Asaf Gilboa

Registration and poster abstract submission now open for the @yorku-cian.bsky.social symposium on 'Cognition & Action', June 4,5 following CSBBCS, with a mix of speaker topics on philosophy, behaviour, neuroimaging, and neurophysiology.

See: www.yorku.ca/research/cia...

ICOM7, International Conference on Memory. 26th-30th July 2027. Glasgow, Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre (SEC)

Save the date for ICOM-7 (aka the Memory Olympics)

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🧵Our new preprint shows how the brain develops to transform how kids, teens & adults represent & navigate their world: shifting from local, moment-to-moment memories in childhood to integrated, global cognitive maps in adulthood 🧠

Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Combined evidence from artificial neural networks and human brain-lesion models reveals that language modulates vision in human perception - Nature Human Behaviour Vision–language deep neural network models better explain human visual cortex activity than vision-only models. Damaging brain connections between visual and language areas reverses this pattern, suggesting that human visual perception is modulated by language.

Using brain lesions and DNN models, this article suggests that human visual perception is modulated by language.

The 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop is just 80 days away- Mar 6th in Vancouver!

isrw.bio.uci.edu

If you'd like to be considered to give a short talk, register by December 19th, 2025.

General registration & poster submission ends February 15th, 2026.

@cnsmtg.bsky.social

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Thanks to @cnn.com for covering our research on London taxi drivers in their new, rather chatty, format 'Creators'

Taxi driver Tom Scullion is the star of this piece. He trains others to learn the knowledge an has so many insights into that process.
#neuroskyence

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7df...

Congrats @sjo09.bsky.social! Your trailblazing engram discoveries are unforgettable. So happy that the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize is honoring YOUR Era's tour @sfn.org.

Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...

This is 🤯

All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.

#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...

New paper from the lab 🚨
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...

New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...

The Hippocampus Rapidly Integrates Sequence Representations During Novel Multistep Predictions Memories for temporally extended sequences can be used adaptively to predict future events on multiple timescales, a function that relies on the hippocampus. For such predictions to be useful, they sh...

How do we update our predictions when our environment changes?

The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions.

Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

👩‍💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

ולא לשכוח שזכויות היוצרים על הביטוי שייכות לאהוד ברק. בקצב הזה לא רק שלא יהיה פרטנר גם לא יהיה על מה לנהל משא ומתן, ובא לציון גואל

New preprint from Yining Ding @liliand.bsky.social! People use semantic event knowledge and grouping to remember the temporal order of events.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hippocampal mismatch signals are based on episodic memories and not schematic knowledge | PNAS Prediction errors drive learning by signaling mismatches between expectations and reality, but the neural systems supporting these computations rem...

We make predictions based on general knowledge and/or specific memories. Different brain areas are active when these distinct predictions are violated – and hippocampus selectively responds to prediction errors based on episodic memory.

Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!

REM Sleep Misfires: Intruding Delta Waves Forecast Tau, Amyloid, and Forgetting in Aging Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep degrades with age, and more severely in Alzheimer's disease (AD). REM sleep comprises about twenty percent of adult sleep, alternates between phasic and tonic periods, a...

Fresh results now in bioRxiv! 🎉 We know about the function of NREM sleep for overnight memory consolidation. But what about REM sleep? We found that in aging, slow delta waves can intrude phasic REM periods, and this, is associated with worse overnight consolidation 🧠 (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Decoding memory function through naturalistic gaze patterns | PNAS Eye movements are closely linked to encoding and retrieval processes, with changes in viewing behavior reflecting age- and pathology-related memory...

Slowly making my way through that grad school data!

Decoding memory function through naturalistic gaze patterns | PNAS share.google/vuOSbiRk9nBH...

Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.”

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

New paper with @mujianing.bsky.social & @prestonlab.bsky.social! We propose a simple model for human memory of narratives: we uniformly sample incoming information at a constant rate. This explains behavioral data much better than variable-rate sampling triggered by event segmentation or surprisal.

I was given the opportunity to write a brief highlight of a paper that is important to the field & personally meaningful, and I chose to write about @drjenryan.bsky.social's elegant work linking the hippocampus to eye movement markers of relational memory. Read more about it here! 👇🏼
rdcu.be/eyaXA

YouTube video by Imotion Media The UCL Voyage to Aur

🚨 I set off today on research journey to the Marshall Islands! 🚨

UCL Voyage to Aur

Here is the 1st instalment in a set of videos covering the project. I explain the background to the project and introduce a Marshallese stick chart held in a museum in London:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3m...

Are the brain's representational formats predetermined by its intrinsic architecture, or are they efficiently tuned to the statistical structure of the visual world? In our new study, we test these possibilities.

So proud of this fantastic and inspiring work, led by @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social.

Knowing Your Lines but Missing Your Cue: Rostral Prefrontal Lesions Impair Prospective Memory Cue Detection, but Not Action-intention Superiority Abstract. Prospective memory (PM) deficits are a common consequence of lesions to PFC, but their underlying neurocognitive mechanisms and processes are poorly understood. Here, we report on a patient,...

Previously we found the opposite dissociation. Damage to polar PFC tinyurl.com/32curkt5 led to failed prospective memory but normal intention superiority effect. That patient when failing on daily prospective chores reported vague premonitions of missing some task.

However, patients with damage to subcallosal vmPFC fail to show a well-known Intention Superiority Effect, which indexes an automatic privileged access to cognitive processing of environmental cues that are associated with an intention to perform a future action.

Patients with vmPFC damage are relatively intact on prospective memory tasks that require conscious monitoring and detection of cues that should trigger a future action. They are able to disengage from an ongoing task to perform the prospective intention.

The ventromedial prefrontal cortex and Intention Representation in Prospective Memory Prospective memory (PM) consists of (i) a retrospective component, comprised of memory for intentions and for the cues that should trigger an action, …

Happy to share our study showing a new role for ventromedial PFC in prospection. tinyurl.com/e7kudkby
#neuroskyence #psychscisky

YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping Neurosalience #S5E14 with Rosanna Olsen - The hippocampus, aging, memory, and discovery

A new #Neurosalience episode is out! 🧠

The hippocampus, aging, memory and discovery
with Rosanna Olsen and Peter Bandettini
@rosannaolsen.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social

youtu.be/cvPjImt9iv8

Gearing up to host the 2025 #CIHR Summer Program in Aging #SPA2025 at #Baycrest

It's a 1 week intensive program for research trainees focused on training a healthcare workforce to meet the needs of older adults

www.baycrest.org/summer-progr...

Adaptive compression as a unifying framework for episodic and semantic memory

Perspective by David G. Nagy (@davidnagy.bsky.social), Gergő Orbán & Charley M. Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social)

Web: go.nature.com/3ZkmRLb
PDF: rdcu.be/epAQ0