First foray into characterizing hippocampal-mesolimbic contributions to substance use. Props to awesome former post-doc Blake Elliott for steering the charge. A few more substance-use related papers are in the pipeline! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Hippocampus–Ventral Striatum Connectivity Is Associated With Binge Drinking Frequency in Adults

Contextual information, such as spatial locations and social groups, are known to propagate reward-seeking behavior including binge drinking. Animal models suggest that context-evoked drug and alcoho....

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College gym bros are at their most adorable when swapping their bowl ordering tips at Chipotle. It’s really helping me bridge a conceptual connection with them.

The best way to determine authorship on a 2 person review paper. @maureenritchey.bsky.social

When hanging out with colleagues it’s important to align yourself in a dimension of memory to emotion. @joeydunsmoor.bsky.social @ajaysatpute.bsky.social @maureenritchey.bsky.social

Hot take after going to see a space documentary at the planetarium. Black holes are the body maxxers of the universe, they get so dense that things fall apart. With @bethwiden.bsky.social and her family.

Come to ICOM next summer, it's going to be lit! Rumor has it that the first memory-based comedy show (ICOMedy) may be taking place.

International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow@icom-memory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We've now highlighted all our amazing confirmed keynote speakers! Please sign up to our email list as this will be the main way we will communicate. Stay tuned for news about submissions, registration, and lots more! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition #ICOM2027 #philosophysky 🧪

Looking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).

Best practices for collaboration is to position yourself strategically. Like and follow if you want more pictures of @joeydunsmoor.bsky.social and me.

Ever since the Gutenberg Press its been impossible to keep kids off of technology:

I was today’s year old when I realized that all cats are vampires. Don’t worry vampires are sort of cool.

We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge from experience & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most. Please repost & share! 🧠

Happy to see this paper out in #JNeurosci! We combine computational modeling of behavior and fMRI to better understand maladaptive decisions about what to eat.

SfN Journals@sfnjournals.bsky.social · last mo.

#JNeurosci: Muratore et al. compare food decision-making processes in healthy people vs. patients with anorexia nervosa. They found that the brain regions active during the process of mulling over food options were different in people with anorexia. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0441-26.2026

Sometimes I worry the “threat” of AI is distracting people from how miserable 2 factor authentication makes me!!

Postdoc job ad is now live! faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/168298/...

Ali Cohen@aliocohen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The LUMeN Lab at Emory is hiring ✨ We’re seeking a full-time RA/lab manager and a postdoc to work on new NIH-funded studies! Formal job ads/apps forthcoming. We’re eager to hit the ground running so please share these flyers and/or reach out if interested!

There is been a lot of talk about the bad parts of AI, but I have been struggling on how to make a joke about HTMI (instead of HDMI) and I think AI is giving me access to it.

New lab paper! Older adults sometimes appear to be impaired at multi-step inference. Is this explained by memory specificity? Can we improve performance by simply adding structure to experience? Yes and yes! See 🧵 below, & our related computational framework here: bsky.app/profile/aaro...

@sharonmnoh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper! Multistep inference across the human lifespan can be improved with individualized memory interventions, with co-first @kwcooper.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @dalezhou.bsky.social, Craig Stark, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social (🧵): academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

Our first foray into horror movies was recently published. Former grad student David Gregory used them as a means to study temporal memory for threatening events. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/

Arousal and valence differentially shape temporal memory for naturalistic events - PubMed

While emotional arousal and negative valence both alter episodic memory, their contributions to different facets of temporal memory remain unclear. Here, we examined two components of temporal memory ...

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Are you a trainee at #SANS2026 or a trainee in social or affective neuroscience. Fill out this quick survey to help with a game at COMICSANS. More data = better games. forms.gle/b5B8y3m6LEFu...

Family Feud: Grad Student Edition

We are looking to survey as many trainees (RAs, grad students, post-docs) attending SANS as we can to complete the following survey. Your results will be part of a "family feud" style game show at COM...

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So embarrassing that they all wore the same outfits.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4mo ago

The crew of Artemis II on Saturday evening were being honored at a NASA event welcoming the astronauts back to Houston.

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...

MDRS

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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Why aren’t more people talking about how good chatGPT would be at Family Feud?

In case anyone is curious about my thoughts on Nintendo switch: Ness : Smash Brothers :: Toad : MarioKart

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

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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I’m excited to announce a special issue I am guest editing at SCAN with Johanna Jarcho and @maureenritchey.bsky.social on the intersection of memory and social cognition. Find more info here: academic.oup.com/scan/pages/c...

The Contribution of Episodic Memory to Social Cognition

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience invites submissions to a collection on “The Contribution of Episodic Memory to Social Cognition”. Making decisions i

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Changes in our feelings, or "affective surprise," may act as a learning signal that influences what we remember. Large magnitude deviations in experienced valence during encoding relate to better long-term associative memory.

It’s out!

Unsolicited PSA: Asking your gay friend about Heated Rivalry may be a microaggression. Btw I thought it was great but not excellant. Some of the romance felt undeserved.

I love old Bjork>>>>I love new Bjork>>>>>>I love New York

When giving feedback on a talk I came to a real truism: Seinfeld is for people that love New York, Friends is for people that love the idea of New York. I like Friends.