Nature Neuroscience The human brain reactivates context-specific past information at event boundaries of naturalistic experiences nature.com/articles/s4159…

The last piece from my PhD thesis is just out. Please take a look if you're interested in the schema (prior knowledge), the post-encoding memory consolidation, and the brain-behaviour correlations using Bayesian multilevel modelling. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Does prediction error affect episodic encoding? Our recently published paper shows that the effect of prediction error on episodic encoding is modulated by whether the prediction was right or wrong Yee Lee Shing now at yeeleeshing.bsky.social Rasmus Bruckner Javier Ortiz Tudela nature.com/articles/s4153…

When two people act similarly we call them “in-sync” — could this figure of speech be literally true? Do more similar individuals show greater neural synchrony? Check out our answer: bit.ly/3CQnVed Monica Rosenberg @AnnaCorriveau Hayoung Song YoungHye Judy Kwon Kwangsun (Ray) Yoo

Interested in memory and prediction? Want training for a career in science? Chris Baldassano and I are recruiting a jointly supervised research assistant to work on NIH-funded projects examining anticipatory signals in the brain! See ad for details: tinyurl.com/alyssano

Thrilled that this paper is now out in Nature Communications!

I'm so unbelievably excited to share our latest work, the heart and soul of my PhD! With Chris Baldassano & Mariam Aly We show that temporal structure is represented bidirectionally and hierarchically across the brain to guide multistep prediction 👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What makes some people better at trivia than others? in one of the most insane multi-year "research is mesearch" journeys ever, we (me + Lauren Wilkins + Mariam Aly ) ran a study to answer this very question! psyarxiv.com/fm82b/ check it out!! 1/ 🧵

Out in eLife - the journal! elifesciences.org/articles/85487 Brain activity travels between a small number of states in a low-d space based on what we are thinking and paying attention to. Cog+sys neuro perspective on how large-scale brain dynamics reflect ongoing thoughts in a variety of contexts.🧠

One of the lab's original Day 1 "dream" projects is now out as a preprint! Using a custom set of stories with fMRI, we showed that top-down attention can shift mPFC event boundaries to align with different kinds of narrative boundaries biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social by @Clare_Lally @c_mcgettigan et al Neural representations of naturalistic person identities while watching a feature film direct.mit.edu/imag/article/d…

How do we balance paying attention to the external world vs our internal thoughts? The basal forebrain & dorsal attention network dynamically interact with the hippocampus to balance external and internal attention. Super proud of Craig Poskanzer! 😊 jneurosci.org/content/early/…

High-level prediction errors in low-level visual cortex? In a study with Tim Kietzmann and @flodlan we asked what kind of surprise drives the upregulated sensory response often reported for surprising compared to expected inputs. Preprint: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Summary 🧵 below

I'm excited about TADA! because it makes it easy to create beautiful avatars using only text. Unlike methods based on neural shape, TADA! avatars are fully compatible with SMPL-X, meaning that they can be animated and integrated into existing game engines. Check out the thread.

In two studies, we show that 'Language regions' and 'the language network' are the result of indiscriminate averaging (🗣️➗🧠), leaving only input regions and #connectivity hubs coordinating variable whole #brain distributions of activity: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our lab FINN Lab Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences is recruiting a PhD student this upcoming cycle! Check out our website to learn more about us and what we do: thefinnlab.github.io If you like brains, behavior, and living in the woods, we could be a great fit! 🧠🌲 Spread the word!

Why do people process language differently from each other? In a new paper, Emily Finn and I show that the “concreteness” of word meanings plays a central role in shaping our unique experiences of natural language. Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thread below! 1/9

I'm delighted to see this joint work with Matt Siegelman, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, and Chris Baldassano, "Testing the limits of natural language models for predicting human language judgments", in its final form in Nature Machine Intelligence! Here's a full-text link: rdcu.be/dl91g

Our fearless inaugural lab manager Bella Fascendini is going to grad school (🥳🎉), so the CoLab is hiring a lab manager!! Please share with anyone who wants to deepen their experience in cog sci before grad school. Review starts on 3/15! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18575/res…

New preprint by @sunjae_shim w/ @LilaDavachi which began as Sunjae's undergrad thesis in the lab! Event boundaries in memory don't require prediction error, but instead depend on the dynamics of working memory during encoding: osf.io/preprints/psya…