the process was super fast and transparent - highly recommend! (and excited to address the reviewer comments soon)

Now in eLife as a reviewed preprint too elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

*** New paper from the lab in Nature Comms !! *** “Noradrenaline causes a spread of association in the hippocampal cognitive map” by the amazing @reneecabbage.bsky.social in collab. w labs of Jill O’Reilly, Will Clarke, and modeling from Prakriti Parthasarathy and @tpvogels.bsky.social, see below!

Takeaway: thinking about training curriculum is important to ensure participants actually form the cognitive maps you think they are forming! Thank you to my wonderful supervisors and co-authors @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @helencbarron.bsky.social and Zilu Liang (sadly bsky-less). [6/6]

We believe that this may be because our grouped curriculum resulted in mental fragmentation of the learned associations into different smaller maps. [Spoiler: a neuroimaging follow up is in the works]. [5/6]

Across different map shapes and groups of participants, we found that spatially disjoint training results in significantly better (or more integrated) cognitive map learning!
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Each participant learned two maps: one by taking pseudo-random walks along single rows or columns of the map at a time (grouped training) and one by learning spatially disjoint transitions within a block of training trials (disjoint training). [3/6]

How does curriculum learning influence the way cognitive maps are formed? We manipulated the order in which participants learned the one-step transitions making up maps of images and then probed how that impacted their subsequent ability to perform multi-step inference on those maps. [2/6]

Interested in cognitive maps? Wondering how you should best train your participants? Luckily for you, we have investigated just that! Very excited to share a preprint from my PhD in which we show how initial training curriculum affects the cognitive maps we form

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
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Happy to chat to interested applicants.

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Feel like doing some really exciting mouse work with a fantastic PI in Oxford? Come join our lab!!

🧠✨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)

Chris has a course on the lab website (under Teaching) that touches on a lot of the topics - maybe the readings he suggests could be helpful?