🧠 CNS Trainees!
Join us Monday March 9 at #CNS2026 for our annual career panel:
“Survival to Sustainability: Building a Career That Lasts” featuring Drs. Morgan Barense, Caterina Gratton, Regina Lapate, and Ajay Satpute
🎮 Then, join us at the trainee social at GRETA Arcade Bar!
See you there!
Our lab will be presenting at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference this year #CNS2026!
Learn more from our graduate students in their sessions! @catalinayang.bsky.social and @matthewdougherty.bsky.social
MACK LAB IS PRESENTING AT CNS 2026! YONGZHEN (DORY) XIE, LINDA HE, & MICHAEL L. MACK Mnemonic effect of category exception learning as a function of prediction error type B71, SUNDAY, 8:00 - 10:00 AM LINDA HE & MICHAEL L. MACK Exploring the effects of self-generated and induced insight on incidental memory and pupil dilation B126, SUNDAY, 8:00 - 10:00 AM JESSIE SONG, FRIDA PRINTZLAU, SAGANA VIJAYARAJAH, DANA HUANG, STEPHANIE CARDILLO, MARGARET L. SCHLICHTING, & MICHAEL L. MACK Category learning in adults but not children benefits from delayed introduction of exceptions C51, SUNDAY, 5:00 - 7:00 PM SAGANA VIJAYARAJAH, MICHAEL L. MACK, & MARGARET L. SCHLICHTING Delaying exception introduction enhances children's hippocampal engagement during category learning C54, SUNDAY, 5:00 - 7:00 PM MADELINE BLOOMBERG & MICHAEL L. MACK Novelty-driven attentional shifts during concept learning D8, MONDAY, 8:00 - 10:00 AM
🧠 The MackLab (@drmack.bsky.social) will be presenting at #CNS2026! Stop by our posters to chat about learning, insight, and hippocampus!
new preprint! we generalize the retroactive memory enhancement from categories of objects (like animals, tools) to schemas of objects (things at the beach / camping), with a bit of a twist about whether you find all beaches threatening or just one specific beach 🤔 osf.io/preprints/ps...
Super excited to share my first preprint with Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense (@barense.bsky.social) -- "Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error driven updating of naturalistic event memory"! 🧠🎉https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/q9rkn_v1
Poster C151
#CNS2025 If you are curious about how hippocampal subfields distinctively support the learning of surprising exceptions to category knowledge, come check out my poster at Session C tomorrow between 5 and 7 pm!
CNS 2025 presentations from the Barense lab
If you're at #CNS2025 come check out our lab's Sunday line-up of posters from @catalinayang.bsky.social, @bryanhong.bsky.social, @nellymatorina.bsky.social, and @laurenhomann.bsky.social.
Curious about how individual differences in episodic memory traits relate to changes in memory performance over time? Come check out my poster on Sunday, 5-7pm, poster session C, board 66. #CNS2025