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Salma Elnagar

@salmaelnagar.bsky.social
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I like brains 🧠 | Neuroscience PhD candidate @ Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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Josefina Weinerova @josefinaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🥳 Applications now open for the Making Replications Count hackathon! Join us for a 3-day event in Münster, Germany to create tools that will increase visibility of replication studies!
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Check out the new preprint from the amazing @adamjcurtis.bsky.social! Memory Benefits for Schematically Incongruent Sequences Depend on the Type of Violation #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is space & time coding in entorhinal cortex interchangeable? Cells switching between space & time as needed by task? For some cells yes, and other no: Spatial and temporal representations are organized along a stable coding gradient in the medial entorhinal cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Helena Gellersen @helenagellersen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
How does the brain rapidly distinguish similar memories? We use 7T fMRI to show dynamic shifts between pattern separation and reinstatement signals in hippocampal CA3 and DG with changing task demands: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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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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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This is the May cover of NN but it has already been debunked on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Such a clear statement about the ridiculous pace of publishing (not just NN).
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab: Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex @nature.com "..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature
Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.
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Darya Frank @darya-frank.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
📣 First paper from the lab! 🎉🧠 Led by brilliant MRes students Aysha and Zhiyun, we found exploring a novel, unpredictable VR environment retroactively enhanced memory in humans: rdcu.be/fc496
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Probing Behavioural Tagging in Humans: Spatial Memory Reveals Novelty-driven Retroactive Enhancement
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Athena Akrami @athenaakrami.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New preprint! 🧠 How do RNNs learn abstract rules from sequences, independent of specific stimuli? By Vezha Boboeva, with Alberto Pezzotta & George Dimitriadis "From sequences to schemas: low-rank recurrent dynamics underlie abstract relational representations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Great work by Roni Tibon (not on BlueSky) - surprising that negligible difference in fMRI correlates of semantic vs episodic retrieval?
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Theo Schäfer @theoschaefer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Happy to share this early Christmas present 🎄: our paper about geometry- and locomotion-dependence of 3D memory got published in PNAS! Joint work with co-first-author Volker Reisner (@reisnerv.bsky.social) as well as Leonard König, Misun Kim & Christian Doeller www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/
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Nicholas Menghi @nichome.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🚨 New preprint! Impact of Task Similarity and Training Regimes on Cognitive Transfer and Interference 🧠 We compare humans and neural networks in a learning task, showing how training regime and task similarity interact to drive transfer or interference. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Impact of Task Similarity and Training Regimes on Cognitive Transfer and Interference
Learning depends not only on the content of what we learn, but also on how we learn and on how experiences are structured over time. To investigate how task similarity and training regime interact dur...
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Salma Elnagar @salmaelnagar.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
📣 Very excited for our symposium on “Building Knowledge Structures” tomorrow at 16:30 at @pug2025.bsky.social Together with amazing people: @barnaveliirina.bsky.social @lukaskunz.bsky.social @mirkothm.bsky.social and Andrea Greve
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Salma Elnagar @salmaelnagar.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Amazing study!
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