Matt Dougherty
matthewdougherty.bsky.social
Matt Dougherty
@matthewdougherty.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscience PhD Student @ The Duncan Lab, UofT
I had the pleasure of being a guest on the Smart Growth Rocket podcast to talk through core elements of my research, managing grad work, and why we remember in the ways that we do. Give it a listen!

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Inside the Memory Lab: Why We Forget and How We Remember | U of T PhD Candidate Matthew Dougherty
Smart Growth Rocket · Episode
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June 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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New preprint in the Duncan Lab
On a roll: Recent familiarity primes the brain to retrieve other memories via dopaminergic nuclei mechanisms

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
On a roll: Recent familiarity primes the brain to retrieve other memories via dopaminergic nuclei mechanisms
Memory retrieval is notoriously variable. Various neurocognitive states have been theorized to affect retrieval success from moment to moment, but the presence and catalysts of these states in the hum...
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April 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Super excited to share the preprint we've been working on, "On a roll: Recent familiarity primes the brain to retrieve other memories via dopaminergic nuclei responses"! Check it out, and come see us at CNS if you're around this afternoon! drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...
March 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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#CNS2025 If you are curious about how hippocampal subfields distinctively support the learning of surprising exceptions to category knowledge, come check out my poster at Session C tomorrow between 5 and 7 pm!
March 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Come and check out recent Duncan Lab findings at CNS 2025!
March 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM