Regina Lapate

New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

The intrinsic time tracker: temporal context is embedded in entorhinal and hippocampal functional connectivity patterns - Nature Communications This study shows that hippocampal and entorhinal connectivity patterns drift over time in humans, providing a spontaneous neural signature of elapsed time that follows functional gradients and reveals network-specific contributions to temporal coding.

This week two new #28andMe babies joined the extended family:

⏳ @lapate.bsky.social’s lab uncovered a resting-state connectivity signature that reflects the passage of time. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (2/x)

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🚨 New Preprint 🚨

Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects

By Cyr et al.

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Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?

A: Yes!

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Our new paper out now in Science explores how neural activity in the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) *drifts* over time - and *jumps* at key boundaries - to help organize events in memory.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here's a quick summary of what we found 🧵👇

So cool to see this out—congratulations!

Eating disorder symptoms and emotional arousal modulate food biases during reward learning in females - Nature Communications Disordered eating can disrupt the rewarding value of food. Here, the authors show in a female sample that eating disorder symptoms, emotional arousal, and interoceptive awareness modulate goal-ir...

new paper from a collaborative endeavor! (@co0p3r.bsky.social) we find & replicate food-reward biases in a reinforcement learning task (where food stim are incidental)

people with eating disorder symptoms show a low-calorie food bias while those without show a high-calorie food bias... (1/3)

Emotions create vivid and lasting memories - but how are those memories organized? We find that negative emotions fragment experience, disrupting the flow of memory. Reframing negative feelings also carves up experiences, but in a way that supports integration and wellbeing.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Precise individual measures of inhibitory control Nature Human Behaviour - Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on four inhibitory control tasks, Gratton et al. show that more than 1,000 trials per participant are necessary to reduce...

Excited to announce that our paper (led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Derek Smith) is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com
go.illinois.edu/Lee2025_NHB
We use 36 days of testing in 4 inhibitory control tasks to examine the precision of inhibitory control measures in *individuals* and how they vary
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Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause.

Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

Or help us spread the word 💫

The NSF building, photo courtesy of Duke University

📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵

We found that individuals at risk for anorexia showed greater focus on future consequences in daily decision making, which mediated reduced delay discounting—suggesting that a future-oriented cognitive style may underlie their 'willingness to wait' for rewards:
nature.com/articles/s41598-024-80597-7

Willing to wait: Anorexia nervosa symptomatology is associated with higher future orientation and reduced intertemporal discounting - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Willing to wait: Anorexia nervosa symptomatology is associated with higher future orientation and reduced intertemporal discounting

In keeping with the theme of time travel… now into the future: 🕰️ Another recent paper from the lab—a preregistered study with Isabel Schuman, Jingyi Wang & Ian Ballard @iancballard.bsky.social —is now published. Here, we looked at future orientation, decision making & anorexia nervosa risk.

This work is now out in Cognition & Emotion as part of a fantastic special issue edited by Daniela Palombo and Deborah Talmi (the diagram below, from their Editorial, nicely captures some of Jingyi’s key findings) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Here, Jingyi found that sequences of negative (vs. neutral) events compressed subjectively remembered time, whereas transitions from neutral-to-negative events dilated it—and the strength of this temporal dilation effect tracked with individual differences in mood and anxiety.

A bit late to post this... but what’s a delay when the paper’s in a special issue on Emotional Time Travel? 🙂 🕰️
Excited to share this work—led by postdoc Jingyi Wang—on how emotional event boundaries shape temporal memory.

Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!

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Positive affect amplifies integration within episodic memories in the laboratory and the real world - PubMed Emotional events hold a privileged place in our memories, differing in accuracy and structure from memories for neutral experiences. Although much work has focused on the pronounced differences in mem...

In light of recent emotionally salient events - wondering how these are remembered? I’m thrilled to share new work from the lab, led by lab manager Julia Pratt, capturing emotional memories *inside and outside the lab* and quantifying their accuracy & structure pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39870487/

Picture credits: Susana Carmona's Book Cover. Neuromaternal.

Happy New Year🎉

Thrilled to start 2025 with $1M from @cziscience.bsky.social @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social to study the maternal brain using AI!

Grateful for the chance to advance science for mothers worldwide 🧠

@emilyjacobs.bsky.social @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social

What an honor to join the White House Conference on Women’s Health Research and celebrate the incredible gains made over the past year. I am ever optimistic that progress will continue to accelerate at break-neck speed & across sectors.

Reward Reinforcement Creates Enduring Facilitation of Goal-directed Behavior Abstract. Stimulus–response habits benefit behavior by automatizing the selection of rewarding actions. However, this automaticity can come at the cost of reduced flexibility to adapt behavior when ci...

How do rewards influence how we select and pursue goals? Our study finds that rewards can create 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 in goal selection and execution—similar to habits—but without reducing cognitive flexibility. Check out our paper for more! @jocn.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

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.

Partially dissociable roles of the orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal hippocampus in context-dependent hierarchical associations Animals use contextual information to interpret ambiguous cues. Using chemogenetic silencing in rats, Peterson et al. show that the orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal hippocampus are both involved in thi...

Excited to share our new publication, out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social . Project lead by the amazing @sophiepeterson.bsky.social
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www.cell.com/current-biol...

I just set up @jcogneurosci.bsky.social ; at some point it will post papers as they publish, if folks want to friend that account. thx

The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1! @halledz.bsky.social @ilanabennett.bsky.social @ucriverside.bsky.social

Hi folks! I’m a prof at UCSB and dir of the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative, a U of California wide brain imaging consortium to drive discovery via big n Big Data and small n precision imaging. You can follow our efforts here 🧠💫

#Neuroskyence #neuroimaging #WomenInSTEM

I’d love to be added—my lab studies temporal memory (and emotion). Thanks!