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Glad to share Xinchi Yu's new work! It blends NLP modeling with beh data to show how semantic knowledge compensates for perceptual constraints to support visual working memory formation - a key finding on the interplay between long-term (semantic) memory and momentary cognition!

Exciting findings bridging semantic representations with spikes in the human brain!

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#CogNeuro seeks unified theories of behavioral, physiological, and mental states. To this aim, our Nature Neuroscience Perspective proposes a new framework centered on #TaskDemands & across-task generalization. nature.com/articles/s4159… w/Alexandra C Schmid Simon Kaplan Chris Baker D.Kravitz🧵

Congrats to Max Lichtenfeld, a postbac from NIH/NINDS, for an outstanding #sfn2024 talk on how prior associative semantic knowledge contributes to visual change detection in the medial temporal lobe — a key issue to address for understanding human natural visual cognition.

Excited to share an awesome study by former postbac Audrey Phan, now The Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program, with her first first-authored paper! Audrey skillfully blends various analytical approaches to reveal the role of brain connectivity dynamics in human cognition. #NeuralCoding #HumanCognition

Nature research paper: Neuronal sequences in population bursts encode information in human cortex go.nature.com/48c4YRP

We love simpler models, but when they fail to capture individual differences, we have to ask: does simplicity = adequacy? For memory representation, a mixture model often does better at accounting for individual differences. 🧠🔍 link.springer.com/article/10.375…

New evidence into how the medial temporal lobe contributes to visual short-term memory precision. Our latest study shows tDCS over bilateral temporal lobes modulates hippocampal-occipital connectivity, affecting visual memory quality. #hippocampus doi.org/10.1002/hipo.2…

Yay! See you at this year's VSS Meeting! Excited to bring together my undergrad advisors (Yan Bao, Ernst Pöppel) and Zane Icon-lab in one project. With a fun set of abstract paintings by contemporary artist LaoZhu, we found that lower activation in DNNs predict higher beauty.

🎉 Our work with NIH collaborators on how human brain neurons efficiently recognizes images is featured in BSOS @ UMD ! Grateful for an amazing team and all the support that made this possible. Check it out! 🧠🔬✨ bsos.umd.edu/featured-conte…

Kicking off the week with more great BSOS @ UMD news: PSYCTerps' Weizhen "Zane" Xie was named a 2025 Searle Scholar, awarding him $300K to build on his existing research on human memory & cognition with a new project concerning semantics. Congrats, Zane! go.umd.edu/xiesearle25

What happens to visual memory when part of a visually selective brain region is removed? Patient VH, who lost part of his parahippocampal place area and struggled to consolidate scene memories overnight, offers some insights. Read more in Learning & Memory:shorturl.at/JYMu7

The consistency of memory behavior across people (e.g., recognition, recall) is shaped by many factors — it's great to see further research helping to articulate and disentangle these effects!