New publications from Foster Lab members!
Yvonne Chen, Liz Siefert, and I all had separate papers accepted and published in JNeuro within the span of a few weeks! Congrats to Liz and Yvonne on having their awesome work get published.
Liz’s work looks at the impact of targeted memory reactivation (TMR) during sleep on different facets of item-memory/learning. In short, they found that their TMR paradigm improved memory for unique features while shared item features were rememberd less well. Also congrats to Liz on being featured as one of JNeuro’s featured articles of the issue!
Yvonne’s exciting work takes a look at face representation in the ventral temporal cortex (VTC) during encoding and retrieval. In brief, they carefully delineate VTC face-selective regions within participants to demonstrate activity within these patches during both encoding and retrieval. Interesting, they don’t find evidence for an anterior-shift during retrieval. Also very interesting to see the individual differences in the orientation/organization of VTC face-selective regions!
And lastly, I’ll post my new pub on the main page, but here’s the link to our work taking advantage of the Natural Scenes Dataset absolutely incredible resource openly available here looking at differences in activity between subregions of medial parietal cortex during an extensive item-recognition task. And a big thanks to JNeuro for selecting this manuscript to be one of the featured articles of the week!. Article itself can be found here.
