Asaf Gilboa
@agilboa.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscience of memory and memory disorders
gilboalab.ca
gilboalab.ca
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Congrats @sjo09.bsky.social! Your trailblazing engram discoveries are unforgettable. So happy that the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize is honoring YOUR Era's tour @sfn.org.
November 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Congrats @sjo09.bsky.social! Your trailblazing engram discoveries are unforgettable. So happy that the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize is honoring YOUR Era's tour @sfn.org.
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Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵
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This is 🤯
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This is 🤯
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
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New paper from the lab 🚨
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
authors.elsevier.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New paper from the lab 🚨
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
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New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...
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How do we update our predictions when our environment changes?
The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions.
Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions.
Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Hippocampus Rapidly Integrates Sequence Representations During Novel Multistep Predictions
Memories for temporally extended sequences can be used adaptively to predict future events on multiple timescales, a function that relies on the hippocampus. For such predictions to be useful, they sh...
www.biorxiv.org
September 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
How do we update our predictions when our environment changes?
The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions.
Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions.
Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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👩💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
September 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
👩💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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New preprint from Yining Ding @liliand.bsky.social! People use semantic event knowledge and grouping to remember the temporal order of events.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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August 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New preprint from Yining Ding @liliand.bsky.social! People use semantic event knowledge and grouping to remember the temporal order of events.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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We make predictions based on general knowledge and/or specific memories. Different brain areas are active when these distinct predictions are violated – and hippocampus selectively responds to prediction errors based on episodic memory.
Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!
Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!
Hippocampal mismatch signals are based on episodic memories and not schematic knowledge | PNAS
Prediction errors drive learning by signaling mismatches between expectations and
reality, but the neural systems supporting these computations rem...
www.pnas.org
August 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We make predictions based on general knowledge and/or specific memories. Different brain areas are active when these distinct predictions are violated – and hippocampus selectively responds to prediction errors based on episodic memory.
Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!
Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!
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Fresh results now in bioRxiv! 🎉 We know about the function of NREM sleep for overnight memory consolidation. But what about REM sleep? We found that in aging, slow delta waves can intrude phasic REM periods, and this, is associated with worse overnight consolidation 🧠 (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...
REM Sleep Misfires: Intruding Delta Waves Forecast Tau, Amyloid, and Forgetting in Aging
Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep degrades with age, and more severely in Alzheimer's disease (AD). REM sleep comprises about twenty percent of adult sleep, alternates between phasic and tonic periods, a...
doi.org
August 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Fresh results now in bioRxiv! 🎉 We know about the function of NREM sleep for overnight memory consolidation. But what about REM sleep? We found that in aging, slow delta waves can intrude phasic REM periods, and this, is associated with worse overnight consolidation 🧠 (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Slowly making my way through that grad school data!
Decoding memory function through naturalistic gaze patterns | PNAS share.google/vuOSbiRk9nBH...
Decoding memory function through naturalistic gaze patterns | PNAS share.google/vuOSbiRk9nBH...
Decoding memory function through naturalistic gaze patterns | PNAS
Eye movements are closely linked to encoding and retrieval processes, with changes
in viewing behavior reflecting age- and pathology-related memory...
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August 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Slowly making my way through that grad school data!
Decoding memory function through naturalistic gaze patterns | PNAS share.google/vuOSbiRk9nBH...
Decoding memory function through naturalistic gaze patterns | PNAS share.google/vuOSbiRk9nBH...
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Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.”
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
August 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.”
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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New paper with @mujianing.bsky.social & @prestonlab.bsky.social! We propose a simple model for human memory of narratives: we uniformly sample incoming information at a constant rate. This explains behavioral data much better than variable-rate sampling triggered by event segmentation or surprisal.
Efficient uniform sampling explains non-uniform memory of narrative stories https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667952v1
August 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New paper with @mujianing.bsky.social & @prestonlab.bsky.social! We propose a simple model for human memory of narratives: we uniformly sample incoming information at a constant rate. This explains behavioral data much better than variable-rate sampling triggered by event segmentation or surprisal.
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I was given the opportunity to write a brief highlight of a paper that is important to the field & personally meaningful, and I chose to write about @drjenryan.bsky.social's elegant work linking the hippocampus to eye movement markers of relational memory. Read more about it here! 👇🏼
rdcu.be/eyaXA
rdcu.be/eyaXA
Eye movements provide insight into amnesia
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - In this Journal Club, Mariam Aly discusses a 2000 study that attempted to settle the debate about whether implicit memories are lost or retained in amnesia.
rdcu.be
July 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I was given the opportunity to write a brief highlight of a paper that is important to the field & personally meaningful, and I chose to write about @drjenryan.bsky.social's elegant work linking the hippocampus to eye movement markers of relational memory. Read more about it here! 👇🏼
rdcu.be/eyaXA
rdcu.be/eyaXA
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🚨 I set off today on research journey to the Marshall Islands! 🚨
UCL Voyage to Aur
Here is the 1st instalment in a set of videos covering the project. I explain the background to the project and introduce a Marshallese stick chart held in a museum in London:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3m...
UCL Voyage to Aur
Here is the 1st instalment in a set of videos covering the project. I explain the background to the project and introduce a Marshallese stick chart held in a museum in London:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3m...
The UCL Voyage to Aur
YouTube video by Imotion Media
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July 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
🚨 I set off today on research journey to the Marshall Islands! 🚨
UCL Voyage to Aur
Here is the 1st instalment in a set of videos covering the project. I explain the background to the project and introduce a Marshallese stick chart held in a museum in London:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3m...
UCL Voyage to Aur
Here is the 1st instalment in a set of videos covering the project. I explain the background to the project and introduce a Marshallese stick chart held in a museum in London:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3m...
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Are the brain's representational formats predetermined by its intrinsic architecture, or are they efficiently tuned to the statistical structure of the visual world? In our new study, we test these possibilities.
So proud of this fantastic and inspiring work, led by @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social.
So proud of this fantastic and inspiring work, led by @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social.
🧠🚨 How does the brain represent what we see? Is visual input transformed to form these representations in similar ways across people and even AI models like DNNs?
We explore these questions using fMRI and large-scale representational alignment analyses.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2507.13941
Thread👇 (1/8)
We explore these questions using fMRI and large-scale representational alignment analyses.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2507.13941
Thread👇 (1/8)
Convergent transformations of visual representation in brains and models
A fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience is what shapes visual perception: the external world's structure or the brain's internal architecture. Although some perceptual variability can be trac...
arxiv.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Are the brain's representational formats predetermined by its intrinsic architecture, or are they efficiently tuned to the statistical structure of the visual world? In our new study, we test these possibilities.
So proud of this fantastic and inspiring work, led by @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social.
So proud of this fantastic and inspiring work, led by @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social.
Happy to share our study showing a new role for ventromedial PFC in prospection. tinyurl.com/e7kudkby
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex and Intention Representation in Prospective Memory
Prospective memory (PM) consists of (i) a retrospective component, comprised of memory for intentions and for the cues that should trigger an action, …
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July 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Happy to share our study showing a new role for ventromedial PFC in prospection. tinyurl.com/e7kudkby
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
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A new #Neurosalience episode is out! 🧠
The hippocampus, aging, memory and discovery
with Rosanna Olsen and Peter Bandettini
@rosannaolsen.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social
youtu.be/cvPjImt9iv8
The hippocampus, aging, memory and discovery
with Rosanna Olsen and Peter Bandettini
@rosannaolsen.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social
youtu.be/cvPjImt9iv8
Neurosalience #S5E14 with Rosanna Olsen - The hippocampus, aging, memory, and discovery
YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping
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June 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A new #Neurosalience episode is out! 🧠
The hippocampus, aging, memory and discovery
with Rosanna Olsen and Peter Bandettini
@rosannaolsen.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social
youtu.be/cvPjImt9iv8
The hippocampus, aging, memory and discovery
with Rosanna Olsen and Peter Bandettini
@rosannaolsen.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social
youtu.be/cvPjImt9iv8
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Gearing up to host the 2025 #CIHR Summer Program in Aging #SPA2025 at #Baycrest
It's a 1 week intensive program for research trainees focused on training a healthcare workforce to meet the needs of older adults
www.baycrest.org/summer-progr...
It's a 1 week intensive program for research trainees focused on training a healthcare workforce to meet the needs of older adults
www.baycrest.org/summer-progr...
June 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Gearing up to host the 2025 #CIHR Summer Program in Aging #SPA2025 at #Baycrest
It's a 1 week intensive program for research trainees focused on training a healthcare workforce to meet the needs of older adults
www.baycrest.org/summer-progr...
It's a 1 week intensive program for research trainees focused on training a healthcare workforce to meet the needs of older adults
www.baycrest.org/summer-progr...
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Adaptive compression as a unifying framework for episodic and semantic memory
Perspective by David G. Nagy (@davidnagy.bsky.social), Gergő Orbán & Charley M. Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/3ZkmRLb
PDF: rdcu.be/epAQ0
Perspective by David G. Nagy (@davidnagy.bsky.social), Gergő Orbán & Charley M. Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/3ZkmRLb
PDF: rdcu.be/epAQ0
June 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Adaptive compression as a unifying framework for episodic and semantic memory
Perspective by David G. Nagy (@davidnagy.bsky.social), Gergő Orbán & Charley M. Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/3ZkmRLb
PDF: rdcu.be/epAQ0
Perspective by David G. Nagy (@davidnagy.bsky.social), Gergő Orbán & Charley M. Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social)
Web: go.nature.com/3ZkmRLb
PDF: rdcu.be/epAQ0
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How does knowledge influence episodic memory? Perhaps we can find the answer using novel multi-method approaches. Read the new review of episodic #memory by Carla Macias and Kimele Persaud. Post by @hannahmech.bsky.social buff.ly/3XEkeDQ
Remembering blue bananas: A multi-method approach to episodic memory research
It’s a beautiful day outside. While you recline comfortably under a tree, you see a small creature in the distance. It has four legs, a long tail, brown fur, and dark eyes that stare directly at you. ...
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June 26, 2024 at 4:11 PM
How does knowledge influence episodic memory? Perhaps we can find the answer using novel multi-method approaches. Read the new review of episodic #memory by Carla Macias and Kimele Persaud. Post by @hannahmech.bsky.social buff.ly/3XEkeDQ
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A pleasure to speak to host Joe Murray of The Human Podcast about my research, career & journey through life
Covering: London taxi drivers, dreaming rats, virtual worlds, my navigation test/game: Sea Hero Quest, & navigators of micronesia:
youtube.com/watch?v=9eTz...
Covering: London taxi drivers, dreaming rats, virtual worlds, my navigation test/game: Sea Hero Quest, & navigators of micronesia:
youtube.com/watch?v=9eTz...
Life Story of Cognitive Neuroscientist | The Human Podcast Ep 34 (Hugo Spiers)
Dr Hugo Spiers is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and the director of the Spiers Lab. His work focuses on spatial cognitio...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9eTzGgW5FCk…
June 16, 2024 at 8:13 PM
A pleasure to speak to host Joe Murray of The Human Podcast about my research, career & journey through life
Covering: London taxi drivers, dreaming rats, virtual worlds, my navigation test/game: Sea Hero Quest, & navigators of micronesia:
youtube.com/watch?v=9eTz...
Covering: London taxi drivers, dreaming rats, virtual worlds, my navigation test/game: Sea Hero Quest, & navigators of micronesia:
youtube.com/watch?v=9eTz...
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Scale matters: Large language models with billions (rather than millions) of parameters better match neural representations of natural language https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.12.598513v1
Scale matters: Large language models with billions (rather than millions) of parameters better match neural representations of natural language https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.12.598513v1
Recent research has used large language models (LLMs) to study the neural basis of naturalistic lang
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June 13, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Scale matters: Large language models with billions (rather than millions) of parameters better match neural representations of natural language https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.12.598513v1
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New paper out in PNAS!!
"Collaborative imagination synchronizes representations of the future and fosters social connection in the present"
in collaboration with Zoë Fowler, Daniela Palombo, and Brendan O’Connor
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....
"Collaborative imagination synchronizes representations of the future and fosters social connection in the present"
in collaboration with Zoë Fowler, Daniela Palombo, and Brendan O’Connor
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....
June 12, 2024 at 11:11 AM
New paper out in PNAS!!
"Collaborative imagination synchronizes representations of the future and fosters social connection in the present"
in collaboration with Zoë Fowler, Daniela Palombo, and Brendan O’Connor
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....
"Collaborative imagination synchronizes representations of the future and fosters social connection in the present"
in collaboration with Zoë Fowler, Daniela Palombo, and Brendan O’Connor
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....
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Just resubmitted a MONSTER of a revision on our giant consensus semantic paper. The original version was 113 pages long. The reviewers asked us to shorten it. We tried our best, and the revised version is now 147 pages long. ha ha ha ha -- NEVER HAVE I EVER osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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May 14, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Just resubmitted a MONSTER of a revision on our giant consensus semantic paper. The original version was 113 pages long. The reviewers asked us to shorten it. We tried our best, and the revised version is now 147 pages long. ha ha ha ha -- NEVER HAVE I EVER osf.io/preprints/ps...