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

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

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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Super excited to present my new research at CNS next week! Ever wondered why memory is so inconsistent? This project explores how shifts in attention heavily contribute to this inconsistency 👀 Come see me at Data Blitz Session 1 (Talk 5, Saturday @ 10:30am) and Poster Session D (#53, Monday 8-10am)!

I had the pleasure of being a guest on the Smart Growth Rocket podcast to talk through core elements of my research, managing grad work, and why we remember in the ways that we do. Give it a listen! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6nGB... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfJu...

Inside the Memory Lab: Why We Forget and How We Remember | U of T PhD Candidate Matthew Dougherty

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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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Super excited to share the preprint we've been working on, "On a roll: Recent familiarity primes the brain to retrieve other memories via dopaminergic nuclei responses"! Check it out, and come see us at CNS if you're around this afternoon! drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...

#CNS2025 If you are curious about how hippocampal subfields distinctively support the learning of surprising exceptions to category knowledge, come check out my poster at Session C tomorrow between 5 and 7 pm!

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