Maya Geva-Sagiv
@mayags.bsky.social
Memories are what make us human | Mom +3 | Project Scientist in Ranganath lab, UC Davis | #WomenInStem
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There are salient updates to attend to BUT if you’re wondering how they organize your memory, here’s a review/simulation offering diff. roles of prediction errors in building & breaking our models of the world w/ @davidclewett.bsky.social @jameswardantony.bsky.social inspired by Sarah DuBrow (1/7)
Building and Breaking the Chain: A Model of Reward Prediction Error Integration and Segmentation of Memory
Abstract. Prediction errors drive reinforcement learning and organize episodic memory into distinct contexts, but do these effects interact? Here, we review the roles of midbrain dopamine, the locus c...
direct.mit.edu
April 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
There are salient updates to attend to BUT if you’re wondering how they organize your memory, here’s a review/simulation offering diff. roles of prediction errors in building & breaking our models of the world w/ @davidclewett.bsky.social @jameswardantony.bsky.social inspired by Sarah DuBrow (1/7)
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New lab paper led by @justfineneuro.bsky.social
"Complementary roles for hippocampus and anterior cingulate in composing continuous choice”, now on bioRxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Complementary roles for hippocampus and anterior cingulate in composing continuous choice”, now on bioRxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Complementary roles for hippocampus and anterior cingulate in composing continuous choice
Naturalistic, goal directed behavior often requires continuous actions directed at dynamically changing goals. In this context, the closest analogue to choice is a strategic reweighting of multiple go...
www.biorxiv.org
March 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
New lab paper led by @justfineneuro.bsky.social
"Complementary roles for hippocampus and anterior cingulate in composing continuous choice”, now on bioRxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Complementary roles for hippocampus and anterior cingulate in composing continuous choice”, now on bioRxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Our "I would have seen it if it were there" paper — a collaboration with @ranimo.bsky.social and @clarepress.bsky.social — is now out in Psych. Review.
There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways:
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways:
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
March 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Our "I would have seen it if it were there" paper — a collaboration with @ranimo.bsky.social and @clarepress.bsky.social — is now out in Psych. Review.
There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways:
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways:
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Exciting news: we’re hiring! Chair in (Cognitive) Neuroscience and up to 3 Assistant Prof posts. Contact @christakou.bsky.social or myself for Neuro inquiries. See tinyurl.com/uuunhsnm for Chair details, and tinyurl.com/mrxnszzw to apply for Assistant Prof. Join us!
Professor in Neuroscience:Whiteknights Reading UK
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March 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Exciting news: we’re hiring! Chair in (Cognitive) Neuroscience and up to 3 Assistant Prof posts. Contact @christakou.bsky.social or myself for Neuro inquiries. See tinyurl.com/uuunhsnm for Chair details, and tinyurl.com/mrxnszzw to apply for Assistant Prof. Join us!
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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.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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!
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I recently spoke at a Congressional briefing with a military veteran from our PTSD clinical trial on the life-changing impact of the NIH Brain Initiative. Watch here👇
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
https://braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/bl…
March 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I recently spoke at a Congressional briefing with a military veteran from our PTSD clinical trial on the life-changing impact of the NIH Brain Initiative. Watch here👇
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
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“A new chapter has begun for two of the world’s most popular preprint platforms, bioRxiv and medRxiv, with the launch of a non-profit organization that will manage them”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Preprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independence
The popular repositories, where life scientists post research before peer review, will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv.
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“A new chapter has begun for two of the world’s most popular preprint platforms, bioRxiv and medRxiv, with the launch of a non-profit organization that will manage them”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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@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
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
@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
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Terrific how-to on communicating the value of basic research to the public in @thetransmitter.bsky.social by @tonyzador.bsky.social.
You may be curious. But when you are communicating the value of what you do, it’s not about you. Point to discoveries.
www.thetransmitter.org/outreach/how...
You may be curious. But when you are communicating the value of what you do, it’s not about you. Point to discoveries.
www.thetransmitter.org/outreach/how...
How to communicate the value of curiosity-driven research
The burden of proof is on us, as researchers, to explain why what we do is valuable to society.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Terrific how-to on communicating the value of basic research to the public in @thetransmitter.bsky.social by @tonyzador.bsky.social.
You may be curious. But when you are communicating the value of what you do, it’s not about you. Point to discoveries.
www.thetransmitter.org/outreach/how...
You may be curious. But when you are communicating the value of what you do, it’s not about you. Point to discoveries.
www.thetransmitter.org/outreach/how...
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A study found that two-thirds of high school students couldn’t tell real news stories from ads on a website, and 96% failed to identify an organization's fossil fuel industry ties when assessing bias.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #MisinfoResearch
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #MisinfoResearch
Students’ Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait - Joel Breakstone, Mark Smith, Sam Wineburg, Amie Rapaport, Jill Carle, Marshall Garland, Anna Saavedra, 2021
Are today’s students able to discern quality information from sham online? In the largest investigation of its kind, we administered an assessment to 3,446 high...
journals.sagepub.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A study found that two-thirds of high school students couldn’t tell real news stories from ads on a website, and 96% failed to identify an organization's fossil fuel industry ties when assessing bias.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #MisinfoResearch
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #MisinfoResearch
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Excited to share our preprint "Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search" 🧠✨ We leverage iEEG to elucidate the fast neural mechanisms by which long multimodal narratives are unfurled in continuous memory-search tinyurl.com/wjkr3dvf
Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search
Prior behavioral work showed that event structure plays a key role in our ability to mentally search through memories of continuous naturalistic experience. We hypothesized that, neurally, this memory...
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February 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Excited to share our preprint "Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search" 🧠✨ We leverage iEEG to elucidate the fast neural mechanisms by which long multimodal narratives are unfurled in continuous memory-search tinyurl.com/wjkr3dvf
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🚨 new publication from our lab in @pnas.org !
"Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning"
Entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed
Colab wth Daniel McNamee at Champalimaud
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning"
Entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed
Colab wth Daniel McNamee at Champalimaud
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🚨 new publication from our lab in @pnas.org !
"Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning"
Entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed
Colab wth Daniel McNamee at Champalimaud
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning"
Entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed
Colab wth Daniel McNamee at Champalimaud
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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New paper out in @pnas.org with @laurendinicola.bsky.social, Noam Saadon-Grosman, Mark Eldaief and Randy Buckner!
We revisited the functional specialization of the human hippocampal long axis across two independent datasets, with some surprising results.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We revisited the functional specialization of the human hippocampal long axis across two independent datasets, with some surprising results.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
January 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
New paper out in @pnas.org with @laurendinicola.bsky.social, Noam Saadon-Grosman, Mark Eldaief and Randy Buckner!
We revisited the functional specialization of the human hippocampal long axis across two independent datasets, with some surprising results.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We revisited the functional specialization of the human hippocampal long axis across two independent datasets, with some surprising results.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Interested in cleaning your iEEG dataset from pathological activity? Take a look at Rotem's algorithm and shared annotated dataset (by expert Neurologists) that allows easy comparison with other approaches.
Let’s share some data! @LabNir 🧵
We’re thrilled to announce our new paper in @ScientificData featuring an open iEEG dataset from two medical centers and an ML model for detecting interictal epileptiform discharges during sleep 🧠⚡
👉 https://dir.lat/5Y6ID0
We’re thrilled to announce our new paper in @ScientificData featuring an open iEEG dataset from two medical centers and an ML model for detecting interictal epileptiform discharges during sleep 🧠⚡
👉 https://dir.lat/5Y6ID0
Annotated interictal discharges in intracranial EEG sleep...
Interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) such as spikes ...
dir.lat
January 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Interested in cleaning your iEEG dataset from pathological activity? Take a look at Rotem's algorithm and shared annotated dataset (by expert Neurologists) that allows easy comparison with other approaches.
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What happened when public universities in 🇨🇦 started publicizing faculty salaries?
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The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result.
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The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
December 4, 2024 at 8:30 PM
What happened when public universities in 🇨🇦 started publicizing faculty salaries?
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The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1! @halledz.bsky.social @ilanabennett.bsky.social @ucriverside.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 10:37 PM
The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1! @halledz.bsky.social @ilanabennett.bsky.social @ucriverside.bsky.social
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Super-psyched to share this preprint from my student Yicong (Alan) Zheng: "Recurrent Inhibitory Dynamics in the Entorhinal Cortex Support Pattern Separation" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... It's a new biologicaly-based computational model of the entorhinal-hippocampal system. Thread (1/?)
Recurrent Inhibitory Dynamics in the Entorhinal Cortex Support Pattern Separation
The entorhinal cortex (EC) provides the major input to the hippocampus (HPC). Numerous computational models on the EC propose that its grid cells serve as a spatial metric, supporting path integration...
www.biorxiv.org
November 18, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Super-psyched to share this preprint from my student Yicong (Alan) Zheng: "Recurrent Inhibitory Dynamics in the Entorhinal Cortex Support Pattern Separation" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... It's a new biologicaly-based computational model of the entorhinal-hippocampal system. Thread (1/?)
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Don´t plot means & confidence intervals alone; your data is more than that! With easy raincloud plots in JASP you get the full picture and can draw better conclusions.
#stats #PsychSciSky 🧪 #dataviz
#stats #PsychSciSky 🧪 #dataviz
OUT NOW: The Tutorial for Raincloud Plots in JASP
by @vlott.bsky.social
The 4 completely different datasets on the thumbnail share identical means & confidence intervals. Would you believe it?
Find out more right at the start of the video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAdX...
by @vlott.bsky.social
The 4 completely different datasets on the thumbnail share identical means & confidence intervals. Would you believe it?
Find out more right at the start of the video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAdX...
Better & Easier Data Viz with Raincloud Plots in JASP (In-Depth Guide)
YouTube video by JASP Statistics
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Don´t plot means & confidence intervals alone; your data is more than that! With easy raincloud plots in JASP you get the full picture and can draw better conclusions.
#stats #PsychSciSky 🧪 #dataviz
#stats #PsychSciSky 🧪 #dataviz
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My lab at UCRiverside is once again recruiting grad students - come join us if you're interested in studying memory using EEG and/or fMRI in younger and older adults!
You can check out more info on my grad app FAQ: bit.ly/dzmac
Lots of my other fab colleagues are also recruiting: bit.ly/ccngrad
You can check out more info on my grad app FAQ: bit.ly/dzmac
Lots of my other fab colleagues are also recruiting: bit.ly/ccngrad
bit.ly
October 1, 2024 at 10:09 PM
My lab at UCRiverside is once again recruiting grad students - come join us if you're interested in studying memory using EEG and/or fMRI in younger and older adults!
You can check out more info on my grad app FAQ: bit.ly/dzmac
Lots of my other fab colleagues are also recruiting: bit.ly/ccngrad
You can check out more info on my grad app FAQ: bit.ly/dzmac
Lots of my other fab colleagues are also recruiting: bit.ly/ccngrad
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Postdoc alert!
@mickcraig.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on thalamic place cells in beautiful Scotland! Details here: jefferylab.com/recruitment Closing date Oct 11. Drop me a line if you would like to discuss first
@mickcraig.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on thalamic place cells in beautiful Scotland! Details here: jefferylab.com/recruitment Closing date Oct 11. Drop me a line if you would like to discuss first
Recruitment — Kate Jeffery lab
jefferylab.com
September 18, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Postdoc alert!
@mickcraig.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on thalamic place cells in beautiful Scotland! Details here: jefferylab.com/recruitment Closing date Oct 11. Drop me a line if you would like to discuss first
@mickcraig.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on thalamic place cells in beautiful Scotland! Details here: jefferylab.com/recruitment Closing date Oct 11. Drop me a line if you would like to discuss first
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With colleagues at ALBA, I'm running an international climate survey for #LGBTQIA+ people in #neuroscience (including #psychology, #psychiatry, etc). It takes 10-20 min & you can enter a drawing for gift cards.
Please repost & share w/colleagues.
tinyurl.com/LGBTNeuro
#QueerSTEM
#LGBTQSTEM
Please repost & share w/colleagues.
tinyurl.com/LGBTNeuro
#QueerSTEM
#LGBTQSTEM
September 12, 2024 at 5:22 AM
With colleagues at ALBA, I'm running an international climate survey for #LGBTQIA+ people in #neuroscience (including #psychology, #psychiatry, etc). It takes 10-20 min & you can enter a drawing for gift cards.
Please repost & share w/colleagues.
tinyurl.com/LGBTNeuro
#QueerSTEM
#LGBTQSTEM
Please repost & share w/colleagues.
tinyurl.com/LGBTNeuro
#QueerSTEM
#LGBTQSTEM
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Doris Tsao, @nicolecrust.bsky.social, and Tony Zador discuss how cuts to the BRAIN Initiative jeopardize progress toward addressing urgent societal needs and stall the development of treatments for diseases and disorders. Read more: dcjournal.com/critical-bra...
Critical Brain Research Faces a Massive Funding Shortfall – DC Journal - InsideSources
Last year, a paralyzed patient unable to talk used her brain waves to speak sentences. This astonishing feat, straight out of science fiction, was made
dcjournal.com
July 15, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Doris Tsao, @nicolecrust.bsky.social, and Tony Zador discuss how cuts to the BRAIN Initiative jeopardize progress toward addressing urgent societal needs and stall the development of treatments for diseases and disorders. Read more: dcjournal.com/critical-bra...
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Super excited to share this one, out now in J Neuro! Memory reactivation during sleep does not act holistically on object memory. Led by the amazing @lizsiefert.bsky.social!!
Out now in J Neurosci! Using real-time TMR, we find that sleep reactivation transforms memory, improving certain memory features at the cost of others. W/ Sindhuja Uppuluri, Jianing Mu,@marlietandoc.bsky.social @jameswardantony.bsky.social @annaschapiro.bsky.social
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/2...
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/2...
Memory Reactivation during Sleep Does Not Act Holistically on Object Memory
Memory reactivation during sleep is thought to facilitate memory consolidation. Most sleep reactivation research has examined how reactivation of specific facts, objects, and associations benefits the...
www.jneurosci.org
June 13, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Super excited to share this one, out now in J Neuro! Memory reactivation during sleep does not act holistically on object memory. Led by the amazing @lizsiefert.bsky.social!!