Assistant Teaching Professor in Psych & Brain Sciences at UCSB, competitive gaming enthusiast, craft beer lover, crazy cat lady, mom. She/her 🏳️🌈
Joined June 2011
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5 Jul 2023
I'm deeply excited about supporting & mentoring students, developing engaging neuroscience courses, and working alongside my incredible colleagues in @UCSBpsych
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5 Jul 2023
I will also be at the @FUNfaculty workshop in a few weeks - hope to see some of you there!
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19 Jan 2022
In light of the childcare Wordle trend, I thought it would be "fun" to illustrate the childcare we've had access to for the past year or so while we both work full-time. Yellow denotes partial care, green is for full day. It's been a brutal year.
ALT Array of squares that are mostly red with scattered green and yellow ones.
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23 Mar 2022
And btw, parents still have to pay the full monthly rate even if their kid is out for half the month. We're lucky that it's *only* about $1900 a month for UCSB employees here - I've heard far worse numbers from friends in big cities.
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23 Mar 2022
So anyway - try to be patient with your colleagues and instructors with little ones. We're doing our best!
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Samantha Scudder retweeted
26 Jul 2021
The Sprague Lab has a job opening for a Junior Specialist to help with ongoing projects in the lab. Full ad here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02013.
Read more about our work at spraguelab.psych.ucsb.edu
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Samantha Scudder retweeted
2 Feb 2021
new paper from my postdoc work: we found that an attended distractor during spatial WM transiently disrupts neural WM representations, but they recover. importantly, the distractor induced a neural bias in visual, but not parietal, cortex, which predicted behavior recall errors
2 Feb 2021
Working Memory Representations in Visual Cortex Mediate the Effects of Distraction biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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20 Jan 2021
Beautiful work from @flickerfusion (as always)!
20 Jan 2021
"Striatal activity topographically reflects cortical activity": the relationship between cortical and striatal activity is topographic, consistent, causal, and scalable with learning (w/ @basal_gang @SteinmetzNeuro @kennethd_harris @MatteoCarandini) nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Samantha Scudder retweeted
23 Nov 2020
PhD & Postdoc positions available in cognitive neuroscience! Become an inaugural member of the lab, and study cognitive & perceptual processes in humans, using behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational techniques. More information here (please RT):
rademakerlab.com/job-add
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Samantha Scudder retweeted
13 Nov 2020
How do thalamic inputs to L1 influence inhibition and dendritic activity? Our paper in @NeuroCellPress shows how it depends on the thalamic nucleus, with MD and VM targeting different L1 sublayers and interneuron subtypes in the PFC. cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08… Summary in thread:
9 Jan 2020
🚨The next instalment of our PFC thalamo-cortical project is out on bioRxiv 🚨
It’s got interneurons, rabies tracing, optogenetics, 2 types of disinhibition and cell-type-specific dendritic calcium signalling.
Summary below
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4 Sep 2020
Sometimes I feel like my baby loves high-contrast visual stimuli more than he loves me
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Samantha Scudder retweeted
18 Aug 2020
We are hiring! We have a postdoctoral position in my lab @uclnpp to support investigation of ventral hippocampal circuitry and its role in value-based decision making. Looking for cellular, circuit or behavioural types. please RT and DM me for more info.
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