Akul Satish
@akulsatish.bsky.social
Post-doc with Michael Anderson at MRC-CBU, University of Cambridge. Interested in studying memory and inhibitory control over memory, primarily using behavioural and neuroimaging methods
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Akul Satish
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Memory control immediately improves unpleasant emotions associated with autobiographical memories of past immoral actions
The ability to stop unwanted memories from coming to mind is theorised to be essential for maintaining good mental health. People can employ intentional strategies to prevent conscious intrusions o...
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Our paper with showing that memory control improves immediate emotions of autobiographical memories just got published. Massive thanks to @robinhellerstedt.bsky.social, @memorycontrol.bsky.social and @zarabergstrom.bsky.social 🙏😁
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Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
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Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought — a Review by Michael C. Anderson, Maite Crespo-Garcia & S. Subbulakshmi
@memorycontrol.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
@memorycontrol.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The capacity to prevent unwanted thoughts is important for cognitive function and mental health. Anderson et al. describe insights into the neural mechanisms of the inhibitory control of thought that ...
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May 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought — a Review by Michael C. Anderson, Maite Crespo-Garcia & S. Subbulakshmi
@memorycontrol.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
@memorycontrol.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
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🚨This is the most exciting step of my scientific career🚨
25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains
I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest
In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:
25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains
I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest
In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:
World-leading scientists will set out on a unique research voyage, joining Indigenous Pacific sailors to investigate the centuries-old skill of wave piloting: www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
Photo credit: www.instagram.com/chewy_lin/
Photo credit: www.instagram.com/chewy_lin/
July 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🚨This is the most exciting step of my scientific career🚨
25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains
I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest
In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:
25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains
I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest
In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:
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Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital function.@mrccbu.bsky.social sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience
Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The capacity to prevent unwanted thoughts is important for cognitive function and mental health. Anderson et al. describe insights into the neural mechanisms of the inhibitory control of thought that ...
www.nature.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital function.@mrccbu.bsky.social sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience
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Excited to share our new study on how respiration modulates neural dynamics during successful memory retrieval—led by @estebanbt.bsky.social, alongside the exceptional team of @fabian31415.bsky.social, @maritpetzka.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, and @bstaresina.bsky.social. 👇
Very excited to share the first preprint of my PhD thesis!
Together with @tschreiner.bsky.social, we investigated how respiration coordinates signature neural expressions of successful remembering during memory retrieval. 🫁🧠
🧵(1/8)
Together with @tschreiner.bsky.social, we investigated how respiration coordinates signature neural expressions of successful remembering during memory retrieval. 🫁🧠
🧵(1/8)
Respiration shapes the neural dynamics of successful remembering in humans. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649286v1
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Excited to share our new study on how respiration modulates neural dynamics during successful memory retrieval—led by @estebanbt.bsky.social, alongside the exceptional team of @fabian31415.bsky.social, @maritpetzka.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, and @bstaresina.bsky.social. 👇
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Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government.
Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea.
eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...
Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea.
eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...
Cutting international bachelor programs threatens psychological science » Eiko Fried
Two days ago, four Dutch universities announced discontinuing their English-speaking psychology bachelor programs (1, 2). I will briefly explain (1) how this decision came to be, (2) why this is such ...
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April 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government.
Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea.
eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...
Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea.
eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...
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Happy to share our new paper on the inhibition of memory retrieval in dissociative amnesia, with @dcdace.bsky.social, Hirokazu Kikuchi, Nobuhito Abe &, Jun Kawaguchi, Mike Kopelman & @memorycontrol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Prefrontally mediated inhibition of memory systems in dissociative amnesia | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Prefrontally mediated inhibition of memory systems in dissociative amnesia
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January 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Happy to share our new paper on the inhibition of memory retrieval in dissociative amnesia, with @dcdace.bsky.social, Hirokazu Kikuchi, Nobuhito Abe &, Jun Kawaguchi, Mike Kopelman & @memorycontrol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
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Music helps attentional focus. I hope so. I'm not going to stop listening to music when I work.
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties - Communications Biology
Rapid temporal modulation added to music affects attentional performance and brain activity; parametric manipulation of this added modulation reveals rates that differentially affect individuals with ...
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December 6, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Music helps attentional focus. I hope so. I'm not going to stop listening to music when I work.
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience
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A thread🧵 on application systems for postdoc jobs in the UK (applies to my university, but I've seen others and they're similar).
I have seen (too many times) good applicants who don't seem to understand how recruitment is done on our side - not their fault! it's a privilege! - so here's how
I have seen (too many times) good applicants who don't seem to understand how recruitment is done on our side - not their fault! it's a privilege! - so here's how
December 5, 2024 at 11:01 AM
A thread🧵 on application systems for postdoc jobs in the UK (applies to my university, but I've seen others and they're similar).
I have seen (too many times) good applicants who don't seem to understand how recruitment is done on our side - not their fault! it's a privilege! - so here's how
I have seen (too many times) good applicants who don't seem to understand how recruitment is done on our side - not their fault! it's a privilege! - so here's how
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.
A Place of Joy.
A Place of Joy.
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
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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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Happy publication day to us! New paper just landed:
The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition 🧪
The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition 🧪
The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects
Episodic events are typically retrieved and forgotten holistically. If you recall one element (e.g., a person), you are more likely to recall other el…
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November 29, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Happy publication day to us! New paper just landed:
The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition 🧪
The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition 🧪
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I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start.
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November 26, 2024 at 5:52 PM
I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start.
go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE
go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE
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Paper accepted!!!
The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects
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#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
November 21, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Paper accepted!!!
The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
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As part of an exciting new UKRI-funded interdisciplinary study of the vividness of memory, we are recruiting two post-doctoral researchers, one in cognitive neuroscience (www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48823/) and one in intellectual and cultural history (www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48767/). Please share!
October 21, 2024 at 4:25 PM
As part of an exciting new UKRI-funded interdisciplinary study of the vividness of memory, we are recruiting two post-doctoral researchers, one in cognitive neuroscience (www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48823/) and one in intellectual and cultural history (www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48767/). Please share!
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🚨Long-awaited revised preprint thanks to rigorous and helpful reviewers🚨. We validated LDA approach, obtained reactivation to index neural reinstatement, and updated inferential models w @alexamorcom.bsky.social, Matt Plummer + new co-author Ivor Simpson
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... . Summary👇🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... . Summary👇🧵
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October 15, 2024 at 2:08 PM
🚨Long-awaited revised preprint thanks to rigorous and helpful reviewers🚨. We validated LDA approach, obtained reactivation to index neural reinstatement, and updated inferential models w @alexamorcom.bsky.social, Matt Plummer + new co-author Ivor Simpson
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... . Summary👇🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... . Summary👇🧵
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Submitted my first paper today and released it as a preprint! Murray, E., Goebel, S. M., & @aidanhorner.bsky.social (2024). More Steps, Same Effect: Spacing Increases the Retention of Mathematics Procedures of Varying Complexity. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
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October 2, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Submitted my first paper today and released it as a preprint! Murray, E., Goebel, S. M., & @aidanhorner.bsky.social (2024). More Steps, Same Effect: Spacing Increases the Retention of Mathematics Procedures of Varying Complexity. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Grant helps finance postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from the ‘Global South’ working in experimental psychology to complete a study visit in a lab hosted by an EPS member
Deadline is 1st December.
Grant helps finance postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from the ‘Global South’ working in experimental psychology to complete a study visit in a lab hosted by an EPS member
Deadline is 1st December.
Kuppuraj Bishop Study Visit Grants
This scheme was set up in 2020 by Professor Dorothy Bishop, in memory of Kuppuraj, a postdoc from India who worked with her on a study visit. It aims to help finance postgraduate and postdoctoral r…
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October 1, 2024 at 8:46 AM
eps.ac.uk/kuppuraj-bis...
Grant helps finance postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from the ‘Global South’ working in experimental psychology to complete a study visit in a lab hosted by an EPS member
Deadline is 1st December.
Grant helps finance postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from the ‘Global South’ working in experimental psychology to complete a study visit in a lab hosted by an EPS member
Deadline is 1st December.
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I’m going to keep repeating this: ChatGPT was designed to do the impressive feat of making a computer produce a natural sounding response to a question (or other prompt). It was not designed to provide factual answers to questions.
August 23, 2024 at 12:42 AM
I’m going to keep repeating this: ChatGPT was designed to do the impressive feat of making a computer produce a natural sounding response to a question (or other prompt). It was not designed to provide factual answers to questions.
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New "forum" (short opinion piece) with Scott Cairney is out and available to read at your pleasure!
Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Cognition 🧪
Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Cognition 🧪
Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep
Memories are sometimes best forgotten, but how do our brains weaken unwanted details of the past? We propose a theoretical framework in which memory r…
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August 20, 2024 at 2:57 PM
New "forum" (short opinion piece) with Scott Cairney is out and available to read at your pleasure!
Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Cognition 🧪
Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Cognition 🧪
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How are multiple interconnected memories reactivated during #sleep? We've published our opinions, but here I'd like to highlight recent findings from other groups. Tl;dr: multiple memories can be (almost) simultaneously reactivated & shared contexts drive this reactivation 1/8
July 29, 2024 at 8:35 PM
How are multiple interconnected memories reactivated during #sleep? We've published our opinions, but here I'd like to highlight recent findings from other groups. Tl;dr: multiple memories can be (almost) simultaneously reactivated & shared contexts drive this reactivation 1/8
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Fun new paper on meaning & memory in the brain.
Retrieval is often seen through the lens of encoding success, but we find a unique "flip" in which the parietal ctx mediates enc failure but retrieval success. Cool implications for theories of parietal function.
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
Retrieval is often seen through the lens of encoding success, but we find a unique "flip" in which the parietal ctx mediates enc failure but retrieval success. Cool implications for theories of parietal function.
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
Differential Mnemonic Contributions of Cortical Representations during Encoding and Retrieval
Abstract. Several recent fMRI studies of episodic and working memory representations converge on the finding that visual information is most strongly represented in occipito-temporal cortex during the...
direct.mit.edu
July 21, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Fun new paper on meaning & memory in the brain.
Retrieval is often seen through the lens of encoding success, but we find a unique "flip" in which the parietal ctx mediates enc failure but retrieval success. Cool implications for theories of parietal function.
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
Retrieval is often seen through the lens of encoding success, but we find a unique "flip" in which the parietal ctx mediates enc failure but retrieval success. Cool implications for theories of parietal function.
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
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Got Butterflies in your Stomach? 😵💫 I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social ! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date 🧵👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.05.597517v1
Mariposas En El Estomago GIF
ALT: Mariposas En El Estomago GIF
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June 10, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Got Butterflies in your Stomach? 😵💫 I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social ! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date 🧵👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.05.597517v1
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Happy publication day to us, but most importantly Bardur Joensen!
An Enduring Role for Hippocampal Pattern Completion in Addition to an Emergent Nonhippocampal Contribution to Holistic Episodic Retrieval after a 24 h Delay
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/1...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
An Enduring Role for Hippocampal Pattern Completion in Addition to an Emergent Nonhippocampal Contribution to Holistic Episodic Retrieval after a 24 h Delay
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/1...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
An Enduring Role for Hippocampal Pattern Completion in Addition to an Emergent Nonhippocampal Contribution to Holistic Episodic Retrieval after a 24 h Delay
Episodic memory retrieval is associated with the holistic neocortical reinstatement of all event information, an effect driven by hippocampal pattern completion. However, whether holistic reinstatemen...
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May 1, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Happy publication day to us, but most importantly Bardur Joensen!
An Enduring Role for Hippocampal Pattern Completion in Addition to an Emergent Nonhippocampal Contribution to Holistic Episodic Retrieval after a 24 h Delay
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/1...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
An Enduring Role for Hippocampal Pattern Completion in Addition to an Emergent Nonhippocampal Contribution to Holistic Episodic Retrieval after a 24 h Delay
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/1...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition