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The Aly Lab is celebrating one year at the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley!! 

Please get in touch if you are interested in joining the lab! Prospective PhD students can check out this FAQ (we will be looking at applications this Fall).

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How do we balance encoding the present and predicting the future?

Check out an intriguing paper by Craig, Hannah, Raheema, and Edoardo! Across three studies, they show that when we successfully predict the future, we are more likely to remember the present. The paper is in press at Open Mind and the preprint is available on our Publications page!

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How do we resolve competition between similar memories to behave adaptively?

 

Congratulations to Serra for her extensively updated preprint, which thoroughly demonstrates that hippocampal differentiation of competing memories reduces competition in visual cortex during memory-guided attention. Check it out on our Publications page!​

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What makes an image memorable?

Congratulations to Chey for their new paper (in Behavior Research Methods)! They investigate the relationship between how an image makes us feel and how memorable it is. Check out the paper and the VAMOS image set on our Publications page!

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How does the brain represent temporal structure over multiple timescales?

Congrats to Hannah for her innovative paper showing hierarchical and graded representations of the past and future across the visual system! The paper is now published in Nature Communications; check it out on our Publications page!

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How do our predictions change over days and weeks?

Congrats to Hannah on her exciting paper exploring how multistep anticipation is

transformed over periods of memory consolidation! 

The paper is published in Psychological Science and you can find it on our Publications page.

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How do attentional fluctuations affect memory organization?

Congratulations to Manasi for her preprint showing that pupil size at encoding predicts the temporal structure of subsequent memory! Check it out on our Publications page.​​

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Why are some people so good at learning and remembering obscure facts?

Trivia experts seem to be particularly good at linking new semantic knowledge to memory for the learning experience! Congrats to Monica and Lauren on their paper (in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review), which is featured in Scientific American! Check out the paper under our Publications tab, and keep your eyes open for some insights from Ken Jennings!​​​​​​​​​​​​