A special highlight of our work on precision fMRI of the prefrontal cortex

WCIA 3 News@wcia3news.bsky.social · 2w ago

Out of the 30 million MRIs performed in the United States every year, data shows about 22% of those are on the brain. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois are mapping out ways to see the results at a more detailed level.

Hi all! I’m looking for a full-time RA / lab manager (start date: late Aug or Sept, 1 year of funding guaranteed). Ideal candidate is a recent grad w/ relevant research experience. App review has begun, so if you’re interested, please apply here ASAP, by 7/12! Thx! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/ca...

Conference proceedings from @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2026 in Vancouver are now published online at @jocnforum.bsky.social, @jocn.bsky.social. Congrats to the authors and the conference attendees for a great meeting! jocnf.pubpub.org/cns2026-2

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Brad Postle@bradpostle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

CNS abstracts will soon post in the Proceedings of the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Soc., hosted as a dedicated partition of @jocnforum.bsky.social , and authors can then append their posters (or graphical abstract) as a “reply” to the abstract. E.g.s already viewable at …

Super excited by this manuscript led by the amazing @brissend.bsky.social By combining fMRI, TMS, and modeling, we finally have causal evidence that the cerebellum is contributing to brain-wide working memory representations and recall performance! 1/n

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Cerebellar perturbation impairs human working memory and degrades spatial tuning throughout cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.14.724968v1

Excited to share I will be joining UC Davis as an assistant professor starting July 2027! Thank you dearly to all mentors and friends who have supported me over the years ❤️ and Cal Poly friends, I'll miss you!

(1/5) Our paper is out now in Neuron! bsky.app/profile/cp-n... The LPFC has fine-scale organization that gets missed in group-averaged data because of inter-individual variability. It is visible in individuals in both resting-state and task data.

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at CU Boulder in January 2027, where I'll be starting the Affective Learning and Translational Memory (AltMem) Lab. I am also recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle (starting fall 2027)! altmemlab.org

Check out our latest work! link.growkudos.com/1dznnd63t34 @ejrise.bsky.social @neurodreea.bsky.social @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org

How the carrot and the cane use different brain pathways to drive movement

When something exciting or threatening happens, it can change how we move. But how do emotional signals in the brain actually reach the parts that control movement? The well-known route for voluntary ...

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Can you make your life feel “longer” in retrospect? Add a dose of change and novelty in the present to later expand memories of your past. Excited to share our work on how dopamine-related processing bends memory to reflect the passage of distinct events. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/can...

Children get better at reasoning from memory as they grow up. But is it the same brain process getting stronger, or something more fundamental changing? In our new paper, we use fMRI and computational modeling to test that question directly 🧵

Delighted to be at SANS sharing our latest naturalistic work on how emotion shapes temporal memory! 🕰️

SANS@sansmeeting.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@lapate.bsky.social shares work on how emotions influences temporal memory of autobiographical events in the life of memories (LiMe) studies

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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We only experience time moving forward. But memory can both predict what comes next and reconstruct what must have happened before. In a new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint, we show how hippocampal development enables this flexible representation of time 🧵

To close the symposium, Regina Lapate extends the story past shock+picture lab pairings and into real life events: how our emotions influence the way we remember the timeline of our autobiographical memories. Fascinating and very carefully conducted work into emotion-memory-time dynamics! #CNS2026

If you are at #CNS2026, come check out Jingyi Wang's talk in the symposium "Neural Time Machine: Temporal Organization of Experience in the Brain" (starting now!), and tomorrow PM I will be sharing some of our new work at the symposium "Emotion and the organization of temporal context in memory".

Thrilled that this first empirical paper out of the lab is posted, led by Sandarsh Pandey, asking: Depression (and other internalizing disorders) involve profound changes to sense of self. How can we study these differences using rigorous decision-making methods? (alt link: tinyurl.com/2kk59dje)

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Inferring latent self-schemas to advance understanding of mental health problems: https://osf.io/3bamh

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Passage of time in the brain, in the mind, both? Commentary on @lapate.bsky.social recent work #drift #fmri #human #time Please,👇 if we missed relevant observations in the field! w/ @vigano.bsky.social @beneuroscience.bsky.social & R. Bordas @sfnjournals.bsky.social @brainthemind.bsky.social

Ben Kanter@beneuroscience.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Check out our commentary on a recent paper arguing that neural activity in the (lateral) entorhinal cortex intrinsically drifts over a month-long period in humans. With @virginievanw.bsky.social @vigano.bsky.social and Raphaël Bordas. www.eneuro.org/content/13/1...

What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excited to share Jongmin Lee’s discovery of abstract codes guiding prospective working memory! Thread below. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Curious what you think of the Barbas lab proposals that cyto and connectivity are deeply related? E.g., feedforward and feedback connections based on cortical types. Seems to be a nice unifying idea of why both matter in different ways and are related evolutionarily, etc: doi.org/10.1007/s004...

It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:

📣 Our lab is hiring a full-time RA/lab manager! Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara to study the neural bases of affect-cognition interactions using fMRI and brain stimulation. Great stepping stone to a PhD in cognitive/affective neuro 🧠🐬🏖️ Apply by Jan 22: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03048

Junior Specialist - Lapate Laboratory, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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📣 We’re currently reviewing applications for this postdoctoral position. Next review date: Jan 26. Feel free to reach out with any questions! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03027

Postdoctoral Scholar- Affective & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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Regina Lapate@lapate.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

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.

Agency reorganizes memory around relevant decisions. This was collaboration the deeply missed Sarah DuBrow and steer-headed by our grad students @lindsayrait.bsky.social and Elizabeth Horwath. p.s. the task design involves curating gift baskets. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41436249/

Agency alters memory organization during free recall - PubMed

This study examined how agentic decisions in the absence of explicit rewards influence memory organization. Participants studied lists of items to assign as gifts to two characters-either choosing freely (Choice group) or following instructions (Fixed group). During free recall, participants in the …

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Calling all Affective Neurosci, basic, clinical, animal, mineral & otherwise: SFN's accepting proposals for symposia @ the 2026 DC meeting. Please consider reaching out to your pals &, maybe even dropping a line to someone you admire from afar, & organizing a submission. www.sfn.org/meetings/neu...

New paper from Steph. Watch out, she has many more coming. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Frontoparietal Hubs Leverage Probabilistic Representations and Integrated Uncertainty to Guide Cognitive Flexibility

Adaptive behavior requires integrating information from multiple sources. These sources can originate from distinct channels, such as internally maintained latent cognitive representations or external...

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New lab paper: "Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis." Across 17 different studies, fear conditioning consistently distorted temporal source memory for information encoded before and after. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis

Episodic memory allows us to remember when an event occurred by situating it within a coherent temporal context. Pavlovian fear conditioning, a widely…

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