Jon Simons

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🌟 Congratulations to @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social, who was awarded The Brenda Milner Best Paper Prize by a PhD or MPhil Student in the Cambridge Department of Psychology

📣 Four exceptional researchers in the School of Biological Sciences have been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grants!

Congratulations to all ERC awardees!
@camzoology.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social

New paper in Psych Review on a model of false recognition in Deese-Roediger-McDermott DRM task.

Not just recognition responses, but also associated RTs!

And not just the semantic task, but also the structural task - where words overlap in orthography/phonology!

A thread!

As someone who regularly stands on this station platform, I can tell you it looks a lot less idyllic now

We are recruiting volunteers for in-person studies run by the Memory Lab at the University of Cambridge.

If you are interested, please complete this form: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

If you have any questions, please email memlab@psychol.cam.ac.uk

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Blimey!

So lucky to work in this beautiful place

The podcast is now available on Spotify!

You can still take part in our survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Image of the Sun.

Taken at night.

Not looking up at sky but down through 8000 miles of rock to the other side of the Earth.

Not with light but neutrinos.

One in four comatose (behaviourally non-responsive) patients in the ICU following a serious brain injury show us they are aware using fNIRS - published today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

You'd get to work a lot with me as I'm research director!

New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent.

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Person in a pink sweater smiling with eyes closed, with text reading 'Do you have a memory so vivid you can relive it?'

Do you have a memory so vivid you can relive it?

@campsydept.bsky.social and @durham.ac.uk are exploring how vivid human memories work across our lives – and how ideas about them have evolved over time.

Your experiences could help us understand memory better.

Take our survey: bit.ly/3J1FQ8y

North, by Pop-Up Kings 9 track album

Released today! My new album, North, has been nearly three years in the making. Listen for free on Bandcamp, or buy a copy to download and help me with the mastering costs. #PopUpKings #nordicjazz #ambient #postrock #instrumental

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Vivid memories are all over the BBC website front page! It takes just a few minutes to complete our public survey: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, Are there multiple subtypes of autism, and how vivid are your memories? A new study suggests that autism’s genetic profile differs with age at diagnosis.

The brilliant @kasiamojescik.bsky.social and Martha McGill join @claudiahammond.bsky.social and @catherineloveday.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind this morning to launch our new public survey of vivid memories. You can take part here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r

YouTube video by Cambridge University Jane Goodall - Finding our way to a better future

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall.

Jane was a much-loved member of the conservation community in Cambridge and worldwide. She completed her PhD at @darwincollegecam.bsky.social and was an Honorary Fellow at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzR...

Can reading a book make you a better person? Research from our lab investigates if reading non-fiction books can make us more prosocial and less polarized.

Can reading a book make you a better person?

Reading books is declining. But people who read weekly book excerpts & podcasts instead of meditating had the greatest reductions in aggression and growth in compassionate love, positive attitudes & altruism
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/can-readin...

Invitation to a potential replication project. rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...

A review just in time for our 59th Wedding Anniversary on 1st September
Scenes from a Marriage: How We Found Our Way from Experimental Psychology to Social Neuroscience | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Very sad to hear this news. The Creative Mind one of the books that inspired me to study cognition and the brain. Lucky to meet Maggie a couple of times years later, emphasised value of conversations across disciplines. Didn’t understand everything, but learned a lot!

Remember this... Memory is strange: sometimes crystal clear on people and places we came across years ago, often much more cloudy on things that happened just last week.

The Cambridge Alumni Magazine wanted to find out what a few MemLab researchers are up to. Read about Martha McGill, Will Duckett and Julia Maybury and their fascinating research in this article from the latest issue.

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Happy birthday Brenda Milner! 🧠🎉
Today is her 107th birthday, she's a legend, a superhero.

Putting women’s health in the spotlight Cambridge researchers are working to undo a longstanding male bias in health research, to help drive more effective healthcare for all.

I'm proud that @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social is leading the way in advancing our understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of women's biology, which is essential to improving lifelong health and supporting intergenerational health outcomes

So very sorry to hear this news. Simon was a regular contributor to our Subjective Experience of Remembering workshops, and was always so warm and supportive and full of interesting things to say. I'm very sorry to think that our paths won't cross again. Sincere condolences to all who knew him.