PostDoc at Columbia @dcnlabcolumbia (PI: Dima Amso). @UBC cogs & @UofT psych alumna. I study how learning changes with brain and cog. development.
Joined December 2011
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I'm so excited this is out!! We wrote a review about how the nature of statistical learning may change with development. Feeling very lucky to have had the dream team of mentors to think (and write) about these issues with ⭐️ @amysuefinn @megschlichting @duncanlabUofT
'Changes in statistical learning across development', a new Review by @tessforest, @megschlichting, Katherine D. Duncan & @amysuefinn
Web: go.nature.com/3IJQaxD
ReadCube: rdcu.be/c6JFh
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Thrilled to share our new preprint validating personalized fMRI state segmentation during event processing. Thanks to our amazing collaborators @amysuefinn Huiqin Chen @whartonshumthin, intrepid project lead @robyn_e_wilford and Linda Geerligs for developing the GSBS algorithm.
🧠First preprint of my PhD📑
We validated the GSBS segmentation algorithm for use on individual-level fMRI data, allowing the event cognition field to begin exploring how idiosyncratic neural state shifts relate to how each of us uniquely perceive events: osf.io/preprints/osf/4b3f2
Early Caregiver Predictability Shapes Neural Indices of Statistical Learning Later in Infancy! Out today in Dev. Science 🙂 A team effort (!) w/ coauthors incl. @dcnlabcolumbia @laurel_joy_gd @SarahMcCormick1 Nwabisa Mlandu, Michal Zieff and @KirstyDonald onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
This helps us understand why past research shows a link between caregiver predictability and cognitive outcomes across species (hot topic @FluxSociety this week!): nuanced variation in early predictable experiences shapes the development of core learning processes early in life.
Wahoo! Was fun to get some feedback on this new line of work :)
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New paper out! We show how children really are little sponges, learning to the same extent regardless of whether we tell them to focus or not! And the fact that @MarlieTandoc managed to see this through from her lab-manager days will forever impress me!! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Job alert! Looking for a postdoc with experience and interest in EEG, sleep, memory consolidation, and/or aging for a recently funded 3-year project. Feel free to email me with any questions. Link below for job ad: win.uwo.ca/img/Final%20job%2…
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This paper is now officially out in @JOCN_Journal! In it, we use intracranial recordings to explore how the brain rapidly extracts temporal structure across experiences!
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article/…
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U of T researchers have shown that while children struggle to pay attention, they still take in information — even info they are instructed to ignore — and there may be many reasons why this is beneficial.
Read more about the study: bit.ly/3J8CugC
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Looking for a postdoc! This position would focus on understanding shifts of covert attention that occur before eye movements using EEG and eye-tracking. There would be opportunities for research on capture as well. More info here:
erecruit.umsystem.edu/psp/ta…
Maternal predictability differs based on environmental affordances! Come check out these @dcnlabcolumbia lab managers’ poster this morning at #aps2023 👏🏻👏🏻
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The first kid fMRI study I ever helped scan is out now! ⭐️A real joy to learn from @yaelanjung @amysuefinn and @DirkBWalther throughout this project (and the results are pretty cool, too!)
#JNeurosci: @yaelanjung, @tessforest, @DirkBWalther, and @amysuefinn @UofT show that attention works differently in children's brains compared to adults', likely allowing children to learn about facts that are not immediately relevant for a task.
jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…
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Want to know more about the development of auditory and visual statistical learning and its relation to language acquisition? Until July 3, you can download our longitudinal study of 5-7-year-olds for free
Paper w/Evan Kidd, @JArciuli and Michael Smithson
authors.elsevier.com/c/1h4SA…
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*Developmental Cognitive Neuroscientists* Come work with me @NICHD_NIH ! My branch is searching for a new PO! nichd.nih.gov/about/jobs#CDB…
Applying for a fed job is NOT straightforward, and the calls to be eligible for this position are opening SOON!
Reach out if you are interested!
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A grad school bound student asked if I had any advice. Like many students w this opportunity, she is bright, ambitious, and prepared. So, I had only two pieces of advice:
1. Get a hobby that you can commit to at least two hours a week
2. Get a citation manager
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Children and adults form different memories during statistical learning! Happy to have this paper with
Zahra Abolghasem, @amysuefinn, and @megschlichting out in Child Development today 🥳 See below for a mini-thread, or read it yourself here: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com… .
This means that older children and adults are forming memories which are less veridical than younger children: younger learners only endorsed exact matches with their experience as "old" but older learners also endorsed temporally shuffled versions of common experiences as "old"