So excited to have you here @rbanda.bsky.social and for all the cool work we're going to do together!

Ridhi Bandaru@rbanda.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Btw late news but I’m now a predoc with @lexidecker.bsky.social @ the How We Learn Lab!!! 📊📑🎊🧠

Btw late news but I’m now a predoc with @lexidecker.bsky.social @ the How We Learn Lab!!! 📊📑🎊🧠

The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU has an opening for a postdoctoral scholar! Deadline is May 1. ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...

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The CTCN funds a cohort of outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows to work at the interface between theoretical and experimental labs and help forge new collaborations. CTCN Fellows have strong training i…

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A cyclist was seriously injured at Eglinton & Oakwood last night. Now that the Eglinton Crosstown LRT is open, the #BikeTO community deserves to know WHEN will the long promised bike lanes on that street be installed? #shame #TOpoli #VisionZero CC www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Male cyclist rushed to hospital after being struck by vehicle in Little Jamaica

A male cyclist has been struck by a vehicle in Little Jamaica, Toronto police say.

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Excited to share our paper (with @jzacks.bsky.social), now out in JEP:LMC! Event boundaries sometimes disrupt temporal order memory in list-based paradigms—but what happens in narratives with more complex structures that better resemble real life? ✨ Link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Super cool paper led by the amazing @tbiba.bsky.social suggesting that we form memories at the theta rhythm! And even cooler that these rhythms can actually be detected with careful behavioral manipulations!

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 🧠

Super cool paper led by the amazing Thomas Biba showing that episodic memory is theta rhythmic! And even cooler that these rhythms can actually be detected with behavioral memory data (my favorite type of data!).

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 🧠

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

Nature Human Behaviour - Biba et al. show that episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz.

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"..hippocampal-prefrontal systems represent emotion concepts in a map-like way at multiple levels of abstraction.." Map-like representations of emotion knowledge in hippocampal-prefrontal systems by @yumengma.bsky.social and @pkragel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now out in an issue! ~~ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

The ubiquity of episodic-like memory during infancy

Considerable progress has been made in understanding early memory development. However, much of this research pre-dates contemporary theories of memory systems in the mature brain. This review provide...

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Melissa Kibbe@levelsof.bsky.social · last yr.

Evidence for episodic-like memory in infancy is everywhere, if you know how to look for it! It was such a pleasure to write this paper with @lillianbehm.bsky.social and Nick Turk-Browne, out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. #psychscisky #cogscisky #philsky #cogdev

Awake infant fMRI offers a rare window into early brain and cognitive development. In a new paper out now in Infancy, we leverage data from hundreds of infant scans from the Saxe and Turk-Browne Labs to reveal what factors drive scanning success — and how future studies can maximize data retention!

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Infants: Insights From More Than 750 Scanning Sessions

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in awake infants has the potential to reveal how the early developing brain gives rise to cognition and behavior. However, awake infant fMRI poses signifi....

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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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ALT: a woman stands in front of a crowd on a stage with a lot of lights

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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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Research Technician I - Social Science

Scheduled Hours 37.5 Position Summary Applications are invited for a full-time research assistant position at WashU in St. Louis to work with Dr. Alexandra Decker in the Learning and Development lab. ...

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

🧠 Hiring a Research Assistant/Lab Manager! Share widely! 📍 St. Louis | ⏰ Full-time We're launching the How We Learn Lab @WashU, studying attention, learning & memory interactions. Perfect for anyone interested in dev cog neuro who wants hands-on experience before grad school. deckerlab.com

My lab is recruiting a postdoc and a full-time research technician to work on an NIH-funded project studying age-related changes in memory for naturalistic events. Behavior, fMRI, and blood-based biomarkers. 3+ years funding guaranteed. Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykjfbnj8 Tech: tinyurl.com/2f2hw3f5

🧠 Hiring a Research Assistant/Lab Manager! Share widely! 📍 St. Louis | ⏰ Full-time We're launching the How We Learn Lab @WashU, studying attention, learning & memory interactions. Perfect for anyone interested in dev cog neuro who wants hands-on experience before grad school. deckerlab.com

"The decision in Cycle Toronto v Ontario was a strong rebuke to government overreach when those actions put people’s lives at risk and are unsupported by facts and data. We look forward to defending that victory in court on Jan. 28.”

Canadian Cycling Magazine @canadiancycling.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The CCF will support the Ontario government’s appeal of a ruling that blocked the removal of downtown Toronto bike lanes #ONpoli #BikeTO cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/new...

Thanks to @shawnballard.bsky.social for this terrific synopsis of our latest work in @cellpress.bsky.social. The details of how stimulant medications like Ritalin work inside the brain will surprise you! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

WashU Medicine@washumedicine.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What if we've misunderstood how ADHD stimulants work? WashU Medicine brain imaging and child neurology teams joined forces to uncover where in the brain these drugs act — knowledge that could improve how attention disorders are treated. medicine.washu.edu/news/stimula...

This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

Cognition varies across the calendar year in multiple large-scale datasets | PNAS

Children’s cognitive abilities vary across short and long timescales, from circadian fluctuations to year-by-year developmental changes. “Summer sl...

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Arielle Keller@ariellekeller.bsky.social · 2y ago

☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci Thread /1

Very happy to share our paper on the "summer slide" in kid's cognitive test scores is out now in @pnas.org! We find a replicable dip in performance across multiple domains of cognition in >23,000 kids across 4 datasets! Check out the 🧵 from @ariellekeller.bsky.social below! 👇

Arielle Keller@ariellekeller.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

Honored that our soon-to-launch lab is included in this Liftoff piece! Grateful to everyone who has helped me get here and excited to keep learning with trainees and collaborators. Thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social @franciscorr25.bsky.social for highlighting this early stage of building a lab!

Francisco Rivera Rosario@franciscorr25.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Check out the last edition of “Liftoff” for 2025 featuring @shoenhard-lab.bsky.social and @lexidecker.bsky.social’s new labs! Looking forward to more new neuroscience lab highlights next year! #neuroskyence

📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University! healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati... 1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies 2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher Please share widely and reach out for questions!

It’s out! Our article in Nature Human Behavior led by Yin Wang on the conceptual structure of human relationships across cultures and time. This work is breathtaking nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

The conceptual structure of human relationships across modern and historical cultures - Nature Human Behaviour

Cheng et al. explore the universality and cultural variability in how people understand human relationships, revealing a five-dimensional framework for relationship concepts across both modern and anc...

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A recent meta-analysis published in @nature.com finds that there is no general effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health (though there are some effects for specific groups, e.g. low-income samples). Read more details in the full paper here: 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No meta-analytical effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health - Nature

A meta-analysis of 168 studies reveals that economic inequality is not significantly associated with subjective well-being or mental health.

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Did you know that chatting with LLMs can shift people's attitudes towards political candidates & policy issues? A recent @nature.com paper show that AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds; a related paper in @science.org describes when they work best www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues - Nature

Human–artificial intelligence (AI) dialogues can meaningfully impact voters’ attitudes towards presidential candidates and policy, demonstrating the potential of conversational AI to influence politic...

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We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

We should probably be placing incarcerated people in prisons closest to their homes. Why? Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism. Really? Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.

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