Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · 7d

Thrilled to see this award to the outstanding Dr. Ryan Yeung for his work on subjectivity and the brain!

UofT Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship @uoftschmidtai.bsky.social · 7d

We're excited to welcome Ryan Yeung as a Cohort 3 #SchmidtAIinSci Fellow!

Ryan works with Professors Brian Levine and Bradley Buchsbaum.

His project uses deep neural networks to objectively decode subjective experiences in the brain.🧠

3

Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · Sep 5

I was honoured to be elected to the 2025 class of Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada.

I am grateful to my trainees, research assistants, funders, and donors who have made our research possible.

4 1 20

Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · Aug 13

Saying "so long" to our outstanding summer students Jennifer Zhavoronkova & Rivka Van Klei. We will miss you!

1

Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · Jun 2

And thanks to our sponsors:

@yorkuniversity.bsky.social
@connectedminds.bsky.social
VISTA @ York
Rotman Research Inst @ Baycrest
@uoftpsychology.bsky.social
@torontomet.bsky.social sky.social
SR Research Ltd.
DYNAMIC MEMORY SOLUTIONS
CCBBCS
@yorku-cian.bsky.social an.bsky.social

Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · Jun 2

Check out the photo gallery here:
tameg.weebly.com/gallery8.html

Gallery

2025 TAMeG Conference Photos Photo Credits: Tolu Faromika and Zoé Labonté

tameg.weebly.com

2

Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thx for #TAMeG2025!
🎸 @charan-neuro.bsky.social's keynote
🎤+ SciComm panel C Boyce & J Schall
🧑🏻‍🎓Alum panel S Pishdadian @diamondn.bsky.social
@ivabrunec.bsky.social S Parimoo
🏆Awardees V Cramm G Mariotti & T Ignatius
💪🏼Vltrs led by @msorlando.bsky.social & M Varizi
🙌🏼And the 28 trainees who presented!

2 7

Reposted by Brian Levine

Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · May 31

Just coming back after an exhilarating meeting at #TAMeG2025. Thank you to @brianlevine.bsky.social & the amazing student organizing committee for putting together a stellar day of science. Coming back inspired for organizing the Bay Area Memory Meeting! #BAMM

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 28

The keynote presentation of #TAMeG2025 10th Anniversary 🌟 was by Dr. Charan Ranganath on “Why (and how) we remember🧠 Thank you Dr. Ranganath for an *incredible* presentation on the organization of narrative recall @charan-neuro.bsky.social @brianlevine.bsky.social

🔑 takeaways below⬇️

1 8

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 28

The Data Blitz session wrapped up with Khalil Husein from the Fernandes and Stastna Labs on “Can computational sentiment analysis classify autobiographical memories? Comparing VADER and TextBlob” 🧠 #TAMeG2025

1 5

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 28

Melisa Gumus from the Mack Lab on “Emergence of attentional templates in concept learning and the underlying neural mechanisms” ⚙️🧠 #TAMeG2025

1 1 4

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 28

Veronica Cramm from the J. Anderson Lab on “Distinguishing true effect from the confound of scan quality” #TAMeG2025

1 1 3

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 28

Audrey Li-Chay-Chung from the Addis and Rosenbaum Labs on “Using tDCS to investigate cerebellar contributions to autobiographical memory” 🧠 #TAMeG2025

1 1 3

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 28

Samantha Corion from the Sokolowski Lab on “Neural correlates of mental arithmetic strategies: An fMRI meta-analysis” 🔢🧠 #TAMeG2025

1 1 3

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 28

Samantha Gauvreau from the Szpunar Lab on “The impact of repeated cumulative testing on the organization of recall” 📝🧠 #TAMeG2025

1 1 4

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 28

🌟 Data Blitz Session 2 also featured:

Tasha Ignatius from the Wammes Lab on “Precision and feature selection during drawing influences memory” 🎯🧠 #TAMeG2025

1 1 3

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 28

#TAMeG2025 Data Blitz 2 kicked off with a talk by Gahyun Kim from the LEEMTL Lab & Cirelli Lab titled “Investigating the development of temporal distance memory”🧠

1 1 5

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 28

#TAMeG2025 wrapped up with a panel discussion on “Science communication and combating disinformation” featuring:

🌟 Jeffery Schall, PhD
🌟 Carrie Boyce, MA
🌟 Charan Ranganath, PhD

Chaired by Morgan Barense, PhD

Thank you to everyone who attended, and see you next year at #TAMeG2026!🧠

2 7

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 28

The keynote presentation of #TAMeG2025 10th Anniversary 🌟 was by Dr. Charan Ranganath on “Why (and how) we remember🧠 Thank you Dr. Ranganath for an *incredible* presentation on the organization of narrative recall @charan-neuro.bsky.social @brianlevine.bsky.social

🔑 takeaways below⬇️

1 3 8

Reposted by Brian Levine

Harleen Rai @harleenrai.bsky.social · May 27

Wrapping up with our final talk session of #TAMeG2025, some incredible talks on memory using non-behavioural methods 🧠🔬

1 1 4

Reposted by Brian Levine

Harleen Rai @harleenrai.bsky.social · May 27

The second talk session of #TAMeG2025 is underway featuring talks on memory across development and cultural considerations for memory disorders 👶🏽🧠

1 3 5

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 27

The second half of Data Blitz 1 #TAMeG2025 featured talks on childhood neural synchrony driving broader attention, cardiac modulation of familiarity in aging, vascular risk impacting midlife female brain connectivity, and lastly how semantic congruence steers episodic recall in children & adults🧠

1 2 3

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 27

🌟 Rohina Kumar, RA at CBH Lab presenting at the #TAMeG2025 on “Cross-Cultural Considerations in Screening for Memory Disorders” - findings from the Canadian Multi-Ethnic Research on Aging (CAMERA) study led by Dr. Jenny Rabin @jennyrabin.bsky.social @sunnybrookhsc.bsky.social

2 4

Reposted by Brian Levine

tulipmarawi.bsky.social @tulipmarawi.bsky.social · May 27

The first #TAMeG2025 Data Blitz of the year is underway featuring talks ranging from neural signatures of semantic vs. perceptual memory across development, how event segmentation shapes recall, age differences in associative/source memory in #VR, and hippocampal engagement via multimodal imaging🧠

1 2 2

Reposted by Brian Levine

Harleen Rai @harleenrai.bsky.social · May 27

Kicking off the first TAMeG talk session of the conference with a deep dive into memory, from retrieval and reactivation to the complexities of false memory and cognitive offloading 🧠🤔 #TAMeG2025

1 2 4

Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · May 25

#TAMeG2025 is coming and it's gonna be good!

Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · Feb 28

#TAMeG2025 is coming (our 10th anniversary!) May 27 feat keynote @charan-neuro.bsky.social and panel on SciCom & Disinformation, with Carrie Boyce of RCIScience, @schalllab.bsky.social & @barense.bsky.social (chair)

Call for presentations is open for GTA and southern ON trainees 👉 tameg.ca!

4

Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · May 24

Thrilled to see the incomparable Dr. @cesopenko.bsky.social today who shared her research and advocacy work for the millions affected by intimate partner violence.

Such naches!

Canadian Concussion Network-Réseau Canadien des Commotions @ccn-rcc.bsky.social · May 22

Our final keynote speaker for the CCN-RCC 5th Annual Meeting is Dr. Carrie Esopenko (@cesopenko.bsky.social). Dr. Esopenko will speak about intimate partner violence, global collaboration and @enigmaipv.bsky.social.

Full program: www.ccn-rccevent.com/agenda

5