Memorability of visual stimuli and the role of processing efficiency Nature Reviews Psychology - Certain items are better remembered than others across individuals, a property known as memorability. In this Review, Bainbridge and colleagues detail memorability...

Memorability of visual stimuli and the role of processing efficiency

Very cool review on image memorability (hint: priority coding is key) by Wilma Bainbridge, @dirkbwalther.bsky.social @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx

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✅ @larazonlr.bsky.social es fa ressò de la #recercaUAB publicada a Nature Human Behavior

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Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain - Nature Human Behaviour Using intracranial EEG recordings in epilepsy patients, Pacheco-Estefan et al. describe changes in the neural representations of cues and contexts during fear and extinction learning in the human brai...

Our new paper is out in @NatureHumBehav 🎉
During extinction learning, amygdala theta oscillations signal safety, not threat. Similar to episodic memories, extinction memories are stable and context-specific. Check it out 👇
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Convergent transformations of visual representation in brains and models A fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience is what shapes visual perception: the external world's structure or the brain's internal architecture. Although some perceptual variability can be trac...

🧠🚨 How does the brain represent what we see? Is visual input transformed to form these representations in similar ways across people and even AI models like DNNs?

We explore these questions using fMRI and large-scale representational alignment analyses.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2507.13941

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Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries Nature Communications - The neural processes involved in memory formation for realistic experiences remain poorly understood. Here, the authors found that ripple-like activity in the human...

🧠 Paper out!

We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that:

🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries
🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall

Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories!

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1/2 Just like social groups, human memory is organized in interconnected patterns. Activating one memory can trigger related ones, similar to how information spreads through a community. Could social sharing shape how memories are formed?

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Our results reveal the key role of recurrent computations and beta frequency oscillations during the prioritization process in the PFC

Maintenance and transformation of representational formats during working memory prioritization - Nature Communications How prioritization affects the format of visual working memory representations is currently not understood. Analyzing iEEG recordings in epilepsy patients, the authors demonstrate the critical role of...

How does the brain prioritizes working memory content? By analyzing iEEG recordings in epilepsy patients with RSA and various DNN models, we reveal the distinct signatures of WM maintenance and prioritization in the ventral visual stream and the PFC.

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