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Morgan Barense

@barense.bsky.social
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Cognitive Neuroscientist // Professor, University of Toronto // Senior Scientist, Rotman Research Institute // Director, Toronto Neuroimaging barense.psych.utoronto.ca

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Ryan Panela @ryanapanela.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Now published in Acta Psychologica, our research examines how background noise shapes event segmentation during continuous speech listening and its consequences for memory. doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... @alexbarnett.bsky.social | Yulia Lamekina | @barense.bsky.social | @bjherrmann.bsky.social
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Lauren Homann @laurenhomann.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New preprint w/ @barense.bsky.social! How does revisiting real-world memories reshape them, and their links to each other? Here, we examined how retrieval/restudy/no review shape more-naturalistic event memory strength (do we observe a testing effect?) and integration between related memories. 🧵
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Morgan Barense @barense.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Check out our @royalsociety.org Philosophical Transactions B theme issue, "The role of hippocampal prediction: bridging perception and memory." Thanks to all our fabulous authors, and my co-editors @peterkok.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social who dreamed it up and kept the train on the tracks.
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Emily E. Davis @emilyedavis.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
On Wed (S6A, HNE RM 035), I will present the first data from my postdoc with @barense.bsky.social: we localized language networks in two individuals with non-speaking autism. I’m fortunate to get to share findings made possible by our amazing non-speaking volunteers.
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Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I enjoyed the cheerful reunions & new connections made at #TAMeG2026 Congrats award winners @catalinayang.bsky.social @michellehirsch.bsky.social & Bailey Agard! Grateful to keynote @aliprestonphd.bsky.social & panelists Ike Ikafor, @efriskouw.bsky.social & @barense.bsky.social & the org committee
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Alison Preston @aliprestonphd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Really enjoyed giving yesterday's #TAMeG2026 keynote & joining @barense.bsky.social, @efriskouw.bsky.social & Ike Okafor on the mentorship panel. Things that have stuck with me: 🪟 Mentorship needs transparency 📣 It needs advocacy beyond advice 🔁 Mentors learn from mentees too
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Very excited to have this officially published: A neural state space for episodic memories A brief thread... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪 @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
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A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
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Ryan Panela @ryanapanela.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Excited to share the publication of our work which explores the application of LLMs in event segmentation and memory research. For researchers interested in applying these validated methods, an open-source module is available on GitHub (github.com/ryanapanela/EventRecall).
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GitHub - ryanapanela/EventRecall
Contribute to ryanapanela/EventRecall development by creating an account on GitHub.
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duncanlabuoft.bsky.social @duncanlabuoft.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Our graduate student @catalinayang.bsky.social shows that prediction errors only destabilize weakly reactivated memories. Strong memories? They are more impervious to surprise. Check out our #preprint with @barense.bsky.social to learn more osf.io/preprints/ps... #UofT #Psychology
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Catalina Yang @catalinayang.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Super excited to share my first preprint with Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense (@barense.bsky.social) -- "Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error driven updating of naturalistic event memory"! 🧠🎉https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/q9rkn_v1
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/09/2025
Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Deadline approaching for Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Travel Fellowship
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship @jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
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Annual Meeting - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster CNS 2026 Annual Meeting – March 7 – March 10, 2026 We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2026 Annual Meeting, March...
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Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
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US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
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Lauren Homann @laurenhomann.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Proud to share the first preprint of my PhD w/ @barense.bsky.social & Mursal Jahed: “Putting the testing effect to the test in the wild: Retrieval enhances real-world memories and promotes their semantic integration while preserving episodic integrity” See thread! 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost. cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪
Dog-sled going past the Le Château Montebello.Main public room in Le Château Montebello decorated for Christmas. The building is the world's largest "log cabin".Le Château Montebello is situated on the banks of the Ottawa river, separating Quebec and Ontario.Group photo the school of 2018 at the Winter school on the Neuroscience of Consciousness
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Iva Zovkic @ivazovkic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
If you are in Toronto on Tuesday next week, please consider coming to see a FREE public lecture on memory, delivered by the amazing @sjo09.bsky.social and @barense.bsky.social . Tix at this link can-acn.org/meeting-2025... Please repost and hope to see you there!
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CAN 2025 Public Lectures: Neuroscience of memory and tools for making our memories stronger – Canadian Association for Neuroscience
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/05/2025
"Autism doesn’t erase potential. It reshapes it. Sometimes it’s quiet. Sometimes it’s nonlinear. Always, it’s human."
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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter is a Tragedy
Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Gut wrenching essay about trainees by Daphna Shohamy (Director of Columbia's Zuckerman Neuroscience Institute). "let’s be clear: It isn’t institutions that are being punished. It’s the researchers who are the future of science in this country ..." 💔 www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u...
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What am I supposed to say to this generation of young scientists?
Undermining the future of American science is not a path to accountability — it’s a path to decline.
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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Looking for a Master’s or PhD trainee interested in a f/t lab manager role. Funding for this position is secured longterm. It is a great opportunity for someone interested in making sig contributions to #cogneuro #aging & #womensbrainhealth in 🇨🇦 Solid salary with full benefits! #neurojobs
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Cognitive Neuroscience Society @cogneuronews.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Want to learn more about smartphone-based studies on memory? Check out our #CNS2025 press release "How Dreams, Novelty, and Emotions Can Shape Memories: Lessons from Smartphone Studies," featuring the work of @evgoldfarb.bsky.social @barense.bsky.social @liladavachi.bsky.social:
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How Dreams, Novelty, and Emotions Can Shape Memories: Lessons from Smartphone Studies
At CNS 2025, researchers will share smartphone-based studies about how a range of actions can build stronger, more detailed memories.
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Morgan Barense @barense.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
If you're at #CNS2025 come check out our lab's Sunday line-up of posters from @catalinayang.bsky.social, @bryanhong.bsky.social, @nellymatorina.bsky.social, and @laurenhomann.bsky.social.
CNS 2025 presentations from the Barense lab
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University of Toronto Psychology @uoftpsychology.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"Small changes, like taking a different route during your daily walk, can have a significant impact on memory and mood," says @uoft.bsky.social Prof. @barense.bsky.social. 🧠 www.psych.utoronto.ca/news/one-new...
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One new experience a day boosts memory and mood: Study
Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that doing just one new thing each day can significantly improve mood, memory and overall well-being.
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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org
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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
In my ongoing quest to publish as many academic papers with Arnold Schwazenegger movies as part of the title, I give you…..Total Recall….out today and free to read www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Total recall: Detecting autobiographical memory retrieval in the absence of behaviour
Functional neuroimaging has fundamentally changed our understanding of disorders of consciousness (DoC). While many DoC patients exhibit minimal to no…
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Jeremy Manning @jeremyrmanning.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I very much enjoyed this fascinating real world memory paper-- congrats @barense.bsky.social and team! Makes me rethink my use of the term "naturalistic memory" when I'm actually referring to (fictional) movies and narratives 😂! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Unique events improve episodic richness, enhance mood, and alter the perception of time during isolation - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Unique events improve episodic richness, enhance mood, and alter the perception of time during isolation
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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
My understanding is that the end goal of this resource is to track more than research and to capture all we have lost as a result of the GOP’s dismantling of the federal government. They’re relying on information from communities impacted, so please share widely theresearchwelost.com
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The Research We Lost
Archiving the Science that Could Have Been
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Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
#TAMeG2025 is coming (our 10th anniversary!) May 27 feat keynote @charan-neuro.bsky.social and panel on SciCom & Disinformation, with Carrie Boyce of RCIScience, @schalllab.bsky.social & @barense.bsky.social (chair) Call for presentations is open for GTA and southern ON trainees 👉 tameg.ca!
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Ryan Panela @ryanapanela.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
New Preprint 🚨 This research with @bjherrmann.bsky.social, @alexbarnett.bsky.social, and @barense.bsky.social extends previous work exploring how LLMs can simulate human event segmentation, with applications for automated recall assessments. arxiv.org/abs/2502.13349
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Event Segmentation Applications in Large Language Model Enabled Automated Recall Assessments
Understanding how individuals perceive and recall information in their natural environments is critical to understanding potential failures in perception (e.g., sensory loss) and memory (e.g., dementi...
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com
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Science Homecoming
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
View from Canada: the IDC rate for research intensive unis is about 20%, and it's killing us. International student fees subsidize research, our deferred maintenance burden is out of control and buildings are substandard (some are dangerous), support for common equipment / cores is pratically nil.
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University of Toronto Psychology @uoftpsychology.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"I want my mouth to say what I am thinking, But it rarely does." - Isaiah Grewal The latest issue of U of T Magazine features Prof. @barense.bsky.social's work with non-speaking autistic people that aims to better understand their brains & experiences. 🔗 magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ide...
Isaiah Grewal communicating with Prof. Barense by typing on a laptop.
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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We are currently seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social journal, AP&P, whether it be you or a colleague you'd like to nominate! For details, see our announcement at www.psychonomic.org/page/2025app...
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Morgan Barense @barense.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
“I am in here!” It's a sentiment I've seen expressed time and time again from non-speaking autistic individuals who were thought to be unable to express their thoughts - but ultimately gained access to communication. Hearing this call, my research is expanding in some new directions.
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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This FREE talk by @barense.bsky.social sounds exciting: It "introduces HippoCamera, a smartphone-based intervention inspired by how the brain supports memory, designed to enhance real-world episodic recollection by replaying high-fidelity autobiographical cues." No need to be a member to attend.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
In the era of Trump 2.0, we're calling on all scientists+ to unpack science for the public. This is much bigger than anyone of us. But if we all do one thing, imagine the cumulative impact! It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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In your New Year’s resolutions for 2025, consider public outreach
If every person in the neuroscience community committed to doing one thing, imagine the cumulative difference it would make.
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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Just bumping this up for those who may have missed earlier announcements-- we have a new PI position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health program here at SickKids. Neural and glial mechanisms in cognition.
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Scientist/Senior Scientist – Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto – Canadian Association for Neuroscience
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Morgan Barense @barense.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A beautiful and moving piece about grief, time, and memory - the time machine that lets us sit with multiple pasts and multiple futures. Thank you for writing this @neuroai.bsky.social. I will be thinking about it for a long time.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Dear academics We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists. This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by… *checks notes* …every other industry on earth.
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Join us on January 22 for the upcoming One World Seminar “Enhancing Real-World Event Memory” presented by Morgan Barense from University of Toronto, Canada. Register for free today! buff.ly/4gk1TlH @barense.bsky.social
Image promoting the PS One World Seminar featuring Morgan Barense, scheduled for January 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM ET. Includes headshot of speaker and event details.
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Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Hey folks, save the date for #TAMeG2025, our 10th anniversary! 🎉🥂 Featuring @charan-neuro.bsky.social author of NYT Bestseller WHY WE REMEMBER. linktr.ee/whyweremember Stay tuned for call for panel announcement & call for papers tameg.ca @barense.bsky.social @marymcandrews.bsky.social
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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Has AI “killed” Marr’s ‘three’-levels framework? jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/k4lytubp @jocnforum.bsky.social from @bradpostle.bsky.social
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Has AI “killed” Marr’s ‘three’-levels framework?
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“While severe, network-level damage in Gage’s injury was not as great as what might have been observed for the ‘average lesion’”. That's Jack van Horn narrating his ~10-min video talk summarizing his simulations of the likely effects of Phineas Gage's 'horrible accident'. This is didactic gold! as .
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.” www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 28/11/2024
I wish people could realise how much morale is lost - and how much the willingness to go the extra mile disappears - when, thanks to bureaucratic rigidity, you get the sense that your efforts are not valued or recognised.
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I just set up @jcogneurosci.bsky.social ; at some point it will post papers as they publish, if folks want to friend that account. thx
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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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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I don’t see why people get worked up about academic publishing. It’s easy. You just publish in a journal that’s not-for-profit, open access, free to publish, and highly respected in and out of your field because it only publishes high quality papers. With fully transparent but double blind review… 🧵
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