Congratulations, Mariam!
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/...
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...
Thanks, Benedek!
Thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the psych department at the University of Illinois as an asst. professor! My lab will study perception and memory in the human brain using amazing resources of the Beckman Institute (inc 7T MRI)! I’ll be looking for grad students, so please reach out!
🚨 I'm looking for postdocs! More info and apply here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08916 We are looking for: 1) individual differences in navigational (and other cognitive) abilities, multimodal imaging; 2) aging & the role of sex hormones; 3) spatial & non-spatial cognitive graphs
🪶 How did birds evolve wings? A partial wing is of no use for flying, but natural selection can't plan ahead and allow a species to gradually evolve toward wings that are actually useful for flying. 1/n
I wrote a j-club commentary on a recent article published in #Jneurosci@neurosteel.bsky.socialwww.jneurosci.org/content/44/1...
Memory retrieval is believed to be accompanied by a reactivation (reinstatement) of the neuronal populations that were active when the event was initially experienced (for review, see [Rugg et al., 20...
We think so, too!
New paper out in Nature Neuro, wherein we ask: How do perceptual and mnemonic brain networks share information? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Massive work with Ed Silson, Brenda Garcia, and @carolinerobertson.bsky.social
The authors show that functionally paired visual and memory brain areas share a common neural code, which structures their communication. This code is visual in nature and uses a push–pull dynamic t...
There is a lot of other exciting stuff in the paper (PRF size, visual field representations, familiar scene perception). Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thank you to the reviewers for their fantastic suggestions! We’re looking forward to any questions and comments.
The authors show that functionally paired visual and memory brain areas share a common neural code, which structures their communication. This code is visual in nature and uses a push–pull dynamic t...