychology

The Long Term Memory Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position. The position will involve working on a project funde...

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Congrats to Dr. Devyn Smith for successfully defending her dissertation! 🎉

New paper out with @moorecogneuro.bsky.social showing that semantic associations restore neural encoding mechanisms m.learnmem.cshlp.org/content/31/3... We also designed the cover! m.learnmem.cshlp.org/content/31/3...

Check out my lab’s posters on how memory brain states are impacted by changing task goals, stimulus properties, and across the lifespan at this afternoon’s poster session! #sfn2023