Anna Vannucci
Anna Vannucci
@annavannucci.bsky.social
developmental neuroscientist || D-SPAN Scholar || brain, adversity, emotions, memory || PhD candidate @columbia
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Headed to @isdp.org next month?? Check out all the amazing events that our DEI committee has to offer! Make sure to save this image to help plan your conference.

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October 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
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Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States
The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....
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September 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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How does spontaneous memory reinstatement at rest relate to episodic memory during development? And how do early experiences influence neural mechanisms of episodic memory encoding and reinstatement? New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Spontaneous reinstatement of episodic memories in the developing human brain
The hippocampus supports episodic memories in development, and yet how the brain stabilizes these memories determines their long-term accessibility. This study examined how episodic memories formed in...
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September 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Spotlight Moment: Saturday, 4 September, 11:15–11:30 AM — Dissertation Award Talk with Lucina Sisk. Immediately after, 11:30–12:00 PM — Young Investigator Award Talk by Carolina Makowski (Kennedy Krieger Institute sponsored) #Flux2025 #AwardTalks
September 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Awesome paper on the role of early experience in infant learning!
August 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Incredible game-changing study led by @tristansyates.bsky.social!
March 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Thrilled to share our new perspective on "Attachment as Prediction" published in Current Directions for Psychological Science!

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February 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Multiple developmental switches in mPFC-NAc and mPFC-BLA pathways that underlie developmental transitions in threat avoidance behavior revealed by circuit dissection in juvenile, adolescent and adult mice mice 🧪🧠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Developmentally distinct architectures in top–down pathways controlling threat avoidance - Nature Neuroscience
Through circuit dissection in juvenile, adolescent and adult mice, Klune, Goodpaster and colleagues reveal multiple developmental switches in mPFC–NAc and mPFC–BLA pathways that underlie developmental...
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February 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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"...how can the same sensory information evoke such wildly different interpretations across people, or even within the same person across time?"
Learn how @esfinn.bsky.social, a #CNS2025 Young Investigator Award co-recipient, is working to answer that in a new Q&A:
#scicomm
Viewing Different Views of the World Through a Scientific Lens
Researchers like Emily Finn are working to understand differing views of the world through behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational tools.
www.cogneurosociety.org
February 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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New Daedalus issue on the science of caregiving. In our paper, we ask, how might infants experience caregiving? Writing this paper with Christina Steele,
@alisongopnik.bsky.social and @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social was incredibly fun. Our paper and the other awesome pieces here:

www.amacad.org/daedalus
Daedalus Home
Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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February 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Found in translation! from clinic to the lab-and now back! Our California initiative for precision medicine-funded study in >30,000 kids shows unpredictable signals from parents & environment impact mental health outcomes: they are a major risk factor for depression www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Contribution of an under-recognized adversity to child health risk: large-scale, population-based ACEs screening
Background and Objectives Whereas adverse early life experiences (ACEs) correlate with cognitive, emotional and physical health at the population level, existing ACEs screens are only weakly predictiv...
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February 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I am so proud and pleased to coedit this special issue of Daedalus on a social science of caregiving, a remarkable range of essays on care from birth to death (and beyond) from biology, psychology, economics, religion, policy etc. Very timely scientifically and practically
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Daedalus Home
Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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February 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Including diverse populations with a broad range of experiences in our science is essential to advance our understanding of neurodevelopment and resilience. This is one of the arguments our team makes in our in press paper 1/4 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Investigative Approaches to Resilient Emotion Regulation Neurodevelopment in a South African Birth Cohort
Understanding the neurobiology of resilient emotion regulation following adversities is critical for addressing mental health problems globally. Yet, …
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February 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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We're hiring a lab manager to start this summer in the @logicemotionlab.bsky.social! Submit CV, cover letter, and reference contact info by Feb 17th for priority review. Description of the lab's research focus, mission, and values are on our website! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/20420/r...
Careers | Human Resources
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January 27, 2025 at 3:38 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...
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January 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New paper out in #nature #mentalhealth from my work applying machine learning to identify which early adversities are most important for predicting mental health risk in children - results might surprise you!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM