She was such a sweet and beautiful cat. She was my best friend and got me through some really tough times.

She chose me when I adopted her. We always had a special bond.

There's only one point I can think of - people with prior grant success likely have experience in coordinating long-term projects with a team. But that can occur even without grants, and I feel like that could be assessed *directly.*

The way I see it, if someone has a great track record with research but doesn't necessarily get a lot of grant funding, wouldn't that make their application *stronger*, if anything? They clearly achieved a lot of that without a lot of funding.

This is an excellent point. There are some good theoretical explanations of why memory would be organized by recency, but not why loss would occur in the same way.

Thanks! But has there been an explanation offered as to why systems consolidation takes longer in humans than other animals?

I don't really have any good answer on this, and I was wondering if any folks that are a bit sharper on the neuro side than myself might know? I also talked about the rodent work, showing that consolidation periods were estimated to be much shorter - on the order of days or weeks

should have attacked him for being basic with his shirt choice instead

all of these arguments largely agree with the authors - I'm not saying this as a knock on the authors for not citing these papers, but rather that there has been some important theoretical evidence for a while on the topic and I'm happy to do my part to make sure they get more recognition!

there are some other examples of this as well. Minerva 2 - an episodic memory model that uses a retrieval process that generalizes across related episodes - can construct semantic representations in the same manner as episodic ones: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

from a theoretical viewpoint, you can build semantic representations using episodic learning. for instance, you can apply the temporal context model - a model that associates items to temporal context - to a corpus and build semantic representations: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

this is great to see! I do want to say that there have been a number of arguments along this line for a long time. Gail McKoon had been similarly critical, on the grounds that you can find episodic priming in semantic tasks and semantic priming in episodic tasks: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/198...

what blew my mind is that it's a 20+ year old show, and it's easily been the most emotionally affecting TV experience for the both of us in the last 2-3 years. it still really hits you. the characters feel like real people.

it's also up on spotify: open.spotify.com/track/1izBzH...

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