Deadline coming up!

UNDERGRADS: Applications are now open to work in our lab over the Summer in the MindCORE Summer Fellowship Program. @PennMindCORE Link to info and application: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/resea… Select Sharon Thompson-Schill as your mentor in the application!

My paper with @AlexaTompary, @AnnaSchapiro, and Sharon @stslab is now out in eLife! elifesciences.org/articles/6… We found that gist memory initially extracted from individual items biased memory for those items by one month. An “outlier” item changed this relationship. Thread:

I had fun presenting ongoing work with @stslab at #cogsci this week! We’re looking at how abstract structure in multidimensional space may impact credit assignment in reinforcement learning. If you have any questions or comments about the poster, please let me know!

Come check out my poster at #CNS2021 tomorrow morning! We developed a novel visuospatial learning paradigm in which participants learn nested low and high level sequential structure. @stslab @AnnaSchapiro Poster pdf: tinyurl.com/smithetalCNS2021… Video: youtu.be/VpGFtIkvX1c

The Thompson-Schill Lab at @Penn is hiring a full-time Research Specialist! For more information on the position and the lab: web.sas.upenn.edu/schill-lab…

Excited to share a new preprint w/ @AlexaTompary, @AnnaSchapiro, & @stslab where we track the co-evolution of item and gist memory over time. We found that after one month, gist memory was better preserved and biased individual item memories. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Applications for Cattell Sabbatical Awards are due Jan 15 2021. If you are planning on taking a sabbatical in 2021-2022, you can apply for funding here: psychologicalscience.org/mem…

Preprint alert: Extremely excited to share one of my major postdoc projects at the @stslab, where we investigated theories on the dynamic nature of semantic memory using semantic network analysis: psyarxiv.com/crp47