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...

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)

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...

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...

The title of the paper, "Beliefs about Perception Shape Perceptual Inference: An Ideal Observer Model of Detection", with the author names, and Fig. 1: a schematic of an inverse optics account of vision.

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:

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Professor in Neuroscience:Whiteknights Reading UK

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!

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!

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…

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.

“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...

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...

@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...

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.

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...

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...

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

"Memory from A to Z: Keywords, Concepts, and Beyond", by Yadin Dudai.

The memory orchestra: the role of astrocytes and oligodendrocytes in parallel to neurons For decades, the study of memory has been neuron-centric, yet neurons do not function in isolation. Today we know that neuronal activity is modulated …

A lot of work about their role in memory by the Goshen lab - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

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

Map of london with the planned routes of 43 taxi drivers overlaid in yellow lines.

🚨 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/...

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/...

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.

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 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

Thank you for this starter pack! Would love to be added!

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...

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/?)

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

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

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

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

MINT Study Are You An 15-30 Year Old? Help Science Learn About Self-control and Decision Making in The Growing Brain!

MINT has been going on for > 8 years so they probably have the dataset you need studypages.com/s/mint-study...

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

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...

Congrats Eitan !

Toward a neuroscience of natural behavior One of the most exciting new developments in systems neuroscience is the progress being made toward neurophysiological experiments that move beyond si…

Useful Review:

Toward a neuroscience of natural behavior

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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!!