Deepu Murty
@vpmurty.bsky.social
NeuroMnemonicist by day, tv enthusiast by night.
First lesson of 2026 is that I can’t trim my mustache freehand.
January 9, 2026 at 10:17 PM
First lesson of 2026 is that I can’t trim my mustache freehand.
Love: A paper with humans and rodents doing analogous tasks.
Historic example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25636175/
Did I say historic to make @joeydunsmoor.bsky.social feel old, 🤷🏾
Historic example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25636175/
Did I say historic to make @joeydunsmoor.bsky.social feel old, 🤷🏾
Novelty-facilitated extinction: providing a novel outcome in place of an expected threat diminishes recovery of defensive responses - PubMed
These findings provide cross-species evidence of a novel strategy to enhance extinction that may have broad implications for how to override associative learning that has become maladaptive and offer a simple technique that could be straightforwardly adapted and implemented in clinical situations.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 8, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Love: A paper with humans and rodents doing analogous tasks.
Historic example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25636175/
Did I say historic to make @joeydunsmoor.bsky.social feel old, 🤷🏾
Historic example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25636175/
Did I say historic to make @joeydunsmoor.bsky.social feel old, 🤷🏾
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We are excited to announce our partnership with @inclivio.com's software for #SAS2026.
We’re counting down to the conference with a series of posts.
Enter a drawing for 3 EMA study licenses by liking (1 point) and reposting (3 points)!
#SAS #AffectiveScience #EMA #EmotionDynamics
We’re counting down to the conference with a series of posts.
Enter a drawing for 3 EMA study licenses by liking (1 point) and reposting (3 points)!
#SAS #AffectiveScience #EMA #EmotionDynamics
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
We are excited to announce our partnership with @inclivio.com's software for #SAS2026.
We’re counting down to the conference with a series of posts.
Enter a drawing for 3 EMA study licenses by liking (1 point) and reposting (3 points)!
#SAS #AffectiveScience #EMA #EmotionDynamics
We’re counting down to the conference with a series of posts.
Enter a drawing for 3 EMA study licenses by liking (1 point) and reposting (3 points)!
#SAS #AffectiveScience #EMA #EmotionDynamics
Agency reorganizes memory around relevant decisions. This was collaboration the deeply missed Sarah DuBrow and steer-headed by our grad students @lindsayrait.bsky.social and Elizabeth Horwath.
p.s. the task design involves curating gift baskets.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41436249/
p.s. the task design involves curating gift baskets.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41436249/
Agency alters memory organization during free recall - PubMed
This study examined how agentic decisions in the absence of explicit rewards influence memory organization. Participants studied lists of items to assign as gifts to two characters-either choosing freely (Choice group) or following instructions (Fixed group). During free recall, participants in the …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 7, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Agency reorganizes memory around relevant decisions. This was collaboration the deeply missed Sarah DuBrow and steer-headed by our grad students @lindsayrait.bsky.social and Elizabeth Horwath.
p.s. the task design involves curating gift baskets.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41436249/
p.s. the task design involves curating gift baskets.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41436249/
Fresh off the press from all-star post-doc Blake Elliott: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We show that the HPC supports coincidence detection across VTA and lPFC in service of novelty-evoked invigoration. Stay-tuned for how these circuits are altered in psychosis risk.
We show that the HPC supports coincidence detection across VTA and lPFC in service of novelty-evoked invigoration. Stay-tuned for how these circuits are altered in psychosis risk.
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...
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January 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Fresh off the press from all-star post-doc Blake Elliott: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We show that the HPC supports coincidence detection across VTA and lPFC in service of novelty-evoked invigoration. Stay-tuned for how these circuits are altered in psychosis risk.
We show that the HPC supports coincidence detection across VTA and lPFC in service of novelty-evoked invigoration. Stay-tuned for how these circuits are altered in psychosis risk.
Love: my list of best friends 80% overlaps with my list of favorite collaborators.
January 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Love: my list of best friends 80% overlaps with my list of favorite collaborators.
Finally time to share all the things I love about this field all of 2026.
Love: papers that have present an fMRI finding first that inspires a behavioral study to confirm a mechanism.
For example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25319696/
Love: papers that have present an fMRI finding first that inspires a behavioral study to confirm a mechanism.
For example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25319696/
Temporal memory is shaped by encoding stability and intervening item reactivation - PubMed
Making sense of previous experience requires remembering the order in which events unfolded in time. Prior work has implicated the hippocampus and medial temporal lobe cortex in memory for temporal information associated with individual episodes. However, the processes involved in encoding and retri …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 3, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Finally time to share all the things I love about this field all of 2026.
Love: papers that have present an fMRI finding first that inspires a behavioral study to confirm a mechanism.
For example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25319696/
Love: papers that have present an fMRI finding first that inspires a behavioral study to confirm a mechanism.
For example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25319696/
Ok this may be a biased hot take, but I think the villain in stranger things is homophobia. But I also thought the same thing about K-pop Demon Hunters and Friends.
December 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Ok this may be a biased hot take, but I think the villain in stranger things is homophobia. But I also thought the same thing about K-pop Demon Hunters and Friends.
Seeing a lot of fiction in academic Bluesky over the break. Here is a paragraph I like from Brandon Sanderson’s “Tress of the Emerald”:
December 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Seeing a lot of fiction in academic Bluesky over the break. Here is a paragraph I like from Brandon Sanderson’s “Tress of the Emerald”:
Hate: Myself for getting old enough to think my hot takes matter. What a conundrum, because that is a hot take.
December 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hate: Myself for getting old enough to think my hot takes matter. What a conundrum, because that is a hot take.
Hate: when people design their tasks around a computational model, as opposed to designing their model to a task.
This is real progress because I used to use to just hate computational models…..
This is real progress because I used to use to just hate computational models…..
December 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hate: when people design their tasks around a computational model, as opposed to designing their model to a task.
This is real progress because I used to use to just hate computational models…..
This is real progress because I used to use to just hate computational models…..
Hate: Bayesian chauvinism, not to be confused with Bayesian enthusiasm which I love.
December 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hate: Bayesian chauvinism, not to be confused with Bayesian enthusiasm which I love.
Hate: Overextending claims about psychology/cognitive neuroscience based on resting-state fMRI
December 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Hate: Overextending claims about psychology/cognitive neuroscience based on resting-state fMRI
This new year my resolution is to try to be more positive. So until then I will list a bunch of things I hate to get it out of my system.
Hate: the intersection of toxic masculinity, podcasts, and neuroscience
Hate: the intersection of toxic masculinity, podcasts, and neuroscience
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This new year my resolution is to try to be more positive. So until then I will list a bunch of things I hate to get it out of my system.
Hate: the intersection of toxic masculinity, podcasts, and neuroscience
Hate: the intersection of toxic masculinity, podcasts, and neuroscience
If Congress is so concerned with defining athletes by genetics (sex assigned at birth), why stop there? Height, lung capacity, and muscle fiber type are genetic too — maybe we should ban athletes over 6 feet to “level the playing field.” I’m so disappointed. Also wtf that I align with Ted Cruz.
December 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If Congress is so concerned with defining athletes by genetics (sex assigned at birth), why stop there? Height, lung capacity, and muscle fiber type are genetic too — maybe we should ban athletes over 6 feet to “level the playing field.” I’m so disappointed. Also wtf that I align with Ted Cruz.
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We're thrilled to announce the publication of our newest paper in @plosone.org 🎉
"Aging and episodic memory specificity: Evidence challenging a domain-general pattern separation decline"
Read Dr. Youm's full paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@melaniecohn.bsky.social
#Memory #Psychology #Aging
"Aging and episodic memory specificity: Evidence challenging a domain-general pattern separation decline"
Read Dr. Youm's full paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@melaniecohn.bsky.social
#Memory #Psychology #Aging
Aging and episodic memory specificity: Evidence challenging a domain-general pattern separation decline
Aging is associated with a decline in episodic memory specificity. This phenomenon has been observed across various memory tasks, such as the Mnemonic Similarity Task (MST), where older adults show a ...
dx.plos.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We're thrilled to announce the publication of our newest paper in @plosone.org 🎉
"Aging and episodic memory specificity: Evidence challenging a domain-general pattern separation decline"
Read Dr. Youm's full paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@melaniecohn.bsky.social
#Memory #Psychology #Aging
"Aging and episodic memory specificity: Evidence challenging a domain-general pattern separation decline"
Read Dr. Youm's full paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@melaniecohn.bsky.social
#Memory #Psychology #Aging
Coming from a conference…
PSA: Let’s stop using sanity check with your data. I think it low key undermines mental health inclusivity. I like validation check as an alternative.
Not a PSA, but a personal thing: I have never found data sexy and never will.
PSA: Let’s stop using sanity check with your data. I think it low key undermines mental health inclusivity. I like validation check as an alternative.
Not a PSA, but a personal thing: I have never found data sexy and never will.
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Coming from a conference…
PSA: Let’s stop using sanity check with your data. I think it low key undermines mental health inclusivity. I like validation check as an alternative.
Not a PSA, but a personal thing: I have never found data sexy and never will.
PSA: Let’s stop using sanity check with your data. I think it low key undermines mental health inclusivity. I like validation check as an alternative.
Not a PSA, but a personal thing: I have never found data sexy and never will.
My current mantra: If mini-backpacks came back, one day government funding will too.
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My current mantra: If mini-backpacks came back, one day government funding will too.
Strong endorse. Nina is the best and at the cutting edge of multiple fields all at once!
I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
Interactive Cognition Lab | USC
Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.
rouhanilab.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Strong endorse. Nina is the best and at the cutting edge of multiple fields all at once!
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Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...
The surprising science of adolescent brains | Jennifer Pfeifer | TEDxPortland
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August 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...
Great, I come back from Canada to see that Trump ruined poop jokes.
October 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Great, I come back from Canada to see that Trump ruined poop jokes.
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Last Friday, Curtis Phills and I ran our first conference! Introducing CODES. The Consortium of Oregon Diversity and Equity Scholars! We were excited to bring together folks across Oregon who do diversity science work. We need community more than ever. Hope we can continue this in future years...
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Last Friday, Curtis Phills and I ran our first conference! Introducing CODES. The Consortium of Oregon Diversity and Equity Scholars! We were excited to bring together folks across Oregon who do diversity science work. We need community more than ever. Hope we can continue this in future years...
I promised my nieces we would make moonbeam ice cream when I came to visit. Hivemind, what should that mean. I am currently thinking ice cream, mini marshmallows, and silver sprinkles.
August 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I promised my nieces we would make moonbeam ice cream when I came to visit. Hivemind, what should that mean. I am currently thinking ice cream, mini marshmallows, and silver sprinkles.
The great thing about AOL instant messenger was that you knew when your friends were free to chat. I wish my cell phone contacts had that.
August 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The great thing about AOL instant messenger was that you knew when your friends were free to chat. I wish my cell phone contacts had that.
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2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
Annual Meeting - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster CNS 2026 Annual Meeting – March 7 – March 10, 2026 We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2026 Annual Meeting, March...
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August 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions: