Tarek Amer
tarekamer.bsky.social
Tarek Amer
@tarekamer.bsky.social
Psych Assistant Prof at The University of Victoria. Interested in memory, aging, and cognitive control.
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Love this article! We need more real-life memory studies.
Here is an example study and review from our lab…child development focus.

cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10....

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October 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Excited to present our new work reading minds!

Ok, not *that* kind of mind reading, but we have created a deep learning method capable of using single neuron recordings from people watching episodes of TV that can predict when they recall specific memories from the episode. 1/6
August 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Slowly making my way through that grad school data!

Decoding memory function through naturalistic gaze patterns | PNAS share.google/vuOSbiRk9nBH...
Decoding memory function through naturalistic gaze patterns | PNAS
Eye movements are closely linked to encoding and retrieval processes, with changes in viewing behavior reflecting age- and pathology-related memory...
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August 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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🚨New Preprint Alert!🚨
We just dropped a new paper on medRxiv that uses machine learning to rethink how we diagnose cognitive decline — and the results are 🔥.
Let’s talk about brain data, hidden clusters, and how we might catch dementia before it’s diagnosed.
🧵👇
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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April 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I have an opening for a graduate student at @carleton.ca (Carleton University) in the Department of Cognitive Science for fall 2025. Project is a multimodal MRI study examining how Hearing Loss affects cognition in older adults - contact me with a CV if you’re interested & have relevant expertise!
April 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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The Memory Disorders Research Society (MDRS) has extended its deadline in seeking nominations for new members to next Wednesday (4/9)! Self-nominations welcome. Feel free to DM me if you have questions about the society or the membership process. Application link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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April 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I'm currently interested in recruiting a master's student for this Fall 2025 to the CANAL lab. We're about to launch an MRI project focused on the intersection of #aging, #hearing, and #cognitivereserve

Please get in touch!

www.canallab.ca/contact #neuroscience @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social
CANAL Lab - Contact
We are always interested in hearing from motivated and talented prospective undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows.
www.canallab.ca
February 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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New preprint led by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social and Linda Geerligs

We used fMRI movie data from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing & Neuroscience (CamCAN; N = 577) to examine how aging affects the brain's representation of real-world events. 🧵👇🏻 #PsychSciSky #NeuroSky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Temporal dedifferentiation of neural states with age during naturalistic viewing
While life is experienced continuously, we tend to perceive it as a series of events. At a neural level, this event segmentation process has been linked to changes in neural states. An open question i...
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January 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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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!

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January 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🎈New paper🎈 Led by the inimitable @asieh.bsky.social Hippocampal dysfunction in medication naive patients with schizophrenia during a memory task resolves with drug treatment. Incredible team effort! urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
Impaired hippocampal circuitry and memory dysfunction in schizophrenia
Nature Mental Health - Dysfunction in the hippocampal circuitry in individuals with first-episode schizophrenia and delusions is linked to deficits in behavioral pattern separation and recognition...
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January 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Toward a functional future for the cognitive neuroscience of human aging

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

I do love me a good anti-resting state screed
Toward a functional future for the cognitive neuroscience of human aging
Mooraj et al. outline why task-based functional neuroimaging must move center-stage to better understand the neural bases of human cognitive aging. In turn, the authors sketch a framework intended to reorient the field toward a functionally imaged, multimodally interrogated, behavior-first perspective.
www.cell.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Excited to share this perspective with @yaelniv.bsky.social about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
A computational account of how schemas are learned through experience is lacking. In this Perspective, Bein and Niv synthesize schema theory and reinforcement learning research to derive computational...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Calling all social psychologists- come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC!

Please share!

www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
PSYC 280-194 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria
Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
www.uvic.ca
January 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Starting my first #MisconceptionMonday with a common one in seismology: do small earthquakes relieve the pressure on faults? Are small quakes a good thing?

🧵. Long 🧵. But hopefully worth it.
December 30, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Happy to see a lot of familiar accounts and be back on academic social media!
December 29, 2024 at 7:49 PM