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Joey Dunsmoor

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Cognitive neuroscientist who studies emotion and learning and memory and fear of ducks.

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Explain to Congress how important it is to keep multiyear funding of NIH grants in the funding bill.

This protects against Russell Vought's trick, which is to make this year's NIH budget cover multiple years of research in advance.

Tell your Congresscritter. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

17.01.2026 04:49 πŸ‘ 213 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

That papers so old Pavlov himself was Reviewer 3.

08.01.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this was my first project upon coming to grad school in nyc from north carolina, and directly came out of giving myself the formidable – though gloriously concrete – task of reading everything @joeydunsmoor.bsky.social ever wrote.

09.12.2025 18:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis Episodic memory allows us to remember when an event occurred by situating it within a coherent temporal context. Pavlovian fear conditioning, a widely…

New lab paper: "Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis." Across 17 different studies, fear conditioning consistently distorted temporal source memory for information encoded before and after. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

01.12.2025 16:05 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Neural Reinstatement of Encoding Context Mediates the Switch between Fear and Extinction Recall Abstract. Fear conditioning and extinction generate conflicting memory representations for a conditioned stimulus (CS). Retrieval of either memory is largely determined by the context where the CS is ...

New paper alert. 🚨 Lock your doors. πŸ” Hug your dog πŸ•

Neural Reinstatement of Encoding Context Mediates the Switch between Fear and Extinction Recall.

direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

03.09.2025 21:38 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today we open-sourced a new project for developing behavioral experiments online. It is called Smile. Announcement of v0.1.0: todd.gureckislab.org/2025/07/22/s... Smile has been used internally in my lab for several years and has substantially increased our productivity.

21.07.2025 22:47 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
APA PsycNet

I haven't posted on here much, but this new paper from the lab seems like as good reason as any:

How the nature of weak learning and retention interval affects behavioral tagging of episodic memory.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

18.07.2025 17:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Enhanced Episodic Memory Following Putative Inhibition of the Amygdala via Transcranial Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound The amygdala is considered crucial to the formation of emotional episodic memories, but causal evidence in humans is limited due to challenges in non-invasive neuromodulation of deep brain structures....

What happens if you inhibit the amygdala during the formation of emotional episodic memories? Simple answer, right? We thought so too but ended up finding memory enhancements after inhibiting the amygdala via transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS). 1/2
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

02.04.2025 19:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Where does TrumpElon think innovation for all their favorite biotech corporations comes from? PCR only exists because somebody was looking for bacteria in hot springs at Yellowstone. I’m just a private practice ophthalmologist who barely understands p values but even I know this shit is important.

13.03.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 603 πŸ” 141 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls β€œWoke.” The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like β€œfemale” and β€œdiversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...

ICYMI: Sen. Ted Cruz flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like β€œfemale” and β€œdiversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls β€œwoke.”

01.03.2025 21:25 πŸ‘ 694 πŸ” 216 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 30
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πŸ“’ JOB ALERT: Postdoc & PhD position in computational neuroimaging/computational psychiatry, to work with existing fMRI & behavioural (big) data. Apply by March 31 and reach out any time for more information.

www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...

Image: K. Ojala, A. Tzovara 2022 (CC BY 4.0)

26.02.2025 10:19 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

#HiSciSky! I'm a clinical psy sci postdoc at UT w/ master of fear @joeydunsmoor.bsky.social. I study threat generalization + psychopathology using fMRI + quant modeling + HiTOP + psychometrics. On the faculty job market! Most importantly, have a dog named Frank. #psychscisky #clinpsy #neuroskyence

26.09.2023 15:28 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I’m excited to announce the Adaptive Memory Lab is moving to Univ. of Oregon summer 2024. I’ve been a lucky duck to forge such great relationships at Temple and am looking forward to developing new ones. I’ll be recruiting grad students next year so feel free to reach out. #OMG/OregonMemoryGroup

26.09.2023 14:46 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

Hi. I'm joining this now. First post, a job ad for TT neuroscience faculty position at UT Austin. Join Austin. A city on the groooOOW. apply.interfolio.com/131347

25.09.2023 17:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0