The Memory Dynamics Lab extends its heartiest congratulations to senior project student Eleonora Beier as she prepares to head off to graduate school with a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Nora plans to continue her work on music cognition and language.
Archives for March 2016
Inducing amnesia through systemic suppression
In a recent issue of Nature Communications, we show that suppressing past events induces an “amnesic shadow” for experiences near in time to suppression, consistent with a global disruption to hippocampal function. The work has been featured in the Guardian and other press outlets, highlighted in Nature and by the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and discussed in numerous science blogs.