Emily Meyer

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.

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‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.

Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans.

By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social

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Huge thanks to my wonderful mentor @mikearcaro.bsky.social and co-authors Marcelina, Sabine, and Marge for their support!

Excited to share my first first-author paper out now in PNAS! By comparing retinotopically-defined visual areas in macaques and humans, we found that evolutionary expansion is reflected in the size, not number, of visual areas. #neuroskyence #neuroscience
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Object Feature Memory Is Distorted by Category Structure Abstract. Memory systems constantly confront the challenge of capturing both the shared features that connect experiences together and the unique features that distinguish them. Across two experiments...

New paper out! Memory for object features is warped according to their role in a category, w/ features shared across category-mates misremembered as more similar. We explored the phenomenon in our NN model of the hipp. w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social & @codydong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/opmi...

Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social for highlighting my soon-to-open lab!

My lab will explore the neural and computational mechanisms that support perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood.

And, yes, the first piece of 'equipment' bought for the lab was a nintendo switch :)

Added you!

We have collected Penn Neuroscience faculty, students, staff, and alumni into a starter pack! Give these awesome neuroscientists a follow and let us know if you want to be added to the list.

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Done!

Interesting! I’ve never heard of people having an issue with it, I tend to think of all researchers as being in training in some sense, but particularly those of us who are not yet running our own labs :) thanks for the perspective though!

Of course! Thinking mainly grad students and postdocs 😊

Done!

Please share, would love to add more people to this! #neuroscience #neuroskyence #compneuro

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Loving the starter packs and would love to put one together full of #compneuro trainees on here! Please share and comment if you want to be added or tag your trainees and I’ll put one together😊 #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Memory reactivation during sleep does not act holistically on object memory bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

New preprint! We use real-time TMR to show that sleep reactivation transforms object memories, enhancing certain features at the expense of others. W/ Sindhuja Uppuluri, Jianing Mu, @marlietandoc.bsky.social @jameswardantony.bsky.social @annaschapiro.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.14.571683

Now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience!

Here we examined the degree to which dorsal and ventral visual pathways can functionally reorganize after children have half of their brain surgically removed (!!)

doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

#cogsci #devpsy #neuroscience

If you’d like to learn how suboptimal decision-making, choice variability, and individual differences can all reflect information-efficient inference, come to my poster at UU22 tomorrow, Monday morning from 8 am - 12 noon! #SfN23

If you're at SfN and interested in memory reactivation during sleep, come check out my talk on Sunday morning! (8:45am, WCC 150) Part of an awesome nanosymposium on learning and memory led by @emilycowan.bsky.social #SfN23 #neuroskyence

Come by my poster Sunday morning at #SfN titled "Investigating the capacity for tree shrew high-level vision"! Poster no. X1 #neuroskyence