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How does divided attention disrupt memory retrieval? Most studies investigate the effects of divided attention on retrieval performance globally. In this preprint, we discuss how each retrieval stage might be uniquely affected. psyarxiv.com/839by 1/5

Our society's hyper-focus on productivity means that we generally consider losing focus a bad thing. In a new paper, we challenge this notion by asking whether losing focus can sometimes be good for learning, and where our mind goes when we lose it 🧵 rdcu.be/c1uHF

Great opportunities to conduct exciting science! Eren is both an amazing scientist and person :)

Excited to share a new paper just accepted at Psych Science 🎉 Preprint: psyarxiv.com/aqxws We look at one of my all time favorite cognitive biases: ✨💭 Functional Fixedness 💭✨ Have you heard the idiom “To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail”? A 🧵

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/ 🧵

Looking for research/clinical experience en route to grad/med school? Come study memory with us as a Research Associate in the CNL at UCLA Neurosurgery (PI: Itzhak Fried) uclahealthcareers.org/job/18899992/s… Cutting-edge work with ample opportunities for research projects. Please RT!!

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Very excited to see this out!!

Now with a link for free downloads until Oct 28: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hjk1Y3M3eEBo (and please DM me if you need a version after that)

It's that time of year again! The Wynn Lab is recruiting a motivated graduate student to work on eyetracking studies of memory, attention, and aging UniversityOfVictoria. Check out wynnlab.org to find out more about our research and how to apply.

The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment (LUMeN) Lab at Emory is seeking our first postdoc! ✨ Learn more about the position and apply here: faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/123119/job

Excited to share a review with Yael Niv @yaelniv.bsky.social! We offer that schemas are learned via RL and complementary mechanisms: dimensionality reduction, task decomposition, and latent cause inference, and that the mPFC is mediating dimensionality reduction in schemas/RL osf.io/preprints/psya…

🚨new paper🚨 with @LilaDavachi ! CA3 subregion of the hippocampus integrate events based on context, while in parallel, dentate gyrus subregion pattern separates only items close in time and in the same context jneurosci.org/content/44/10/…

Tarek Amer and I are recruiting a fully funded postdoc to work on studies of memory, visual attention, and aging UniversityOfVictoria. Please share and get in touch!

The Memory Disorders Research Society is currently seeking nominations for new members! Self-nominations are welcome, and the form is quick & easy to fill out. Please feel free to DM me if you have questions about the society or the membership process: memorydisorders.org/members/nomina…

New paper out! We show how children really are little sponges, learning to the same extent regardless of whether we tell them to focus or not! And the fact that Marlie Tandoc managed to see this through from her lab-manager days will forever impress me!! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Applications are open for the 2025 Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences Early Career Colloquium! This is a great opportunity to present your work and meet JHU faculty and trainees. Deadline 10/15/24.

Great opportunity! Get in touch if you have any questions!