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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 2d

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!

I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence

Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 2d

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

How to get PhD funding in the UK

It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 6d

Submissions will OPEN 30 October for the 2026 APS Annual Convention taking place in Barcelona! (Closing 5 December) #APS26BCN

Learn more about the upcoming program and save the date www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · Aug 29

👇 #SleepPeeps Please repost to help me spread the word on this study. This is a very big commitment compared to most "online" studies... but I know there are some good participants out there on the interweb who what to help! 🙂👇

Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our lab is starting a new study on dreaming
🚨GREAT NEWS!🚨: YOU may be eligible to participate!

If interested, follow this link to a screening survey: furman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#SleepPeeps #psychscisky #cogsci 🧠🟦

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Lluís Fuentemilla @fuentemilla.bsky.social · Aug 7

Excited to share our new publication on the influence of odor perception on memory. Congratulations to @joantarridav.bsky.social for initiating this fascinating line of research in our lab.

Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Aug 6

🧠👃 Can a _brief smell_ change how we remember something seconds later?

We used EEG + memory testing to show that odors trigger sustained brain activity—and shape memory for events happening after the smell disappears.

#Neuroscience #Olfaction
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Xiongbo Wu @xiongbowu.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨 New preprint alert!

Excited to share our latest work on alpha/beta activity, eye movements, and memory.

Across 4 experiments combining scalp EEG/iEEG with eye tracking, we show that alpha/beta activity directly reflects eye movements, and only indirectly relates to memory.

👇 Highlights (1/7):

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 30

Low-frequency brain oscillations reflect the dynamics of the oculomotor system: a new perspective on subsequent memory effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667451v1

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Lluís Fuentemilla @fuentemilla.bsky.social · Jul 25

Are the brain's representational formats predetermined by its intrinsic architecture, or are they efficiently tuned to the statistical structure of the visual world? In our new study, we test these possibilities.

So proud of this fantastic and inspiring work, led by @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social.

Pablo Marcos-Manchón @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social · Jul 25

🧠🚨 How does the brain represent what we see? Is visual input transformed to form these representations in similar ways across people and even AI models like DNNs?

We explore these questions using fMRI and large-scale representational alignment analyses.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2507.13941

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Convergent transformations of visual representation in brains and models

A fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience is what shapes visual perception: the external world's structure or the brain's internal architecture. Although some perceptual variability can be trac...

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Carlos González-García @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc!
Join the FLARE project @cimcyc.bsky.social to study sudden perceptual learning using fMRI, RSA, and DNNs.
🧠 2 years, fully funded, flexible start
More info 👉 gonzalezgarcia.github.io/postdoc/

DMs or emails welcome! Please share!

Postdoc Position – FLARE Project

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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · Jul 7

Congratulations to Teresa Bajo, University of Granada, Spain, recipient of the 2025 Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award. The award honors exceptional scientists who have demonstrated sustained leadership and service to the field and to the Society. bit.ly/401ldi0

Blue background with PS branding and photo of Teresa Bajo as a recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Leadership Award.

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Lluís Fuentemilla @fuentemilla.bsky.social · Jul 1

What an event boundary! Thank you @martamasilva.bsky.social for leading this project!

Marta Silva @martamasilva.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧠 Paper out!

We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that:

🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries
🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall

Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories!

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Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries

Nature Communications - The neural processes involved in memory formation for realistic experiences remain poorly understood. Here, the authors found that ripple-like activity in the human...

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Darya Frank @darya-frank.bsky.social · Jun 30

🚨 NEW postdoc position 🚨 Join our Royal Society-funded team (3+ years) to work on human memory and salience 🧠 with virtual reality, fMRI, computational modelling and clinical collaborations
👉 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Please spread the word! 📣

Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience:Manchester

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Simon Kern @skjerns.de · Jun 16

preprint alert 🚨
1/ Can we accurately detect sequential replay in humans using Temporally Delayed Linear Modelling (#TDLM)? In our recent study, we could not find any replay and decided to dig deeper by running a hybrid simulation with surprising results. Link to preprint & details below 👇

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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · May 30

For anyone in the memory field, an incredible summary and tribute to Endel Tulving from Gus Craik. Read it for the writing alone.

royalsocietypublishing.org/action/oidcS...

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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · May 29

New preprint! 🚨→ Determinants of Visual Ambiguity Resolution. A new work with @ortiztudela.bsky.social @jvoeller.bsky.social @martinhebart.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · May 7

New paper out! 🎉 “Evolving Engrams Demand Changes in Effective Cues” (Hippocampus). In this opinion piece, we discuss how retrieval processes can be enhanced and offer an alternative to one of the field’s few enduring principles: encoding specificity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Evolving Engrams Demand Changes in Effective Cues

A longstanding principle in episodic memory research, known as the encoding specificity hypothesis, holds that an effective retrieval cue should closely match the original encoding conditions. This p...

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Lluís Fuentemilla @fuentemilla.bsky.social · May 7

2/2 Using DRM lists, we examined how social structure affects memory in lab-created communities. Clustered groups reinforced true memories, while non-clustered ones increased false memories, shaping collective knowledge.

Now out in @cogscisociety.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Social Network Structure Shapes the Formation of True and False Memories at the Collective Level

Societal structures and memory organization models share network-like features, offering insights into how information spreads and shapes collective memories. In this study, we manipulated the struct....

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Lluís Fuentemilla @fuentemilla.bsky.social · May 7

1/2 Just like social groups, human memory is organized in interconnected patterns. Activating one memory can trigger related ones, similar to how information spreads through a community. Could social sharing shape how memories are formed?

#PsychSciSky

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ckerren.bsky.social @ckerren.bsky.social · Apr 29

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences.

We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

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Pablo Marcos-Manchón @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social · Apr 23

Deep learning models and brains share fascinating parallels in their ability to process and instantly integrate new knowledge.

Join us this year at ICON 2025 to discuss how sudden learning emerges across artificial and biological systems! 🧠🤖

Johannah Völler @jvoeller.bsky.social · Apr 23

📣 ICON Symposium

Really excited to announce our symposium at @ICON this year on Sudden Learning Across Systems!

Together with lots of cool people: @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social and Andrea Greve!

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James Antony @jameswardantony.bsky.social · Apr 4

The Memory Disorders Research Society (MDRS) has extended its deadline in seeking nominations for new members to next Wednesday (4/9)! Self-nominations welcome. Feel free to DM me if you have questions about the society or the membership process. Application link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Lluís Fuentemilla @fuentemilla.bsky.social · Apr 3

Congratulations, Ben!!

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Matthijs van der Meer @mvandermeer.bsky.social · Mar 27

New opinion paper in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social with Dan Bendor, where we argue that rodent studies provide only marginal support for the idea that replay supports real-time decisions (e.g. planning). Fictive learning and memory tagging are more consistent w/evidence. www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Awake replay: off the clock but on the job

Hippocampal replay is widely thought to support two key cognitive functions: online decision-making and offline memory consolidation. In this review, we take a closer look at the hypothesized link bet...

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Deborah Talmi @dtalmi.bsky.social · Mar 25

We have an open postdoc position with Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social and Emily Holmes, at the Emotional Cognition Lab dtalmi.wixsite.com/emotional-co..., @uniofcam.bsky.social to conduct advanced memory modelling. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50770/ Apply by 21.4!

Research Assistant/Research Associate in computational modelling of emotional memory (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Assistant/Research Associate in computational modelling of emotional memory (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.

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David Halpern @davidhalpern.bsky.social · Mar 17

Very excited to share that this paper from my time in the Kahana lab is finally out in @natureneuro.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/natu...

Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · Mar 14

Even while processing current experiences, people reactivate old ones and re-encode them (shown using intracranial EEG), turning thoughts into memories.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Study-phase reinstatement predicts subsequent recall - Nature Neuroscience

How can the brain improve memory for an experience after it has occurred? Halpern et al. use intracranial EEG to show that, even while processing current experiences, people reactivate old ones and re...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Mar 11

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Homepage - openRxiv

openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Mar 11

@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social
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Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences - Nature Human Behaviour

How does sleep transform the way we remember our experiences? This study finds that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related...

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