Weijia Cao
@weijiacao.bsky.social
PhD student @dukemedschool.bsky.social | semantic & episodic memory
Previously a lab manager with @alexatompary.bsky.social at Drexel
MA psych at NYU with @davidpoeppel.bsky.social
BA psych/stats at UW-Madison with Dr. Heather Kirkorian
Previously a lab manager with @alexatompary.bsky.social at Drexel
MA psych at NYU with @davidpoeppel.bsky.social
BA psych/stats at UW-Madison with Dr. Heather Kirkorian
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Weijia Cao
@weijiacao.bsky.social
· Nov 11
What semantic relationships have you been using to test how prior knowledge influences new memories? Turns out it matters! Thematic associations are more likely to boost memory but also generate false memories (relative to taxonomic ones). osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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Happy to share our latest preprint, wrapping up an exciting project with Dr. Omri Raccah, Phoebe Chen, Dr. David Poeppel, and Dr. Alexa Tompary!
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Poster and data blitz alert! Come check out the latest from the MAC lab at #CNS2025
Sat 10:30am - Data Blitz @devayani.bsky.social
Sun 5pm - Posters C85 @devayani.bsky.social C118 @katelyncliver.bsky.social
#neuroscience #scicomm
Sat 10:30am - Data Blitz @devayani.bsky.social
Sun 5pm - Posters C85 @devayani.bsky.social C118 @katelyncliver.bsky.social
#neuroscience #scicomm
March 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Poster and data blitz alert! Come check out the latest from the MAC lab at #CNS2025
Sat 10:30am - Data Blitz @devayani.bsky.social
Sun 5pm - Posters C85 @devayani.bsky.social C118 @katelyncliver.bsky.social
#neuroscience #scicomm
Sat 10:30am - Data Blitz @devayani.bsky.social
Sun 5pm - Posters C85 @devayani.bsky.social C118 @katelyncliver.bsky.social
#neuroscience #scicomm
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Important and painful
Important and painful
How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
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March 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Important and painful
Important and painful
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The MAC lab is hiring a full-time lab manager to start in June! You will have the opportunity to conduct research projects relating to long-term memory and concept knowledge (methods include online and in-person behavioral experiments, fMRI, TMS). Apply by March 26 careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
MAC lab
How does our prior knowledge impact how we learn new information? How do memories change over time? We use cognitive neuroscience methods to understand how the brain stores, organizes, and transforms ...
www.memoryandconceptslab.org
March 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The MAC lab is hiring a full-time lab manager to start in June! You will have the opportunity to conduct research projects relating to long-term memory and concept knowledge (methods include online and in-person behavioral experiments, fMRI, TMS). Apply by March 26 careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Thrilled to share our new paper with @candrew123.bsky.social & @davidpoeppel.bsky.social 🧠🎵 Amazing work by Andrew, who led this study uncovering how the brain encodes pitch—first linearly, then transforming into a helix-like structure! 🔄🎶 Check it out: #MusicNeuroscience #AuditoryCognition
Excited to kick off 2025 with new research in #MachineLearning, #Decoding, #MusicNeuroscience! Our paper, “Temporally Dissociable Neural Representations of Pitch Height and Chroma”, now in
@sfnjournals.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
@davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @xiangbin-teng.bsky.social! 🧠🎵 1/n
@sfnjournals.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
@davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @xiangbin-teng.bsky.social! 🧠🎵 1/n
Temporally Dissociable Neural Representations of Pitch Height and Chroma
The extraction and analysis of pitch underpin speech and music recognition, sound segregation, and other auditory tasks. Perceptually, pitch can be represented as a helix composed of two factors: heig...
doi.org
February 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Thrilled to share our new paper with @candrew123.bsky.social & @davidpoeppel.bsky.social 🧠🎵 Amazing work by Andrew, who led this study uncovering how the brain encodes pitch—first linearly, then transforming into a helix-like structure! 🔄🎶 Check it out: #MusicNeuroscience #AuditoryCognition
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New paper out now in JEP:G.
"Individual differences in working memory and attentional control continue to predict memory performance despite extensive learning."
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xg…
"Individual differences in working memory and attentional control continue to predict memory performance despite extensive learning."
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xg…
January 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New paper out now in JEP:G.
"Individual differences in working memory and attentional control continue to predict memory performance despite extensive learning."
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xg…
"Individual differences in working memory and attentional control continue to predict memory performance despite extensive learning."
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xg…
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I'm very happy that this paper by Francecso Mantegna (now Oxford) and Joan Orpella (now Georgetown) is published. Congrats for some heroic data wrangling!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unusual experiment (mental imagery of speech planning+MEG) shows cool perspective on speech production
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Unusual experiment (mental imagery of speech planning+MEG) shows cool perspective on speech production
Time-resolved hemispheric lateralization of audiomotor functional connectivity during covert speech production
Covert speech involves the internal generation of articulatory movements and their sensory consequences. While overt speech involves a combination of …
www.sciencedirect.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'm very happy that this paper by Francecso Mantegna (now Oxford) and Joan Orpella (now Georgetown) is published. Congrats for some heroic data wrangling!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unusual experiment (mental imagery of speech planning+MEG) shows cool perspective on speech production
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unusual experiment (mental imagery of speech planning+MEG) shows cool perspective on speech production
Presenting my work today and tomorrow at OPAM and psychonomic!! If you're interested in semantic relations and episodic memory, come find me at posters #59 & #3156!
Excited for the MAC lab's debut at OPAM & Psychonomic! Please come find us today and tomorrow ⬇️
November 21, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Presenting my work today and tomorrow at OPAM and psychonomic!! If you're interested in semantic relations and episodic memory, come find me at posters #59 & #3156!
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So happy to see this published! Lila and I looked at how memory representations of sequences became integrated over time through their shared predictive cues. We had fun thinking about the different aspects of systems consolidation that may play a role in this transformation
Exciting new study from @alexatompary.bsky.social and Lila Davachi: consolidation-related restructuring and integration doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Integration of overlapping sequences emerges with consolidation through medial prefrontal cortex neural ensembles and hippocampal–cortical connectivity
Changes in cortical neural ensembles and heightened coupling between the hippocampus and cortex enable the eventual behavioral integration of memories with overlapping sequential information.
doi.org
November 19, 2024 at 6:03 PM
So happy to see this published! Lila and I looked at how memory representations of sequences became integrated over time through their shared predictive cues. We had fun thinking about the different aspects of systems consolidation that may play a role in this transformation
Reposted by Weijia Cao
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Started to blog (& am planning to do so intermittently as an amateur history/mythology lover)... "Why is it so hard to find dragons in modern Chinese mythologies? Insights from Manchu/Jurchen mythologies" :)
Started to blog (& am planning to do so intermittently as an amateur history/mythology lover)... "Why is it so hard to find dragons in modern Chinese mythologies? Insights from Manchu/Jurchen mythologies" :)
Why is it so hard to find dragons in modern Chinese mythologies? Insights from Manchu/Jurchen mythologies
All these years, there has been a mystery in my head: Dragon appears to be a key component of modern Chinese culture, but there is practical...
xcyu.blogspot.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:48 PM
xcyu.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
Started to blog (& am planning to do so intermittently as an amateur history/mythology lover)... "Why is it so hard to find dragons in modern Chinese mythologies? Insights from Manchu/Jurchen mythologies" :)
Started to blog (& am planning to do so intermittently as an amateur history/mythology lover)... "Why is it so hard to find dragons in modern Chinese mythologies? Insights from Manchu/Jurchen mythologies" :)
Happy to share our latest preprint, wrapping up an exciting project with Dr. Omri Raccah, Phoebe Chen, Dr. David Poeppel, and Dr. Alexa Tompary!
What semantic relationships have you been using to test how prior knowledge influences new memories? Turns out it matters! Thematic associations are more likely to boost memory but also generate false memories (relative to taxonomic ones). osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 11, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Happy to share our latest preprint, wrapping up an exciting project with Dr. Omri Raccah, Phoebe Chen, Dr. David Poeppel, and Dr. Alexa Tompary!
Reposted by Weijia Cao
The privileged role of thematic conceptual relations in episodic memory: http://osf.io/azuye/
November 7, 2024 at 10:12 PM
The privileged role of thematic conceptual relations in episodic memory: http://osf.io/azuye/
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If you're interested in episodic & semantic memory, apply to come work with us! We'd love to have you be a part of our team!
What better first post than an annoucment that my lab is recruiting a PhD student! The deadline for the PhD program in Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences at
Drexel University is 12/1 - join us in fabulous Philadelphia!
Drexel University is 12/1 - join us in fabulous Philadelphia!
October 10, 2024 at 3:14 PM
If you're interested in episodic & semantic memory, apply to come work with us! We'd love to have you be a part of our team!