Surprise events across multiple timescales are linked to better memory, according to this study focusing on basketball fans. Memories of surprising plays, games and seasons were more vivid and accessible than those of expected outcomes. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Congratulations to RUAN and Mengge, who both became Ph.D.s this month! Thanks so much to Urs Maurer and @tmhr_inoue for shepherding them through this past year. Most of their studies were in HK during COVID, not easy. Kudos! So proud of both of you!

Introducing BrainGPT.org, a large language model (LLM) to assist neuroscience research. BrainGPT is trained on the vast neuroscience literature and can be used to optimize study design, detect anomalous results, and evaluate models against broad data patterns. (1/3)

Happy #WorldEmojiDay! :-) The entire trend started here at CMU, when research professor Scott Fahlman created the first emoticon in 1982.

【最新消息】据香港媒体报道，香港高等法院作出裁决，拒绝批发政府申请禁播《愿荣光归香港》的临时禁制令。 此前，香港政府律政司在6月5日向高等法院申请，对这首曾被示威者广泛使用的歌曲发布禁制令，要求公众不得以煽动意图在网上传播《愿荣光归香港》，包括旋律和歌词。

CAI LAB PREPRINT🧠! In a team effort led by Joe Zaki, we found that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older memories from days past! 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just published! 🥁 Hippocampal neurons reinstate specific episodic memories in humans. These Episode Specific Neurons are independent of Concept Neurons or Time Cells and code the conjunction of elements that make up the event. Check it out here: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Excited to be part of the cohort!

I'm absolutely delighted to share that I'll be joining Georgetown University University Medical Center as an Asst Prof in Spring 2024 to lead the Vision, Imaging, & Plasticity (VIP) Lab. I'm recruiting founding VIP members (grad students, a postdoc, & RAs). Please RT & help spread the

Excited to see this book in a Hong Kong book store!! Charan Ranganath

New article in the The Guardian --on memory, mental time travel, imagination, and what it means to have a "good" memory. theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Excited to share our recent paper with Charan Ranganath and Randy O’Reilly, in which we present a computational model that can explain the intricate effects of sleep on retrieval induced forgetting/facilitation! link.springer.com/10.3758/s13423…

Very pleased to share two latest offerings from the lab. #1: Parallel maturation of hippocampal memory and CA1 task representations biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #2: Episodic memory development: Bridging animal and human research cell.com/neuron/fulltex… See 🧵for details

A student told me, "I don't get the difference between model fitting by: 1. minimum Mean Square Error (MSE) and 2. Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE)" To help this student, I built out this #Python Matplotlib dashboard for fitting a Gaussian parametric distribution to data

If you’re at SFN come visit our poster and say hi and see a tour de force study of post learning reactivation and memory Sebastian Michelmann Zach Reagh Xiaonan Liu 💙💛😷 Angelique Delarazan

Looking forward!

Check out the two talks my lab is giving on Friday at Psychonomic’s!

The Memory Disorders Research Society (MDRS) has extended its deadline to April 9th for new member nominations. Self-nominations are welcome! The society is broadly focused on memory research; not just disorders. See link below for application form & details about eligibility.

Using computational modeling and EEG the study suggests several metacognitive states correlate with rational adjustments in behaviour; this might benefit steering behaviour towards optimality. nature.com/articles/s4427…