Simon W Davis

Simon W Davis

@woodforbrains.bsky.social

Associate Professor, Indiana University Mnemology Lab: mnemology.org

741 Followers 329 Following 340 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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CNS abstracts will soon post in the Proceedings of the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Soc., hosted as a dedicated partition of @jocnforum.bsky.social , and authors can then append their posters (or graphical abstract) as a “reply” to the abstract. E.g.s already viewable at …

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CNS2026

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This is a great point. Attendance for CNS in Vancouver was down, owing to stresses like this. Science slows when we don't keep abreast of new tools and findings.

I encourage everyone presenting to post your posters online (blusky, lab websites, whatev) so we can keep our sense of community going!

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PI Humility

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Comment Form: Draft NIH Controlled-Access Data Policy and Proposed Revisions to NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Science Policy (OSP): Request for Information on Draft NIH Controlled-Access Data Policy and Proposed Revisions to NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy

NIH is requesting comments on a new draft policy that may require human brain imaging data (and other data) from nih-funded research to only be shared via controlled access, & only with certain countries. I suggest neuroimagers read closely & submit comments by 3/18.

osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...

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So maybe rest isn’t a privileged window into intrinsic organization after all.

Functional architecture may be revealed most clearly when the brain is actively engaged.

Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Curious to hear what people think!

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No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

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Conferences are for science, but they are also for catching up with old friends. Nice to see these and so many others at #CNS2026

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Conference poster with title "schema-related memory effects are differentially modulated by age and memory performance"

If you're at #CNS2026 and interested in aging, schemas and episodic memory, check out Sophie O'Reilly's poster tomorrow 8-10am (D71)

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Xuan Zhang D52, the effects of event segmentation on temporal organization of free recall using staged events. Erik Wing D83 Environment and expertise shape spatiotemporal variation in conceptual knowledge. Lei Zhang D79 Theta-mediated conceptual reinstatement in vmPFC precedes perceptual reinstatement in ventral visual cortex during memory recall.

Come see our posters #CNS2026. All three are on session D Monday morning. Fantastic works from Xuan Zhang with @brianlevine.bsky.social, Dr. Erik Wing with @drjenryan.bsky.social and Dr. Lei Zhang with Dr. Claude Alain.

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If you're at #CNS2026 and interested in aging & memory, come see @emilyedavis.bsky.social's poster on implicit associative memory tomorrow at 8am (#63)

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Check this 👇🏽 out if you’re interested in brain resilience & aging. #cns2026 @cogneuronews.bsky.social

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And last is a late-breaking poster presenting an EEG neurofeedback paradigm by Husna Kider and Vada Mayle (E40):

Catching Alpha in the Act: A Closed-Loop EEG Paradigm

This is a fun new direction for the lab, premised on controlling subjects' brain states before the memory tasks even start!

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We left Monday morning open in case you...had too much fun celebrating @theamygdaloid.bsky.social's George Miller Prize!

You should be recovered in time for 2 more great posters.

First, Xinhao Wang examines color representation:

Linguistic Scaffolds Shape the Reconstruction of Visual Memories

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Next, on Sunday morning Ricardo Morales-Torres dips his toes into the cognitive neuroscience of aging:

High-Level Visual Representations Drive Memory Errors in Older Adults (B58)

Visual memory errors in older adults are strongly driven by semantic/high-level visual representations!

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Also Saturday afternoon is Weijia Cao's analysis of Hippocampal and cortical coding of relational memory types

This poster (A73) follows from our recent focus on relational semantics (see bsky.app/profile/wood..., and also an encoding model approach from @gallantlab.org bsky.app/profile/gall...)

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Hey #CNS2026, a fun set of posters for you to check out from the Mnemology Lab!

Kicking it off Saturday morning is Maxi Becker's Datablitz (how German!):

Neural mechanisms of insight: nonlinear cortical representational change

This won her the CNS Postdoc Fellowship Award!

(also Poster A67)

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Why is @cnsmtg.bsky.social STILL posting on twitter?

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attending @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2026? Check out these posters from @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellows:
Adithya Anil, Indian Institute of Technology
"Toward Translational Mechanisms of Learned Helplessness: Linking Behavior, Computation, and Neural Modulation"
D123 Mon am

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Cascades and convergence: Dynamic signal flow in a synapse-level brain network Author summary To understand how the brain processes and merges information from our senses, we need more than just a “wiring map” of its connections; we need to see how signals actually travel throug...

🚨Another new one from the lab!

Cascades and convergence: Dynamic signal flow in a synapse-level brain network

We simulate sensory cascades in a bona fide biological neural network.

With Caio Seguin, Maria Grazia Puxeddu, and @misicbata.bsky.social!

journals.plos.org/complexsyste...

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🚨 New Paper: Controlling the Human Connectome with Spatially Diffuse Input Signals

Now in press at Communications Biology!

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research!

Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...

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Inter- and intra-individual variability in structure-function coupling in human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.25.707886v1

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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.

Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

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Accelerated rTMS: Complexities and Clinical Translation Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a severe and commonly occurring psychiatric illness with a substantial proportion of patients failing to respond adequately to standard treatments, often referred to...

Important editorial on the proliferation of accelerated TMS schedules

www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

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📣New preprint out on False Memory
With coauthors: Safak Erener, Simon W Davis, Roberto Cabeza

When knowledge interferes with perception: Neural mechanisms of the semantic amplification of visual false memory

Preprint at: doi.org/10.64898/202...

@woodforbrains.bsky.social @synecphory.bsky.social

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🧠 Our fun new study in @currentbiology.bsky.social, where @pbogdan.bsky.social used fMRI & LLM embeddings from a schema encoding dataset to show that relational semantics have distinct patterns of representation from concept semantics

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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