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New paper out from the Duncan Lab in Nature Human Behaviour! Congratulations to lead author Thomas Biba @tbiba.bsky.social for all his hard work through the peaks and troughs, seeing this through to publication! Big thanks to our collaborators! @lexidecker.bsky.social @tvaliante.bsky.social

Please spread the word: We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣 We study how shifting brain & attentional states shape memory and how people experience their worlds. fMRI/iEEG + a fun, supportive lab community + space to pursue your own ideas. 📅 Apply by Aug 15 tinyurl.com/fx5k7teb

Congratulations to Catalina M. Yang @catalinayang.bsky.social on her new publication with Drs. Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense: "Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error-driven updating of naturalistic event memory" Read here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42421582/

The Duncan Memory Lab and the Finn LAND Lab at the University of Toronto, Department of Psychology, are hiring a Full-Time Joint Lab Manager. Commitment: 1–2 years (Ideal for pre-grad school experience). Start Date: Early June Deadline: May 20th, 11:59 PM. Please help circulate the linked ad! TY!

Many claim memory biases toward percepts reflect corruption in sensory signals. We challenge this view by showing that ppl adapt their integration rationally w/ experience. w/ @timbrady.bsky.social Humans adaptively integrate memory and perception based on stimulus history | osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thank you to the conference organizers @cogneuronews.bsky.social for the wonderful CNS2026 experience! We were excited that @catalinayang.bsky.social and @matthewdougherty.bsky.social got to share their amazing work! Thank you to everyone who attended the sessions! #CNS2026 #UofT #psychology

Thank you to all conference organizations for the wonderful CNS2026 experience! @cogneuronews.bsky.social We were excited that @catalinayang.bsky.social and @matthewdougherty.bsky.social got to share their amazing work! Thank you to everyone who attended the sessions! #CNS2026 #UofT #psychology

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Our lab will be presenting at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference this year #CNS2026! Learn more from our graduate students in their sessions! @catalinayang.bsky.social and @matthewdougherty.bsky.social

“[It's] giving me the dedicated resources to focus in on this really exciting new research area, and take the calculated risks necessary to make new discoveries,” says @artsci.utoronto.ca Prof. Katherine Duncan. www.utoronto.ca/news/decodin...

🧠 The MackLab (@drmack.bsky.social) will be presenting at #CNS2026! Stop by our posters to chat about learning, insight, and hippocampus!

Episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz

❗New Paper❗Is children's attention more like a spotlight that darts across time, or one that diffuses across many things at once? How might children's immature attention help their learning? Our Dev Sci Paper has answers! 🧵🎯 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41549519/

Our stellar graduate alum Dr. Alexandra Decker is looking for a Lab Manager for her lab, the Learning and Development lab@WashU! 🧠 If you are interested in attention, learning and memory in children and adults, this is the place to be. See her posts for more details! #Research #Psychology

We're thrilled to announce the publication of our newest paper in @plosone.org 🎉 "Aging and episodic memory specificity: Evidence challenging a domain-general pattern separation decline" Read Dr. Youm's full paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... @melaniecohn.bsky.social #Memory #Psychology #Aging

Our graduate student @catalinayang.bsky.social shows that prediction errors only destabilize weakly reactivated memories. Strong memories? They are more impervious to surprise. Check out our #preprint with @barense.bsky.social to learn more osf.io/preprints/ps... #UofT #Psychology

Here is a link to our newest paper published with Wangjing Yu, Katherine Duncan and @megschlichting.bsky.social. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

New preprint in the Duncan Lab On a roll: Recent familiarity primes the brain to retrieve other memories via dopaminergic nuclei mechanisms www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come and check out recent Duncan Lab findings at CNS 2025!