6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources.

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

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...

Exciting news for ICOM7 (International Conference on Memory), in Glasgow, 26th-30th July 2027. The conference website is live and we can announce our keynote speakers!

Working Memory Working Memory provides a comprehensive examination of the neural basis of working memory, defined as the cognitive ability to maintain information ov

Very excited to announce that my textbook on “Working Memory” is now available for pre-order!
shop.elsevier.com/books/workin...
A few thoughts

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.

This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab:

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex
@nature.com

"..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Using time-resolved EEG/MEG decoding?🧠 Here’s a new approach!
No feature engineering (decode from raw signals), but capturing info that standard decoding often misses (oscillatory/aperiodic activity, connectivity).
Lightweight, INTERPRETABLE, and easy to use. (1/6)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

MDRS MDRS is a professional society dedicated to the study of memory. Members engage in basic and clinical research into how memory works and why it fails.

The Memory Disorders Research Society (www.memorydisorders.org) is now seeking nominations for new members! Self-nominations are welcome. Application is open until April 15 @ 11:59pm PT.

Reach out if you have questions about the society or its (amazing) annual meeting! forms.gle/Qn7mchoPpaqL...

Preprint!
Representations in working memory wax and wane with relevance. How does this affect what we remember later?
We show that temporal expectations drive competition between items in working memory and that these neural dynamics predict long-term forgetting.

I feel the pain🥲

new preprint! 🐍
In a dynamic Snake game inspired task, we show participants flexibly replan their behaviors after distraction, but this ability is constrained by memory load and distraction strength.
EEG results coming soon👀

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz Nature Human Behaviour - Biba et al. show that episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz.

I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠

Rejection-based choices discourage people from opting out of voting - Nature Communications When people dislike their options for candidates, they tend to refrain from voting rather than voting for the candidate they like best. Here, the authors show that this tendency to opt out of lose-los...

Excited to share my first PhD paper with @ashenhav.bsky.social
@shenhavlab.bsky.social
“Rejection-based choices discourage people from opting out of voting.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

thank you Soroush!

Our paper is now out at JNeuro! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
How do we avoid attentional capture by salient stimuli?
We found that inversions of singleton distractor representations support attentional suppression of salient items.

Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.

@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
@flatironinstitute.org
@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social

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thank you soroush!

thank you Mariam! Excited to meet you soon and chat more!

Thank you Rochelle!

thank you Harrison!

Thank you Tzu-Yao!

Thank you Vivien!

I’m now a proud alum of Lewis-Peacock lab🦚. I’ll be joining the @shenhavlab.bsky.social at UCB in January to study adaptive behaviors and dynamic cognitive control. So grateful for the great journey and excited for what’s next!

OpenWMData A collection of publicly available working memory datasets

Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!

Yes! the eeg follow-up😊 here it is. drive.google.com/file/d/1MQwf...

Check out my SfN poster if you are interested in how retrospective and prospective representations in working memory work together to create plans and replans when being distracted! I will present it at the early career poster session at 6:45 pm on Saturday or from 1-5 on Tuesday.

Hippocampal transformations occur along dimensions of memory interference The role of the hippocampus in resolving memory interference has been greatly elucidated by considering the relationship between the similarity of visual stimuli (input) and corresponding similarity o...

🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference?

In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

congrats! Super cool!

Thank you Nick! Looking forward to catching up soon!

thank you Kirsten! Looking to your thoughts!