We are hiring a research specialist, to start this summer! This position would be a great fit for individuals looking to get more experience in computational and cognitive neuroscience research before applying to graduate school. #neurojobs Apply here: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21503/r...

What if we could tell you how well you’ll remember your next visit to your local coffee shop? ☕️ In our new Nature Human Behaviour paper, we show that the 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 can be measured with neuroimaging – and 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸.

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · 7mo ago

New study by @xrmasiso.bsky.social et al shows that spatial contexts with more reliable brain representations better support memory for future experiences within them, revealing how stable neural maps help the brain organize and recall life events.

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

New paper led by @codydong.bsky.social now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, exploring the relationship between memory-augmented LLMs and human episodic memory – see Cody’s post below for a short thread and a non-paywalled paper link! #NeuroAI doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Cody Dong@codydong.bsky.social · last yr.

My first, first author paper, comparing the properties of memory-augmented large language models and human episodic memory, out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV174sIRv... Here’s a quick 🧵(1/n)

New paper led by @jayneuro.bsky.social: Repetition of musical themes in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind reactivates memories of earlier scenes, and this neural reactivation correlates with subsequent memory for those scenes! Check out Jamal's thread below 👇

Jamal A. Williams@jayneuro.bsky.social · last yr.

Music is an incredibly powerful retrieval cue. What is the neural basis of music-evoked memory reactivation? And how does this reactivation relate to later memory for the retrieved events? In our new study, we used Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to find out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled that this collaborative project with the @maureenritchey.bsky.social lab, co-led by @gushennings.bsky.social and Paula Brooks, is out in preprint form!

Gus Hennings@gushennings.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello Bsky world, I am excited to announce our latest preprint “Eye movements reveal the cognitive dynamics supporting successful memory suppression” in collaboration with Paula Brooks, @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social, and @maureenritchey.bsky.social! 🎉👀 osf.io/preprints/ps... /thread

@qlu.bsky.social is starting his lab at City U of Hong Kong! This is a truly amazing opportunity for trainees interested in computational cognitive neuroscience and neuroAI

Qihong (Q) Lu@qlu.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m thrilled to announce that I will start as a presidential assistant professor in Neuroscience at the City U of Hong Kong in Jan 2026! I have RA, PhD, and postdoc positions available! Come work with me on neural network models + experiments on human memory! RT appreciated! (1/5)

Thank you to Ingrid Wickelgren and the team at Quanta for putting together this great piece, describing work by my lab and others on the neural representations of events

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · last yr.

New neuroscience research is en route to unlocking a universal human code for recording experiences as memory. What’s their secret weapon? Airport scenes in movies. www.quantamagazine.org/how-event-sc...

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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Excited to share our preprint "Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search" 🧠✨ We leverage iEEG to elucidate the fast neural mechanisms by which long multimodal narratives are unfurled in continuous memory-search tinyurl.com/wjkr3dvf

Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search

Prior behavioral work showed that event structure plays a key role in our ability to mentally search through memories of continuous naturalistic experience. We hypothesized that, neurally, this memory...

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Training in the Method of Loci promotes the development of widespread conjunctive representations in neocortex that bind items and loci -- very excited to be part of this project led by @huangjiawen.bsky.social and @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social

Jiawen Huang@huangjiawen.bsky.social · 2y ago

New preprint with Akshay Manglik, Nick Dutra, Hannah Tarder-Stoll, @tchamberlain.bsky.social, Robert Ajemian, @qiongzhang.bsky.social, @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social, @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social looking at conjunctive representation during Method of Loci! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So happy that our paper on event segmentation in large language models is now out in Behavior Research Methods! tinyurl.com/2j76882b With @mtoneva.bsky.social, @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social, and Manoj Kumar, we show that LLMs can segment narrative text into meaningful events similarly to humans.

Large language models can segment narrative events similarly to humans - Behavior Research Methods

Humans perceive discrete events such as “restaurant visits” and “train rides” in their continuous experience. One important prerequisite for studying human event perception is the ability of researche...

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Thrilled that this epic study led by @coralineiordan.bsky.social is now out in PNAS!

Coraline Rinn Iordan@coralineiordan.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🔔𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓🔔 Beyond excited to present our new work showcasing 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝! Wait what? Exciting collab w/ @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/11)

Excited to share a new preprint with Elizabeth McDevitt, Ghootae Kim, and Nick Turk-Browne investigating the role of REM sleep in neural differentiation of memories in the hippocampus! URL: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.01.621588v1 (1/9)

New paper led by Kailong Peng: Real-time fMRI neurofeedback that promotes coactivation of cortical representations drives integration in the hippocampus #neuroskyence #psychscisky royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Inducing representational change in the hippocampus through real-time neurofeedback | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

When you perceive or remember something, other related things come to mind, affecting how these competing items are subsequently perceived and remembered. Such behavioural consequences are believed to...

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Our neural network model of differentiation and integration of competing memories, developed by Victoria Ritvo and Alex Nguyen, has now been published in @elife.bsky.social: Paper: https://tinyurl.com/4b3k95rd Code: https://tinyurl.com/mr25rk9e #neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroai (1/5)

New preprint from @qlu.bsky.social and Ali Hummos, showing how episodic memory supports the learning of structured task representations!

Qihong (Q) Lu@qlu.bsky.social · 2y ago

How can we efficiently find task representations online that work well for the ongoing task while leveraging relations with other tasks? Our simulations show that episodic memory can help!  URL: shorturl.at/tT246 Here’s a summary: 1/n

Our paper on how blocked training supports learning of multiple schemas, with Andre Beukers, @collinsilvy.bsky.social, Ross Kempner, Nick Franklin, and @gershbrain.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/dEeaG #neuroskyence #psychscisky

🧠👁️ Our MindEye2 preprint is out! We reconstruct seen images from fMRI activity using only 1 hour of training data. This is possible by first pretraining a shared-subject model using other people's data, and then fine-tuning on a held-out subject with only 1 hr of data. arxiv.org/abs/2403.11207

Delighted to share this new work led by @collinsilvy.bsky.social, with Ross Kempner and Sunita Srivatasan ! #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Silvy Collin@collinsilvy.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m excited to announce our new preprint -- Neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details! URL: https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.02.13.580092v1 (1/8)

I’m pleased to announce our preprint 😃 – Toward a More Biologically Plausible Neural Network Model of Latent Cause Inference. URL: arxiv.org/abs/2312.08519 (1/N)

Competing memories may be integrated or differentiated based on how much their representations co-activate. Using real-time fMRI neurofeedback, this study finds that high co-activation of memories in visual cortex leads to less memory discriminability in hippocampus. #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Inducing representational change in the hippocampus through real-time neurofeedback

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Now out in Psychological Review, with Andre Beukers, Maia Hamin, and Jon Cohen: our model of how episodic memory can support performance on the n-back task, "When working memory may just be working, not memory". Free version here: osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

One more week to apply for our joint faculty position in Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Computer Science Dept, in neuroAI and intelligent systems, broadly construed. Do you fit? Yes. But feel free to contact me with q's. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Now out in Cognitive Science! We use GPT-2 to show that Bayesian surprise, which tracks changes in the content and confidence of predictions, accounts for human event boundaries in a narrative better than surprisal, which only tracks the predicted probability of individual words tinyurl.com/kd9dpub8

Our MindEye fMRI-to-Image paper got accepted as spotlight for #NeurIPS2023! See you in New Orleans, will be my first time attending NeurIPS :) Updated camera ready paper is also now live on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2305.182... Includes new expts, appendix figures, more references to other work 🧠📈

Thanks to @ankosov.bsky.social for an excellent post for @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social about our paper with @mariamaly.bsky.social, Sam Feng, @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social, and Jon Cohen! "Why do you sometimes see what you expect to see? The answer may be in your memory." wp.me/p8IxYp-2s3

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #neurojobs

Nathaniel Daw@nathanieldaw.bsky.social · 3y ago

Come work with us! @PrincetonNeuro and @PrincetonCS are searching for a joint faculty member in NeuroAI and intelligent systems. On the PNI side, our human cog neuro group (already v. computational) is esp keen to develop more connections with AI and CS. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Come work with us! @PrincetonNeuro and @PrincetonCS are searching for a joint faculty member in NeuroAI and intelligent systems. On the PNI side, our human cog neuro group (already v. computational) is esp keen to develop more connections with AI and CS. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...