Jacinda Taggett
@jacindataggett.bsky.social
ucla psych phd student. founder of academic memories
formerly ucdavis, ucberkeley
jacindataggett.research.st
formerly ucdavis, ucberkeley
jacindataggett.research.st
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Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428
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October 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428
You learn better when you test yourself on an answer before you study it? Even more counterintuitive, our findings showcase that there is not one direct mechanism to this effect.
Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...
Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...
APA PsycNet
doi.org
October 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
You learn better when you test yourself on an answer before you study it? Even more counterintuitive, our findings showcase that there is not one direct mechanism to this effect.
Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...
Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...
This has now been cross-posted to UCLA's Psychology in Action blog!
Feel free to check out and support UCLA Psych's scicomm group here: www.psychologyinaction.org/how-our-perc...
Feel free to check out and support UCLA Psych's scicomm group here: www.psychologyinaction.org/how-our-perc...
October 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This has now been cross-posted to UCLA's Psychology in Action blog!
Feel free to check out and support UCLA Psych's scicomm group here: www.psychologyinaction.org/how-our-perc...
Feel free to check out and support UCLA Psych's scicomm group here: www.psychologyinaction.org/how-our-perc...
Reposted by Jacinda Taggett
Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
northwestern.zoom.us
October 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Reposted by Jacinda Taggett
Fellow Grad students, please check the NSF website. There was an update last night. 1st year students (masters and phd) can apply.
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Fellow Grad students, please check the NSF website. There was an update last night. 1st year students (masters and phd) can apply.
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Years ago my lab tried to brainstorm ways to separately manipulate low-level (texture/pattern) and high-level (scene/object) image properties, for studying visual representations in the brain. Thanks to imaginative work by PhD student Zall Hirschstein, we now have a stimulus set that does just that!
Excited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings.
We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity.
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We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity.
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September 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Years ago my lab tried to brainstorm ways to separately manipulate low-level (texture/pattern) and high-level (scene/object) image properties, for studying visual representations in the brain. Thanks to imaginative work by PhD student Zall Hirschstein, we now have a stimulus set that does just that!
Reposted by Jacinda Taggett
hi everyone! i made a support groupchat for students who are currently applying for PhD/PsyD programs, wanting to apply to these programs, or for students who want more information. If you would like to join, please reach out and I will add you! 🥰
September 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
hi everyone! i made a support groupchat for students who are currently applying for PhD/PsyD programs, wanting to apply to these programs, or for students who want more information. If you would like to join, please reach out and I will add you! 🥰
I have officially written my first blog post as a first year PhD student 📝
Hoping to write once a month as I embark on this journey into academia.
Read below an intro to temporal memory! 🧠
www.academicmemories.com/post/how-our...
Hoping to write once a month as I embark on this journey into academia.
Read below an intro to temporal memory! 🧠
www.academicmemories.com/post/how-our...
How our perception of time influences the memory of events
Written by: Jacinda TaggettEdited by: Danica J.Imagine you are walking from a coffee shop to your college classroom when you experience a shocking event: witnessing an individual fall off their bike a...
www.academicmemories.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I have officially written my first blog post as a first year PhD student 📝
Hoping to write once a month as I embark on this journey into academia.
Read below an intro to temporal memory! 🧠
www.academicmemories.com/post/how-our...
Hoping to write once a month as I embark on this journey into academia.
Read below an intro to temporal memory! 🧠
www.academicmemories.com/post/how-our...
Reposted by Jacinda Taggett
Being a scientist is my day job, but I also write and perform music. I've finally posted some live vids by my band, theNULL: youtu.be/Zdu6Z2XpqeM?...
We also have an Instagram @thenull_davis and it would really help us to get some follows for getting gigs. Speaking of which, merch is coming soon!
We also have an Instagram @thenull_davis and it would really help us to get some follows for getting gigs. Speaking of which, merch is coming soon!
"Automaton" by theNULL
YouTube video by Charan Ranganath
youtu.be
July 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Being a scientist is my day job, but I also write and perform music. I've finally posted some live vids by my band, theNULL: youtu.be/Zdu6Z2XpqeM?...
We also have an Instagram @thenull_davis and it would really help us to get some follows for getting gigs. Speaking of which, merch is coming soon!
We also have an Instagram @thenull_davis and it would really help us to get some follows for getting gigs. Speaking of which, merch is coming soon!
Reposted by Jacinda Taggett
Reposted by Jacinda Taggett
Just discovered this cool resource for learning about digital signal processing. Super cool and intuitive visualizations for newbies and experts alike!
(Thanks, @fleabrained.bsky.social, for sharing it on @pessoabrain.bsky.social's thread)
jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sine...
(Thanks, @fleabrained.bsky.social, for sharing it on @pessoabrain.bsky.social's thread)
jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sine...
Circles Sines and Signals - Introduction
jackschaedler.github.io
July 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Just discovered this cool resource for learning about digital signal processing. Super cool and intuitive visualizations for newbies and experts alike!
(Thanks, @fleabrained.bsky.social, for sharing it on @pessoabrain.bsky.social's thread)
jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sine...
(Thanks, @fleabrained.bsky.social, for sharing it on @pessoabrain.bsky.social's thread)
jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sine...
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New press on our study linking the locus coeruleus to memory formation 🔵: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/bra... .
“…at a time when legislation promises ‘big and beautiful change,’ it turns out one of the brain’s smallest players may have the biggest impact on how we understand and remember our lives.”
“…at a time when legislation promises ‘big and beautiful change,’ it turns out one of the brain’s smallest players may have the biggest impact on how we understand and remember our lives.”
Scientists unravel how a tiny region of the brain helps us form distinct memories, opening new avenues for PTSD, Alzheimer’s research
The locus coeruleus works like a “reset” button that separates the memory of one meaningful event from the next.
newsroom.ucla.edu
July 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
New press on our study linking the locus coeruleus to memory formation 🔵: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/bra... .
“…at a time when legislation promises ‘big and beautiful change,’ it turns out one of the brain’s smallest players may have the biggest impact on how we understand and remember our lives.”
“…at a time when legislation promises ‘big and beautiful change,’ it turns out one of the brain’s smallest players may have the biggest impact on how we understand and remember our lives.”
Reposted by Jacinda Taggett
"In this world, there are two times....The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along." - Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams 🕰️
Amid these wild times, I'm grateful to first-author this super cool fMRI study started by my great advisor @davidclewett.bsky.social! 🧠
Amid these wild times, I'm grateful to first-author this super cool fMRI study started by my great advisor @davidclewett.bsky.social! 🧠
New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it.
We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dopaminergic processes predict temporal distortions in event memory
Our memories do not simply keep time - they warp it, bending the past to fit the structure of our experiences. For example, people tend to remember items as occurring farther apart in time if they spa...
www.biorxiv.org
May 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"In this world, there are two times....The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along." - Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams 🕰️
Amid these wild times, I'm grateful to first-author this super cool fMRI study started by my great advisor @davidclewett.bsky.social! 🧠
Amid these wild times, I'm grateful to first-author this super cool fMRI study started by my great advisor @davidclewett.bsky.social! 🧠
Reposted by Jacinda Taggett
hi everyone :)
I've made a lil ole blog to make some posts about the research I do (w/o giving too much away ofc) and to provide some tips for upcoming academics from an upcoming academic
academiaforsillies.wixsite.com/academia-for-sillies
I've made a lil ole blog to make some posts about the research I do (w/o giving too much away ofc) and to provide some tips for upcoming academics from an upcoming academic
academiaforsillies.wixsite.com/academia-for-sillies
April 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
hi everyone :)
I've made a lil ole blog to make some posts about the research I do (w/o giving too much away ofc) and to provide some tips for upcoming academics from an upcoming academic
academiaforsillies.wixsite.com/academia-for-sillies
I've made a lil ole blog to make some posts about the research I do (w/o giving too much away ofc) and to provide some tips for upcoming academics from an upcoming academic
academiaforsillies.wixsite.com/academia-for-sillies
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I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!
Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
April 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!
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My favorite conference is the Memory Disorders Research Society meeting. It's a delightful community: top-notch research & wonderful people who have been so supportive in my career.
Want to join? Nominations for membership (including self-nominations) are open until April 9! Form at the top👇🏼
Want to join? Nominations for membership (including self-nominations) are open until April 9! Form at the top👇🏼
MDRS
MDRS is a professional society dedicated to the study of memory. Members engage in basic and clinical research into how memory works and why it fails.
www.memorydisorders.org
April 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
My favorite conference is the Memory Disorders Research Society meeting. It's a delightful community: top-notch research & wonderful people who have been so supportive in my career.
Want to join? Nominations for membership (including self-nominations) are open until April 9! Form at the top👇🏼
Want to join? Nominations for membership (including self-nominations) are open until April 9! Form at the top👇🏼
Reposted by Jacinda Taggett
new cog neuro blog post up!
this time writing about motion blindness:
www.academicmemories.com/post/now-you...
this time writing about motion blindness:
www.academicmemories.com/post/now-you...
Now you see me: Akinetopsia
Magdalene Dochnal The ability to perceive motion is essential in a myriad of everyday situations from knowing when it is safe to cross the street to making a cup of coffee. Part of the appeal of stop-...
www.academicmemories.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
new cog neuro blog post up!
this time writing about motion blindness:
www.academicmemories.com/post/now-you...
this time writing about motion blindness:
www.academicmemories.com/post/now-you...
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We're in Symposium Session 8 "Memory in the plan of your hand", learning about smartphone studies and how they are contributing to understanding - and perhaps strengthening - memory
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social kicks it off!
#CNS2025
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social kicks it off!
#CNS2025
March 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We're in Symposium Session 8 "Memory in the plan of your hand", learning about smartphone studies and how they are contributing to understanding - and perhaps strengthening - memory
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social kicks it off!
#CNS2025
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social kicks it off!
#CNS2025
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My first @cogneuronews.bsky.social meeting! Day one and I’ve already met so many great people and heard about the excellent cognitive neuroscience research they are doing! Might have to put this event on my annual rotation😏
#CNS2025 @northwellhealth.bsky.social
#CNS2025 @northwellhealth.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
My first @cogneuronews.bsky.social meeting! Day one and I’ve already met so many great people and heard about the excellent cognitive neuroscience research they are doing! Might have to put this event on my annual rotation😏
#CNS2025 @northwellhealth.bsky.social
#CNS2025 @northwellhealth.bsky.social
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Excited to share our new preprint! Using a narrative reading paradigm, we showed that temporal order memory reconstruction can depend on multiple sources of information - factors like knowledge about typical event order and hierarchical event structure can both play important roles! 📖🧠
New preprint from Yining Ding (@liliand.bsky.social)!
"Temporal order memory in naturalistic events is scaffolded by semantic knowledge and hierarchical event structure"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
"Temporal order memory in naturalistic events is scaffolded by semantic knowledge and hierarchical event structure"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
March 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Excited to share our new preprint! Using a narrative reading paradigm, we showed that temporal order memory reconstruction can depend on multiple sources of information - factors like knowledge about typical event order and hierarchical event structure can both play important roles! 📖🧠
tomorrow morning!!! come by to learn about this amazing & interdisciplinary project 💗 #cns2025
if you’re going to #cns2025 … come on down to my poster (B#127) !! i will be going over how we use PET neuroimaging, pharmacological intervention, and computational modeling to assess dopamine’s role in social decision making! :)
March 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
tomorrow morning!!! come by to learn about this amazing & interdisciplinary project 💗 #cns2025
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#scicomm is more important than ever, as science is under attack @charan-neuro.bsky.social
Excited for this workshop on #scicomm at #CNS2025
Excited for this workshop on #scicomm at #CNS2025
March 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
#scicomm is more important than ever, as science is under attack @charan-neuro.bsky.social
Excited for this workshop on #scicomm at #CNS2025
Excited for this workshop on #scicomm at #CNS2025
Reposted by Jacinda Taggett
Grateful to be gathering and hearing exciting science from the cog neuro community at #CNS2025! We’ve got new ideas to share:
Sat 3p - poster A94 from Jean Ye
Sun 5p - C147 from @zhoui.bsky.social
Mon 10am - 📱symposium! feat @davidclewett.bsky.social, @barense.bsky.social, @liladavachi.bsky.social
Sat 3p - poster A94 from Jean Ye
Sun 5p - C147 from @zhoui.bsky.social
Mon 10am - 📱symposium! feat @davidclewett.bsky.social, @barense.bsky.social, @liladavachi.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Grateful to be gathering and hearing exciting science from the cog neuro community at #CNS2025! We’ve got new ideas to share:
Sat 3p - poster A94 from Jean Ye
Sun 5p - C147 from @zhoui.bsky.social
Mon 10am - 📱symposium! feat @davidclewett.bsky.social, @barense.bsky.social, @liladavachi.bsky.social
Sat 3p - poster A94 from Jean Ye
Sun 5p - C147 from @zhoui.bsky.social
Mon 10am - 📱symposium! feat @davidclewett.bsky.social, @barense.bsky.social, @liladavachi.bsky.social
if you’re going to #cns2025 … come on down to my poster (B#127) !! i will be going over how we use PET neuroimaging, pharmacological intervention, and computational modeling to assess dopamine’s role in social decision making! :)
March 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
if you’re going to #cns2025 … come on down to my poster (B#127) !! i will be going over how we use PET neuroimaging, pharmacological intervention, and computational modeling to assess dopamine’s role in social decision making! :)
Reposted by Jacinda Taggett
If you're going to #CNS2025, please stop by my poster (C36) on Sunday evening to find out more about this paper and episodic memory's multidimensional scrutiny! 🤓
Why do we remember some events but forget others? In our recent work published at @naturecomms.bsky.social, @audreyduarte.bsky.social and I used machine learning to simultaneously quantify multiple cognitive components of
episodic memory.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/11
episodic memory.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/11
Using machine learning to simultaneously quantify multiple cognitive components of episodic memory - Nature Communications
Mirjalili and Duarte use EEG and machine learning to simultaneously investigate how perception and attention contribute to episodic memory encoding. The study provides insights into episodic memory’s ...
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you're going to #CNS2025, please stop by my poster (C36) on Sunday evening to find out more about this paper and episodic memory's multidimensional scrutiny! 🤓