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Regina Lapate

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Asst. Prof of Psych & Brain Sciences at UC Santa Barbara || affective & cognitive neuroscience || formerly at UC Berkeley & UW-Madison https://lapatelab.psych.ucsb.edu

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Regina Lapate @lapate.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hello new followers: Time for an introduction! My affective & cognitive neuroscience lab at UCSB studies emotion-cognition interactions, including affect & cognitive control, temporal memory, & metacognition using fMRI, TMS, EEG, & psychophyz. 🧠 Check out our work here: lapatelab.psych.ucsb.edu

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Colin Hoy @colinwhoy.bsky.social · 16h

Ever slam on the brakes after seeing a speed trap? Or better yet, slow down ahead in anticipation?

In our new paper w/ @anask07.bsky.social in @cp-iscience.bsky.social, we use #iEEG to study the neural basis of reactive and proactive control in medial and lateral PFC.
tinyurl.com/4bbwbffv

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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 2d

New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 5d

This week two new #28andMe babies joined the extended family:

⏳ @lapate.bsky.social’s lab uncovered a resting-state connectivity signature that reflects the passage of time. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (2/x)

The intrinsic time tracker: temporal context is embedded in entorhinal and hippocampal functional connectivity patterns - Nature Communications

This study shows that hippocampal and entorhinal connectivity patterns drift over time in humans, providing a spontaneous neural signature of elapsed time that follows functional gradients and reveals network-specific contributions to temporal coding.

www.nature.com

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CNS 2026 Annual Meeting @cnsmtg.bsky.social · 9d

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE SYMPOSIUM!

Vote for the Symposium you'd most like to see at #CNS2026 in Vancouver, B.C. Voting deadline, October 1, 2025 You must be a current CNS member to vote.

TO VOTE: Log in to your CNS Account & click the 'Symposia Voting' button: www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 12d

Make your voice impossible to ignore. If you support the Menopause Care Equity Act let @gavinnewsom.bsky.social know in the link below 👇🏼 #AB432

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Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨 New Preprint 🚨

Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects

By Cyr et al.

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Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?

A: Yes!

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our new paper out now in Science explores how neural activity in the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) *drifts* over time - and *jumps* at key boundaries - to help organize events in memory.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here's a quick summary of what we found 🧵👇

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Regina Lapate @lapate.bsky.social · Jun 27

So cool to see this out—congratulations!

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Nina Rouhani @ninarouhani.bsky.social · May 29

new paper from a collaborative endeavor! (@co0p3r.bsky.social) we find & replicate food-reward biases in a reinforcement learning task (where food stim are incidental)

people with eating disorder symptoms show a low-calorie food bias while those without show a high-calorie food bias... (1/3)

Eating disorder symptoms and emotional arousal modulate food biases during reward learning in females - Nature Communications

Disordered eating can disrupt the rewarding value of food. Here, the authors show in a female sample that eating disorder symptoms, emotional arousal, and interoceptive awareness modulate goal-ir...

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David Clewett @davidclewett.bsky.social · May 29

Emotions create vivid and lasting memories - but how are those memories organized? We find that negative emotions fragment experience, disrupting the flow of memory. Reframing negative feelings also carves up experiences, but in a way that supports integration and wellbeing.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · May 28

Excited to announce that our paper (led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Derek Smith) is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com
go.illinois.edu/Lee2025_NHB
We use 36 days of testing in 4 inhibitory control tasks to examine the precision of inhibitory control measures in *individuals* and how they vary
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Precise individual measures of inhibitory control

Nature Human Behaviour - Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on four inhibitory control tasks, Gratton et al. show that more than 1,000 trials per participant are necessary to reduce...

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · May 12

Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause.

Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

Or help us spread the word 💫

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Apr 29

📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵

The NSF building, photo courtesy of Duke University

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Regina Lapate @lapate.bsky.social · Apr 9

We found that individuals at risk for anorexia showed greater focus on future consequences in daily decision making, which mediated reduced delay discounting—suggesting that a future-oriented cognitive style may underlie their 'willingness to wait' for rewards:
nature.com/articles/s41598-024-80597-7

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Regina Lapate @lapate.bsky.social · Apr 9

In keeping with the theme of time travel… now into the future: 🕰️ Another recent paper from the lab—a preregistered study with Isabel Schuman, Jingyi Wang & Ian Ballard @iancballard.bsky.social —is now published. Here, we looked at future orientation, decision making & anorexia nervosa risk.

Willing to wait: Anorexia nervosa symptomatology is associated with higher future orientation and reduced intertemporal discounting - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Willing to wait: Anorexia nervosa symptomatology is associated with higher future orientation and reduced intertemporal discounting

www.nature.com

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Regina Lapate @lapate.bsky.social · Apr 9

This work is now out in Cognition & Emotion as part of a fantastic special issue edited by Daniela Palombo and Deborah Talmi (the diagram below, from their Editorial, nicely captures some of Jingyi’s key findings) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Regina Lapate @lapate.bsky.social · Apr 9

Here, Jingyi found that sequences of negative (vs. neutral) events compressed subjectively remembered time, whereas transitions from neutral-to-negative events dilated it—and the strength of this temporal dilation effect tracked with individual differences in mood and anxiety.

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Regina Lapate @lapate.bsky.social · Apr 9

A bit late to post this... but what’s a delay when the paper’s in a special issue on Emotional Time Travel? 🙂 🕰️
Excited to share this work—led by postdoc Jingyi Wang—on how emotional event boundaries shape temporal memory.

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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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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · Feb 8

If you live in AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC, your reps are on the Senate HELP Committee which has jurisdiction over NIH.
Write to them pointing out the jobs and money coming to your state from NIH: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
describe impact of NIH cuts on....

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research

Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · Feb 6

🔗 Contact your representatives using SfN’s Action Alert Center: bit.ly/413khdN

#NeuroSky

Available Actions

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Elizabeth Goldfarb @evgoldfarb.bsky.social · Jan 30

In light of recent emotionally salient events - wondering how these are remembered? I’m thrilled to share new work from the lab, led by lab manager Julia Pratt, capturing emotional memories *inside and outside the lab* and quantifying their accuracy & structure pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39870487/

Positive affect amplifies integration within episodic memories in the laboratory and the real world - PubMed

Emotional events hold a privileged place in our memories, differing in accuracy and structure from memories for neutral experiences. Although much work has focused on the pronounced differences in mem...

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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · Jan 7

Happy New Year🎉

Thrilled to start 2025 with $1M from @cziscience.bsky.social @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social to study the maternal brain using AI!

Grateful for the chance to advance science for mothers worldwide 🧠

@emilyjacobs.bsky.social @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social

Picture credits: Susana Carmona's Book Cover. Neuromaternal.

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Dec 11

What an honor to join the White House Conference on Women’s Health Research and celebrate the incredible gains made over the past year. I am ever optimistic that progress will continue to accelerate at break-neck speed & across sectors.

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Ian Ballard @iancballard.bsky.social · Dec 10

How do rewards influence how we select and pursue goals? Our study finds that rewards can create 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 in goal selection and execution—similar to habits—but without reducing cognitive flexibility. Check out our paper for more! @jocn.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Reward Reinforcement Creates Enduring Facilitation of Goal-directed Behavior

Abstract. Stimulus–response habits benefit behavior by automatizing the selection of rewarding actions. However, this automaticity can come at the cost of reduced flexibility to adapt behavior when ci...

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