Cortico-hippocampal interactions underlie schema-supported memory encoding in older adults

New paper led by @shenyanghuang.bsky.social!
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

Older adults' memory benefits from richer semantic contexts. We found connectivity patterns supporting this semantic scaffolding.

Last week, I had the honor of hooding my first graduate students, Cortney Howard and @shenyanghuang.bsky.social (w @felipedebrigard.bsky.social).

Ceremonies like these bring clarity to the complex process of academic study.

I know now that what we do is sacred.

🙋‍Come by my poster next Tuesday 8-10AM to discuss the good, the dad, and the ugly of Representational Similarity Analysis! (Not an April fools' joke)

🔗 www.cogneurosociety.org/poster/?id=5...

Hey everybody! #CNS2025 bleepstorm incoming! 9 POSTERS!

I work with an amazing group of scientists, celebrating them this weekend in Boston is makes me so excited and hopeful (and I usually abhor the use exclamation points!)

(All posters available on the lab website): mnemology.org/conferences/...

Newly minted DOCTOR in our lab, @shenyanghuang.bsky.social examines a lot of these techniques and their applications in a recent review paper. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38728902/

Pair it with this empirical masterpiece and you could probably solve the brain or something like that.

An absolute MUST READ for anyone doing task-related connectivity analyses w fMRI data.

So many good things in here! 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

THE BIG ONE! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Very happy to report that our new paper titled "Counterfactual thinking induces different neural patterns of memory modification in anxious individuals", spearheaded by @shenyanghuang.bsky.social and Leonard Faul, and with Natasha Parikh and Kevin LaBar, is out in Scientific Reports! #neuroskyence

Wake up babe, first package release just dropped on GitHub 🔥😤🔥

I've begun to compile the custom JS + CSS I use to ✨prettify✨ my Qualtrics surveys under the hood, and the first thing done here is emulating the Simple layout UI while using the Flat layout:
github.com/1nathanliang...

More to come!!

Counterfactual Thinking Induces Different Neural Patterns of Memory Modification in Anxious Individuals: http://osf.io/5a24b/

Big thanks to my collaborators, @woodforbrains.bsky.social @maureenritchey.bsky.social, Cortney Howard, Mariam Hovhannisyan, and Roberto Cabeza, as well as others who have been supportive along the way 🎉

🧠Hippocampal functions modulate transfer-appropriate cortical representations supporting subsequent memory🧠
Just published in the Journal of Neuroscience: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

New preprint out: osf.io/nkd4h/