Lexi Decker

Thank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections

Reposting, in case you missed it! 8-) Reskeet appreciated!

It’s been two years since Ontario Place West Island was destroyed for a planned private spa. Hundreds of trees were cut down - here’s a snapshot of the many species who lost habitat. 🧵

New preprint! Are attentional lapses the result of disengagement or simply response failure? Using EEG, we tested how attention fluctuations impact visual representations in the brain. (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper 🍼📄 ManyBabies 3 is out (open access, registered report in Developmental Science). 30 labs, 33 languages, 839 infants set out to replicate a textbook finding: 7-month-olds learn abstract rules from speech (@garymarcus.bsky.social et al., 1999). We didn’t find it. 🧵

There are 2 tenure-track searches happening at UT Austin Psychology @utaustin.bsky.social! Dev/Social: apply.interfolio.com/194041 Clinical: apply.interfolio.com/194045 Please apply and be my colleague! Austin is awesome, UT is awesome, and the department is awesome⭐

Two tenure track positions are open in Computer Science @mcgill.ca ! Secure Software mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill... Quantum Computing mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill... Come join our department, and live in the coolest city in North America! (Yeah, I stand by that.)

New tenure track position call for cognitive science at UCSD: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04633

Announcing two tenure-track faculty openings in the Psych Dept at Northwestern University: Cognitive/Affective Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology psychology.northwestern.edu/people/facul...

This is fantastic reporting. Study was about to provide data that could have contributed to understanding why Black Americans face twice the risk of Alzheimer’s dementia as white Americans. So, of course, the Trump team terminated it.

The call for participation for the first inaugural Event Cognition Conference is live! franco.nd.edu/events/confe... franco.nd.edu/assets/67910...

Executive function develops across childhood. A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology critically examines how executive function is measured and synthesizes evidence on how experience fosters the development of executive function skills. 🔒

Honored to be featured, thanks @franciscorr25.bsky.social and @thetransmitter.bsky.social! It was exciting to share my vision for the lab (thesonglab.github.io) and reflect on the wisdom my mentors have passed on⭐️

The CATS Lab is moving to Columbia next year, and I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle to start Fall 2027 in the Department of Psychology. Learn more about how to apply here: psychology.columbia.edu/content/prep... I am also recruiting a postdoc and staff for 2027. More info coming soon!

More U.S. kids live in net worth poverty than income poverty, and almost no one studies it. Our new paper argues wealth deprivation shapes children's development in its own right, and that standard wealth measures miss the debts poorer families carry. academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan...

So excited to have you here @rbanda.bsky.social and for all the cool work we're going to do together!

Btw late news but I’m now a predoc with @lexidecker.bsky.social @ the How We Learn Lab!!! 📊📑🎊🧠

The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU has an opening for a postdoctoral scholar! Deadline is May 1. ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...

A cyclist was seriously injured at Eglinton & Oakwood last night. Now that the Eglinton Crosstown LRT is open, the #BikeTO community deserves to know WHEN will the long promised bike lanes on that street be installed? #shame #TOpoli #VisionZero CC www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Excited to share our paper (with @jzacks.bsky.social), now out in JEP:LMC! Event boundaries sometimes disrupt temporal order memory in list-based paradigms—but what happens in narratives with more complex structures that better resemble real life? ✨ Link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Super cool paper led by the amazing @tbiba.bsky.social suggesting that we form memories at the theta rhythm! And even cooler that these rhythms can actually be detected with careful behavioral manipulations!

Super cool paper led by the amazing Thomas Biba showing that episodic memory is theta rhythmic! And even cooler that these rhythms can actually be detected with behavioral memory data (my favorite type of data!).

I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠

"..hippocampal-prefrontal systems represent emotion concepts in a map-like way at multiple levels of abstraction.." Map-like representations of emotion knowledge in hippocampal-prefrontal systems by @yumengma.bsky.social and @pkragel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Awake infant fMRI offers a rare window into early brain and cognitive development. In a new paper out now in Infancy, we leverage data from hundreds of infant scans from the Saxe and Turk-Browne Labs to reveal what factors drive scanning success — and how future studies can maximize data retention!

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

Apply here! wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

My lab is recruiting a postdoc and a full-time research technician to work on an NIH-funded project studying age-related changes in memory for naturalistic events. Behavior, fMRI, and blood-based biomarkers. 3+ years funding guaranteed. Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykjfbnj8 Tech: tinyurl.com/2f2hw3f5

"The decision in Cycle Toronto v Ontario was a strong rebuke to government overreach when those actions put people’s lives at risk and are unsupported by facts and data. We look forward to defending that victory in court on Jan. 28.”

Thanks to @shawnballard.bsky.social for this terrific synopsis of our latest work in @cellpress.bsky.social. The details of how stimulant medications like Ritalin work inside the brain will surprise you! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...