Alexa Morcom @alexamorcom.bsky.social
@alexa_morcom
Cognitive neuroscientist, senior lecturer in psychology @Sussex_Psych, interested in brains, boats and things (she/they). Views not my employer's.
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/467285 14-08-2015 16:41:35
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We find early cogn abilties fully explain low edu - dementia risk assoc. Low cogn double the risk, even accounting for edu. Replicated within families. Registry data, 77% population coverage. LCBC - UiO Vegard Skirbekk Ole Rogeberg Kristine B Walhovd BerntBratsberg medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Our attention waxes and wanes over time. How does this influence the way our memories are organized? Pupil size at encoding, an index of attention, predicts the temporal structure of subsequent memory Super proud of Manasi Jayakumar (she/her) for this work! 👀 osf.io/preprints/psya…
Insight into hippocampal dentate gyrus contributions to memory and perception, led by the incomparable Krista Mitchnick - this work emphasizes the value of single cases in understanding brain-behaviour relations.
