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 database of news videos for investigating the dynamics of emotion and memory. Behavior Research Methods.
    • This paper comes along with a news video database with norms for emotion and memorability, available here. We are using these videos in some of our work on emotion regulation and memory.
  • Cooper, R.A. & Ritchey, M. (in press). Progression from feature-specific brain activity to hippocampal binding during episodic encoding. The Journal of Neuroscience.
    • Rose will be presenting these results in a Data Blitz talk at CNS.

SCIENCE OUTREACH

• In December, Rosie, Rose, and I participated in a “Meet the Scientists” event at the Discovery Museum in Acton, MA (see photo). As part of their Science & Engineering Communication Fellowship program, I developed activities to teach kids about memory and the brain, which we unveiled at their open house event.

FUTURE PRESENTATIONS

• Helen Schmidt, Rose Cooper, and Rosie Samide will be presenting posters at CNS2020 in March. Rose will additionally be presenting in the Data Blitz.
• I will be giving talks at the upcoming CRAM meeting in May and FENS meeting in July (stay tuned).