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Fernanda Morales-Calva
@morales-calva.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student in Cognitive Neuroscience at Rice University | Mexicana 🇲🇽
Excited to share our latest paper out examining the relationship of image memorability through a mnemonic discrimination lens rdcu.be/eL0IC @lealmemorylab.bsky.social
Image memorability depends on interference in memory
Scientific Reports - Image memorability depends on interference in memory
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October 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Incredibly honored for this recognition by @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social @lealmemorylab.bsky.social
The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Fernanda Morales-Calva has been honored with the 2025 Best Article Award for CABN. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. Read the paper here: bit.ly/4ooPcuL #psynomCABN @F_Morales_Calva
August 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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🚨Attending APS 2025?🚨

Be sure to stop by @morales-calva.bsky.social poster TODAY from 4-5pm! Fernanda will be presenting her work examining cultural impacts on perception and memory. Details below. #APS25DC
May 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Congratulations to the Leal Lab RAs for presenting their research projects at the Undergraduate Research Symposium! Great job! Extra congrats to Jacob, Ahi, and Giselle for winning awards for their presentations! 🎉
April 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Congratulations to graduate student @morales-calva.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Excellence in Research, Teaching, & Service Award in the Psychological Sciences Department at Rice University! So proud of you!
April 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
If you’re attending INS in NOLA, be sure to stop bu Angie Cordova’s poster “Effects of Chronic Stress on Memory Performance in Latinx Populations”.
Poster 05 2/13 @4:15

Angie was an NSF REU student this summer and this is her first ever conference! Please go show her some love 🩵
February 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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To get started posting on here, going to re-share the papers the lab has published this year! First up, earlier this year @morales-calva.bsky.social published her work on examining how memorability of images can modulate emotional mnemonic discrimination. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Emotional modulation of memorability in mnemonic discrimination
Although elements such as emotion may serve to enhance or impair memory for images, some images are consistently remembered or forgotten by most peopl…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Reposted by Fernanda Morales-Calva
Congratulations to the Expanding Horizons Scholarship recipients from the Anthropology Department! 🎉🎉🎉https://graduate.rice.edu/news/current-news/rice-students-soar-new-heights-expanding-horizons-scholarship-winners-announced #RiceSocSci #ShapingTheFuture @ricegradschool.bsky.social
February 20, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Reposted by Fernanda Morales-Calva
Episodic memory is often operationalized as memory for *what* happened, *where* it happened, and *when* it happened.

But equally important is *why* that event matters enough to be encoded.

Check out this comprehensive review paper by Morales-Calva & Leal, adding "why" into what-where-when memory.
Tell me why: the missing w in episodic memory’s what, where, and when - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
Endel Tulving defined episodic memory as consisting of a spatiotemporal context. It enables us to recollect personal experiences of people, things, places, and situations. In other words, it is made u...
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November 12, 2024 at 4:00 PM