Department of Psychology researchers have developed a new tool called a “scene wheel” to help understand how we perceive and remember visual experiences like crimes or accidents. Learn more: uoft.me/scene-wheel

Cool work with the talented Gaeun Son and Michael Mack. Manuscript: doi.org/10.3758/s13428… Code and data: osf.io/h5wpk/

Our lab's first MRI study entirely conducted at University of Toronto is now published! Learning exceptions to category rules is related to white matter circuity of the hippocampus. In collab with Meg Schlichting, Melisa Gumus, and Teresa Zhu. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/Y…

Excellent work by Emily Heffernan, very excited to see it published!

Do different kinds of representations support the learning of generalized and specific knowledge? Check out my poster at #SfN2021 w/ Dr. Anna Schapiro where we use distortions in color memory to examine how such representations change with category learning youtube.com/watch?v=GUU7jg…

For a quick (and timely!) summary of this work, check out our Psychonomics talk today at 12PM EST as part of the session "(045-050) Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition" #psynom21

Come work with us at the Toronto Neuroimaging Facility at the #UofT! We are recruiting an MRI Physicist/Engineer. Please RT! #neurojobs #neurosciencejobs Job info here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-ON….

Parallel contours are important for scene perception. Scenes are more clearly represented in PPA if they have more parallel contours. The parallelism signal seems to originate in V4. Meticulous work by John Wilder, @MortezaRezanej1 et al. out in PLOS One. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Work w Rob Mok, "A multi-level account of hippocampal function from behaviour to neurons". How can high-level cognitive constructs like symbols, clusters, and so forth be implemented in neurons? That's a gap not addressed by model-based neuroscience. 1/8 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thanks to the contributions of an amazing group of field-leading authors, Mike Kahana and Anthony Wagner (Stanford Memory Lab) are excited to announce that the Oxford Handbook of Human Memory is nearing publication! Chapters can be found at: memory.psych.upenn.edu/Oxford_Handboo…

Excited for CogSci Society #CogSci2022! I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow (July 28 / 3-4:40PM / Room 104B) on work w/ Carleigh Pace-Tonna, Michael Mack & Morgan Barense. We explore how to leverage associations in memory during review to benefit later free recall. Would love to see you there!

We are looking for an MRI technologist at our downtown campus MRI scanner in Toronto. Please RT or pass to someone you know! :) jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-ON…

The Mack Lab is at #SfN22! Saturday PM poster: Mateja Perović & Emily Heffernan UU2 Sunday AM poster: Yongzhen (Dory) Xie WW37 Monday PM talk: Melisa Gumus, room SDCC 24 Titles below, visit macklab.utoronto.ca/news for PDF downloads!

Brief category learning distorts the perceptual space of complex scenes! Our new paper is now in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: link.springer.com/article/10.375…. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther is on Bluesky Michael Mack

🎉 My first first-author paper is now published in PBR! Michael Mack and l used novel computational modeling & behavioral approaches to show how selective pattern differentiation and integration can support learning and generalization of category exceptions! link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Looking forward to presenting my work on exception learning at #VSS2024! Come see my poster in the morning of May 18 to discuss how prefrontal, hippocampal, and visual areas can distinctively support the learning of complex visual categories with exceptional items!