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Congratulations to Elaine Wijaya and Sanya, CAMS Lab Neuroscience seniors, on their amazing posters!

Graduate students Jean Ye and Irene Zhou present new work at SANS and CNS

We are excited that Dawn will be joining Nicole Long's lab at University of Virginia for a PhD in Psychology!

Stress is often thought to disrupt memory binding, leading to fragmented and disjointed representations. In a huge undertaking with grad student Krystian Loetscher, we revisit this idea, examining whether stress may actually promote memory integration. We consider the way individual experiences are recalled, how different events are linked together, and how individual memories are embedded into our schemas. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38375503/

Özge G. Fischer Baum interviews Lizzie about the lab's recent paper about perceptual generalization and drinking on the APS podcast "Under the Cortex" - listen here! https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/utc-2023-nov-risky-drinkers.html

Now out in Psych Science, we show that overgeneralization - spreading learned associations to situations that look similar - can help us understand substance use! Just as patients with anxiety disorders tend to overgeneralize associations with fear, we found that individuals engaging in risky patterns of alcohol drinking show a tendency to overgeneralize associations with alcohol. Amazing work by Sanghoon Kang, Grace Larrabee, and Sanya Nair! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37682597/ Check out an excellent summary here: https://news.yale.edu/2023/09/21/insights-outcomes-darting-eyes-faculty-honors-and-overgeneralization?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YT_YaleToday-Faculty_9-25-2023

We are thrilled to welcome Zihan Bai, new PGA in the CAMS Lab. Zihan completed his BA at The Ohio State University, where he worked with Julie Golomb and Andrew Leber, then received his MA at the University of Chicago, where he worked with YC Leong.

In this piece just published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, we argue for a new way of thinking about multiple memory systems: opposing memory representations can both be supported by the same brain structure, and parallel memory representations can be found in distinct structures. Congratulations to co-authors Brynn Sherman and Nick Turk-Browne! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37390333/