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Camilla van Geen
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PhD student in psychology @ UPenn | Decision-Making & Memory
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Dhairyya Singh @dhairyyasingh.bsky.social · May 27
New preprint! Statistical structure skews object memory toward predictable successors. Model simulations show how this bias can arise from the backward expansion of hippocampal representations.
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MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania @pennmindcore.bsky.social · Mar 7
We had a great crew this morning working on signs before they headed out to @standupforscience.bsky.social in Philly!

STEM-related activities account for 40% of the US GDP and are a main economic driver for Philadelphia.

Science makes America great.
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Camilla van Geen @cvg.bsky.social · Feb 14
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Jonathan Nicholas @jonathannicholas.bsky.social · Feb 14
Excited to share a new paper with Daphna Shohamy & @nathanieldaw.bsky.social! Using fmri reactivation, we measured *when* people build preferences from memory. We found that people tend to do so before a choice, but that they also wait until choice time when options are linked to multiple memories
Proactive and reactive construction of memory-based preferences - Nature Communications
Making new decisions requires retrieving memories, but when this occurs is unclear. The authors show that people typically access memories before a choice unless there are many related memories to con...
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Camilla van Geen @cvg.bsky.social · Feb 5
excited to (finally!) share :)

www.jneurosci.org/content/45/6...
Lesions to Different Regions of the Frontal Cortex Have Dissociable Effects on Voluntary Persistence in Humans
Deciding how long to keep waiting for uncertain future rewards is a complex problem. Previous research has shown that choosing to stop waiting results from an evaluative process that weighs the subjec...
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