Manasi Jayakumar
manasijayakumar.bsky.social
Manasi Jayakumar
@manasijayakumar.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscientist | Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oberlin College | Attention and Memory
website: manasijkumar.github.io
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What might you do after a PhD?
I interviewed 53 people and mapped out career paths

(Interviews are themselves available too!)
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October 13, 2023 at 7:49 PM
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What makes an image memorable?

Images that are highly arousing and moderately negative are more memorable. But the arousal/valence of an image explains surprisingly little variance in memorability!

So proud of the amazing @hartwakeland.bsky.social for leading this work!

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October 12, 2023 at 4:25 PM
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How do we resolve competition between memories to behave adaptively?

Hippocampal differentiation of competing memories predicts the precision of preparatory coding in visual cortex during memory-guided attention

Excited to share this work by the inimitable Serra Favila!

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Hippocampal differentiation of competing memories predicts the precision of preparatory coding in vi...
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October 11, 2023 at 12:54 PM