@jonsimons
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology, and Head of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge. Husband, father of two boys and one dog, half-pint rower and ex-cricketer www.memlab.psychol.cam.ac.uk
Great to see the Conservatives wanting to reform student loans. Would like to see an account for Osborne replacing maintenance grants with loans in 2015. This has left poorer students with bigger debts vs richer ones for a whole decade, compounding inequality between rich and poor. It’s scandalous.
New MemLab publication led by Will Duckett finds that only trial-by-trial measures reveal links between subjectively experienced vividness and objective memory accuracy in younger and older adults, and people with aphantasia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🌟 Congratulations to @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social, who was awarded The Brenda Milner Best Paper Prize by a PhD or MPhil Student in the Cambridge Department of Psychology
📣 Four exceptional researchers in the School of Biological Sciences have been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grants!
Congratulations to all ERC awardees!
@camzoology.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social
New paper in Psych Review on a model of false recognition in Deese-Roediger-McDermott DRM task.
Not just recognition responses, but also associated RTs!
And not just the semantic task, but also the structural task - where words overlap in orthography/phonology!
A thread!
As someone who regularly stands on this station platform, I can tell you it looks a lot less idyllic now
We are recruiting volunteers for in-person studies run by the Memory Lab at the University of Cambridge.
If you are interested, please complete this form: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
If you have any questions, please email memlab@psychol.cam.ac.uk
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Blimey!
So lucky to work in this beautiful place
The podcast is now available on Spotify!
You can still take part in our survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Image of the Sun.
Taken at night.
Not looking up at sky but down through 8000 miles of rock to the other side of the Earth.
Not with light but neutrinos.
One in four comatose (behaviourally non-responsive) patients in the ICU following a serious brain injury show us they are aware using fNIRS - published today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
You'd get to work a lot with me as I'm research director!
New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent.
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Person in a pink sweater smiling with eyes closed, with text reading 'Do you have a memory so vivid you can relive it?'
Do you have a memory so vivid you can relive it?
@campsydept.bsky.social and @durham.ac.uk are exploring how vivid human memories work across our lives – and how ideas about them have evolved over time.
Your experiences could help us understand memory better.
Take our survey: bit.ly/3J1FQ8y
Released today! My new album, North, has been nearly three years in the making. Listen for free on Bandcamp, or buy a copy to download and help me with the mastering costs. #PopUpKings #nordicjazz #ambient #postrock #instrumental
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Vivid memories are all over the BBC website front page! It takes just a few minutes to complete our public survey: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The brilliant @kasiamojescik.bsky.social and Martha McGill join @claudiahammond.bsky.social and @catherineloveday.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind this morning to launch our new public survey of vivid memories. You can take part here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social
Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall.
Jane was a much-loved member of the conservation community in Cambridge and worldwide. She completed her PhD at @darwincollegecam.bsky.social and was an Honorary Fellow at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzR...
Can reading a book make you a better person?
Reading books is declining. But people who read weekly book excerpts & podcasts instead of meditating had the greatest reductions in aggression and growth in compassionate love, positive attitudes & altruism
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/can-readin...
Invitation to a potential replication project. rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...
A review just in time for our 59th Wedding Anniversary on 1st September
Scenes from a Marriage: How We Found Our Way from Experimental Psychology to Social Neuroscience | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Very sad to hear this news. The Creative Mind one of the books that inspired me to study cognition and the brain. Lucky to meet Maggie a couple of times years later, emphasised value of conversations across disciplines. Didn’t understand everything, but learned a lot!
The Cambridge Alumni Magazine wanted to find out what a few MemLab researchers are up to. Read about Martha McGill, Will Duckett and Julia Maybury and their fascinating research in this article from the latest issue.
Could Cambridge be your next career move?
Hear what attracted three international academics to come to Cambridge, and explore 150+ vacancies on our new look website at cam.ac.uk/jobs
#HEjobs #Careers #UniJobs #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs #PhDChat #Hiring #UniversityJobs #Careers
Happy birthday Brenda Milner! 🧠🎉
Today is her 107th birthday, she's a legend, a superhero.
