Many claim memory biases toward percepts reflect corruption in sensory signals. We challenge this view by showing that ppl adapt their integration rationally w/ experience. w/ @timbrady.bsky.social
Humans adaptively integrate memory and perception based on stimulus history | osf.io/preprints/ps...
New paper out 🧠 We synthesize findings from aging, ADHD, dyslexia & OCD and propose that event segmentation emerges from the interaction of attention, working memory, and schemas/contextual modulation. Curious to hear your thoughts! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our new review with Berna Güler (@bernaguler.bsky.social) is out!
We ask a basic but under-specified question: What shapes the segmented nature of episodic memories?
Proud of my student @farvk.bsky.social for his first @spspnews.bsky.social experience and poster at #spsp2026. An excellent scholar and an amazing person to talk about and do science with!
@psuliberalarts.bsky.social
How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories?
We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate!
Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!
📍2003 marked the year in which the retro-cue paradigm was born. Fast forward, 23 years later, we adapt this logic to long-term memory and ask how does attention shape retrieval from long-term memory? 🤔
w/ @william-nm.bsky.social Kia Nobre, Nahid Zokaei and Nora Roüast
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Thank youu! This could not be possible without the help of our super supportive lab members, like you ✨🙂
Thank you very much Candice! 🌸
Honored to receive a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and to join Prof. Kia Nobre at Yale University. Excited to continue my work on the role of working memory in event segmentation. Grateful for this opportunity!
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Huge thanks to my collaborators @erengunseli.bsky.social @davidclewett.bsky.social @odedbein.bsky.social & Sumeyye Karahamza & Yağmur D. Şentürk
Our results support boundary-triggered reactivation as the primary mechanism, with only moderate evidence for continuous accumulation.
These findings suggest that WM mainly supports event organization by reinstating recent information at moments of event transition
Using WM load-sensitive EEG indices, we tested two possibilities:
1⃣ WM gradually accumulates information during events
2⃣ WM reactivates information at event boundaries
New preprint alert! 📢 Event segmentation allows us to parse continuous experience into meaningful events. Working memory (WM) is suggested to play a key role in this process, but how?
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Super excited to see this out in the world!
Happy to share that I’ll be an Editorial Fellow for Journal of Experimental Psychology: General in 2026, working with Sarah Brown-Schmidt on the journal’s editorial process.
Grateful for this opportunity! ✨
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In sum: It’s not surprising changes, but contextual stability, that determines how we segment continuous experience into discrete events.
Across three experiments, we manipulated contextual stability while keeping prediction errors constant. In a separate experiment, we manipulated prediction errors while holding the context stable. To assess event segmentation, we used temporal distance and temporal order tasks.
New paper alert🚀
Episodic memory is structured by event boundaries—moments of critical change. The common view suggests that prediction errors drive them—but is that true? We show that contextual stability, not prediction errors, is the key driver of segmentation.
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It is so moving to see my colleagues raising their voice and awareness. Proud moment ✨ @erinmorrow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...
Across 4 experiments, we both manipulated contextual stability and prediction error. Findings consistently showed that contextual stability, not prediction error, better accounts for how people segment continuous experience into memory units.
Our paper is accepted in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! 🎉
We challenge the idea that prediction errors drive event segmentation, showing that contextual stability plays a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories.
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Bilim Akademisi'ne tüm destekleri için içtenlikle teşekkür ederim! / I sincerely thank the Science Academy for supporting my attendance at the VSS by providing travel funding 😊 @bilimakademisi.bsky.social bilimakademisi.org/sen-de-bilim...
I’ll share findings from my recent research — which has been accepted for publication in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review — on how contextual stability, rather than prediction errors, might play a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories. Hoping to see you there! 😊
First time in #VSS2025 and it was a wonderful experience both academically and socially 🌸
New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it.
We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories.
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Our study examined how working memory (WM) supports event segmentation—whether it accumulates information during event comprehension or reactivates items at boundaries. We found evidence for both, suggesting that WM plays a functional role in both processes