New preprint alert! 📢 Event segmentation allows us to parse continuous experience into meaningful events. Working memory (WM) is suggested to play a key role in this process, but how? osf.io/preprints/ps...

A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Led by Marzieh Ajirak, with Nili Solomonov, Ph.D. (@nilisolomonov.bsky.social) and me co-senior and amazing @weillcornell.bsky.social collaborators @odedbein.bsky.social, Ellie Rose Bowen, Dora Kanellopoulos, Avital Falk, and Faith Gunning.

Excited to see this big collaborative project out in the world @naturehumbehav.bsky.social ! Sleep actively enhances memory for the temporal sequence - but not sensory details - of our real-life experiences, even months-to-years later. 🧠 oscillations matter. Original 🧵: bsky.app/profile/diam...

Brian Levine@brianlevine.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to see this paper out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social after years of work by Drs. @diamondn.bsky.social and @stefsimpson.bsky.social, with Drs. Stuart Fogel, Daniel Baena, and Brian J Murray! @baycrestfoundation.bsky.social

Thrilled to see this paper out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social after years of work by Drs. @diamondn.bsky.social and @stefsimpson.bsky.social, with Drs. Stuart Fogel, Daniel Baena, and Brian J Murray! @baycrestfoundation.bsky.social

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · last yr.

@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'll be in DC. Please join there or locally!

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation

Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.

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☀️☀️☀️ NEW WEBSITE IS UP! ☀️☀️☀️ www.standupforscience2025.org Read about us, our policy goals, and ways to get involved. This website will also continue to grow as we do, so keep an eye on it!

Our paper on how neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details, led by @collinsilvy.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/d93Vc #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details

Communications Psychology - Context-dependent temporal structures are represented in multiple ways in parallel in the human brain during processing of temporally extended events. The neural...

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I wrote an op-ed for voters in a red state about how devastating NIH indirect cuts are. This type of writing isn’t my comfort zone, but I think we as scientists need to get the word out. Happy to chat with others looking to do the same in their communities! www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

National Insitutes of Health funding cuts by Trump administration benefit no one | Opinion

Indirect funds are essential for supporting the research infrastructure needed to develop innovative solutions to the most pressing health challenges.

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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

I want to highlight a special issue in honor of Sarah DuBrow, a brilliant scientist and dear friend who passed away in 2022. We contributed a paper in which we disentangled the importance of temporal and causal relationships while participants recalled the non-linear narrative, Memento. 🧵 ⬇️ 1/9

Deepu Murty@vpmurty.bsky.social · 2y ago

I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (JoCN)@jocn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex — a Perspective by Oded Bein & Yael Niv @odedbein.bsky.social @yaelniv.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

A computational account of how schemas are learned through experience is lacking. In this Perspective, Bein and Niv synthesize schema theory and reinforcement learning research to derive computational...

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We are seeking a full-time Research Specialist to join our team & become a LUMeNary @EmoryPsychology in Summer 2025! ✨ Applications accepted here: staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/141227/... And feel free to reach out to me!

Ready to gain hands-on neuroscience research opportunity this summer? The Princeton Neuroscience Institute's Summer Internship Program (SIP) via Leadership Alliance welcomes non-Princeton undergrads eager to gain research experience. Apply by Feb 3! Learn more: pni.princeton.edu/apply/underg...

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Excited to share this perspective with @yaelniv.bsky.social about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

A computational account of how schemas are learned through experience is lacking. In this Perspective, Bein and Niv synthesize schema theory and reinforcement learning research to derive computational...

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So happy to see this published! Lila and I looked at how memory representations of sequences became integrated over time through their shared predictive cues. We had fun thinking about the different aspects of systems consolidation that may play a role in this transformation

Gareth Gaskell@mggaskell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exciting new study from @alexatompary.bsky.social and Lila Davachi: consolidation-related restructuring and integration doi.org/10.7554/eLif...