He also gave an oral presentation on how event outcomes influence the relationship between future thinking and remembering. Participants changed their assessment of how important elections were depending on whether the elections went their way or not - showing strong self-serving biases.

Marius @mariusboeltzig.bsky.social presented his poster on the influence of prediction error size on memory - showing that large prediction errors lead to distinct encoding of new episodes, while keeping old ones intact.

Sophie @ssiestrup.bsky.social presented a pre-data poster about her new project. In a line of studies, she will investigate how prediction errors can lead to the integration or segregation of memory traces using behavioural and fMRI data.

Nina @nliedtke.bsky.social presented a poster showcasing her current work on initial prediction errors. Instead of inducing episodic memory errors, she focused on spontaneous errors arising during the first exposure to the experimental stimuli.

The first group of students from the new cohort of the interdisciplinary master’s in cognitive neuroscience visited us for their lab rotation this week. Each group learns about the analysis of MRI data, techniques in brain imaging, and the research interests and activities of our group.

Our lab member Benjamin Jainta successfully defended his PhD! In a great presentation, he summarised his work about prediction errors in episodic memory and highlighted effects of repetition, repeated learning, agency, and perspective.

Our post doc Sophie won one of the poster prizes at PUG with her work on episodic memory after prediction errors. Congratulations!

Read the paper here: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...