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Alexa Tompary

@alexatompary.bsky.social
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Professor at Drexel University, interested in all things related to memory

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Now out in Learning and Memory! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42608289/ Fun collaboration with @alexatompary.bsky.social, led by then-undergrad Tiange (Summer) Lu, who just started grad school at Rice, working with @asinclair.bsky.social!
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No evidence for sleep-dependent memory generalization in a large online sample - PubMed
Memory generalization allows individuals to extract and apply information from prior experiences to novel situations, supporting flexible learning and efficient decision-making. Theoretical models suggest that sleep should facilitate generalization, yet the literature examining its role in promoting …
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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We're proud to introduce Brainbow, a new Slack workspace for LGBTQIA+ people in neuroscience worldwide. Brainbow aims to provide a safe space, even for those in the closet (emails & names are optional). It also includes channels for communities within the LGBTQIA+ umbrella (eg, trans/non-binary) 1/2
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Join Brainbow on Slack
Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It’s faster, better organized, and more secure than email.
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International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow @icom-memory.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology
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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Looking for kids (4-10) and adults (18-35) for an online memory study. Don't pass up this chance to tour some adorable magical cities!
Be part of the city tour!
We are looking for children (ages 4-10) and adults (ages 18-35) to take part in a fun virtual online memory study. The study helps scientists understand how children and adults learn and remember new information. 

In this study, you will join a live video session with a researcher and then:
-Watch short animations of magical cities on a computer
-Answer simple questions about what they saw during the tour to cellect coins and clues to rescue a lost animal!
Study information:
-Meet with a researcher virtually online to play memory games
-Three separate sessions, spaced 2-3 days apart
-Each session lasts about 45 minutes
-Compensated with $35 Amazon gift card after study completion
Please fill out the survey using this link to see if you are eligible. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/research-groups/raven/participation/city-tour
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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
In yet another preprint, Tiange (Summer) Lu collaborated with @alexatompary.bsky.social to examine whether sleep promotes generalization in a large online cohort (N=137). Not only did she not find a benefit of sleep, but some evidence also suggested that wakefulness promotes generalization. 3/12
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Ryan O’Donnell @dreospeedwagon.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Saturday evening at #psynom25, I’m presenting research I did with @alexatompary.bsky.social on whether items bound to a source context change memory for the visual details of the context itself. And there will be pretty good (& not so good) participant drawings! Come check them out at Poster 93
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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Still time to apply - the deadline is Oct 23!
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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Careers at Drexel - Human Resources
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/06/2025
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)
Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”
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Susan Benear @susanbenear.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Check out my interview in the CNS newsletter about my graduate research on free recall in children 😊
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Hey everybody! #CNS2025 bleepstorm incoming! 9 POSTERS! I work with an amazing group of scientists, celebrating them this weekend in Boston is makes me so excited and hopeful (and I usually abhor the use exclamation points!) (All posters available on the lab website): mnemology.org/conferences/...
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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Come visit us at CNS, we have two exciting projects to share and we're looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Come join us!!
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James Antony @jameswardantony.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I want to highlight a special issue in honor of Sarah DuBrow, a brilliant scientist and dear friend who passed away in 2022. We contributed a paper in which we disentangled the importance of temporal and causal relationships while participants recalled the non-linear narrative, Memento. 🧵 ⬇️ 1/9
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Oded Bein @odedbein.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Excited to share this perspective with @yaelniv.bsky.social about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
A computational account of how schemas are learned through experience is lacking. In this Perspective, Bein and Niv synthesize schema theory and reinforcement learning research to derive computational...
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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.
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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Come see our posters this afternoon and tomorrow evening! #psynom24
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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So happy to see this published! Lila and I looked at how memory representations of sequences became integrated over time through their shared predictive cues. We had fun thinking about the different aspects of systems consolidation that may play a role in this transformation
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Weijia Cao @weijiacao.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Happy to share our latest preprint, wrapping up an exciting project with Dr. Omri Raccah, Phoebe Chen, Dr. David Poeppel, and Dr. Alexa Tompary!
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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
So proud of @weijiacao.bsky.social for spearheading this cool set of experiments. Weijia is applying to PhD programs this cycle so snap her up while you still can!
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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
What semantic relationships have you been using to test how prior knowledge influences new memories? Turns out it matters! Thematic associations are more likely to boost memory but also generate false memories (relative to taxonomic ones). osf.io/preprints/ps...
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MAC lab @maclab.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
If you're interested in episodic & semantic memory, apply to come work with us! We'd love to have you be a part of our team!
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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
What better first post than an annoucment that my lab is recruiting a PhD student! The deadline for the PhD program in Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Drexel University is 12/1 - join us in fabulous Philadelphia!
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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
How are multiple interconnected memories reactivated during #sleep? We've published our opinions, but here I'd like to highlight recent findings from other groups. Tl;dr: multiple memories can be (almost) simultaneously reactivated & shared contexts drive this reactivation 1/8
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