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In the Memory Modulation Lab, we use the tools of cognitive neuroscience to answer questions about memory and the brain.

Department of Psychology

Research Funding:
NIMH R00103401
BBRF NARSAD YIA

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The Memory Modulation Lab
PI: Maureen Ritchey
140 Commonwealth Ave., McGuinn 300
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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Mar 6, 2019 » Symposium at CNS 2019
Jan 31, 2019 » NARSAD grant awarded
Nov 1, 2018 » SFN 2018

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Symposium at CNS 2019

NARSAD grant awarded

Brain networks supporting episodic memory (SFN 2018)

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MemoLab postdoc Rose Cooper will be presenting at SFN 2018 - Brain networks supporting the composition and precision of episodic memory. Download

SFN 2018

Welcome Helen!

Lab manager position available

Running mriqc and fmriprep on the cluster

Contextual reinstatement & emotional memory (SFN 2017)

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Rosie Samide presented preliminary results from our lab's first fMRI study, focused on medial temporal lobe contributions to retrieving emotional associations when the encoding context is reinstated or shifted.

Neural dynamics of context-guided retrieval (SFN 2017)

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Max Bluestone presented preliminary results from our lab's first EEG study, focused on the neural processes involved in using contextual cues to guide associative retrieval and how these processes are modulated by motivation.

Coming soon to SFN

Lab retreat 2017

Welcome Rose!

Lab-warming party

Stress affects recent memories by acting as a mnemonic filter

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How do stressful experiences influence memories for recent events? Using fMRI, we showed that stress selectively protects memories that had been "tagged" by hippocampal and amygdala activity during learning, acting as a mnemonic filter.

New paper on post-encoding stress

Fall apple picking

Summer status update

MTL parcellation paper in press

Welcome to our new website

A new model for understanding what makes emotional memories stick

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Why do emotional memories stick with us for so long? We argue that emotional memories include item-emotion bindings supported by the amygdala that last longer than item-context bindings supported by the hippocampus.

Multi-voxel evidence for context memory over time

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What happens to memories & their neural substrates over time? By studying multi-voxel patterns in the hippocampus, we showed that, as long as the memories retain context information, the hippocampus is still involved in their representation.

Identifying memory systems in action & at rest

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How can we best understand the neural organization of memory? By using a combination of resting-state functional connectivity and task fMRI techniques, we showed that there are two memory networks that affiliate during rest and play similar roles in memory encoding.

Planning for the big move