Congrats to our PhD student Owen Friend who recently received an NSF fellowship to study temporal memory and cognition across development!

Congratulations to @cacoughlin1 who will be starting a faculty position at the University of Illinois Chicago (#UIC) 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!

Congrats to 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. UWM Psychology

New paper with Jianing Mu & Preston Lab! We propose a simple model for human memory of narratives: we uniformly sample incoming information at a constant rate. This explains behavioral data much better than variable-rate sampling triggered by event segmentation or surprisal.

It was great fun working with Alexander Huth and Jianing Mu on these theoretical ideas. We are excited for everyone to check out the preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Big thanks to Thinkery for hosting us at their STEAM Sunday Halloween celebration! 🎃 We love connecting with families and future scientists while sharing what we do at the Preston Lab 🤘 #scicomm #austinscience