Graham Flick
@grahamflick.bsky.social
NSERC Postdoc @ the Rotman Research Institute, Toronto
Studying language, memory, and neural oscillations
https://sites.google.com/view/grahamflick
Studying language, memory, and neural oscillations
https://sites.google.com/view/grahamflick
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Memory might depend on when you look, not just what you see
Happy to share a new preprint from my postdoctoral work with Jed Meltzer, @drjenryan.bsky.social, and @rosannaolsen.bsky.social
Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Happy to share a new preprint from my postdoctoral work with Jed Meltzer, @drjenryan.bsky.social, and @rosannaolsen.bsky.social
Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Phase-locking saccades to posterior alpha oscillations improves the neural representation of visual objects during memory formation
Visual memory formation begins with the intake and neural processing of discrete samples provided by gaze fixations and saccades. Past research has highlighted a functional relationship between the ti...
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Memory might depend on when you look, not just what you see
Happy to share a new preprint from my postdoctoral work with Jed Meltzer, @drjenryan.bsky.social, and @rosannaolsen.bsky.social
Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Happy to share a new preprint from my postdoctoral work with Jed Meltzer, @drjenryan.bsky.social, and @rosannaolsen.bsky.social
Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Memory might depend on when you look, not just what you see
Happy to share a new preprint from my postdoctoral work with Jed Meltzer, @drjenryan.bsky.social, and @rosannaolsen.bsky.social
Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Happy to share a new preprint from my postdoctoral work with Jed Meltzer, @drjenryan.bsky.social, and @rosannaolsen.bsky.social
Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Phase-locking saccades to posterior alpha oscillations improves the neural representation of visual objects during memory formation
Visual memory formation begins with the intake and neural processing of discrete samples provided by gaze fixations and saccades. Past research has highlighted a functional relationship between the ti...
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Memory might depend on when you look, not just what you see
Happy to share a new preprint from my postdoctoral work with Jed Meltzer, @drjenryan.bsky.social, and @rosannaolsen.bsky.social
Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Happy to share a new preprint from my postdoctoral work with Jed Meltzer, @drjenryan.bsky.social, and @rosannaolsen.bsky.social
Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Brain rhythms in cognition -- controversies and future directions
Brain rhythms seem central to understanding the neurophysiological basis of human cognition. Yet, despite significant advances, key questions remain unresolved. In this comprehensive position paper, w...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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Proud to share the first preprint of my PhD w/ @barense.bsky.social & Mursal Jahed:
“Putting the testing effect to the test in the wild: Retrieval enhances real-world memories and promotes their semantic integration while preserving episodic integrity”
See thread! 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
“Putting the testing effect to the test in the wild: Retrieval enhances real-world memories and promotes their semantic integration while preserving episodic integrity”
See thread! 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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June 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Proud to share the first preprint of my PhD w/ @barense.bsky.social & Mursal Jahed:
“Putting the testing effect to the test in the wild: Retrieval enhances real-world memories and promotes their semantic integration while preserving episodic integrity”
See thread! 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
“Putting the testing effect to the test in the wild: Retrieval enhances real-world memories and promotes their semantic integration while preserving episodic integrity”
See thread! 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Graham Flick
Major team effort on phase-locked stim of human hippocampal theta rhythms finally out in the wild! W/ @jkragel.bsky.social @alikwidge.bsky.social and a cast of many. Thanks to the BRAIN Initiative for making it possible.
rdcu.be/ej7VE
rdcu.be/ej7VE
Closed-loop control of theta oscillations enhances human hippocampal network connectivity
Nature Communications - Closed-loop brain stimulation of the human hippocampal theta rhythm produces lasting enhancement of network communication. This implicates theta rhythms in human hippocampal...
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May 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Major team effort on phase-locked stim of human hippocampal theta rhythms finally out in the wild! W/ @jkragel.bsky.social @alikwidge.bsky.social and a cast of many. Thanks to the BRAIN Initiative for making it possible.
rdcu.be/ej7VE
rdcu.be/ej7VE
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During natural reading with eye movements, the left posterior fusiform cortex reflects both fixated and upcoming words in parallel—and distinguishes whether an upcoming word is skipped or fixated. A new preprint from Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social!
Very happy to share a preprint from the final project of my PhD with @liinapy.bsky.social!
Reading ahead: localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reading ahead: localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reading ahead: Localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions
Visual reading proceeds fixation-by-fixation, with individual words recognized and integrated into evolving conceptual representations within only hundreds of milliseconds. This relies, in part, on in...
www.biorxiv.org
April 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
During natural reading with eye movements, the left posterior fusiform cortex reflects both fixated and upcoming words in parallel—and distinguishes whether an upcoming word is skipped or fixated. A new preprint from Graham Flick @grahamflick.bsky.social!
Very happy to share a preprint from the final project of my PhD with @liinapy.bsky.social!
Reading ahead: localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reading ahead: localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reading ahead: Localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions
Visual reading proceeds fixation-by-fixation, with individual words recognized and integrated into evolving conceptual representations within only hundreds of milliseconds. This relies, in part, on in...
www.biorxiv.org
April 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Very happy to share a preprint from the final project of my PhD with @liinapy.bsky.social!
Reading ahead: localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reading ahead: localized neural signatures of parafoveal word processing and skipping decisions
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Graham Flick
Attention PhD grads looking for research and teaching jobs! Barnard College in NYC is hiring "Faculty Fellows." It's a 2-year mentored position that requires 2 courses/year (or equivalent) and research in one of our labs. Due April 20th. More info: barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Faculty/job/...
Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, Neuroscience & Behavior
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, Neuroscience & Behavior Job Summary: With B...
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April 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Attention PhD grads looking for research and teaching jobs! Barnard College in NYC is hiring "Faculty Fellows." It's a 2-year mentored position that requires 2 courses/year (or equivalent) and research in one of our labs. Due April 20th. More info: barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Faculty/job/...
I'm at CNS presenting new work from my postdoc! Come check out our poster C32 from 5:00-7:00 tonight:
Consistent alignment of saccades and alpha oscillations supports the neural representation and memory encoding of visual objects
w. @rosannaolsen.bsky.social, Jen Ryan, & Jed Meltzer
Consistent alignment of saccades and alpha oscillations supports the neural representation and memory encoding of visual objects
w. @rosannaolsen.bsky.social, Jen Ryan, & Jed Meltzer
March 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I'm at CNS presenting new work from my postdoc! Come check out our poster C32 from 5:00-7:00 tonight:
Consistent alignment of saccades and alpha oscillations supports the neural representation and memory encoding of visual objects
w. @rosannaolsen.bsky.social, Jen Ryan, & Jed Meltzer
Consistent alignment of saccades and alpha oscillations supports the neural representation and memory encoding of visual objects
w. @rosannaolsen.bsky.social, Jen Ryan, & Jed Meltzer
Reposted by Graham Flick
I'm excited to share our new paper (with @alexanderhuth.bsky.social) on transferring language decoders across participants and modalities!
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February 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I'm excited to share our new paper (with @alexanderhuth.bsky.social) on transferring language decoders across participants and modalities!
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How is the memorability of an image influenced by how it makes us feel?
@hartwakeland.bsky.social created an image set (VAMOS) of over 900 scene images, along with their valence, arousal, and memorability ratings. They then showed that *moderately* negative images are more memorable!
(1/2)
@hartwakeland.bsky.social created an image set (VAMOS) of over 900 scene images, along with their valence, arousal, and memorability ratings. They then showed that *moderately* negative images are more memorable!
(1/2)
January 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
How is the memorability of an image influenced by how it makes us feel?
@hartwakeland.bsky.social created an image set (VAMOS) of over 900 scene images, along with their valence, arousal, and memorability ratings. They then showed that *moderately* negative images are more memorable!
(1/2)
@hartwakeland.bsky.social created an image set (VAMOS) of over 900 scene images, along with their valence, arousal, and memorability ratings. They then showed that *moderately* negative images are more memorable!
(1/2)
Nice study showing that memories for new speech + hand movement associations are linked to the specific words they were learned with, suggesting that "...word or gesture production might reactivate an entire co-speech gesture memory engram"
New paper out in Psych Bulletin & Review with @thelablab.bsky.social: "Memories of hand movements are tied to speech through learning". Featuring the hard work of two former Acadiau.ca undergrads—Gina Vaillancourt and Maura Whitman. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Memories of hand movements are tied to speech through learning - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Hand movements frequently occur with speech. The extent to which the memories that guide co-speech hand movements are tied to the speech they occur with is unclear. Here, we paired the acquisition of ...
link.springer.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Nice study showing that memories for new speech + hand movement associations are linked to the specific words they were learned with, suggesting that "...word or gesture production might reactivate an entire co-speech gesture memory engram"
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Please, spread!
🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
@c-brains.bsky.social
🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
@c-brains.bsky.social
DIM C-BRAINS
Cognition and Brain Revolutions: Artificial Intelligence, Neurogenomics, Society
dim-cbrains.fr
January 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Please, spread!
🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
@c-brains.bsky.social
🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇
dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
@c-brains.bsky.social
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Our review out in TiCS spearheaded by Mathilde Bonnefond on the latest ideas on the functional role of alpha oscillations and distractor inhibition - e.g. we highlight that alpha increases might reflect perceptual target load rather than distractor anticipation authors.elsevier.com/a/1kFXN_V1r-...
December 12, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Our review out in TiCS spearheaded by Mathilde Bonnefond on the latest ideas on the functional role of alpha oscillations and distractor inhibition - e.g. we highlight that alpha increases might reflect perceptual target load rather than distractor anticipation authors.elsevier.com/a/1kFXN_V1r-...
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@mrccbu.bsky.social are happy to announce Cognitive Neuroimaging Skills Training In Cambridge (#COGNESTIC) on 15-26 Sep 2025. We will provide training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and related methods. Look here for more information: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
December 3, 2024 at 11:20 AM
@mrccbu.bsky.social are happy to announce Cognitive Neuroimaging Skills Training In Cambridge (#COGNESTIC) on 15-26 Sep 2025. We will provide training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and related methods. Look here for more information: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
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I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)!
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
December 2, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)!
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
Opportunity to join a really great group!
We have an open position for a full time junior research scientist to work at the Ripollés and Fuentes labs at MARL in the context of an NIH project. The position starts in January/February 2025, is full time, and based in NYC.
November 27, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Opportunity to join a really great group!
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JOB ALERT: We are recruiting a research assistant in the Imagine Reality Lab to work on a project using MEG decoding to distinguish between different theories of consciousness 🧠 Get in touch if you have any questions about the role's scientific details. Please share!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 PM
JOB ALERT: We are recruiting a research assistant in the Imagine Reality Lab to work on a project using MEG decoding to distinguish between different theories of consciousness 🧠 Get in touch if you have any questions about the role's scientific details. Please share!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Had a lot of fun teaching this workshop on simultaneous MEG and eye-tracking yesterday!
Earlier today post doc @grahamflick.bsky.social showed off how he has mastered the collection, temporal coregistration, and analysis of MEG and eye-tracking data, no easy feat! 🧠〰️👀🔗 Very excited to address new questions about how eye movements relate to memory formation!
November 15, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Had a lot of fun teaching this workshop on simultaneous MEG and eye-tracking yesterday!
Not so "new" anymore but still here at the Rotman and the University of Toronto Data Sciences Institute, interested in all things memory, language, aging, and MEG/eye-tracking! 👋
Hi folks, I'm a new PhD from NYU and now a postdoc at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto 🇨🇦
My research examines memory, language, and aging using MEG & eye-tracking, MRI, and behavioral methods 🧠
My research examines memory, language, and aging using MEG & eye-tracking, MRI, and behavioral methods 🧠
November 14, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Not so "new" anymore but still here at the Rotman and the University of Toronto Data Sciences Institute, interested in all things memory, language, aging, and MEG/eye-tracking! 👋
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Looking to follow more graduate students in psychology? Look no further. Comment to be added! go.bsky.app/SJfTsPJ
November 14, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Looking to follow more graduate students in psychology? Look no further. Comment to be added! go.bsky.app/SJfTsPJ
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New preprint alert! Project led by the amazing @akulsatish.bsky.social!
Theta and alpha oscillations in human hippocampus and medial parietal cortex support the formation of location-based representations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Cognition
Theta and alpha oscillations in human hippocampus and medial parietal cortex support the formation of location-based representations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Cognition
Theta and alpha oscillations in human hippocampus and medial parietal cortex support the formation o...
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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October 19, 2023 at 5:16 PM
New preprint alert! Project led by the amazing @akulsatish.bsky.social!
Theta and alpha oscillations in human hippocampus and medial parietal cortex support the formation of location-based representations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Cognition
Theta and alpha oscillations in human hippocampus and medial parietal cortex support the formation of location-based representations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Cognition
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What cognitive factors guide gaze reinstatement? New preprint from the MemoLab: osf.io/preprints/ps...
It feels like a bonus that this paper started as an undergrad senior thesis project! Led by two unbelievably talented students, Tingwei Hu and Hae Young Yi, who graduated this past year.
It feels like a bonus that this paper started as an undergrad senior thesis project! Led by two unbelievably talented students, Tingwei Hu and Hae Young Yi, who graduated this past year.
October 12, 2023 at 2:42 PM
What cognitive factors guide gaze reinstatement? New preprint from the MemoLab: osf.io/preprints/ps...
It feels like a bonus that this paper started as an undergrad senior thesis project! Led by two unbelievably talented students, Tingwei Hu and Hae Young Yi, who graduated this past year.
It feels like a bonus that this paper started as an undergrad senior thesis project! Led by two unbelievably talented students, Tingwei Hu and Hae Young Yi, who graduated this past year.
Reposted by Graham Flick
Finally out 🎉 - our meta-analysis of 403 neuroimaging studies on language (1/3)
In addition to providing robust evidence on the engagement of classical language regions during language tasks, we also investigated the processing of linguistic subdomains: semantics, syntax, phonology and pragmatics!
In addition to providing robust evidence on the engagement of classical language regions during language tasks, we also investigated the processing of linguistic subdomains: semantics, syntax, phonology and pragmatics!
September 29, 2023 at 7:22 AM
Finally out 🎉 - our meta-analysis of 403 neuroimaging studies on language (1/3)
In addition to providing robust evidence on the engagement of classical language regions during language tasks, we also investigated the processing of linguistic subdomains: semantics, syntax, phonology and pragmatics!
In addition to providing robust evidence on the engagement of classical language regions during language tasks, we also investigated the processing of linguistic subdomains: semantics, syntax, phonology and pragmatics!
Hi folks, I'm a new PhD from NYU and now a postdoc at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto 🇨🇦
My research examines memory, language, and aging using MEG & eye-tracking, MRI, and behavioral methods 🧠
My research examines memory, language, and aging using MEG & eye-tracking, MRI, and behavioral methods 🧠
August 24, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Hi folks, I'm a new PhD from NYU and now a postdoc at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto 🇨🇦
My research examines memory, language, and aging using MEG & eye-tracking, MRI, and behavioral methods 🧠
My research examines memory, language, and aging using MEG & eye-tracking, MRI, and behavioral methods 🧠