Emily Cowan
@emilycowan.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Adelphi University | cognitive neuroscientist studying memory consolidation
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The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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The MAC lab is hiring a full-time lab manager to start in June! You will have the opportunity to conduct research projects relating to long-term memory and concept knowledge (methods include online and in-person behavioral experiments, fMRI, TMS). Apply by March 26 careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
MAC lab
How does our prior knowledge impact how we learn new information? How do memories change over time? We use cognitive neuroscience methods to understand how the brain stores, organizes, and transforms ...
www.memoryandconceptslab.org
March 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The MAC lab is hiring a full-time lab manager to start in June! You will have the opportunity to conduct research projects relating to long-term memory and concept knowledge (methods include online and in-person behavioral experiments, fMRI, TMS). Apply by March 26 careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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I want to highlight a special issue in honor of Sarah DuBrow, a brilliant scientist and dear friend who passed away in 2022.
We contributed a paper in which we disentangled the importance of temporal and causal relationships while participants recalled the non-linear narrative, Memento. 🧵 ⬇️ 1/9
We contributed a paper in which we disentangled the importance of temporal and causal relationships while participants recalled the non-linear narrative, Memento. 🧵 ⬇️ 1/9
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.
January 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I want to highlight a special issue in honor of Sarah DuBrow, a brilliant scientist and dear friend who passed away in 2022.
We contributed a paper in which we disentangled the importance of temporal and causal relationships while participants recalled the non-linear narrative, Memento. 🧵 ⬇️ 1/9
We contributed a paper in which we disentangled the importance of temporal and causal relationships while participants recalled the non-linear narrative, Memento. 🧵 ⬇️ 1/9
Reposted by Emily Cowan
New paper out! Memory for object features is warped according to their role in a category, w/ features shared across category-mates misremembered as more similar. We explored the phenomenon in our NN model of the hipp. w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social & @codydong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/opmi...
Object Feature Memory Is Distorted by Category Structure
Abstract. Memory systems constantly confront the challenge of capturing both the shared features that connect experiences together and the unique features that distinguish them. Across two experiments...
doi.org
December 9, 2024 at 3:08 PM
New paper out! Memory for object features is warped according to their role in a category, w/ features shared across category-mates misremembered as more similar. We explored the phenomenon in our NN model of the hipp. w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social & @codydong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/opmi...
Reposted by Emily Cowan
Reposted by Emily Cowan
So happy to see this published! Lila and I looked at how memory representations of sequences became integrated over time through their shared predictive cues. We had fun thinking about the different aspects of systems consolidation that may play a role in this transformation
Exciting new study from @alexatompary.bsky.social and Lila Davachi: consolidation-related restructuring and integration doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Integration of overlapping sequences emerges with consolidation through medial prefrontal cortex neural ensembles and hippocampal–cortical connectivity
Changes in cortical neural ensembles and heightened coupling between the hippocampus and cortex enable the eventual behavioral integration of memories with overlapping sequential information.
doi.org
November 19, 2024 at 6:03 PM
So happy to see this published! Lila and I looked at how memory representations of sequences became integrated over time through their shared predictive cues. We had fun thinking about the different aspects of systems consolidation that may play a role in this transformation
Thrilled to have had the opportunity to write about our recent PNAS paper for Scientific American! with @vpmurty.bsky.social @benrottman.bsky.social and Yiwen Zhang
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Best Strategy for Learning May Depend on What You’re Trying to Remember
Different approaches can support varied forms of memory
www.scientificamerican.com
June 24, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Thrilled to have had the opportunity to write about our recent PNAS paper for Scientific American! with @vpmurty.bsky.social @benrottman.bsky.social and Yiwen Zhang
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Excited our new paper is out now in PNAS with @vpmurty.bsky.social & @benrottman.bsky.social! We found that the benefits of the spacing effect on item and associative memory depend on the variability in the content and the timescale of the spacing intervals. Read more: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
March 13, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Excited our new paper is out now in PNAS with @vpmurty.bsky.social & @benrottman.bsky.social! We found that the benefits of the spacing effect on item and associative memory depend on the variability in the content and the timescale of the spacing intervals. Read more: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Excited to share a preprint on sleep + memory transformation with co-first author Stephanie Simpson & @brianlevine.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sleep selectively and durably enhances real-world sequence memory
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
January 15, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Excited to share a preprint on sleep + memory transformation with co-first author Stephanie Simpson & @brianlevine.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New preprint! We use real-time TMR to show that sleep reactivation transforms object memories, enhancing certain features at the expense of others. W/ Sindhuja Uppuluri, Jianing Mu, @marlietandoc.bsky.social @jameswardantony.bsky.social @annaschapiro.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.14.571683
doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.14.571683
Memory reactivation during sleep does not act holistically on object memory
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
doi.org
December 15, 2023 at 12:52 PM
New preprint! We use real-time TMR to show that sleep reactivation transforms object memories, enhancing certain features at the expense of others. W/ Sindhuja Uppuluri, Jianing Mu, @marlietandoc.bsky.social @jameswardantony.bsky.social @annaschapiro.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.14.571683
doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.14.571683
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New preprint! We show that category structure rapidly warps memory for individual object features according to their roles in the category. Features shared across exemplars pull together while unique features stay apart. With @annaschapiro.bsky.social and Cody Dong. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
December 11, 2023 at 1:48 PM
New preprint! We show that category structure rapidly warps memory for individual object features according to their roles in the category. Features shared across exemplars pull together while unique features stay apart. With @annaschapiro.bsky.social and Cody Dong. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Reposted by Emily Cowan
Our hot take on mechanisms of information seeking is published! It’s an awesome synthesis of multiple literatures by Xinxu Shen with @chelseahelion.bsky.social and @dvsmith.bsky.social. Empirical papers coming soon!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37944120/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37944120/
November 20, 2023 at 2:38 PM
Our hot take on mechanisms of information seeking is published! It’s an awesome synthesis of multiple literatures by Xinxu Shen with @chelseahelion.bsky.social and @dvsmith.bsky.social. Empirical papers coming soon!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37944120/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37944120/
Going to SfN? Come hear my talk during what is sure to be an excellent nanosymposium on "Learning and Memory" Sunday morning 8-11am! WCC 150, NANO19 #SfN2023
November 10, 2023 at 8:37 PM
Going to SfN? Come hear my talk during what is sure to be an excellent nanosymposium on "Learning and Memory" Sunday morning 8-11am! WCC 150, NANO19 #SfN2023