Brian Levine

eventbrite.caPavlov's DogzThe Pilot Presents Pavlov's Dogz

Pavlov's Dogz The Pilot, Toronto October 23, 2026 @timbussey.bsky.social @karihoffman.bsky.social @charan-neuro.bsky.social @bradpostle.bsky.social @earlkmiller.bsky.social @vosstacular.bsky.social @brianlevine.bsky.social @drmarcj.bsky.social Don't miss out! www.eventbrite.ca/e/pavlovs-do...

academic.oup.comImproved autobiographical memory with central thalamic deep brain stimulation in traumatic brain injuryImpaired autobiographical memory (AM) (memory of personal events) is a debilitating consequence of traumatic brain injury), affecting daily life. There is

6 July

I was pleased to collaborate on this study led by Dr. Eun Young Choi with Dr. Nicholas D. Schiff that showed improved autobiographical memory with central thalamic deep brain stimulation in traumatic brain injury academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

theamericanscholar.orgYou Must Remember This - The American ScholarOn the nature of autobiographical memory

9 June

Check out this work by Pulitzer-prize winning science writer Jonathan Weiner about individual diffs in autobio memory, namely between him and his accomplished brother, Eric, and about their engagement in our science. theamericanscholar.org/you-must-rem...

tameg.weebly.comGallery2026 TAMeG Conference Photos Photo Credits: Tolu Faromika

1 June

#TAMEG2026 photo gallery now live! tameg.weebly.com/gallery9.html (With thanks to Tolu Faromika)

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I enjoyed the cheerful reunions & new connections made at #TAMeG2026 Congrats award winners @catalinayang.bsky.social @michellehirsch.bsky.social & Bailey Agard! Grateful to keynote @aliprestonphd.bsky.social & panelists Ike Ikafor, @efriskouw.bsky.social & @barense.bsky.social & the org committee

27 May

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Barbara Ledezma

@barbaraled.bsky.social

@milliebhaskara.bsky.social

Finishing off our last talk session at #TAMeG2026 with an exciting lineup of research exploring spatial knowledge, spontaneous narratives, motor memory, and cognitive influences for learning! Please visit tameg.weebly.com/schedule.html for the full schedule! 🧠Talk Session 3 | 2:05-3:05 PM

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Millie Bhaskara

@milliebhaskara.bsky.social

The second #TAMeG2026 data blitz has begun, including quick and engaging presentations on memory phenomenology, subjective memory, learning, attention, cortical feature representations, large language models, and difficulty processing! ⚡️ Data Blitz 2 | 1:20 - 2:05 PM

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Millie Bhaskara

We are jumping into our second talk session at #TAMeG2026! This session features research on memory strength, motor memory retrieval, category learning, and generative AI use. Please visit tameg.weebly.com/schedule.html for the full schedule! 🕚 Talk Session 2 | 11:10 - 12:10 PM

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Shikang Peng

@speng.bsky.social

The first #TAMeG2026 Data Blitz is now alive, with rapid-fire talks spanning episodic future thinking, curiosity, autobiographical boundaries, memory for time, environmental influences, and hippocampal-hormonal links to memory. ⚡ Data Blitz 1 | 10:00 - 10:45 AM

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Shikang Peng

@speng.bsky.social

The first #TAMeG2026 Talk Session is underway, spotlighting trainees across Southern Ontario as they share new work on memory related topics! Please visit tameg.weebly.com/schedule.html to check the full schedule of the talks! 🕘 Talk Session 1 | 9:00 - 10:00 AM

22 May

Excited for #TAMeG2026 on Tues, May 26, 2026! 30 talks & data blitzes, @aliprestonphd.bsky.social keynote, Mentorship & Leadership Panel feat Mr. Ike Okafor and @efriskouw.bsky.social! This event is sold out! Arrive early for swag (supplies limited) and good seating. www.TAMeG.ca

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Brian Levine@brianlevine.bsky.social

Get ready for the #TAMeG2026 feat @aliprestonphd.bsky.social, mentorship & leadership panel: Mr. Ike Okafor, @efriskouw.bsky.social, spectacular trainee talks, lunch 🥪, and reception🥂! www.tameg.ca @barense.bsky.social @jennyrabin.bsky.social @baycrest.bsky.social @uoftpsychology.bsky.social

4 May

Bidding farewell to the multitalented Dr. @kmitchnick.bsky.social, neuroscientist (human and rodent!) and now Clinical Neuropsychologist at London Children's Hospital!

29 Apr

Registration is open for #TAMeG2026! Space is limited! Southern Ontario researchers are encouraged to register asap. Hotel rooms (Toronto Delta Chelsea) available at discounted rate till May 4. Check www.tameg.ca for details.

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@aliprestonphd.bsky.social

11 Mar

Ex-labbies' labs mingle #CNS2026! @danipalombo.bsky.social @signysheldon.bsky.social @pstjacques.bsky.social

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Alison Preston

10 Mar

Excited to join the Toronto Area Memory Group (TAMeG) for #TAMeG2026 in May as keynote speaker! I’m especially looking forward to the panel discussion on scientific mentorship and how we support the next generation of scientists.

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6 Mar

5 Mar

Check out our posters at #CNS2026 in Vancouver! @speng.bsky.social @rcyeung.bsky.social @kmitchnick.bsky.social

journals.physiology.orgAdaptive episodic memory: how multiple memory representations drive behavior in humans and nonhumans | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological SocietyEpisodic memory is a declarative long-term memory of a specific past experience. As such, it is multifaceted, encompassing both the objective and subjective components of that experience. These components can be flexibly represented at different levels of granularity, from precise, context-specific details to generalized, gistlike representations. In this review, we suggest that 1) multiple representations of an episodic memory at different levels of granularity are simultaneously encoded into a memory trace and 2) the relative weighting of these representations determines the extent to which a memory is reconstructed or reproduced at retrieval. We propose that this representational flexibility drives adaptive behavior by prioritizing reconstruction or reproduction depending on the age of the memory, its relationship to prior knowledge, current attentional goals or task demands, and individual differences. Drawing on research in humans and nonhuman animals, we show a close correspondence between psychological and neural representations of a memory across encoding, consolidation, and retrieval. Specifically, we discuss how hippocampal activity in humans and engram formation and activation in rodents support the reproduction of detailed memory representations, whereas schema formation across species, mediated by the medial prefrontal cortex, facilitates reconstruction and generalization to guide behavior. Finally, we consider how species- and individual-level differences shape episodic memory representations. By integrating findings across species, we illustrate how the correspondence between neural and psychological representations enables multiple memory representations to balance stability and flexibility, ultimately driving adaptive behavior.

13 Feb

Thrilled to see this review by the spectacular @hannahtarder-stoll.bsky.social et al. published.

Hannah Tarder-Stoll@hannahtarder-stoll.bsky.social

How do memories guide behaviour? Multiple memory representations, from detailed to gist-like, let us flexibly reconstruct or reproduce past experiences to behave adaptively across species. Now out in Physiological Reviews with Morris Moscovitch, Melanie Sekeres & @brianlevine.bsky.social!

t.cohttps://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692500515X

1 Dec 2025

Congrats to @hmsokolowski.bsky.social on seeing this 3-study paper on imagery, occupation, and gender through!

Moriah Sokolowski@hmsokolowski.bsky.social

New paper from my postdoc with @brianlevine.bsky.social now out in #PersonalityandIndividualDifferences! We examined how different types of visual imagery relate to #STEM occupations across genders using a dimensional approach to code occupational attributes. 🔗 t.co/jX6214ZY2X

Aligning eye tracking and free recall time series, we found that increased saccades predict episodic (vs. non-episodic) by 0.5 s. Just out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social, led by Ryan Barker with the inimitable @drjenryan.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Memory scientists love to cite the Petit Madeline passage from Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu." Although this passage stats with smells and tastes, these are merely tiggers for a rich visual recollection, where the the whole of Combray and its surroundings "sprang into being."

This work is often (incorrectly) cited as "Remembrance of things past." So (with apologies to Proust) we found that remembrance is—quite literally—accomplished with gazes passed.

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91 Ss freely recalled a naturalistic, staged event (the Baycrest Tour) one-week after encoding, with EMs tracked looking at a blank screen. Transcripts were segmented into internal (episodic) vs. external (non-episodic) details using the Autobiographical Interview (one of my favourite measures 😉).

Episodic details were preceded by increased saccades by about 500 ms, followed by a reduction of saccades, reflecting a temporal arc of visual reinstatement in autobiographical recollection.

While researchers have assessed eye movements in relation to free recall (e.g., x.com/michael_arms...) these have not examined the coupling of eye movements to details at the millisecond level.

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21 Nov 2025

Honoured to add my name to the ledger book of the @src-rsc.bsky.social last week in Montreal, joining those of my mentors With thanks to my trainees, colleagues, @baycrest.bsky.social and my family #rscBRAVOsrc video: lnkd.in/gXvwR2e4 @baycrestfoundation.bsky.social @uoftpsychology.bsky.social

newyorker.comSome People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are ProfoundResearch has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

1 Nov 2025

Pleased to see this @newyorker.com piece featuring our work on imagery and autobiographical memory. @baycrest.bsky.social @baycrestfoundation.bsky.social @uoftpsychology.bsky.social

The New Yorker@newyorker.com

Mental imagery is associated with a bewildering variety of human traits and capacities: a propensity to hold grudges; a vulnerability to trauma; emotional awareness; ways of making art; memory of one’s life. What happens if you can’t see it?

18 Oct 2025

I was delighted to receive the Edith Kaplan Award from the Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society and to reunite with my postdoctoral companions maxine krengel, Susan McGlynn and former supervisors Nancy Hebben and Bill Milberg!

1 Oct 2025

Thrilled to see this award to the outstanding Dr. Ryan Yeung for his work on subjectivity and the brain!

UofT Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship@uoftschmidtai.bsky.social

We're excited to welcome Ryan Yeung as a Cohort 3 #SchmidtAIinSci Fellow! Ryan works with Professors Brian Levine and Bradley Buchsbaum. His project uses deep neural networks to objectively decode subjective experiences in the brain.🧠

5 Sept 2025

I was honoured to be elected to the 2025 class of Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. I am grateful to my trainees, research assistants, funders, and donors who have made our research possible.

The Royal Society of Canada // La Société royale du Canada @src-rsc.bsky.social

Nous sommes fiers de présenter les nouveaux membres de la SRC et de son Collège de nouveaux chercheurs! Voici la promotion de 2025 : bit.ly/4p92mfS #rscBRAVOsrc Ce groupe exceptionnel sera intronisé à la SRC aux #COEE2025. Inscription : bit.ly/4mkALGU 🎉

13 Aug 2025

Saying "so long" to our outstanding summer students Jennifer Zhavoronkova & Rivka Van Klei. We will miss you!

Thx for #TAMeG2025! 🎸 @charan-neuro.bsky.social's keynote 🎤+ SciComm panel C Boyce & J Schall 🧑🏻‍🎓Alum panel S Pishdadian @diamondn.bsky.social @ivabrunec.bsky.social S Parimoo 🏆Awardees V Cramm G Mariotti & T Ignatius 💪🏼Vltrs led by @msorlando.bsky.social & M Varizi 🙌🏼And the 28 trainees who presented!

And thanks to our sponsors: @yorkuniversity.bsky.social @connectedminds.bsky.social VISTA @ York Rotman Research Inst @ Baycrest @uoftpsychology.bsky.social @torontomet.bsky.social sky.social SR Research Ltd. DYNAMIC MEMORY SOLUTIONS CCBBCS @yorku-cian.bsky.social an.bsky.social

tameg.weebly.comGallery2025 TAMeG Conference Photos Photo Credits: Tolu Faromika and Zoé Labonté

Check out the photo gallery here: tameg.weebly.com/gallery8.html

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Charan Ranganath

@charan-neuro.bsky.social

31 May 2025

Just coming back after an exhilarating meeting at #TAMeG2025. Thank you to @brianlevine.bsky.social & the amazing student organizing committee for putting together a stellar day of science. Coming back inspired for organizing the Bay Area Memory Meeting! #BAMM

tulipmarawi.bsky.social@tulipmarawi.bsky.social

The keynote presentation of #TAMeG2025 10th Anniversary 🌟 was by Dr. Charan Ranganath on “Why (and how) we remember🧠 Thank you Dr. Ranganath for an *incredible* presentation on the organization of narrative recall @charan-neuro.bsky.social @brianlevine.bsky.social 🔑 takeaways below⬇️

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The Data Blitz session wrapped up with Khalil Husein from the Fernandes and Stastna Labs on “Can computational sentiment analysis classify autobiographical memories? Comparing VADER and TextBlob” 🧠 #TAMeG2025

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Melisa Gumus from the Mack Lab on “Emergence of attentional templates in concept learning and the underlying neural mechanisms” ⚙️🧠 #TAMeG2025

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Veronica Cramm from the J. Anderson Lab on “Distinguishing true effect from the confound of scan quality” #TAMeG2025

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Audrey Li-Chay-Chung from the Addis and Rosenbaum Labs on “Using tDCS to investigate cerebellar contributions to autobiographical memory” 🧠 #TAMeG2025

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Samantha Corion from the Sokolowski Lab on “Neural correlates of mental arithmetic strategies: An fMRI meta-analysis” 🔢🧠 #TAMeG2025

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Samantha Gauvreau from the Szpunar Lab on “The impact of repeated cumulative testing on the organization of recall” 📝🧠 #TAMeG2025

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🌟 Data Blitz Session 2 also featured: Tasha Ignatius from the Wammes Lab on “Precision and feature selection during drawing influences memory” 🎯🧠 #TAMeG2025

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#TAMeG2025 Data Blitz 2 kicked off with a talk by Gahyun Kim from the LEEMTL Lab & Cirelli Lab titled “Investigating the development of temporal distance memory”🧠

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#TAMeG2025 wrapped up with a panel discussion on “Science communication and combating disinformation” featuring: 🌟 Jeffery Schall, PhD 🌟 Carrie Boyce, MA 🌟 Charan Ranganath, PhD Chaired by Morgan Barense, PhD Thank you to everyone who attended, and see you next year at #TAMeG2026!🧠

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Harleen Rai

@harleenrai.bsky.social

Wrapping up with our final talk session of #TAMeG2025, some incredible talks on memory using non-behavioural methods 🧠🔬

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Harleen Rai

@harleenrai.bsky.social

The second talk session of #TAMeG2025 is underway featuring talks on memory across development and cultural considerations for memory disorders 👶🏽🧠

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The second half of Data Blitz 1 #TAMeG2025 featured talks on childhood neural synchrony driving broader attention, cardiac modulation of familiarity in aging, vascular risk impacting midlife female brain connectivity, and lastly how semantic congruence steers episodic recall in children & adults🧠

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🌟 Rohina Kumar, RA at CBH Lab presenting at the #TAMeG2025 on “Cross-Cultural Considerations in Screening for Memory Disorders” - findings from the Canadian Multi-Ethnic Research on Aging (CAMERA) study led by Dr. Jenny Rabin @jennyrabin.bsky.social @sunnybrookhsc.bsky.social

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