Congratulation Ayesha!
March 27, 2024
Congratulations to graduate student Ayesha Nadiadwala on the successful defense of her dissertation. Co-mentored by Dr. Alison Preston and Dr. Joey Dunsmoor, Dr. Ayesha Nadiadwala has spent her time at the University of Texas at Austin focused on the intersection between emotion and memory. Congratulations on this monumental achievement! ... Read more » Congratulation Ayesha!Congratulations Jianing!
September 25, 2023
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Jianing for passing the final part of her Qualifying Exam today! This is an amazing milestone! ... Read more » Congratulations Jianing!
How the brain connects related experiences
June 9, 2023
In our new paper at Cerebral Cortex, we find that the brain may connect related experiences by reactivating semantic knowledge in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and integrating knowledge about both experiences in the hippocampus. Follow this link to check out the paper! ... Read more » How the brain connects related experiencesCongratulations Neal!
May 11, 2023
Congratulations to post-doctoral fellow Neal Morton, who will be starting a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee this Fall! Neal’s lab will use neuroimaging and modeling to examine how the brain organizes memory to reflect knowledge about the world and aid reasoning. ... Read more » Congratulations Neal!
What bias’ how we make decisions in time?
May 3, 2023
Our new paper at Cerebral Cortex finds that representations of space in the hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) bias how we make decisions in time, demonstrating out ability to generalize knowledge across cognitive domains. Check out the paper here. ... Read more » What bias’ how we make decisions in time?Congratulations Christine!
April 25, 2023
Congratulations to post-doctoral fellow Christine Coughlin, who will be starting a faculty position at the University of Illinois – Chicago this fall! Christine’s lab will focus on how the developing brain supports the flexible use of memories to imagine the future, create, reason, and more! ... Read more » Congratulations Christine!Congratulations Owen!
April 20, 2023
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Owen Friend, who recently received an NSF fellowship to study temporal memory and cognition across development! ... Read more » Congratulations Owen!Congratulations Nicole!
September 8, 2022
Congratulations to post-doctoral fellow, Nicole Varga, who was just selected as a 2022 Cermak-Corkin Postdoctoral Award winner by the Memory Disorders Research Society (MDRS). A well deserved honor for an outstanding early career scientist. She’s a true force, and we’re lucky to have her in the lab. ... Read more » Congratulations Nicole!Congratulations Tony!
July 12, 2022
Congratulations to graduate student Tony Dutcher for successfully defending his dissertation on developmental changes in episodic memory today! ... Read more » Congratulations Tony!
Hippocampal structure is impacted by extreme environments
June 27, 2022
We are excited to share our newest Frontiers in Neuroscience paper showing CA subfield volumes – known to be sensitive to social stimuli – also track normative variation in family dynamics in kids and adults. Learn more by following this link. ... Read more » Hippocampal structure is impacted by extreme environmentsHidden structures underlying events in the brain
October 13, 2021
In our newest preprint, we find that the hippocampus and precuneus represent hidden structures underlying events; this may facilitate inductive inference based on event relationships! Learn more here. ... Read more » Hidden structures underlying events in the brain
Where knowledge of famous people and places are represented in the brain
February 9, 2021
In our new paper pin the Journal of Neuroscience, we use Wikipedia to search for representations of semantic knowledge in the brain. We dine that knowledge of famous people and places is represented in distinct cortical networks. Learn more by following this link. ... Read more » Where knowledge of famous people and places are represented in the brain