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Congratulations to Catalina M. Yang @catalinayang.bsky.social on her new publication with Drs. Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense: "Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error-driven updating of naturalistic event memory" Read here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42421582/

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

Prediction error during memory reactivation is posited to be a key driver of memory updating. However, prediction error leads to varied memory outcomes, and it is unclear what specific factors influen...

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The Duncan Memory Lab and the Finn LAND Lab at the University of Toronto, Department of Psychology, are hiring a Full-Time Joint Lab Manager. Commitment: 1–2 years (Ideal for pre-grad school experience). Start Date: Early June Deadline: May 20th, 11:59 PM. Please help circulate the linked ad! TY!

Lab Manager Job Posting (2026 Summer) Public

The Duncan Memory Lab and the Finn Learning and Neural Development (LAND) Lab at the University of Toronto are seeking a full-time joint Lab Manager (20 hours a week in each lab) The preferred start d...

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Many claim memory biases toward percepts reflect corruption in sensory signals. We challenge this view by showing that ppl adapt their integration rationally w/ experience. w/ @timbrady.bsky.social Humans adaptively integrate memory and perception based on stimulus history | osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thank you to the conference organizers @cogneuronews.bsky.social for the wonderful CNS2026 experience! We were excited that @catalinayang.bsky.social and @matthewdougherty.bsky.social got to share their amazing work! Thank you to everyone who attended the sessions! #CNS2026 #UofT #psychology

@duncanlabuoft.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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

Thank you to all conference organizations for the wonderful CNS2026 experience! @cogneuronews.bsky.social We were excited that @catalinayang.bsky.social and @matthewdougherty.bsky.social got to share their amazing work! Thank you to everyone who attended the sessions! #CNS2026 #UofT #psychology

@duncanlabuoft.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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

More details here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Reach out if you have any questions, and please share with your networks! Thanks!

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

“[It's] giving me the dedicated resources to focus in on this really exciting new research area, and take the calculated risks necessary to make new discoveries,” says @artsci.utoronto.ca Prof. Katherine Duncan. www.utoronto.ca/news/decodin...

Decoding our memories: U of T researcher explores brain chemistry with new Connaught mid-career funding

Katherine Duncan doesn’t experience memory the way most people do. She can’t vividly relive the past or picture it in her mind. That personal trait sparked a two-decade-long quest to understand why me...

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

New paper out from the Duncan Lab in Nature Human Behaviour! Congratulations to lead author Thomas Biba @tbiba.bsky.social for all his hard work through the peaks and troughs, seeing this through to publication! Big thanks to our collaborators! @lexidecker.bsky.social @tvaliante.bsky.social

tbiba.bsky.social@tbiba.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠

Episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz

Episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 02 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02416-5Biba et al. show that episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz.

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❗New Paper❗Is children's attention more like a spotlight that darts across time, or one that diffuses across many things at once? How might children's immature attention help their learning? Our Dev Sci Paper has answers! 🧵🎯 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41549519/

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Our stellar graduate alum Dr. Alexandra Decker is looking for a Lab Manager for her lab, the Learning and Development lab@WashU! 🧠 If you are interested in attention, learning and memory in children and adults, this is the place to be. See her posts for more details! #Research #Psychology

Lexi Decker@lexidecker.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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We're thrilled to announce the publication of our newest paper in @plosone.org 🎉 "Aging and episodic memory specificity: Evidence challenging a domain-general pattern separation decline" Read Dr. Youm's full paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... @melaniecohn.bsky.social #Memory #Psychology #Aging

Aging and episodic memory specificity: Evidence challenging a domain-general pattern separation decline

Aging is associated with a decline in episodic memory specificity. This phenomenon has been observed across various memory tasks, such as the Mnemonic Similarity Task (MST), where older adults show a ...

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Our graduate student @catalinayang.bsky.social shows that prediction errors only destabilize weakly reactivated memories. Strong memories? They are more impervious to surprise. Check out our #preprint with @barense.bsky.social to learn more osf.io/preprints/ps... #UofT #Psychology

Catalina Yang@catalinayang.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

Here is a link to our newest paper published with Wangjing Yu, Katherine Duncan and @megschlichting.bsky.social. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Using retrieval contingencies to understand memory integration and inference - Memory & Cognition

Past work has yielded mixed insights into how people draw upon their memories to make new inferences. While some studies have shown memories can be combined during encoding to store never-experienced,...

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New preprint in the Duncan Lab On a roll: Recent familiarity primes the brain to retrieve other memories via dopaminergic nuclei mechanisms www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

On a roll: Recent familiarity primes the brain to retrieve other memories via dopaminergic nuclei mechanisms

Memory retrieval is notoriously variable. Various neurocognitive states have been theorized to affect retrieval success from moment to moment, but the presence and catalysts of these states in the hum...

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Come and check out recent Duncan Lab findings at CNS 2025!