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Weijia Cao

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Lab manager with @alexatompary.bsky.social‬ at Drexel. semantic & episodic memory / language MA psych at NYU. BA psych/stats at UW-Madison. Wu/Mandarin/English/French

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Weijia Cao @weijiacao.bsky.social · Nov 11

Happy to share our latest preprint, wrapping up an exciting project with Dr. Omri Raccah, Phoebe Chen, Dr. David Poeppel, and Dr. Alexa Tompary!

Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · Nov 11

What semantic relationships have you been using to test how prior knowledge influences new memories? Turns out it matters! Thematic associations are more likely to boost memory but also generate false memories (relative to taxonomic ones). osf.io/preprints/ps...

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MAC lab @maclab.bsky.social · Mar 28

Poster and data blitz alert! Come check out the latest from the MAC lab at #CNS2025
Sat 10:30am - Data Blitz @devayani.bsky.social
Sun 5pm - Posters C85 @devayani.bsky.social C118 @katelyncliver.bsky.social
#neuroscience #scicomm

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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Mar 13

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How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary

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MAC lab @maclab.bsky.social · Mar 10

The MAC lab is hiring a full-time lab manager to start in June! You will have the opportunity to conduct research projects relating to long-term memory and concept knowledge (methods include online and in-person behavioral experiments, fMRI, TMS). Apply by March 26 careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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How does our prior knowledge impact how we learn new information? How do memories change over time? We use cognitive neuroscience methods to understand how the brain stores, organizes, and transforms ...

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Xiangbin TENG @xiangbin-teng.bsky.social · Feb 20

Thrilled to share our new paper with @candrew123.bsky.social & @davidpoeppel.bsky.social 🧠🎵 Amazing work by Andrew, who led this study uncovering how the brain encodes pitch—first linearly, then transforming into a helix-like structure! 🔄🎶 Check it out: #MusicNeuroscience #AuditoryCognition

Andrew Chang @candrew123.bsky.social · Feb 19

Excited to kick off 2025 with new research in #MachineLearning, #Decoding, #MusicNeuroscience! Our paper, “Temporally Dissociable Neural Representations of Pitch Height and Chroma”, now in
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@davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @xiangbin-teng.bsky.social! 🧠🎵 1/n

Temporally Dissociable Neural Representations of Pitch Height and Chroma

The extraction and analysis of pitch underpin speech and music recognition, sound segregation, and other auditory tasks. Perceptually, pitch can be represented as a helix composed of two factors: heig...

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Chong Zhao @zhaochong.bsky.social · Jan 29

New paper out now in JEP:G.

"Individual differences in working memory and attentional control continue to predict memory performance despite extensive learning."

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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Jan 8

I'm very happy that this paper by Francecso Mantegna (now Oxford) and Joan Orpella (now Georgetown) is published. Congrats for some heroic data wrangling!
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Unusual experiment (mental imagery of speech planning+MEG) shows cool perspective on speech production

Time-resolved hemispheric lateralization of audiomotor functional connectivity during covert speech production

Covert speech involves the internal generation of articulatory movements and their sensory consequences. While overt speech involves a combination of …

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Weijia Cao @weijiacao.bsky.social · Nov 21

Presenting my work today and tomorrow at OPAM and psychonomic!! If you're interested in semantic relations and episodic memory, come find me at posters #59 & #3156!

MAC lab @maclab.bsky.social · Nov 21

Excited for the MAC lab's debut at OPAM & Psychonomic! Please come find us today and tomorrow ⬇️

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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · Nov 19

So happy to see this published! Lila and I looked at how memory representations of sequences became integrated over time through their shared predictive cues. We had fun thinking about the different aspects of systems consolidation that may play a role in this transformation

Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · Nov 19

Exciting new study from @alexatompary.bsky.social and Lila Davachi: consolidation-related restructuring and integration doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Integration of overlapping sequences emerges with consolidation through medial prefrontal cortex neural ensembles and hippocampal–cortical connectivity

Changes in cortical neural ensembles and heightened coupling between the hippocampus and cortex enable the eventual behavioral integration of memories with overlapping sequential information.

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Xinchi Yu @xinchiyu.bsky.social · Nov 16

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Started to blog (& am planning to do so intermittently as an amateur history/mythology lover)... "Why is it so hard to find dragons in modern Chinese mythologies? Insights from Manchu/Jurchen mythologies" :)

Why is it so hard to find dragons in modern Chinese mythologies? Insights from Manchu/Jurchen mythologies

All these years, there has been a mystery in my head: Dragon appears to be a key component of modern Chinese culture, but there is practical...

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Weijia Cao @weijiacao.bsky.social · Nov 11

Happy to share our latest preprint, wrapping up an exciting project with Dr. Omri Raccah, Phoebe Chen, Dr. David Poeppel, and Dr. Alexa Tompary!

Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · Nov 11

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Nov 7

The privileged role of thematic conceptual relations in episodic memory: http://osf.io/azuye/

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MAC lab @maclab.bsky.social · Oct 10

If you're interested in episodic & semantic memory, apply to come work with us! We'd love to have you be a part of our team!

Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · Oct 10

What better first post than an annoucment that my lab is recruiting a PhD student! The deadline for the PhD program in Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences at
Drexel University is 12/1 - join us in fabulous Philadelphia!

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