So proud of @meganspurney.bsky.social and team for this exciting new paper from my lab!

Younger adolescents' working memory performance benefits more from reward than older teens and young adults.

This occurs even though all ages report similar preferences about reward value and cognitive demand.

Loved being a part of this project team! And super interested by our finding that reward-related improvements in working memory emerge during early adolescence (vs. mid- to late-adolescence in other cognitive domains).

Shout-out to Megan and Katie for leading this charge!

Monetary Rewards Modulate Working Memory Performance During Adolescence: https://osf.io/xzu2n

Check out my new preprint!! We investigate how monetary rewards influence working memory performance across ages💸 @katieinsel.bsky.social @camillephaneuf.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...

ear Community Members,

I am excited to announce we have launched a search to fill a new Position at the Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well Being. Please share this posting, for a Senior Program Coordinator, with anyone you think might be interested.

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️

ICE whistles work.

The awfulness of the northwestern/Trump deal, described on NPR yesterday will.illinois.edu/21stshow/sto...

📢 We’ve received several questions about the character count for OHBM 2026 submissions in our new platform, Oxford Abstracts. To help clear things up, we’ve put together a brief blog post explaining the updated limits and what they mean for you.

📝 Read more here: 👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/new-abs...

We must keep calling out those that cave to the Trump Admin, and the latest is Northwestern.

As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more.

Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.

Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using The Transmitter's interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts in leading neuroscience journals. Explore more: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/p...

#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience

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Sign up for our final winter session of Scan Camp!!

Looking for teens in the Chicagoland area!

8-10 MRI scans at Northwestern's Feinberg campus.

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Earn up to $1,360, prizes, and a 3D-print of your brain!

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I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠

Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com

Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

How can the "default network" support many forms of introspective thought?

Our new review argues these functions rely on distinct MTL connections:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks to @denizvatansever.bsky.social & Jess Andrews-Hanna for the invitation to this Special Issue!

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Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization?
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
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“Women-led papers were more likely to be featured in local outlets than in national, international, or science-specialty media. They appeared more often in liberal-leaning outlets than conservative ones. And coverage of their work carried a more negative tone”

www.science.org/content/arti...

Delayed thank you to @fluxsociety.bsky.social for a wonderful meeting in Dublin earlier this month! Thank you to everyone who came to my poster on reward-motivated working memory across children, adolescents, and adults