Zihan Bai

@zihanbai.bsky.social

PhD student at NYU working with Sebastian Michelmann and Daryl Fougnie. I study memory. I bring the past to the present.

Medial PFC interacts with the hippocampus to retrieve context-congruent memories.. but HOW?? was what started this. Simulating mPFC-HIP🧠, we designed an RNN🤖 that retrieves memories similar in context, on top of self-attention. It learns to retrieve like humans faster! arxiv.org/abs/2609.37791

A neural network that maintains and retrieves memories based on context

Every day, people continuously infer situational context and adjust the way they understand and remember the world. Context, signaled by the prefrontal cortex, is known to modulate working memory and ...

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Excited to share the first first-author preprint of my PhD at NYU with @s-michelmann.bsky.social andDaryl Fougnie. Using eye-tracking in a novel behavioral paradigm, we reveal the mechanisms by which episodic memory (EM) and working memory (WM) interact. 🧠 doi: doi.org/10.64898/202...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last mo.

Episodic memory rescues working memory via pattern separation, pattern completion, and predictive recall https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.26.746101v1