New lab paper: "Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis." Across 17 different studies, fear conditioning consistently distorted temporal source memory for information encoded before and after. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What happens if you inhibit the amygdala during the formation of emotional episodic memories? Simple answer, right? We thought so too but ended up finding memory enhancements after inhibiting the amygdala via transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS). 1/2
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper!!! Pooled data (17 conditioning+memory exp) to figure out (a) robustness of emotional temporal biases (attribute items to threat context even if encoded before or afterwards) and (b) how this predicts emotional memory enhancement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I haven't posted on here much, but this new paper from the lab seems like as good reason as any:

How the nature of weak learning and retention interval affects behavioral tagging of episodic memory.
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So pleased to share the (maybe?) final output from my PhD thesis (2yrs later), a labor of love (specifically, love of learning theory)

We outline a view of 'Pavlovian safety learning' as an interesting psychological construct in its own right, based on insights from learning theory

rdcu.be/dRCSg

Amazing postdoc opportunity in Melbourne, with some really great people!!! (my old PhD advisors)

Opportunities to do clinically relevant cognitive neuroscience, and with 7-Telsa fMRI too!!

jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

Excited to share a new paper w Dani Bassett on "Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful" in Nature Reviews Neuroscience

We explore different meanings of mechanism in the field, the challenges this presents & how to move forward. 🧠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...