Charlie Ferris

This week's Short Wave news roundup Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave talk about spider web architecture, storytelling and memory, and why more TV pixels may not translate to a better viewing experience.

This week a study of ours was (briefly) covered on NPR's All Things Considered during their bi-weekly science roundup. It's a short listen, covered third in this section (starting around 5m30s) featuring comments from
@charan-neuro.bsky.social .

www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...

Your Brain’s Memory of a Story Depends on How It Was Told Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories

Super excited that Scientific American covered our new JNeuro paper!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/stor...

Hippocampal-cortical networks predict conceptual versus perceptually guided narrative memory Current theories of event memory propose distinct connections between the hippocampus and neocortical regions, particularly those within the default mode network (DMN) subsystems, to support processin...

Our new paper presents evidence that describing the same event with different content details results in shifts in hippocampal connectivity to different brain networks which in turn can predict later memory for the same elements of an encoded event.

www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...