Tima Zeng

Wonder what 2020 did to your memory or sense of time? 🚨 Now out in @PNASNews 🚨 we tracked how collective events and individuals’ emotional state (sampled throughout 2020) shaped spontaneous autobiographical memory across 3 years in the same ~1000 participants. (1/9)

Amazing opportunity!

This is a "pinch me" moment—but I have exciting news! In Fall 2024, I will be an Assistant Prof of Psychology at Binghamton University. My lab will use human behavior, computational methods, and fMRI to study how we build, represent, and use concepts. I can't wait to get started!

I’m very proud to share: A smartphone intervention that enhances real-world memory and promotes differentiation of hippocampal activity in older adults. Work led by @_chris__martin_, w/ @chrishoney @bryan_hong_ @rachelnewsome @melellen_m (1/6) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Excited to share a new preprint with Asieh Zadbood, @AChanales, @LilaDavachi 😃 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We show that repeated encoding significantly enhances cortical replay and hippocampal-cortical coordinated replay, but not replay in hippocampus.

Scientists seek truth. But what is truth to a brain-body-environmental system? In this chapter, I explore the ways in which embodied concepts shape our shared knowledge and therefore our truths: link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… (Foreshadow: W. James pretty much had it nailed down.)

New #preprint! @JamesWardAntony and I try to reconcile the mixed findings on the effects that reactivation during sleep has on complex, multi-item memories. We argue that learning trajectories set during wake go on to determine the course of consolidation psyarxiv.com/u48fp

Musical Experience Relates to Insula-Based Functional Connectivity in Older Adults | new #musicscience collab @May27Ai @CBHLab mdpi.com/1955426 #mdpibrainsci via @BrainSci_MDPI

@alicex78 Well said. Somehow being top at both warmth and competence.

So exciting! Alexa is a creative and rigorous researcher, so generous with her time, and somehow always manages to achieve brilliant things like it's a walk in the park. Cannot recommended this opportunity enough!

@AlexaTompary 👍 Would definitely apply if I were to get a second psychology phd

Come work with this amazing mentor @AlexaTompary!! I am so jealous of people who apply this cycle for the opportunity to work with Alexa.

In a randomized, double-blind, phase II trial, Koch et al. find that 24 weeks of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the precuneus slows down cognitive and functional decline in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. bit.ly/3SUOGnv

My sleep model w/ @AnnaSchapiro & @ptoncompmemlab now out in @PNASNews! We simulate how hippocampal-neocortical interactions promote memory consolidation, with NREM/REM alternation facilitating integration of new information into existing knowledge pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Hi all, We have a new RA opening in my lab! #musicscience and #AlzheimersDisease research. People skills required; Computational/data skills are a major +. Details here, pls RT northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Bo…

Applying to PhD programs & interested in studying human memory? Be sure to consider my lab @UCRiverside! We use fMRI and EEG to look at memory (and esp how context influences our memories) in younger adults & healthy older adults. Apps are due by Dec 1st: bit.ly/UCRPhDApp

@MarlieTandoc I always did homework and watched TV at the same time when I was a kid. This explains everything.

SO excited to share this preprint!💫 Our tasks/goals shape what we learn vs. ignore. We find that while true for adults, it is not for kids. Kids learned equally well regardless if information was the focus of a task or if it was entirely task irrelevant psyarxiv.com/aqw28

Trying to predict conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease? Using factor scores is an easy-to-use and powerful approach for this, and using factor scores from multiple data modalities is even better. Welcome to check our new paper: tandfonline.com/eprint/JB8JFGU…