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Poskanzer C*, Tarder-Stoll H*, Javid R, Spolaore E, Aly M. (2024). Prediction and encoding are coupled, not competitive. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/usjv2
* these authors contributed equally
Jayakumar M, Tsegai-Moore A, Nemeth C, Aly M. (2024). Pupil size at encoding predicts the temporal structure of memory. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bzqfu
Favila SE, Aly M. (2023). Hippocampal mechanisms resolve competition in memory and perception. bioRxiv.
2025
Kathios N, Bloom PA, Singh A, Bartlett E, Algharazi S, Siegelman M, Shen F, Beresford L, DiMaggio-Potter M, Bennett S, Natarajan N, Ou Y, Loui P, Aly M*, Tottenham N*. (2024). On the role of familiarity and developmental exposure in music-evoked autobiographical memories. Memory, 33, 178–192. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2420973 [ pdf ]
* these authors are co-PIs of this work
Wakeland-Hart C, Aly M. (2025). Predicting image memorability from evoked feelings. Behavior Research Methods, 57:58. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02510-4 [ pdf ]
Get access to our VAMOS image set here: https://osf.io/ufg89/wiki/home/
2024
Aly M, Ansari S, Colunga E, Crocket MJ, Diekman AB, Goldrick M, Gomez P, Kung FYH, Mckee P, Pérez M, Stilwell SM. (2024). Mentorship practices that improve the culture of peer review. Nature Reviews Psychology, 3, 2-3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00261-1 [ pdf ]
Cohanpour M, Aly M*, Gottlieb J*. (2024). Neural representations of sensory uncertainty and confidence are associated with perceptual curiosity. Journal of Neuroscience, 44(33):e0974232024. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0974-23.2024 [ pdf ]
* these authors are co-PIs of this work
Tarder-Stoll H, Baldassano C*, Aly M*. (2024). Consolidation enhances sequential multistep anticipation but diminishes access to perceptual features. Psychological Science, 35, 1178–1199. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241256617 [ pdf ]
* these authors are co-PIs of this work
Tarder-Stoll H, Baldassano C*, Aly M*. (2024). The brain hierarchically represents the past and future during multistep anticipation. Nature Communications, 15, 9094. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53293-3 [ pdf ]
* these authors are co-PIs of this work
Featured by Nature Neuroscience, see here.
Thieu M, Wilkins L, Aly M. (2024). Episodic-semantic linkage for $1000: New semantic knowledge is more strongly coupled with episodic memory in trivia experts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31, 1867–1879. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02469-5 [ pdf ]
Featured by Scientific American, see here.
Featured by NPR's Weekend Edition, see here.
Featured by Science Friday, see here.
Yonelinas A, Hawkins C, Abovian A, Aly M. (2024). The role of recollection, familiarity, and the hippocampus in episodic and working memory. Neuropsychologia, 193, 108777. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108777 [ pdf ]
2023
Aly M, Colunga E, Crocket MJ, Goldrick M, Gomez P, Kung FYH, Mckee P, Pérez M, Stilwell SM, Diekman AB. (2023). Changing the culture of peer review for a more inclusive and equitable psychological science. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 3546–3565. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001461 [ pdf ]
Bloom PA, Bartlett E, Kathios N, Algharazi S, Siegelman M, Shen F, Beresford L, DiMaggio-Potter M, Singh A, Bennett S, Natarajan N, Lee H, Sajid S, Joyce E, Fischman R, Hutchinson SJ, Pan S, Tottenham N*, Aly M*. (2023). Effects of familiar music exposure on deliberate retrieval of remote episodic and semantic memories in healthy aging adults. Memory, 31, 428-456. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2166078 [ pdf ]
* these authors are co-PIs of this work
Bornstein AM, Aly M, Feng SF, Turk-Browne NB, Norman KA, Cohen JD. (2023). Associative memory retrieval resolves anticipated uncertainty of upcoming perceptual decisions. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 23, 645–665. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-023-01092-6
Featured by the Psychonomic Society, see here.
Jayakumar M, Balusu C, Aly M. (2023). Attentional fluctuations and the temporal organization of memory. Cognition, 235, 105408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105408 [ pdf ]
Poskanzer C, Aly M. (2023). Switching between external and internal attention in hippocampal networks. Journal of Neuroscience, 43, 6538–6552. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0029-23.2023 [ pdf ]
Silston B, Ochsner KN, Aly M. (2023). Threat impairs flexible use of a cognitive map. Motivation and Emotion, 47, 908–927. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-023-10036-z [ pdf ]
2022
Bloom PA, VanTieghem M, Gabard-Durnam L, Gee DG, Flannery J, Caldera C, Goff B, Telzer EH, Humphreys KL, Fareri DS, Shapiro M, Algharazi S, Bolger N, Aly M, Tottenham N. (2022). Age-related change in task-evoked amygdala-prefrontal circuitry: a multiverse approach with an accelerated longitudinal cohort aged 4-22 years. Human Brain Mapping, 43, 3221–3244. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25847 [ pdf ]
Hirschstein Z, Aly M. (2022). Long-term memory and working memory compete and cooperate to guide attention. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85, 1517–1549. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02593-1 [ pdf ]
2021
Lee CS, Aly M, Baldassano C. (2021). Anticipation of temporally structured events in the brain. eLife, 2021;10:e64972. [ pdf ]
Featured in a Journal Club article in PNAS, which can be found here.
Ruiz NA*, Thieu MK*, Aly M. (2021). Cholinergic modulation of hippocampally mediated attention and perception. Behavioral Neuroscience, 135, 51–70. [ pdf ]
* these authors contributed equally
Tarder-Stoll H, Gasser C, Yu Wangjing, Dimsdale-Zucker HR. (2021). Challenges in understanding the role of reactivation in modifying hippocampal representations. Journal of Neuroscience, 41, 4750-4753. [ pdf ]
2020
Aly M. (2020). Brain dynamics underlying memory for lifetime experiences. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 780-781. [ pdf ]
Günseli E, Aly M. (2020). Preparation for upcoming attentional states in the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. eLife, 2020;9:e53191. [ pdf ] [ eLife digest ]
Ruiz NA, Meager MR, Agarwal S, Aly M. (2020). The medial temporal lobe is critical for spatial relational perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 1780-1795. [ pdf ]
Schaumberg AJ, Juarez-Nicanor W, Choudhury SJ, Pastrián LG, Pritt BS, Prieto Pozuelo M, Sotillo Sánchez R, Ho K, Zahra N, Sener BD, Yip S, Xu B, Rao Annavarapu S, Morini A, Jones KA, Rosado-Orozco K, Mukhopadhyay S, Miguel C, Yang H, Rosen Y, Ali RH, Folaranmi OO, Gardner JM, Rusu C, Stayerman C, Gross J, Suleiman DE, Sirintrapun SJ, Aly M*, Fuchs TJ*. (2020). Interpretable multimodal deep learning for real-time pan-tissue pan-disease pathology search on social media. Modern Pathology. [ pdf ]
* these authors are co-PIs of this work
Tarder-Stoll H*, Jayakumar M*, Dimsdale-Zucker HR, Günseli E, Aly M. (2020). Dynamic internal states shape memory retrieval. Neuropsychologia, 138:107328. [ pdf ]
* these authors contributed equally
2019
Córdova NI, Turk-Browne NB, Aly M. (2019). Focusing on what matters: Modulation of the human hippocampus by relational attention. Hippocampus, 29, 1025-1037. [ pdf ]
2018
Aly M. (2018). The key to a happy lab life is in the manual. Nature, 561, 7. [ pdf ]
Aly M. (2018). In sight, in mind. eLife, 7:e35663, 1-3. [ pdf ]
Aly M, Chen J, Turk-Browne NB, Hasson U. (2018). Learning naturalistic temporal structure in the posterior medial network. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 1345–1365. [ pdf ]
Aly M, Ranganath C. (2018). New perspectives on the hippocampus and memory. Neuroscience Letters, 680, 1-3. [ pdf ]
Aly M, Turk-Browne NB. (2018). Flexible weighting of diverse inputs makes hippocampal function malleable. Neuroscience Letters, 680, 13-22. [ pdf ]
2017
Aly M, Turk-Browne NB. (2017). How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention. The Hippocampus from Cells to Systems. Eds.: Deborah E. Hannula and Melissa C. Duff. Springer International Publishing AG: Switzerland. pp. 369-403. [ pdf ]
Borders AA, Aly M, Parks CM, Yonelinas AP. (2017). The hippocampus is particularly important for building associations across stimulus domains. Neuropsychologia, 99, 335-342. [ pdf ]
2016
Aly M, Turk-Browne NB. (2016). Attention promotes episodic encoding by stabilizing hippocampal representations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, E420-E429. [ pdf ]
Aly M, Turk-Browne NB. (2016). Attention stabilizes representations in the human hippocampus. Cerebral Cortex, 26, 783-796. [ pdf ] [ SI ]
2014
Aly M, Ranganath C, Yonelinas AP. (2014). Neural correlates of state- and strength-based perception. J Cogn Neurosci, 26, 792-809. [ pdf ]
Aly M, Wansard M, Segovia F, Yonelinas AP, Bastin C. (2014). Cortical and subcortical contributions to state- and strength-based perceptual judgments. Neuropsychologia, 64, 145-156. [ pdf ]
Elfman KW, Aly M, Yonelinas AP. (2014). Neurocomputational account of memory and perception: Thresholded and graded signals in the hippocampus. Hippocampus, 24, 1672-1686. [ pdf ]
2013
Aly M, Ranganath C, Yonelinas AP. (2013). Detecting changes in scenes: The hippocampus is critical for strength-based perception. Neuron, 78, 1127-37 [ pdf ] [ SI ] [ cover ]
Koen JD, Aly M, Wang WC, Yonelinas AP. (2013). Examining the causes of memory strength variability: Recollection, attention failure, or encoding variability? J Exp Psychol: Learn Mem Cogn, 39, 1726-41. [ pdf ]
2012
Aly M, Yonelinas AP. (2012). Bridging consciousness and cognition in memory and perception: Evidence for both state and strength processes. PLoS ONE, 7(1):e30231, 1-16. [ pdf ]
A blog post about this article, written by Dr. Steve Fleming, can be found here.
2011
Aly M, Yonelinas AP, Kishiyama M, Knight RT. (2011). Damage to the lateral prefrontal cortex impairs familiarity but not recollection. Behavioural Brain Research, 225, 297-304. [ pdf ]
2010
Aly M, Knight RT, Yonelinas AP. (2010). Faces are special but not too special: Spared face recognition in amnesia is based on familiarity. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3941-8. [ pdf ]
Aly M, Moscovitch M. (2010). The effects of sleep on episodic memory in older and younger adults. Memory, 18, 327-34. [ pdf ]
Yonelinas AP, Aly M, Wang W, Koen JD. (2010). Recollection and familiarity: Examining controversial assumptions and new directions. Hippocampus, 20, 1178-94. [ pdf ]