What kind of information gets prioritized for remembering by the brain? A thread on my first paper, now out in PNAS, working with 5-⭐️ advisor @meghanlmeyer. We find evidence that the DMPFC prioritizes social learning during rest.🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex prioritizes social learning during rest | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Sociality is a defining feature of the human experience: We rely on others to ensure survival and cooperate in complex social networks to thrive. A...

Participants underwent fMRI while passively viewing naturalistic video clips from documentary film, Samsara. Half of the clips contained people, half of the clips did not. Stimuli were randomly presented to participants across two encoding runs.