Craig Poskanzer

Love seeing photos of my lab presenting at conferences. ESPECIALLY love photos of lab members who are co-presenting. Yay teamwork! 😊 Check out the poster by @CraigPoskanzer & @RaheemaJavid. Preprint below and modeling work in progress 👀 osf.io/preprints/psya…

Excited to share this project! Across 3 experiments, we find consistent evidence that encoding and prediction are coupled-- not competitive. See our preprint or come to my poster at SFN (PSTR305.12) to see some follow-up modeling work!

Are you interested in memory, attention, and prediction? Well, we have data for you! Come check out our talks and posters @CNSmtg! If you're not going to the meeting, don't worry – we'll upload our posters to our website soon after. Hope to see you at #CNS2024!

Many people enjoy trivia, but some people are way better at it than the rest of us. What is different about their memory? Our research (w/ @monica_too_ & @_laurenwilkins_) characterizing the memories of trivia experts is now out and featured in @sciam! scientificamerican.com/article/jeopar…

Writing this cover story was in many ways a dream come true. Unfortunately, it will also be the last piece I write as a staff writer at TIME—I’m being laid off. If anyone has jobs, gigs, stories, etc, please reach out at alejandrosdelagarza@gmail.com ti.me/49mSF4P

1/3 When I see an image, I can’t tell how memorable it will be, but I CAN pick up on the feelings that it evokes. Can the feelings evoked by an image help me predict its memorability? osf.io/preprints/psya…

Hippocampal differentiation of competing memories predicts the precision of memory-guided eye movements and the precision of preparatory coding in visual cortex during memory-guided attention. Excited to share this work by the inimitable Serra Favila! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@Sleep_Strong Still just trying to live up to your example!

@mariam_s_aly @andrewpapale1 Thanks so much! Echoing Mariam-- we are very interested in the HERNET model and did some initial analyses using anterior/posterior hippocampus, but we never looked specifically at background connectivity. We could definitely examine that in the future!

@andrewpapale1 @CraigPoskanzer Thanks! We were super interested in that work -- but I don't believe we found any hippocampal A/P differences in our analyses. @CraigPoskanzer can correct me if I'm wrong though!

How do we balance paying attention to the external world vs our internal thoughts? The basal forebrain & dorsal attention network dynamically interact with the hippocampus to balance external and internal attention. Super proud of @CraigPoskanzer! 😊 jneurosci.org/content/early/…

@steanze @mariam_s_aly Thanks so much Stefano!

Thrilled to share my first paper from grad school! Thanks so much to @mariam_s_aly and to the everyone from the Aly Lab for all the help along the way!

My lab @UCRiverside is recruiting for a lab manager! We use EEG + fMRI to study human memory in younger and older adults. Fab opportunity for someone thinking about grad school in the future. I’ll begin reviewing apps starting 5/1 so get ‘em in now: bit.ly/dzlabmgr

Going to #CNS2023? My lab has posters spanning visual attention, preparatory coding, episodic memory, & semantic memory — there's something for everyone! Check out our posters, conveniently located next to each other on Sunday!

Excited to announce that our paper is out in the Journal of Neuroscience @SfNJournals! With @A_Aglinskas, @Yichen74893764, and @steanze, we identified the angular gyrus as a multi-category dependence (MCD) site that jointly encodes information from different object categories.

Attention waxes and wanes. How do these fluctuations influence memory? Worse attentional states lead to more errors in the moment — but memory is just as temporally structured later on! Excited to share work led by @manasijkumar w/ @chinmayi_balusu! authors.elsevier.com/c/1gilY2Hx2tWfc

Mariam Aly @mariam_s_aly and I are looking for a full-time RA to work on a newly-funded joint NIH grant! If you have (or will soon have) a Bachelor's in psych, neuro, or a related field and are interested in cog neuro research on memory / prediction, see: tinyurl.com/alyssano

Interested in memory and prediction? Want training for a career in science? @ChrisBaldassano and I are recruiting a jointly supervised research assistant to work on NIH-funded projects examining anticipatory signals in the brain! See ad for details: tinyurl.com/alyssano

Excited to have our paper (mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/2…) in @BrainSci_MDPI. Recent imaging studies suggest face identity and expression information are encoded in common brain regions. With @katieoneuro @rebecca_saxe & @steanze, we offer a computational hypothesis for this phenomenon.

Excited to have our opinion paper (frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…) in @FrontNeurosci. With @CraigPoskanzer and @steanze, we discussed the potential of new multivariate methods for functional connectivity as well as the puzzle of nonlinear interactions between brain regions.

Mariam @mariam_s_aly discusses the many faces of the hippocampus, and how memory and attention and perception shape each other. We also talk about the mental health challenges she faced during graduate school. I'm grateful she shared her story. braininspired.co/podcast/156/