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Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

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The Memory Modulation Lab
PI: Maureen Ritchey
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Resources for new faculty


Fall update


Recent lab highlights


Accepting applications for fall 2020


Congrats to our seniors!


Memories fade - Psychological Science


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New paper out in Psych Science!  

Networks supporting memory quality - eLife


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New paper out in eLife!  

New lab papers (!!!)


Symposium at CNS 2019


Emotional memories & the MTL - Neuropsychologia


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New paper out in Neuropsychologia!  

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


How to run 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