Want to learn more about how emotional memories become distorted, especially under anxiety? Please check out our recent blog post: https://www.psypost.org/emotional-arousal-can-cause-memories-to-blur-together-especially-in-anxious-individuals/
PhD student Erin Morrow was selected to attend the AAAS CASE Workshop to learn hands-on science advocacy strategies and best practices. She also participated in a Hill Day, urging multiple congressional offices to support increased federal funding for basic research.
We are excited to welcome an excellent new team of undergraduate research assistants to support projects related to the cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory!
These department awards recognize contributions to undergraduate and graduate teaching as well as contributions to mentoring PhD students both within and across labs.
The SANS Innovation Award recognizes a particular article authored by a SANS member and published in a scholarly outlet that makes a contribution likely to generate the discovery of new hypotheses, new phenomena, or new ways of thinking about the discipline of social and affective neuroscience.
This UCLA funding will support their summer projects examining how arousal dysregulation relates to memory deficits in PTSD and how amygdala-hippocampal pathways consolidate emotional memories at boundaries, respectively.
Our recent findings on how dynamic emotional states influence memory (McClay et al., 2023) was featured in multiple outlets https://nature.altmetric.com/details/155459981/blogs). Dr. Clewett and lead author Mason McClay also discussed their work on NPR's "Science Friday" segment (https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/music-memory/) and BBC 4 Radio's "All in the Mind" podcast (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001tgzg). We welcome and look forward to any ...
Congratulations to first-year PhD student Brandon Katerman on earning an NSF-GRFP award! Brandon's project will use intracranial EEG recordings to examine how amygdala-hippocampal dynamics support the storage of emotional memories.
Congrats to Ringo and Mason for presenting posters/lightning talks on how temporally dynamic emotional and attentional states influence event structure in memory!
Brandon will be an incoming PhD student in fall 2023. Brandon previously worked in the labs of Dr. Michael Kahana (UPENN) and Dr. Vishnu Murty (Temple University), where he used free recall and EEG methods to study the organization of human memory.