03-08-2024

Welcome Valentina!

A warm welcome to Valentina Krenz, who recently joined the lab as a postdoc. Valentina graduated with her PhD from the University Hamburg, and she’...


03-08-2024

Welcome Natalia!

A warm welcome to Natalia Ladyka-Wojcik, who recently joined the lab as a postdoc. Natalia graduated with her PhD from the University of Toronto, a...


10-11-2023

A new look at memory reinstatement

Over the past couple of years, the MemoLab has been working a new line of research using eye tracking to measure memory reinstatement. This work ha...


09-04-2023

New preprint on bioRxiv

Interested in individual differences in memory networks? Check out our new pre-print on bioRxiv, “Intrinsic functional connectivity among memory ne...


08-23-2023

Accepting grad applications

I will be accepting applications from prospective PhD students in the upcoming cycle. You can find general information about applying to the BC Psy...


07-24-2023

Dr. Kyle Kurkela, PhD

Congratulations to Dr. Kyle Kurkela, who successfully defended his dissertation today! His dissertation was entitled, The relationship between brai...


05-20-2023

Congrats to our graduating seniors!

This year we say goodbye to our largest– and most involved– senior class yet. Congratulations and thank you to Tingwei (Jerry) Hu, Maria Noyes, Ris...


05-11-2023

Dr. Paula Brooks, PhD

Congratulations to Dr. Paula Brooks, who successfully defended her dissertation today! Paula is/was a PhD student at Princeton University and a vis...


03-01-2023

Tenure!

Maureen has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Boston College. This is a win for everyone who has contributed to our lab’s researc...


08-25-2022

Welcome Nina

Welcome to our new graduate student, Nina Curko!


08-10-2022

Welcome Bri

Welcome to our new lab coordinator, Brigitte (Bri) Guzman!


07-17-2022

Open postdoc positions

These positions have now been filled, but if you’re interested in possible future positions, please get in touch. We are actively recruiting 2 pos...


07-15-2022

R01 project funded by the NIMH

The NIMH has funded our R01 project, Brain networks predicting variability in episodic memory quality. Stay tuned for more details on open RA and p...


03-29-2022

Dr. Rosalie Samide

Congratulations to Dr. Rosie Samide, who successfully defended her dissertation today! Her dissertation was entitled, Role of memory processes in t...


08-30-2021

NSF CAREER Award

It’s really happening! The lab is now funded by an NSF CAREER award, Cognitive and neural factors shaping the multidimensional quality of episodic ...


10-14-2020

Fall update

We are currently seven months into pandemic mode. Boston College is “re-open” to the extent that undergraduates are back on campus, and some classe...


01-28-2020

Recent lab highlights

NEW PAPERS I’m excited to share two recent in-press papers from our lab: Samide, R., Cooper, R.A. & Ritchey, M. (in press). A da...


09-05-2019

Accepting applications for fall 2020

I will be accepting applications from prospective PhD students in the upcoming cycle. You can find general information about applying to the BC psy...


06-01-2019

Congrats to our seniors!

Congrats to all of the seniors graduating from the MemoLab: Lunbei Hu, Emily Iannazzi, Maria Khoudary, Samantha Murphy, Julia Napoli, Paula Ruiz, a...


04-01-2019

New lab papers (!!!)

Very excited to share the first MemoLab papers, which arrived as a pair on consecutive days in March. Both projects were led by postdoc Rose Cooper...


03-06-2019

Symposium at CNS 2019

The MemoLab will be at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting in San Francisco, March 23-26. Maureen will be chairing a symposium on Sunday af...


01-31-2019

NARSAD grant awarded

We were recently awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation for our project, Neural mechanisms suppo...


11-01-2018

SFN 2018

Maureen and Rose will be in San Diego Nov 3-7 for the Society for Neuroscience meeting. Rose will be presenting her poster on Sunday afternoon, HH...


08-09-2018

Welcome Helen

We are pleased to welcome Helen Schmidt as our new lab manager. Helen recently completed her Masters at University College London, where she used M...


02-14-2018

Lab manager position available

This position has now been filled. The Memory Modulation Lab at Boston College is hiring a full-time Research Assistant/ Lab Manager for an antici...


11-02-2017

Coming soon to SFN

The MemoLab will be in DC Nov 11-15 for the Society for Neuroscience meeting. POSTERS: Monday afternoon, poster VV23 - Effects of contextual r...


10-02-2017

Lab retreat 2017

There’s something about the fall– the crisp air, the anticipation of a new year– that makes me feel like I can do anything. This year, we tried to ...


06-09-2017

Welcome Rose

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Rose Cooper to the Memory Modulation Lab. Rose completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she studied ...


12-20-2016

Lab-warming party

We recently celebrated the end of our first semester by hosting a lab-warming party– hot cocoa, cider, and all. Many thanks to the rest of the BC P...


12-02-2016

New paper on post-encoding stress

Stressful experiences can have a powerful influence on what we learn and remember. Prior work has shown that stress after learning can influence la...


09-26-2016

Fall apple picking

Lab trip to Smolak Farms, followed by collaborative baking


07-12-2016

Summer status update

The lab officially opened its doors on July 1st. I’m happy to report that lab renovations are done, IRBs are submitted, and R00 funding is pending ...


01-31-2016

MTL parcellation paper in press

Now available online! This paper extends some of our prior work (Ritchey et al., 2014, JoCN) by using resting-state functional connectivity to parc...


01-09-2016

Welcome to our new website

Welcome to the official website of the Memory Modulation Lab! Our lab opens its physical doors at Boston College in July, but today marks the openi...


11-06-2015

Planning for the big move

I traveled to Boston College this past week to meet with the lab renovation team. Our new space is going to have quiet office space for grad studen...