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Carl Hodgetts

@cjhodgetts.bsky.social
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Cognitive neuroscientist at @RHULPsychology. Interested in how we represent and navigate the world around us. Hippocampus fanboy 🍤 #firstgen

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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We’re hiring a permanent Lecturer (R&T) in cog neuro and development / lifespan psychology at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social. Join a supportive, research-intensive dept - with a new MRI scanner on the way 🙂 Info below - and get in touch to learn more! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful #cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs
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How to get PhD funding in the UK
It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
In the context of the Sycamore Gap tree sentencing today, I've written a short opinion piece for @lbc.co.uk on the role of landmarks in shaping place identity and connectedness. Find it here: www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view... 🧠🌎 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
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Why the loss of the Sycamore Gap Tree saw an outpouring of emotion
The sentencing of the two men who felled the Sycamore Gap Tree has brought back the incredibly strong emotions of the loss of such a world-famous, iconic national piece of history.
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Re-posting for the weekday crowd - MR Physics job available at our site in West London. We do cool stuff. Clinical trials, psychedelics/other drugs, lots of different MRI modalities, scope to do your own projects, etc.
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We’re all set for #RHULPSYCHFEST25 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing
Device translates thought to speech in real time.
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Very pleased to share that our latest paper, "The limited place in cognitive space", is now out in Topics in Cognitive Science. Link below👇🏻 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Limited Place in Cognitive Space
The idea that objects can be represented within multi-dimensional ‘cognitive spaces’ remains popular within psychology and neuroscience, and yet the restrictive topology of such spaces is seldom cons...
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Nature @nature.com · 01/05/2025
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
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‘Natural Neuroscience,’ an excerpt
In his new book, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is a great (and accessible) summary of our latest @commspsychol.bsky.social paper, which examines the link between curiosity, spatial exploration, and memory within virtual environments. www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29... Paper link 👉🏻: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Virtual reality research explores curiosity and spatial memory
Virtual reality research reveals that curiosity is key in spatial memory and mental map formation.
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Volker Reisner @reisnerv.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Curious about spatial memory in 3D? Our new preprint explores how environmental boundaries and the way we move affect our memory for locations in volumetric space! Huge congrats to co-1st @theoschaefer.bsky.social w/ Leonard König, Misun Kim, Christian Doeller. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Locomotion-dependent use of geometric and body cues in humans mapping 3D space
The ability to represent locations across multiple dimensions of space is a core function of cognitive maps. While the influence of boundary-dependent environmental geometry on spatial representations...
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 17/03/2025
Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category, and eccentricity from birth, and develop in parallel within each cytoarchitectonic area from infancy to adulthood. www.nature.c...
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White matter connections of human ventral temporal cortex are organized by cytoarchitecture, eccentricity and category-selectivity from birth - Nature Human Behaviour
Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category and eccentricity from birth, and also develop in parallel within each cytoarchitectonic area from infancy to adulthood.
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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 17/03/2025
New work from us led by the brilliant @drjk.bsky.social from our grant with the @britishacademy.bsky.social ⭐ Social exclusion increases paranoia and reduces self and other learning flexibility in adolescents A brief explainer below... 📜 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What are we talking about, when we talk about 'representations'? My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience. We are seeking interested participants in the below survey: tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv
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Representation: Past, Present & Future
This questionnaire is for a final year neuroscience student who is doing her capstone as part of the Representation: Past, Present & Future Project at Trinity College Dublin.
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 11/03/2025
@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences - Nature Human Behaviour
How does sleep transform the way we remember our experiences? This study finds that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related...
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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Since we all should be currently boycotting Amazon, a reminder that Bezos owns Goodreads and there is a great, Black woman owned, alternative that you can easily migrate to. Highly recommend. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
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‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Job Details
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@drberry.bsky.social testing his new VR anxiety and exploration paradigm on an unsuspecting @kavishinia.bsky.social!
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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 08/01/2025
Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms @cjhodgetts.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social, @danlucen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans - Communications Psychology
Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Loved being part of this project w/ @danlucen.bsky.social & @mjgruber.bsky.social! Using a virtual exploration task, Danlu showed curiosity not only drives exploration but also leads to more precise spatial memories (i.e., curiosity shapes spatial knowledge). Link below! @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Very saddened to hear this. I didn't know Eleanor personally, but her work and perspectives profoundly shaped the memory field and my own path studying the hippocampus. Many who worked in her lab spoke highly of how she supported and empowered them as scientists. A huge loss.
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Matthias Gruber @mjgruber.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Please repost! Open PhD position on curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence with the amazing @yanafandakova.bsky.social at the University of Trier (Germany). The project is part of a cool international collaboration. :-) #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #neurojobs
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
So happy for @eleanoralderman.bsky.social, who won the the best poster prize at the AVA conference! She presented her planned analyses on linking visual exploration to scene memory! @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
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Royal Holloway Psychology @rhulpsychology.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
In today’s research tea event, @ashleysymons.bsky.social gave an inspiring talk on mistakes in research and led fruitful discussions on how we can create a culture that collectively mitigates the impact of mistakes in research
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Great to see that @rhulpsychology.bsky.social has arrived at BlueSky! Please follow for psychology and neuroscience research updates from Royal Holloway's amazing Department of Psychology! #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Happy to share an updated version of our paper, which explores how everyday variability in social and spatial experiences influences how we perceive events. In collab w/ @drberry.bsky.social, Mark Postans, and Angharad Williams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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Individual differences in experiential diversity shape event segmentation granularity
Parsing experience into meaningful events or units, known as event segmentation, may be critical for structuring episodic memory, planning, and navigating the spatial and social world. However, little...
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Such a vivid and lovely summary of knowledge on the human brain by Kerri Smith and Nik Spencer at Nature mag. I was particularly struck by this figure about the relative proportion of oligodendrocytes and other cells between mice and humans... Connections matter. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
I'm pleased to share that the Department of Psychology @ Royal Holloway will be supporting Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship applications: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... (internal deadline for one-page EOI = 22nd November!) Please reach out if you are interested (see link for eligibility)!
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Wonderful to see that the first paper from @kavishinia.bsky.social's PhD is now online! Here, Kavishini explores how the #hippocampus and #cerebellum are functionally connected across the adult lifespan. Check out her thread below to find out more! 👇🏻 #neuroskyence #neuroimaging
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
We're thrilled to announce the release of the Visual Experience Dataset — over 200 hours of synchronized eye movement, odometry, and egocentric video data. This dataset will be a game changer for perception and cognition research. arxiv.org/abs/2404.18934 1/
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The Visual Experience Dataset: Over 200 Recorded Hours of...
We introduce the Visual Experience Dataset (VEDB), a compilation of over 240 hours of egocentric video combined with gaze- and head-tracking data that offers an unprecedented view of the visual...
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
New from @annaschapiro.bsky.social's group, results suggesting that there is a continuum of plasticity in the medial temporal lobes: doi.org/10.7554/eLif... This would certainly make sense as a strategy for the brain to adopt, but I'd love to know what cellular mechanisms implement it. 🧠📈 🧪
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Semantic plasticity across timescales in the human brain
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
Nice study showing that the presence of a spatial boundary within a visual scene increases engagement of hippocampus and extended scene network: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
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The Visual Scene Network and Hippocampus Represent Spatial Boundary Structures for Temporal Episodic Memory Organization
Abstract. Crossing a spatial boundary such as a doorway plays an important role in the temporal organization of episodic memory. However, despite the wealth of evidence showing that visual boundary st...
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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 07/08/2024
Spot the fash. Well done Brighton!
Half a dozen racists surrounded many many hundreds of fine anti-racists
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
Effect of Loneliness on Older Adults' Autobiographical Memory Retrieval: osf.io/r8gy5
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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 22/02/2024
Only one week left (!) to apply for this opportunity to work with me @alexandrapike.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social and Catia Oliveira as a computational scientist on an exciting project funded by the @wellcometrust DM me or email for an informal discussion about the post :)
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Very happy to see that our new 7T MRI paper examining gradients of scene and face selectivity within hippocampal subfields is now online in Neuropsychologia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (in tribute to Andrew Mayes) Amazing work led by @drberry.bsky.social and Lucie Read.
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Scene-selectivity in CA1/subicular complex: Multivoxel pattern analysis at 7T
Prior univariate functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in humans suggest that the anteromedial subicular complex of the hippocampus is …
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Matthias Gruber @mjgruber.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Thank you to the great @cjhodgetts.bsky.social for inviting me for a talk and lots of inspiring discussions at Royal Holloway London!
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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
BRAIN prefrontal cortex: from monkey to man academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
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The prefrontal cortex: from monkey to man
Although there is a continuum between human cognition and that of apes, Richard Levy argues that it is the development of our prefrontal cortex that distinguish
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Ryan Morin 🇨🇦 @morinryan.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
I whipped up a basic Shiny app (using the PubMedWordCloud R package) to generate word cloud summaries of any researcher based on their abstracts in PubMed. Here's mine! The app is available here: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/pu...
A word cloud
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Some serious autumnal action went down after the @connectedmemorylab.bsky.social meeting today. Great to explore the woods around Royal Holloway! 🍁🍂
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
The @hipposubfields.bsky.social boundary working group meeting has officially kicked off at Johns Hopkins! #neuroskyence #neuroimaging #hippocampus
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Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
**POSTDOC KLAXON** We are have *FOUR* postdoc positions. Come and work with myself, @danakarca.bsky.social , Petra Vertes and a host of great scientists. We'll be working on computational models of network formation, learning how early environments shape development. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/
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Research Associate x 4 (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate x 4 (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge.
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Awesome talk today from @kavishinia.bsky.social, where she presented her new PhD work examining hippocampal-cerebellar connectivity across the lifespan @connectedmemorylab.bsky.social
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Halle Dimsdale-Zucker @halledz.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
🚨REMINDER!!!🚨 UCR Psychology has THREE open faculty searches: 1. CCN (app review starts Nov 10th so get 'em in while you can!) aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01788 2. Developmental: aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01840 3. Social/Personality: aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01810
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!
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Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
An academic position as a Research Fellow is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
New paper by Zou et al. using the Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) to show that activity reinstatement in entorhinal cortex & CA1 predicts how well people remember when stimuli were first encountered (over months!) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PsychPsySky #NeuroSkyence #Psychology
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Re-expression of CA1 and entorhinal activity patterns preserves temporal context memory at long time...
How hippocampal area CA1 and the entorhinal cortex preserve temporal memories over long timescales is not known. Here, the authors show using 7T fMRI, that temporal context memory for scene images is ...
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Hippocampal Subfields Group @hipposubfields.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Happy Monday HSGers! 🧠🫶 A reminder that our Marcus Wallenberg Symposium on "Activities of the Hippocampal Subfields Group - a progress update" takes place LIVE on zoom one week from today! Register to get your link and view the final program here: tinyurl.com/hsg-symposiu...
Program detailing the speakers for the Marcus Wallenberg Symposium on "Activities of the Hippocampal Subfields Group - a progress update"
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Fascinating lab meeting today (in hon. of Endel Tulving) where we discussed this fantastic paper from Rosie Cowell and colleagues: www.eneuro.org/content/6/4/... An important discussion on the need for greater formalisation when studying the neural basis of recollection #neuroskyence
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A Roadmap for Understanding Memory: Decomposing Cognitive Processes into Operations and Representati...
Thanks to patients Phineas Gage and Henry Molaison, we have long known that behavioral control depends on the frontal lobes, whereas declarative memory depends on the medial temporal lobes (MTL). For ...
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
New study generates probabilistic atlas of hippocampus' structural connectivity with the reward system (e.g., VTA, NAcc): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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In Vivo Structural Connectivity of the Reward System Along the Hippocampal Long-Axis
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
We're looking for an RA and PhD student! The project looks at retrosplenial directional processing using in vivo physiology in behaving rodents, in collaboration with Mick Craig & Michael Kohl RA details here jefferylab.com/recruitment and PhD details here tinyurl.com/2p8d2hxw
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Recruitment — Kate Jeffery lab
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