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A great set of tutorials on recent approaches for studying naturalistic stimuli and individual differences in neuroimaging is now online, as part of an NIMH Workshop organized by the Center for Multimodal Neuroimaging videocast.nih.gov/watch=42538

Three lab posters from CEMS last week! Jiawen Huang: Changes in memory reconstruction after learning a board game @MattSiegelman: Modeling naturalistic schema learning with computer-generated poetry Alexandra Soares: Manipulating narrative event structure via script priming

Jamal's just-published paper shows for the first time that the brain divides up instrumental music into discrete events, similar to what happens with narrative stories! This required lots of careful technical work by Jamal and help from a great team of collaborators

Not enough superlatives out there to describe my excitement that I’ll be starting my own lab UC Riverside Psych in 2023! I use EEG, fMRI, & behavior to study context + memory in younger and older adults. I’m hiring a lab mgr, grad students, & postdoc. Lmk if you’re interested!

Super excited to announce that our paper on how schema representations benefit memory performance during encoding and retrieval is now out on eLIFE!! Check out the link to find an updated paper! doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Visit our two posters at #CNS2022 !! Hannah Tarder-Stoll, "Top-down modulation of multi-step anticipation in changing environments" (A74, Saturday 3:30-5:30) Jiawen Huang, "Developing Schemas, Developing Predictions, and Their Influence on Episodic Memory" (C107, Sunday 5-7)

Today at #SANS2022 I'll be presenting this work (plus some ongoing follow-ups), the culmination of 6+ years of scanning and analysis led first by postdoc me and then Rolando Masís-Obando, with Norman Lab elifesciences.org/articles/70445

ICYMI: Our lab's two posters at #CNS2022 last month: Neural representations for flexible multi-step predictions, by Hannah Tarder-Stoll w/ Mariam Aly The impact of schematic game-playing knowledge on sequential memory, by Jiawen Huang w/ Isabel Velarde, Wei Ji Ma

This week founding DPML member Samantha Cohen is leaving the lab for her exciting new postdoc position (we will miss you!), and her blockbuster paper on developmental changes in brain responses to movies is up at eLife! elifesciences.org/articles/69430

Excited to share my first first-author preprint, “schema-based predictive eye-movement support sequential memory encoding” w/ the amazing Isabel Velarde, Wei Ji Ma, and Chris Baldassano. psyarxiv.com/gej7q

Excited to announce the final version of this paper on how movie perception changes over development is now published in eLife - the journal ! doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… Chris Baldassano Columbia DPM Lab DAN LAB

New preprint w/ Kevin Ochsner: Matt Sachs Matt worked with film score composers to create emotional music, and found brain regions that: -track emotional dynamics -represent emotional information -are sensitive to the recent emotional context! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interested in memory and prediction? Want training for a career in science? Chris Baldassano and I are recruiting a jointly supervised research assistant to work on NIH-funded projects examining anticipatory signals in the brain! See ad for details: tinyurl.com/alyssano

Mariam Aly Mariam Aly and I are looking for a full-time RA to work on a newly-funded joint NIH grant! If you have (or will soon have) a Bachelor's in psych, neuro, or a related field and are interested in cog neuro research on memory / prediction, see: tinyurl.com/alyssano

The final version of this work is now published at eLife! The Editor's evaluation gives a great summary of why we are so excited about this new kind of paradigm for studying sequential memory elifesciences.org/articles/82599

I'm so excited to share this work with Mariam Aly and Chris Baldassano! We explore how memory for temporal structure changes with consolidation to support multistep anticipation. Make sure to read to the end for some fun RT modeling! ✨️ psyarxiv.com/x2f7s

When we anticipate the future, several brain areas show graded representations of the future and the past. These representations reach further in hippocampus and more anterior regions. Proud of this work by Hannah Tarder-Stoll, a collab w/ Chris Baldassano! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hannah's biggest paper from her PhD is preprinted! She created a new paradigm for learning complex sequences of locations (using VR), and then showed that cuing a location activated brain representations of nearby locations, with different temporal scales in different regions!

One of the lab's original Day 1 "dream" projects is now out as a preprint! Using a custom set of stories with fMRI, we showed that top-down attention can shift mPFC event boundaries to align with different kinds of narrative boundaries biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint by @sunjae_shim w/ @LilaDavachi which began as Sunjae's undergrad thesis in the lab! Event boundaries in memory don't require prediction error, but instead depend on the dynamics of working memory during encoding: osf.io/preprints/psya…