Taylor Chamberlain
@tchamberlain.bsky.social
PhD student studying memory @ https://www.dpmlab.org/
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How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬?
We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇
We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇
A neural network with episodic memory learns causal relationships between narrative events
Humans reflect on past memories to make sense of an ongoing event. Past work has shown that people retrieve causally related past events during comprehension, but the exact process by which this causa...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬?
We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇
We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇
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New preprint! 🧠
Our mind wanders at rest. By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we show these thoughts are reflected in brain network dynamics and contribute to pervasive links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior (1/10).
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our mind wanders at rest. By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we show these thoughts are reflected in brain network dynamics and contribute to pervasive links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior (1/10).
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behavior
Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC)-brain connectivity observed when people rest with no external tasks-predicts individual differences in behavior. Yet, rest is not idle; it involves streams...
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August 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New preprint! 🧠
Our mind wanders at rest. By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we show these thoughts are reflected in brain network dynamics and contribute to pervasive links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior (1/10).
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our mind wanders at rest. By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we show these thoughts are reflected in brain network dynamics and contribute to pervasive links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior (1/10).
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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🚨My lab is searching for 1-2 full-time research coordinator(s) and a full-time research tech to contribute to our studies on 🧠 human brain networks🧠
Deadline: Feb. 28 for full consideration
Start date: as early as this summer
Additional info: pics below and 👇
Pls share/RT! 🙏
Deadline: Feb. 28 for full consideration
Start date: as early as this summer
Additional info: pics below and 👇
Pls share/RT! 🙏
February 2, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We’re surprised in many situations, like surprise parties, lab tasks, & suspenseful basketball games. Despite being in completely different situations, does our brain process unexpectedness similarly? 1/9
We’re surprised in many situations, like surprise parties, lab tasks, & suspenseful basketball games. Despite being in completely different situations, does our brain process unexpectedness similarly? 1/9
Brain network dynamics predict moments of surprise across contexts
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December 4, 2023 at 11:04 PM
New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We’re surprised in many situations, like surprise parties, lab tasks, & suspenseful basketball games. Despite being in completely different situations, does our brain process unexpectedness similarly? 1/9
We’re surprised in many situations, like surprise parties, lab tasks, & suspenseful basketball games. Despite being in completely different situations, does our brain process unexpectedness similarly? 1/9
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For my first post on bsky I am thrilled to advertise an NIMH-funded open postdoc position in my lab in collaboration with Jen Wildes at UChicago. Please spread the word! For more info and instructions to apply, please see: bakkourlab.uchicago.edu/join-us/post...
postdoc | Bakkour Memory and Decision Lab
bakkourlab.uchicago.edu
November 29, 2023 at 6:02 PM
For my first post on bsky I am thrilled to advertise an NIMH-funded open postdoc position in my lab in collaboration with Jen Wildes at UChicago. Please spread the word! For more info and instructions to apply, please see: bakkourlab.uchicago.edu/join-us/post...
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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!
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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!
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
Hippocampal differentiation of competing memories predicts the precision of preparatory coding in vi...
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
October 11, 2023 at 12:54 PM
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!
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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!
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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Stress tends to enhance memory for emotional events. Yet stress is also thought to hurt the hippocampus (which supports episodic memory). With @evgoldfarb.bsky.social & others, we explore this paradox and demonstrate how cortisol can *enhance* hippocampal function to support emotional episodic mems!
Hippocampal mechanisms support cortisol-induced memory enhancements
Stress can powerfully influence episodic memory, often enhancing memory encoding for emotionally salient information. These stress-induced memory enhancements stand at odds with demonstrations that st...
www.jneurosci.org
October 9, 2023 at 8:31 PM
Stress tends to enhance memory for emotional events. Yet stress is also thought to hurt the hippocampus (which supports episodic memory). With @evgoldfarb.bsky.social & others, we explore this paradox and demonstrate how cortisol can *enhance* hippocampal function to support emotional episodic mems!
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First post! I'll be starting as an assistant professor at Northwestern next year!
I'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! I'll be reviewing applications through the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition area in Northwestern's Department of Psychology. Apply!
Learn more about the lab here: nucatslab.com
I'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! I'll be reviewing applications through the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition area in Northwestern's Department of Psychology. Apply!
Learn more about the lab here: nucatslab.com
Northwestern CATS Lab
Child & Adolescent Translational Science Lab at Northwestern University
nucatslab.com
October 5, 2023 at 5:29 PM
First post! I'll be starting as an assistant professor at Northwestern next year!
I'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! I'll be reviewing applications through the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition area in Northwestern's Department of Psychology. Apply!
Learn more about the lab here: nucatslab.com
I'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! I'll be reviewing applications through the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition area in Northwestern's Department of Psychology. Apply!
Learn more about the lab here: nucatslab.com
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I’m excited to announce the Adaptive Memory Lab is moving to Univ. of Oregon summer 2024. I’ve been a lucky duck to forge such great relationships at Temple and am looking forward to developing new ones. I’ll be recruiting grad students next year so feel free to reach out. #OMG/OregonMemoryGroup
September 26, 2023 at 2:46 PM
I’m excited to announce the Adaptive Memory Lab is moving to Univ. of Oregon summer 2024. I’ve been a lucky duck to forge such great relationships at Temple and am looking forward to developing new ones. I’ll be recruiting grad students next year so feel free to reach out. #OMG/OregonMemoryGroup
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Resting state, or sleeping state? We know that wakefulness matters for adult functional brain network organization. In our new paper, we show that wakefulness can also be important in infant fMRI! 1/9
Functional networks in the infant brain during sleep and wake states
Abstract. Functional brain networks are assessed differently earlier versus later in development: infants are almost universally scanned asleep, whereas adults
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September 18, 2023 at 11:42 PM
Resting state, or sleeping state? We know that wakefulness matters for adult functional brain network organization. In our new paper, we show that wakefulness can also be important in infant fMRI! 1/9
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First empirical pub from the lab! Fear generalization - spreading ⚡️ assoc to similar stimuli - characterizes anxiety. Here we show that 🍷 assoc also spread to similar stimuli for indiv engaging in risky drinking pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37682597/
September 17, 2023 at 8:52 PM
First empirical pub from the lab! Fear generalization - spreading ⚡️ assoc to similar stimuli - characterizes anxiety. Here we show that 🍷 assoc also spread to similar stimuli for indiv engaging in risky drinking pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37682597/