PhD candidate at Columbia, Princeton '18 Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

Joined February 2015
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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Love seeing photos of my lab presenting at conferences. ESPECIALLY love photos of lab members who are co-presenting. Yay teamwork! 😊 Check out the poster by @CraigPoskanzer & @RaheemaJavid. Preprint below and modeling work in progress 👀 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/us…

amazed at how fast a four hour poster session can fly by when you’re having fun! @CraigPoskanzer
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Excited to share this project! Across 3 experiments, we find consistent evidence that encoding and prediction are coupled-- not competitive. See our preprint or come to my poster at SFN (PSTR305.12) to see some follow-up modeling work!
Does encoding the present compete with predicting the future? In 3 behavioral studies, we find that encoding and prediction are coupled, not competitive! Proud of @CraigPoskanzer & @hannahtstoll for leading this work w/ Raheema Javid & Edoardo Spolaore! osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/us…
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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Are you interested in memory, attention, and prediction? Well, we have data for you! Come check out our talks and posters @CNSmtg! If you're not going to the meeting, don't worry – we'll upload our posters to our website soon after. Hope to see you at #CNS2024!
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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Many people enjoy trivia, but some people are way better at it than the rest of us. What is different about their memory? Our research (w/ @monica_too_ & @_laurenwilkins_) characterizing the memories of trivia experts is now out and featured in @sciam! scientificamerican.com/artic…
What makes some people better at trivia than others? in one of the most insane multi-year "research is mesearch" journeys ever, we (me @_laurenwilkins_ @mariam_s_aly ) ran a study to answer this very question! psyarxiv.com/fm82b/ check it out!! 1/ 🧵
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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Writing this cover story was in many ways a dream come true. Unfortunately, it will also be the last piece I write as a staff writer at TIME—I’m being laid off. If anyone has jobs, gigs, stories, etc, please reach out at alejandrosdelagarza@gmail.com ti.me/49mSF4P
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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
1/3 When I see an image, I can’t tell how memorable it will be, but I CAN pick up on the feelings that it evokes. Can the feelings evoked by an image help me predict its memorability? osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/gr…

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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Hippocampal differentiation of competing memories predicts the precision of memory-guided eye movements and the precision of preparatory coding in visual cortex during memory-guided attention. Excited to share this work by the inimitable Serra Favila! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Thrilled to share my first paper from grad school! Thanks so much to @mariam_s_aly and to the everyone from the Aly Lab for all the help along the way!
How do we balance paying attention to the external world vs our internal thoughts? The basal forebrain & dorsal attention network dynamically interact with the hippocampus to balance external and internal attention. Super proud of @CraigPoskanzer! 😊 jneurosci.org/content/early/…
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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
My lab @UCRiverside is recruiting for a lab manager! We use EEG fMRI to study human memory in younger and older adults. Fab opportunity for someone thinking about grad school in the future. I’ll begin reviewing apps starting 5/1 so get ‘em in now: bit.ly/dzlabmgr

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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Going to #CNS2023? My lab has posters spanning visual attention, preparatory coding, episodic memory, & semantic memory — there's something for everyone! Check out our posters, conveniently located next to each other on Sunday!
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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Excited to announce that our paper is out in the Journal of Neuroscience @SfNJournals! With @A_Aglinskas, @Yichen74893764, and @steanze, we identified the angular gyrus as a multi-category dependence (MCD) site that jointly encodes information from different object categories.
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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Attention waxes and wanes. How do these fluctuations influence memory? Worse attentional states lead to more errors in the moment — but memory is just as temporally structured later on! Excited to share work led by @manasijkumar w/ @chinmayi_balusu! authors.elsevier.com/c/1gilY…
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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Mariam Aly @mariam_s_aly and I are looking for a full-time RA to work on a newly-funded joint NIH grant! If you have (or will soon have) a Bachelor's in psych, neuro, or a related field and are interested in cog neuro research on memory / prediction, see: tinyurl.com/alyssano
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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Interested in memory and prediction? Want training for a career in science? @ChrisBaldassano and I are recruiting a jointly supervised research assistant to work on NIH-funded projects examining anticipatory signals in the brain! See ad for details: tinyurl.com/alyssano
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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Excited to have our paper (mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/2/296) in @BrainSci_MDPI. Recent imaging studies suggest face identity and expression information are encoded in common brain regions. With @katieoneuro @rebecca_saxe & @steanze, we offer a computational hypothesis for this phenomenon.

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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Excited to have our opinion paper (frontiersin.org/articles/10.…) in @FrontNeurosci. With @CraigPoskanzer and @steanze, we discussed the potential of new multivariate methods for functional connectivity as well as the puzzle of nonlinear interactions between brain regions.

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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
Mariam @mariam_s_aly discusses the many faces of the hippocampus, and how memory and attention and perception shape each other. We also talk about the mental health challenges she faced during graduate school. I'm grateful she shared her story. braininspired.co/podcast/156…
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Craig Poskanzer retweeted
How do we balance paying attention to the external world vs internal thoughts? Hippocampus shows differential coupling with basal forebrain & dorsal attention network for externally cued vs memory-guided attention Proud of @CraigPoskanzer for this work! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Thrilled to share my work with @steanze. Connectivity between brain regions can transform information nonlinearly - in this paper we propose and validate a novel method to 1) identify nonlinear interactions and 2) distinguish between different kinds of nonlinear interactions.
Network Neuroscience (2022) 6 (4): 1296–1315. Functional coordinates: Modeling interactions between brain regions as points in a function space. direct.mit.edu/netn/article/… by @CraigPoskanzer & @steanze
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4. Finally, we demonstrated that there were small, but significant nonlinearities in the FFA’s interactions with other regions.
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5. Understanding nonlinearities in neural interactions is an important topic in computational neuroscience. We hope that our method can be a useful tool in this effort!
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