Suhwan Gim
@suhwangim.bsky.social
Postdoc, SCNlab, Dept of Biobehavioral Health, Penn State.
"Neural and behavioral mechanisms of interindividual variability of physical and mental health"
"Neural and behavioral mechanisms of interindividual variability of physical and mental health"
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Suhwan Gim
@suhwangim.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Finally,😃 the first project during the Ph.D. program is published in PLOS Biology. We examined the spatiotemporal brain dynamics of context and sensory information integration in pain.
Thanks to my advisor @choongwanwoo.bsky.social and co-authors Seok-Jun Hong and Elizabeth Losin. plos.io/4fsaanu
Thanks to my advisor @choongwanwoo.bsky.social and co-authors Seok-Jun Hong and Elizabeth Losin. plos.io/4fsaanu
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42 new #fmri tutorials to accompany our new book Elements of fMRI, with @fMRIstats. Run code in both #python and #matlab in your browser to explore. 7 sections, from conceptual foundations to machine learning and AI.
torwager.github.io/elements-of-...
torwager.github.io/elements-of-...
Elements of fMRI Analysis — Interactive Tutorials
Hands-on tutorials for the book Elements of fMRI Analysis: runnable MATLAB and Python code, thought questions, and self-quizzes for all 42 chapters.
torwager.github.io
September 1, 2026 at 2:12 AM
42 new #fmri tutorials to accompany our new book Elements of fMRI, with @fMRIstats. Run code in both #python and #matlab in your browser to explore. 7 sections, from conceptual foundations to machine learning and AI.
torwager.github.io/elements-of-...
torwager.github.io/elements-of-...
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New in Nat Mach Intell: interoception—monitoring and regulating internal bodily states—may be the missing ingredient for AI agents that stay autonomous and adaptive over long time horizons as environments change.
doi.org/10.1038/s422...
#AI #Neuroscience with @sungwoo.bsky.social and COMBINE lab
doi.org/10.1038/s422...
#AI #Neuroscience with @sungwoo.bsky.social and COMBINE lab
Life-inspired interoceptive artificial intelligence for autonomous and adaptive agents - Nature Machine Intelligence
Lee, Oh et al. propose interoception as a biologically inspired framework for building more autonomous and adaptive AI agents, learning from living organisms to build autonomous and adaptive intellige...
doi.org
August 26, 2026 at 3:02 PM
New in Nat Mach Intell: interoception—monitoring and regulating internal bodily states—may be the missing ingredient for AI agents that stay autonomous and adaptive over long time horizons as environments change.
doi.org/10.1038/s422...
#AI #Neuroscience with @sungwoo.bsky.social and COMBINE lab
doi.org/10.1038/s422...
#AI #Neuroscience with @sungwoo.bsky.social and COMBINE lab
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Our paper is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com!
By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we found that these rich and idiosyncratic thoughts can be decoded from brain network dynamics and help explain links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior.
By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we found that these rich and idiosyncratic thoughts can be decoded from brain network dynamics and help explain links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior.
Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behaviour
Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02563-9Ke et al. show that the resting brain is not idle: spontaneous thoughts can be decoded from brain network dynamics, helping explain why resting functional brain organization relates to everyday cognition, traits and behaviour.
dlvr.it
August 27, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Our paper is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com!
By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we found that these rich and idiosyncratic thoughts can be decoded from brain network dynamics and help explain links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior.
By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we found that these rich and idiosyncratic thoughts can be decoded from brain network dynamics and help explain links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior.
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Really delighted to get copies of our new book, Elements of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
A labor of love over the past 10 years, along with @fmristats.
Available for pre-order:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204504...
A labor of love over the past 10 years, along with @fmristats.
Available for pre-order:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204504...
June 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Really delighted to get copies of our new book, Elements of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
A labor of love over the past 10 years, along with @fmristats.
Available for pre-order:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204504...
A labor of love over the past 10 years, along with @fmristats.
Available for pre-order:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204504...
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The Naturalistic Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab is launching at UT Austin and is looking for founding members at all levels, including lab manager, PhD students, and postdocs! #NeuroJobs
We will study human brain🧠 and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling.
thesonglab.github.io
We will study human brain🧠 and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling.
thesonglab.github.io
June 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The Naturalistic Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab is launching at UT Austin and is looking for founding members at all levels, including lab manager, PhD students, and postdocs! #NeuroJobs
We will study human brain🧠 and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling.
thesonglab.github.io
We will study human brain🧠 and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling.
thesonglab.github.io
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Pain biomarkers can't prove or disprove someone's pain, but that doesn't make them futile. My comment in Nat Neurosci argues for a pluralistic, bio-psycho-social approach: biomarkers as complementary channels, not replacements for patient voice. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Towards a holistic understanding of pain in the biomarker age - Nature Neuroscience
Pain biomarkers cannot prove or disprove another person’s pain, but they need not be rejected as futile or reductionist. When developed within a bio-psycho-social framework and guided by epistemic hum...
doi.org
June 2, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Pain biomarkers can't prove or disprove someone's pain, but that doesn't make them futile. My comment in Nat Neurosci argues for a pluralistic, bio-psycho-social approach: biomarkers as complementary channels, not replacements for patient voice. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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🎊New Lab Alert!
I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come.
thesonglab.github.io
I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.
I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come.
thesonglab.github.io
I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.
Song Lab
thesonglab.github.io
May 22, 2026 at 1:23 PM
🎊New Lab Alert!
I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come.
thesonglab.github.io
I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.
I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come.
thesonglab.github.io
I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.
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Brain maps differ between people, but whether encoded information also differs depends on where you look. In some regions different layouts encode the same information, and representations converge like in artificial neural networks (ANNs). New preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
April 27, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Brain maps differ between people, but whether encoded information also differs depends on where you look. In some regions different layouts encode the same information, and representations converge like in artificial neural networks (ANNs). New preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics.
It turns out I was wrong.
Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
It turns out I was wrong.
Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
April 22, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics.
It turns out I was wrong.
Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
It turns out I was wrong.
Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Excited to share my first-author paper now out in @natcomms.nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Here, we asked whether verbal narratives about social interactions activate the same brain areas as audiovisual presentations, and whether they overlap with theory of mind (ToM). (1/11)
Common and distinct neural correlates of social interaction processing and theory of mind in narratives - Nature Communications
Miao et al. find that recognizing social interactions in third-person narratives engages canonical brain areas subserving theory of mind. Using theory of mind recruits additional areas linked to action understanding.
www.nature.com
April 9, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Excited to share my first-author paper now out in @natcomms.nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Here, we asked whether verbal narratives about social interactions activate the same brain areas as audiovisual presentations, and whether they overlap with theory of mind (ToM). (1/11)
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Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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March 16, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7
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Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain?🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we show that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects changes in attention. Out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Geometry of neural dynamics along the cortical attractor landscape reflects changes in attention - Nature Communications
Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain? Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, Song and colleagues show that the geometry of neural dynamics alo...
www.nature.com
March 23, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain?🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we show that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects changes in attention. Out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New paper in Nature Neuroscience! We developed personalized fMRI-based predictive models tracking ongoing spontaneous pain in chronic pain patients—trained on 6+ months of densely sampled data. A true team effort. Deeply grateful to our participants! doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02221-3
Personalized brain decoding of spontaneous pain in individuals with chronic pain - Nature Neuroscience
Lee et al. show that personalized brain-decoding models derived from intensive longitudinal fMRI data can track spontaneous pain in individuals with chronic pain, highlighting the potential of precise...
doi.org
February 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM
New paper in Nature Neuroscience! We developed personalized fMRI-based predictive models tracking ongoing spontaneous pain in chronic pain patients—trained on 6+ months of densely sampled data. A true team effort. Deeply grateful to our participants! doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02221-3
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Patterns of brain-wide associations reflect socioeconomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693206v1
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Patterns of brain-wide associations reflect socioeconomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693206v1
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The brain computes by processing information over time through interactions between connectivity and dynamics that are hard to model. Here we infer these interactions from data and find they better predict cognitive performance! www.nature.com/articles/s41... w/ @lindenmp.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The brain computes by processing information over time through interactions between connectivity and dynamics that are hard to model. Here we infer these interactions from data and find they better predict cognitive performance! www.nature.com/articles/s41... w/ @lindenmp.bsky.social
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How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬?
We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇
We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇
A neural network with episodic memory learns causal relationships between narrative events
Humans reflect on past memories to make sense of an ongoing event. Past work has shown that people retrieve causally related past events during comprehension, but the exact process by which this causa...
www.biorxiv.org
September 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬?
We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇
We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇
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Preprint⭐
Our attention changes over time and differs across contexts—which is reflected in the brain🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we find that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects such changes in attention!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our attention changes over time and differs across contexts—which is reflected in the brain🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we find that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects such changes in attention!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Geometry of neural dynamics along the cortical attractor landscape reflects changes in attention
The brain is a complex dynamical system whose activity reflects changes in internal states, such as attention. While prior work has shown that large-scale brain activity reflects attention, the mechan...
www.biorxiv.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Preprint⭐
Our attention changes over time and differs across contexts—which is reflected in the brain🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we find that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects such changes in attention!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our attention changes over time and differs across contexts—which is reflected in the brain🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we find that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects such changes in attention!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Suhwan Gim
Precision Functional Mapping of Imagined and Experienced Pain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.06.668906v1
August 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Precision Functional Mapping of Imagined and Experienced Pain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.06.668906v1
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Alert!!!!
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
June 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Alert!!!!
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Big year for our lab at #OHBM2025!
Thrilled to present an exciting mix of posters, talks, and lots of brainy fun 🧠🤓
Come check us out! We’d love to connect!
@cognizelab.bsky.social
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
#OHBM #OHBM2025 #Neuroimaging
Thrilled to present an exciting mix of posters, talks, and lots of brainy fun 🧠🤓
Come check us out! We’d love to connect!
@cognizelab.bsky.social
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
#OHBM #OHBM2025 #Neuroimaging
June 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Big year for our lab at #OHBM2025!
Thrilled to present an exciting mix of posters, talks, and lots of brainy fun 🧠🤓
Come check us out! We’d love to connect!
@cognizelab.bsky.social
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
#OHBM #OHBM2025 #Neuroimaging
Thrilled to present an exciting mix of posters, talks, and lots of brainy fun 🧠🤓
Come check us out! We’d love to connect!
@cognizelab.bsky.social
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
#OHBM #OHBM2025 #Neuroimaging
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Does your favorite song actually relieve pain?
We looked into the brain to find out. 🧠🎶❓
Come check out Poster #0780 (Wed/Thur) at #OHBM2025!
In collaboration with McGill University — Elise Desbarats & Prof. Mathieu Roy.
We looked into the brain to find out. 🧠🎶❓
Come check out Poster #0780 (Wed/Thur) at #OHBM2025!
In collaboration with McGill University — Elise Desbarats & Prof. Mathieu Roy.
June 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Does your favorite song actually relieve pain?
We looked into the brain to find out. 🧠🎶❓
Come check out Poster #0780 (Wed/Thur) at #OHBM2025!
In collaboration with McGill University — Elise Desbarats & Prof. Mathieu Roy.
We looked into the brain to find out. 🧠🎶❓
Come check out Poster #0780 (Wed/Thur) at #OHBM2025!
In collaboration with McGill University — Elise Desbarats & Prof. Mathieu Roy.
Reposted by Suhwan Gim
🧠📖 New paper out! How does the brain make sense of a story?
Combining behavioral data, #fMRI, and #LLMs, our study explores how distinct hippocampal-cortical systems support the #encoding and #sequencing of #narrative events during ongoing comprehension.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Combining behavioral data, #fMRI, and #LLMs, our study explores how distinct hippocampal-cortical systems support the #encoding and #sequencing of #narrative events during ongoing comprehension.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Hippocampal systems for event encoding and sequencing during ongoing narrative comprehension - Communications Biology
Distinct hippocampal-cortical systems support the encoding and sequencing of narrative events during ongoing comprehension, revealing how episodic memory integrates past and present information into c...
www.nature.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
🧠📖 New paper out! How does the brain make sense of a story?
Combining behavioral data, #fMRI, and #LLMs, our study explores how distinct hippocampal-cortical systems support the #encoding and #sequencing of #narrative events during ongoing comprehension.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Combining behavioral data, #fMRI, and #LLMs, our study explores how distinct hippocampal-cortical systems support the #encoding and #sequencing of #narrative events during ongoing comprehension.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Our new @NatureHumBehav paper shows why we need a holistic pain biomarker framework. ML on blood tests, brain/bone imaging & genetics predicts clinical diagnoses but falls short on subjective pain. Adding psychosocial (mood, sleep, stress) boosts both. shorturl.at/vxxeO
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions - Nature Human Behaviour
Fillingim et al. show that biological and psychosocial factors jointly predict conditions associated with chronic pain.
shorturl.at
May 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Our new @NatureHumBehav paper shows why we need a holistic pain biomarker framework. ML on blood tests, brain/bone imaging & genetics predicts clinical diagnoses but falls short on subjective pain. Adding psychosocial (mood, sleep, stress) boosts both. shorturl.at/vxxeO
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Dreaming of a dataset that tracks mood, sleep & activity to better understand affective instability (AI)…AND paired with advanced MRI? 🤯
Check out our new bioRxiv preprint for a 13–23 y/o community sample (n=10 and growing!) with multi-echo fMRI, EMA & actigraphy: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out our new bioRxiv preprint for a 13–23 y/o community sample (n=10 and growing!) with multi-echo fMRI, EMA & actigraphy: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Dreaming of a dataset that tracks mood, sleep & activity to better understand affective instability (AI)…AND paired with advanced MRI? 🤯
Check out our new bioRxiv preprint for a 13–23 y/o community sample (n=10 and growing!) with multi-echo fMRI, EMA & actigraphy: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out our new bioRxiv preprint for a 13–23 y/o community sample (n=10 and growing!) with multi-echo fMRI, EMA & actigraphy: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hi, I’m very pleased to share my social memory project with my PI Won Mok Shim and amazing collaborators @myoo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How does the hippocampus integrate multiple cognitive processes for memory encoding and retrieval?🧠
Here’s what we found⬇️:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How does the hippocampus integrate multiple cognitive processes for memory encoding and retrieval?🧠
Here’s what we found⬇️:
Coordinated representations for naturalistic memory encoding and retrieval in hippocampal neural subspaces - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors show that novelty encoding aligns with memory formation in the hippocampus but not with memory retrieval, and that hippocampal components involved in each process reflect it...
www.nature.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Hi, I’m very pleased to share my social memory project with my PI Won Mok Shim and amazing collaborators @myoo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How does the hippocampus integrate multiple cognitive processes for memory encoding and retrieval?🧠
Here’s what we found⬇️:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How does the hippocampus integrate multiple cognitive processes for memory encoding and retrieval?🧠
Here’s what we found⬇️: