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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 12d

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Careers at Drexel - Human Resources

careers.drexel.edu

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 19d

Last month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out!

www.momentslab.org

Moments Lab

www.momentslab.org

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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 22d

How does spontaneous memory reinstatement at rest relate to episodic memory during development? And how do early experiences influence neural mechanisms of episodic memory encoding and reinstatement? New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spontaneous reinstatement of episodic memories in the developing human brain

The hippocampus supports episodic memories in development, and yet how the brain stabilizes these memories determines their long-term accessibility. This study examined how episodic memories formed in...

www.biorxiv.org

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · 22d

I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026 through both the cognitive and developmental areas at Ohio State. If you are interested in spatial cognition, visual perception, and/or mental representation -- please reach out! I'd love to hear from you.

www.cogdevlab.org

PCDL @ OSU

www.cogdevlab.org

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Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · 27d

Very excited to have @brynnsherman.bsky.social join us for the next @timingresforum.bsky.social Virtual Journal Club! Please join us for what should be a very interesting talk on her recent work! Sign-up details below:

mailchi.mp/28692b147cb0...

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Aug 29

For >5 years, the International Sleep Replay Workshops (ISRW) have brought together scientists studying sleep & memory. The next ISRW will be on March 6th in Vancouver (before @cogneuronews.bsky.social). Follow the link for details and to join the mailing list.
isrw.bio.uci.edu

Pls repost! #sleep

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · Aug 28

Visual adaptation is viewed as a test of whether a feature is represented by the visual system.

In a new paper, Sam Clarke and I push the limits of this test. We show spatially selective, putatively "visual" adaptation to a clearly non-visual dimension: Value!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Can we “see” value? Spatiotopic “visual” adaptation to an imperceptible dimension

In much recent philosophy of mind and cognitive science, repulsive adaptation effects are considered a litmus test — a crucial marker, that distinguis…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Paul Young @paulgyoung.bsky.social · Aug 2

Happy to have this work out! Using cryo-EM and electrophysiology, we clarify the mechanism of a small molecule inhibitor of CFTR that could have some important clinical applications.
rdcu.be/eyVyq

Structure of CFTR bound to (R)-BPO-27 unveils a pore-blockage mechanism

Nature Communications - Hyperactivation of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is central to the pathogenesis of secretory diarrheas and autosomal dominant polycystic...

rdcu.be

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thanks, Lila!!

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thanks, Martin!

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share!

osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

Research Associate

Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact [email protected]. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...

osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · Jul 18

This was so fun to write! Grateful to ICIS and the Baby Blog for the space to reflect on infant memory

International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · Jul 17

New on the Baby Blog - Episodic-like memory in infancy: Insights from the developing hippocampus by Tristan S. Yates #EarlyYears #DevPsychSky #PsychSciSky #infantstudies infantstudies.org/episodic-lik...

Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - Episodic-like memory in infancy: Insights from the developing hippocampus by Tristan S. Yates against an image background of a baby lying on its back holding a book

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · Jul 16

In the latest #UndertheCortex, @brynnsherman.bsky.social from @upenn.edu shares that repeated experiences are more vividly remembered and are often perceived as having occurred further in the past than they did.

Time Warped: How Repetition Distorts Our Sense of Duration

Podcast: This guest's research uncovers a surprising illusion: Repeated experiences, which are more vividly remembered, are often perceived as having occurred further in the past than they did.

www.psychologicalscience.org

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · Jul 16

There’s something funny about saying that someone caused something to happen when they didn’t act intentionally — as if that phrasing assigns unintended agency to them. Why is that?

In this new paper below, we take a linguistic approach to answering this question. Lots of interesting data here!

Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · Jul 16

Suppose Tom loses control of his body, and his bodily motions then cause an accident. Would it be right to say “Tom caused the accident?”

A new paper explores the role that language plays in these links between agency and causation!

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Zhenglong Zhou @neurozz.bsky.social · Jul 16

Excited to share a new preprint w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social! Why are there gradients of plasticity and sparsity along the neocortex–hippocampus hierarchy? We show that brain-like organization of these properties emerges in ANNs that meta-learn layer-wise plasticity and sparsity. bit.ly/4kB1yg5

A gradient of complementary learning systems emerges through meta-learning

Long-term learning and memory in the primate brain rely on a series of hierarchically organized subsystems extending from early sensory neocortical areas to the hippocampus. The components differ in t...

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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · Jul 16

Super excited to share this one!! Meta-learning sparsity and learning rate gives rise to brain-like gradients of complementary learning systems. So complementary learning systems emerge organically through behavior optimization, and it's not just two of them!!

Zhenglong Zhou @neurozz.bsky.social · Jul 16

Excited to share a new preprint w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social! Why are there gradients of plasticity and sparsity along the neocortex–hippocampus hierarchy? We show that brain-like organization of these properties emerges in ANNs that meta-learn layer-wise plasticity and sparsity. bit.ly/4kB1yg5

A gradient of complementary learning systems emerges through meta-learning

Long-term learning and memory in the primate brain rely on a series of hierarchically organized subsystems extending from early sensory neocortical areas to the hippocampus. The components differ in t...

bit.ly

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thanks, Nicole!

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thank you, Halle!

Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thanks, Zitong!

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Gabe Waterhouse @gabrielwaterhouse.bsky.social · Jun 26

I am excited to announce my first ever paper (w/ @samiyousif.bsky.social ) about a new illusion of *number*: the “Crowd Size Illusion”. osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jun 25

Me too!

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thanks!!

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · Jun 25

I have noticed that many cool people are starting labs at Ohio State right now. I've decided to follow their lead.

Soon, my lab will be moving to Ohio State as well.

You can learn more about our recent and upcoming work here: www.cogdevlab.org

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you, Janna!

Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jun 25

thanks, nina!!

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