Why do we remember so many details of our experiences even when it is unclear if we will actually ever need them?
In a new preprint, @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I asked whether this property is adaptive, because what will be relevant in the future often (usually?!) isn’t apparent.
The lab has three SfN presentations to check out this year!!
Sun 8:45am WCC 150 nanosymposium @lizsiefert.bsky.social
Tues 2:30pm WCC 144 nanosymposium Zhenglong Zhou
Wed 8am TT13 poster @brynnsherman.bsky.social
I am planning to be in DC myself Tues-Wed, so hope to see you there! #neuroskyence
The across exp comparison in this study with novel vs real-world objects is also neat. I often wonder how findings about novel objects/categories (our lab mostly studies this) are similar or different to how we represent real-world objects/things making up more long-term semantic knowledge
Can't believe this chapter of my life is coming to an end 😭💕 Anna has been the best mentor I could have ever asked for. Vibrant, intelligent, empathetic. I'm so lucky to have been part of her lab from the start and can't wait to keep watching the lab and its science flourish in the years to come 🌸
Honored to have this research featured on the Under the Cortex podcast! Opportunities like this are incredibly valuable to us trainees and I've definitely been learning a lot on how to communicate science to the public. Thank you so much to the APS for giving me the opportunity :)
Thank you Allie! :)
Wow this is extremely relevant and cool!! Thanks so much for sharing! We're also super interested in what kinds of shifts in neural representations might underlie the kinds of behavioral distortions we observed here. I’ll be reading this paper closely..
Marlie Tandoc
New preprint! We show that category structure rapidly warps memory for individual object features according to their roles in the category. Features shared across exemplars pull together while unique features stay apart. With @annaschapiro.bsky.social and Cody Dong. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
