Jake Parker

New preprint! Statistical structure skews object memory toward predictable successors. Model simulations show how this bias can arise from the backward expansion of hippocampal representations.
w/co-first @codydong.bsky.social , @marlietandoc.bsky.social & @annaschapiro.bsky.social osf.io/yuxb6_v1

Lesions to Different Regions of the Frontal Cortex Have Dissociable Effects on Voluntary Persistence in Humans Deciding how long to keep waiting for uncertain future rewards is a complex problem. Previous research has shown that choosing to stop waiting results from an evaluative process that weighs the subjec...

excited to (finally!) share :)

www.jneurosci.org/content/45/6...

The experiments that opened the brain’s black box Despite centuries of scientific advancements, the inner workings of much of the brain remained a complete mystery. A groundbreaking set of experiments changed this.

Despite centuries of scientific advancements, the inner workings of much of the brain remained a complete mystery. Learn about a groundbreaking set of experiments that changed this in this week's piece by Jake Parker.

pennneuroknow.com/2024/05/07/t...

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Why forgetting might actually be a good thing Our tendency to forget names, passwords, and skills is a source of endless frustration. However, this forgetfulness might actually be crucial for optimal brain function.

Our first post of 2024 might make you feel a little better next time you forget something. Read "Why forgetting might actually be good thing," by Jake Parker for an illuminating look at why we forget.

pennneuroknow.com/2024/01/09/w...

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Memory reactivation during sleep does not act holistically on object memory bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

New preprint! We use real-time TMR to show that sleep reactivation transforms object memories, enhancing certain features at the expense of others. W/ Sindhuja Uppuluri, Jianing Mu, @marlietandoc.bsky.social @jameswardantony.bsky.social @annaschapiro.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.14.571683

If you’d like to learn how suboptimal decision-making, choice variability, and individual differences can all reflect information-efficient inference, come to my poster at UU22 tomorrow, Monday morning from 8 am - 12 noon! #SfN23