Oded Bein

New preprint alert! 📢 Event segmentation allows us to parse continuous experience into meaningful events. Working memory (WM) is suggested to play a key role in this process, but how?

osf.io/preprints/ps...

We show that individuals with anxiety symptoms respond slower to changes of context (event boundaries) and they segment contexts (events) more precisely. We also asked people about preferences and experience with context changes in everyday life, which correlated with both anxiety and segmentation!

Especially proud of the talented and hard-working undergrad and post-bacc RAs (at the time, now PhD candidates 😀) that made this project possible: @norawolf.bsky.social @danmirea.bsky.social Cara Khalifeh,Lauren Beugelsdyk,Gili Karni

A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues!
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Led by Marzieh Ajirak, with Nili Solomonov, Ph.D. (@nilisolomonov.bsky.social) and me co-senior and amazing @weillcornell.bsky.social collaborators @odedbein.bsky.social, Ellie Rose Bowen, Dora Kanellopoulos, Avital Falk, and Faith Gunning.

Excited to see this big collaborative project out in the world @naturehumbehav.bsky.social !

Sleep actively enhances memory for the temporal sequence - but not sensory details - of our real-life experiences, even months-to-years later. 🧠 oscillations matter.

Original 🧵: bsky.app/profile/diam...

Thrilled to see this paper out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social after years of work by Drs. @diamondn.bsky.social and @stefsimpson.bsky.social, with Drs. Stuart Fogel, Daniel Baena, and Brian J Murray!

@baycrestfoundation.bsky.social

I'll be in DC. Please join there or locally!

Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?

Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!

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Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

☀️☀️☀️ NEW WEBSITE IS UP! ☀️☀️☀️

www.standupforscience2025.org

Read about us, our policy goals, and ways to get involved. This website will also continue to grow as we do, so keep an eye on it!

Neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details Communications Psychology - Context-dependent temporal structures are represented in multiple ways in parallel in the human brain during processing of temporally extended events. The neural...

Our paper on how neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details, led by @collinsilvy.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/d93Vc #neuroskyence #psychscisky

National Insitutes of Health funding cuts by Trump administration benefit no one | Opinion Indirect funds are essential for supporting the research infrastructure needed to develop innovative solutions to the most pressing health challenges.

I wrote an op-ed for voters in a red state about how devastating NIH indirect cuts are. This type of writing isn’t my comfort zone, but I think we as scientists need to get the word out. Happy to chat with others looking to do the same in their communities!
www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

I want to highlight a special issue in honor of Sarah DuBrow, a brilliant scientist and dear friend who passed away in 2022.

We contributed a paper in which we disentangled the importance of temporal and causal relationships while participants recalled the non-linear narrative, Memento. 🧵 ⬇️ 1/9

I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex - Nature Reviews Neuroscience A computational account of how schemas are learned through experience is lacking. In this Perspective, Bein and Niv synthesize schema theory and reinforcement learning research to derive computational...

Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex — a Perspective by Oded Bein & Yael Niv
@odedbein.bsky.social @yaelniv.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, PI: Dr. Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a full-time Research Assistant (RA) to work on studies examining how motivation and emotion influence learning, memory, and brain function across development. The RA will gain experience with all components of the research process, providing excellent preparation for graduate studies. The preferred start date for the position is Summer 2025. A two-year commitment is requested. Application review will take place on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

We are seeking a full-time Research Specialist to join our team & become a LUMeNary @EmoryPsychology in Summer 2025! ✨

Applications accepted here:
staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/141227/...
And feel free to reach out to me!

Thank you!!

Thank you!

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thank you so much! looking forward to any thoughts and feedback if you might have!

thank you! looking forward to thoughts and feedback if you have any!

Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex Nature Reviews Neuroscience - A computational account of how schemas are learned through experience is lacking. In this Perspective, Bein and Niv synthesize schema theory and reinforcement learning...

here is a view-only free link: rdcu.be/d5ud9 (and the pretty up-to-date version on psychRxiv: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex - Nature Reviews Neuroscience A computational account of how schemas are learned through experience is lacking. In this Perspective, Bein and Niv synthesize schema theory and reinforcement learning research to derive computational...

Excited to share this perspective with @yaelniv.bsky.social about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So happy to see this published! Lila and I looked at how memory representations of sequences became integrated over time through their shared predictive cues. We had fun thinking about the different aspects of systems consolidation that may play a role in this transformation