Isabel Folger (she/her)
@isabelfolger.com
Interested in constructive memory processes | UCSC Memory & Metacognition Lab | Carleton College ‘24 | isabelfolger.com
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Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment
To induce the Anne Boleyn illusion, an individual’s hands are placed on either side of a mirror and stroked synchronously from the thumb to the empty …
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If you're interested in multisensory integration, illusory embodiment, or body representations, check out our new paper exploring the cognitive mechanisms underlying the Anne Boleyn illusion! Thank you @jaredmedina.bsky.social for your guidance & collaboration on this project.
First Psychonomics in the books! Heading home full of inspiration and excitement after 4 days of fascinating talks, poster sessions, and conversations. Thanks to everyone who shared their research, insights, and questions, and especially to the organizers who made it all happen! #psynom25
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
First Psychonomics in the books! Heading home full of inspiration and excitement after 4 days of fascinating talks, poster sessions, and conversations. Thanks to everyone who shared their research, insights, and questions, and especially to the organizers who made it all happen! #psynom25
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Super excited to share my first preprint with Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense (@barense.bsky.social) -- "Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error driven updating of naturalistic event memory"! 🧠🎉https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/q9rkn_v1
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November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Super excited to share my first preprint with Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense (@barense.bsky.social) -- "Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error driven updating of naturalistic event memory"! 🧠🎉https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/q9rkn_v1
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I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com
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A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues!
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November 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues!
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This is 🤯
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This is 🤯
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
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I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
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#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
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#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
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November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time
Our experience of time is often distorted in striking ways. Although prior work has shown that boundaries between events can shape temporal perception…
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October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
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How to develop good research questions
"This Comment describes the iterative creative process for designing good research questions, and includes practical suggestions and ways to avoid common traps."
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"This Comment describes the iterative creative process for designing good research questions, and includes practical suggestions and ways to avoid common traps."
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October 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
How to develop good research questions
"This Comment describes the iterative creative process for designing good research questions, and includes practical suggestions and ways to avoid common traps."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"This Comment describes the iterative creative process for designing good research questions, and includes practical suggestions and ways to avoid common traps."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428
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October 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428
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I’m excited to share my recent preprint on a neural network model of free recall that learns multiple memory strategies including the memory palace!
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October 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I’m excited to share my recent preprint on a neural network model of free recall that learns multiple memory strategies including the memory palace!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
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🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference?
In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵
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In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵
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Hippocampal transformations occur along dimensions of memory interference
The role of the hippocampus in resolving memory interference has been greatly elucidated by considering the relationship between the similarity of visual stimuli (input) and corresponding similarity o...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference?
In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw
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You learn better when you test yourself on an answer before you study it? Even more counterintuitive, our findings showcase that there is not one direct mechanism to this effect.
Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social !
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Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social !
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October 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
You learn better when you test yourself on an answer before you study it? Even more counterintuitive, our findings showcase that there is not one direct mechanism to this effect.
Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...
Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...
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Our new paper explores an analogy between representations of objects and representations of events, finding that similar illusions arise for both! Check it out 👇
September 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Our new paper explores an analogy between representations of objects and representations of events, finding that similar illusions arise for both! Check it out 👇
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Next up, from @atabk.bsky.social and @wouterkool.bsky.social: Free recall is shaped by inference and scaffolded by event structure. In sum, Ata stuck hidden (and shifting) rules into a word list learning task, creating "events" that influenced the structure of recall.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
September 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Next up, from @atabk.bsky.social and @wouterkool.bsky.social: Free recall is shaped by inference and scaffolded by event structure. In sum, Ata stuck hidden (and shifting) rules into a word list learning task, creating "events" that influenced the structure of recall.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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I'm a behind on shouting out new papers!
From Angelique Delarazan: Narrative Coherence Warps the Timeline of Recalled Naturalistic Events. In sum, when recalling stories, people systematically deviate from temporal organization to follow the narrative threads.
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From Angelique Delarazan: Narrative Coherence Warps the Timeline of Recalled Naturalistic Events. In sum, when recalling stories, people systematically deviate from temporal organization to follow the narrative threads.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
September 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I'm a behind on shouting out new papers!
From Angelique Delarazan: Narrative Coherence Warps the Timeline of Recalled Naturalistic Events. In sum, when recalling stories, people systematically deviate from temporal organization to follow the narrative threads.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
From Angelique Delarazan: Narrative Coherence Warps the Timeline of Recalled Naturalistic Events. In sum, when recalling stories, people systematically deviate from temporal organization to follow the narrative threads.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience?
Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as event familiarity increases. Fine-tuning predicts memory recall.
Excited to share this work with Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as event familiarity increases. Fine-tuning predicts memory recall.
Excited to share this work with Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
Repeated Viewing of a Narrative Movie Changes Event Timescales in The Brain
Many experiences occur repeatedly throughout our lives: we might watch the same movie more than once and listen to the same song on repeat. How does the brain modify its representations of events when...
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September 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience?
Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as event familiarity increases. Fine-tuning predicts memory recall.
Excited to share this work with Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as event familiarity increases. Fine-tuning predicts memory recall.
Excited to share this work with Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
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Check out a new preprint from Adi, postdoc working with me and Jeff Zacks. I’m *extremely* excited to finally, officially get this out into the world 🙂
1/ 🚨 Preprint alert!
How does the brain make sense of continuous experience?
We find that continuous experiences can be compressed using a subset of key moments that dominate comprehension and recall.
👉 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.30.673233
How does the brain make sense of continuous experience?
We find that continuous experiences can be compressed using a subset of key moments that dominate comprehension and recall.
👉 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.30.673233
September 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Check out a new preprint from Adi, postdoc working with me and Jeff Zacks. I’m *extremely* excited to finally, officially get this out into the world 🙂
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the rare paper in which authors can describe their own work as "strange," "trippy," "crazy," or "bonkers" 😂
If you're interested in multisensory integration, illusory embodiment, or body representations, check out our new paper exploring the cognitive mechanisms underlying the Anne Boleyn illusion! Thank you @jaredmedina.bsky.social for your guidance & collaboration on this project.
Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment
To induce the Anne Boleyn illusion, an individual’s hands are placed on either side of a mirror and stroked synchronously from the thumb to the empty …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the rare paper in which authors can describe their own work as "strange," "trippy," "crazy," or "bonkers" 😂
If you're interested in multisensory integration, illusory embodiment, or body representations, check out our new paper exploring the cognitive mechanisms underlying the Anne Boleyn illusion! Thank you @jaredmedina.bsky.social for your guidance & collaboration on this project.
Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment
To induce the Anne Boleyn illusion, an individual’s hands are placed on either side of a mirror and stroked synchronously from the thumb to the empty …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:23 AM
If you're interested in multisensory integration, illusory embodiment, or body representations, check out our new paper exploring the cognitive mechanisms underlying the Anne Boleyn illusion! Thank you @jaredmedina.bsky.social for your guidance & collaboration on this project.
Reposted by Isabel Folger (she/her)
I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist.
To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts!
-> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4
#DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm
Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2
To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts!
-> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4
#DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm
Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2
A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data
Nature Cell Biology - Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data...
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June 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist.
To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts!
-> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4
#DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm
Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2
To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts!
-> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4
#DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm
Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2
Had a blast at #SARMAC2025 presenting error correction research I’ve been working on with Dr. Hannah Hausman @ the UCSC Memory & Metacognition Lab. Thanks to everyone who stopped by for your insightful questions, and to my fellow presenters for a fascinating 3 days! Excited for the finale tomorrow!
June 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Had a blast at #SARMAC2025 presenting error correction research I’ve been working on with Dr. Hannah Hausman @ the UCSC Memory & Metacognition Lab. Thanks to everyone who stopped by for your insightful questions, and to my fellow presenters for a fascinating 3 days! Excited for the finale tomorrow!
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I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!
Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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April 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!