Emily E. Davis
@emilyedavis.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Development/aging, attention and memory
https://emilyedavis.carrd.co/
Development/aging, attention and memory
https://emilyedavis.carrd.co/
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The CDC amended its website to suggest that vaccines may cause autism. It now declares that experts “ignored” a potential link between infant vaccination and autism, and asserts that its earlier rejection of such a link was not “evidence-based.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
C.D.C. Changes Website to Reflect Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The CDC amended its website to suggest that vaccines may cause autism. It now declares that experts “ignored” a potential link between infant vaccination and autism, and asserts that its earlier rejection of such a link was not “evidence-based.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
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If you'll be at the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition, check out @hannahgthomas.bsky.social's poster (#11) on the relationship between sustained attention and inhibitory control. Wish I could be there! #FOMO🗻🔬🎉🍻
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom25 #SIDIC
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom25 #SIDIC
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you'll be at the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition, check out @hannahgthomas.bsky.social's poster (#11) on the relationship between sustained attention and inhibitory control. Wish I could be there! #FOMO🗻🔬🎉🍻
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom25 #SIDIC
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom25 #SIDIC
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Super excited to share my first preprint with Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense (@barense.bsky.social) -- "Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error driven updating of naturalistic event memory"! 🧠🎉https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/q9rkn_v1
OSF
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November 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
🎉🎉
Happy Halloween! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃
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🧪🧠 My lab is seeking Experimental Psychology (Psych Science) graduate trainees for Fall 2026.
Please consider applying
www.torontomu.ca/psychology/p...
Deadline for applications is December 1, 2025
#neurosky #phd
Please consider applying
www.torontomu.ca/psychology/p...
Deadline for applications is December 1, 2025
#neurosky #phd
How to Apply
www.torontomu.ca
October 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🧪🧠 My lab is seeking Experimental Psychology (Psych Science) graduate trainees for Fall 2026.
Please consider applying
www.torontomu.ca/psychology/p...
Deadline for applications is December 1, 2025
#neurosky #phd
Please consider applying
www.torontomu.ca/psychology/p...
Deadline for applications is December 1, 2025
#neurosky #phd
Not every week of research is super exciting, but this week is! We had an awesome scanning day yesterday with a really special population. I’m downloading data now and hopefully we can share more soon! 🤞🏼
October 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Not every week of research is super exciting, but this week is! We had an awesome scanning day yesterday with a really special population. I’m downloading data now and hopefully we can share more soon! 🤞🏼
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Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨!
I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com
Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!
I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com
Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!
DeckerLab
www.deckerlab.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨!
I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com
Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!
I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com
Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!
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The genetic mystery of why some people develop autism bbc.com/future/artic...
The genetic mystery of why some people develop autism
Genetic factors are thought to play a major role in the development of autism – but for decades what they are has proven elusive. Now scientists are starting to uncover clues.
bbc.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The genetic mystery of why some people develop autism bbc.com/future/artic...
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Don’t trust the experts”? That’s not democracy, that’s recklessness.
On a plane, I want a pilot.
In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence.
Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data.
Ignore it and we all pay the price.
On a plane, I want a pilot.
In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence.
Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data.
Ignore it and we all pay the price.
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
August 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Don’t trust the experts”? That’s not democracy, that’s recklessness.
On a plane, I want a pilot.
In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence.
Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data.
Ignore it and we all pay the price.
On a plane, I want a pilot.
In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence.
Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data.
Ignore it and we all pay the price.
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Corn husking contest at our lab BBQ yesterday had our newest members wondering if they've made a grave error. 🤔 🌽🌽🌽🤪😂
August 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Corn husking contest at our lab BBQ yesterday had our newest members wondering if they've made a grave error. 🤔 🌽🌽🌽🤪😂
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So proud of these two! I owe much of my lab's early success to these incredibly smart women, @emilyedavis.bsky.social & @sarahehenderson.bsky.social. Now on to bigger and better things - postdocs at Uni of Toronto & UT Austin, respectively. Can't wait to see what they accomplish next 🙌🏻🥲❤️
June 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So proud of these two! I owe much of my lab's early success to these incredibly smart women, @emilyedavis.bsky.social & @sarahehenderson.bsky.social. Now on to bigger and better things - postdocs at Uni of Toronto & UT Austin, respectively. Can't wait to see what they accomplish next 🙌🏻🥲❤️
It was fun to have the chance to present our new data on associative memory in children! Thanks to the organizers for another great year #TAMeG2025
The second talk session of #TAMeG2025 is underway featuring talks on memory across development and cultural considerations for memory disorders 👶🏽🧠
May 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It was fun to have the chance to present our new data on associative memory in children! Thanks to the organizers for another great year #TAMeG2025
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Thrilled to share this work now published in Cerebral Cortex! doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
We apply Greedy State Boundary Search in EEG to identify neural state boundaries and show that the degree of shift, but not their temporal synchrony, predicts memory performance in both older and younger adults.
We apply Greedy State Boundary Search in EEG to identify neural state boundaries and show that the degree of shift, but not their temporal synchrony, predicts memory performance in both older and younger adults.
May 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Thrilled to share this work now published in Cerebral Cortex! doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
We apply Greedy State Boundary Search in EEG to identify neural state boundaries and show that the degree of shift, but not their temporal synchrony, predicts memory performance in both older and younger adults.
We apply Greedy State Boundary Search in EEG to identify neural state boundaries and show that the degree of shift, but not their temporal synchrony, predicts memory performance in both older and younger adults.
The amount of information and extra months rent you need to give to potential landlords these days just has to be contributing to the housing crisis. We've given them everything short of the blood of our first born son and they are unsure if we can pay rent that is a 1/3 of our income.
May 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The amount of information and extra months rent you need to give to potential landlords these days just has to be contributing to the housing crisis. We've given them everything short of the blood of our first born son and they are unsure if we can pay rent that is a 1/3 of our income.
The boys!!!!!!!
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May 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The boys!!!!!!!
New paper out with @karampbell.bsky.social and Caitlin Mahy! We tested whether associative memory improvements in children aged 8-12 were related to the development of associative binding or attentional control. We had children complete an implicit and explicit associative memory task.
April 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
New paper out with @karampbell.bsky.social and Caitlin Mahy! We tested whether associative memory improvements in children aged 8-12 were related to the development of associative binding or attentional control. We had children complete an implicit and explicit associative memory task.
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Sad to be missing #CNS2025, but check out @sarahehenderson.bsky.social's poster using EEG to examine age differences in neural states during movie watching & their relationship to memory 🧠 🎬 👵👴
Sunday 8-10am, B73
Sunday 8-10am, B73
March 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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To the NIH staff complying with these orders: grow a backbone.
To the scientists who have had their money frozen: find a way to do the work anyway.
Reach out to international collaborators. Scale back the project to focus on the main question. Use existing data. Don't let them stop you!
To the scientists who have had their money frozen: find a way to do the work anyway.
Reach out to international collaborators. Scale back the project to focus on the main question. Use existing data. Don't let them stop you!
In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”….
🧪 #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
To the NIH staff complying with these orders: grow a backbone.
To the scientists who have had their money frozen: find a way to do the work anyway.
Reach out to international collaborators. Scale back the project to focus on the main question. Use existing data. Don't let them stop you!
To the scientists who have had their money frozen: find a way to do the work anyway.
Reach out to international collaborators. Scale back the project to focus on the main question. Use existing data. Don't let them stop you!
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🧠 Excited to share our new preprint! 🧠 Check it out and let us know what you think! 👀✨
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...
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...
www.biorxiv.org
January 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
🧠 Excited to share our new preprint! 🧠 Check it out and let us know what you think! 👀✨
New preprint out with Hannah Thomas, Matthew Price, Caitlin Mahy & @karampbell.bsky.social We tested if age-related improvements in children’s associative memory was driven by the development of associative binding or attention. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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May 4, 2024 at 4:52 PM
New preprint out with Hannah Thomas, Matthew Price, Caitlin Mahy & @karampbell.bsky.social We tested if age-related improvements in children’s associative memory was driven by the development of associative binding or attention. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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New paper alert, led by my former PhD student Tiago Guardia! #PsychSciSky
Self-reported physical activity and sleep quality is associated with working memory function in middle-aged and older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IW9WM...
Self-reported physical activity and sleep quality is associated with working memory function in middle-aged and older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IW9WM...
April 1, 2024 at 2:25 PM
New paper alert, led by my former PhD student Tiago Guardia! #PsychSciSky
Self-reported physical activity and sleep quality is associated with working memory function in middle-aged and older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IW9WM...
Self-reported physical activity and sleep quality is associated with working memory function in middle-aged and older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IW9WM...
The findings from this study are now available at Psychonomic Bulletin and Review! rdcu.be/dxAJm
Come see @emilyedavis.bsky.social at the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition (Thurs at 11:20am, #6) or again at #psynom23 (Fri at 12pm, #2147) to hear about how individual differences in attentional control relate to individual diffs in hyper-binding in YOUNG ADULTS
February 11, 2024 at 8:24 PM
The findings from this study are now available at Psychonomic Bulletin and Review! rdcu.be/dxAJm
Another successful LOVE conference! Undergraduate thesis student, Hannah Thomas, and I presented our findings on the differential attentional demands on implicit and explicit assocative memory in children 8 - 12 years old. Check out our poster!
February 11, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Another successful LOVE conference! Undergraduate thesis student, Hannah Thomas, and I presented our findings on the differential attentional demands on implicit and explicit assocative memory in children 8 - 12 years old. Check out our poster!