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Jacinda Taggett @jacindataggett.bsky.social · 1d

You learn better when you test yourself on an answer before you study it? Even more counterintuitive, our findings showcase that there is not one direct mechanism to this effect.
Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social !
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Jacinda Taggett @jacindataggett.bsky.social · 5d

This has now been cross-posted to UCLA's Psychology in Action blog!

Feel free to check out and support UCLA Psych's scicomm group here: www.psychologyinaction.org/how-our-perc...

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 6d

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?

Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.

9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

northwestern.zoom.us

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Alicia @waterbear312.bsky.social · 11d

Fellow Grad students, please check the NSF website. There was an update last night. 1st year students (masters and phd) can apply.

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 16d

Years ago my lab tried to brainstorm ways to separately manipulate low-level (texture/pattern) and high-level (scene/object) image properties, for studying visual representations in the brain. Thanks to imaginative work by PhD student Zall Hirschstein, we now have a stimulus set that does just that!

Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 16d

Excited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings.

We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity.

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8x8 grid depicting the approach to stimulus creation. Feature pairs are on the axes and images are in the cells. The x-axis represents the high-level feature pairs: setting (green) and object (teal). For example, the first column of images all depict “truck” (object) in “field” (setting) rendered in various textures and patterns. The y-axis represents low-level feature pairs: texture (blue) and pattern (purple). For example, the first row of images all depict different objects and settings rendered as if drawn with crayon (texture) and containing large horizontal edges (pattern).

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katie gonzalez @katiejg.bsky.social · 19d

hi everyone! i made a support groupchat for students who are currently applying for PhD/PsyD programs, wanting to apply to these programs, or for students who want more information. If you would like to join, please reach out and I will add you! 🥰

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Jacinda Taggett @jacindataggett.bsky.social · 19d

I have officially written my first blog post as a first year PhD student 📝

Hoping to write once a month as I embark on this journey into academia.

Read below an intro to temporal memory! 🧠

www.academicmemories.com/post/how-our...

How our perception of time influences the memory of events

Written by: Jacinda TaggettEdited by: Danica J.Imagine you are walking from a coffee shop to your college classroom when you experience a shocking event: witnessing an individual fall off their bike a...

www.academicmemories.com

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Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · Jul 7

Being a scientist is my day job, but I also write and perform music. I've finally posted some live vids by my band, theNULL: youtu.be/Zdu6Z2XpqeM?...
We also have an Instagram @thenull_davis and it would really help us to get some follows for getting gigs. Speaking of which, merch is coming soon!

"Automaton" by theNULL

YouTube video by Charan Ranganath

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Tyler Statema @tylerstatema.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Jul 22

Just discovered this cool resource for learning about digital signal processing. Super cool and intuitive visualizations for newbies and experts alike!
(Thanks, @fleabrained.bsky.social, for sharing it on @pessoabrain.bsky.social's thread)

jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sine...

Circles Sines and Signals - Introduction

jackschaedler.github.io

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David Clewett @davidclewett.bsky.social · Jul 16

New press on our study linking the locus coeruleus to memory formation 🔵: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/bra... .

“…at a time when legislation promises ‘big and beautiful change,’ it turns out one of the brain’s smallest players may have the biggest impact on how we understand and remember our lives.”

Scientists unravel how a tiny region of the brain helps us form distinct memories, opening new avenues for PTSD, Alzheimer’s research

The locus coeruleus works like a “reset” button that separates the memory of one meaningful event from the next.

newsroom.ucla.edu

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Erin Morrow @erinmorrow.bsky.social · May 19

"In this world, there are two times....The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along." - Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams 🕰️

Amid these wild times, I'm grateful to first-author this super cool fMRI study started by my great advisor @davidclewett.bsky.social! 🧠

David Clewett @davidclewett.bsky.social · May 19

New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it.

We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories.

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

Dopaminergic processes predict temporal distortions in event memory

Our memories do not simply keep time - they warp it, bending the past to fit the structure of our experiences. For example, people tend to remember items as occurring farther apart in time if they spa...

www.biorxiv.org

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Malachi :) @maliii04.bsky.social · Apr 12

hi everyone :)

I've made a lil ole blog to make some posts about the research I do (w/o giving too much away ofc) and to provide some tips for upcoming academics from an upcoming academic

academiaforsillies.wixsite.com/academia-for-sillies

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Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · Apr 8

I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!

Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Jacinda Taggett @jacindataggett.bsky.social · Apr 5

congrats!!

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Jacinda Taggett @jacindataggett.bsky.social · Apr 4

Congratulations!!!

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · Apr 3

My favorite conference is the Memory Disorders Research Society meeting. It's a delightful community: top-notch research & wonderful people who have been so supportive in my career.

Want to join? Nominations for membership (including self-nominations) are open until April 9! Form at the top👇🏼

MDRS

MDRS is a professional society dedicated to the study of memory. Members engage in basic and clinical research into how memory works and why it fails.

www.memorydisorders.org

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Jacinda Taggett @jacindataggett.bsky.social · Apr 3

now is this about me…

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Jacinda Taggett @jacindataggett.bsky.social · Apr 2

Congrats!!!

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maggie dochnal @maggiedoch.bsky.social · Apr 1

new cog neuro blog post up!

this time writing about motion blindness:

www.academicmemories.com/post/now-you...

Now you see me: Akinetopsia

Magdalene Dochnal The ability to perceive motion is essential in a myriad of everyday situations from knowing when it is safe to cross the street to making a cup of coffee. Part of the appeal of stop-...

www.academicmemories.com

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Cognitive Neuroscience Society @cogneuronews.bsky.social · Mar 31

We're in Symposium Session 8 "Memory in the plan of your hand", learning about smartphone studies and how they are contributing to understanding - and perhaps strengthening - memory
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social kicks it off!
#CNS2025

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Jacinda Taggett @jacindataggett.bsky.social · Mar 31

congrats!!

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Erynn Christensen (she/her) @drerynnchristensen.bsky.social · Mar 30

My first @cogneuronews.bsky.social meeting! Day one and I’ve already met so many great people and heard about the excellent cognitive neuroscience research they are doing! Might have to put this event on my annual rotation😏
#CNS2025 @northwellhealth.bsky.social

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Yining Ding @liliand.bsky.social · Mar 30

Excited to share our new preprint! Using a narrative reading paradigm, we showed that temporal order memory reconstruction can depend on multiple sources of information - factors like knowledge about typical event order and hierarchical event structure can both play important roles! 📖🧠

Jeff Zacks @jzacks.bsky.social · Mar 26

New preprint from Yining Ding (@liliand.bsky.social)!
"Temporal order memory in naturalistic events is scaffolded by semantic knowledge and hierarchical event structure"
osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

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Jacinda Taggett @jacindataggett.bsky.social · Mar 30

tomorrow morning!!! come by to learn about this amazing & interdisciplinary project 💗 #cns2025

Jacinda Taggett @jacindataggett.bsky.social · Mar 28

if you’re going to #cns2025 … come on down to my poster (B#127) !! i will be going over how we use PET neuroimaging, pharmacological intervention, and computational modeling to assess dopamine’s role in social decision making! :)

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