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Alison Preston
@prestonlab.bsky.social
Neuroscientist @UTAustin

I study how children, adolescents, and adults learn and reason about the world

preston.clm.utexas.edu
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🧠 Did you know that kids remember time differently than adults? Our new preprint review w/ @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social discusses the real implications for juvenile justice & why we need to ask about timing in ways that match kids' developing brains ⚖️

Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Encouraging children & teens to manage their schedules independently has positive impacts for their memory!

Our new study reveals that age & independence combine to enhance memory development 🧵

Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Reposted by Alison Preston
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Science Education and Outreach Awards

These researchers are advancing neuroscience through groundbreaking discoveries, mentorship, & scientific excellence.

Listen to their remarks: vist.ly/4f8cn

#SfN25 #neurosky #neuroskyence
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#SfN25, what a week! So proud watching lab members Omer, Nicole & Owen shine at their posters. Loved catching up with colleagues, former students & neuroscientists I deeply admire. Thank you for a fantastic event @sfn.org! 🧠
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reposted by Alison Preston
Beautiful watercolor brain paintings each one of a kind, at the Art of Neuroscience area at #sfn #sfn25
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
If you're at @sfn.org #SfN2025, hope you can swing by and see us today! 🧠
The Preston Lab will be at @sfn.org #SfN2025! Come see what we've been working on 🧠

We'll discuss how kids & adults remember when things happen, how memory changes impact reasoning & how we learn different actions have different consequences based on the setting.

Find us Monday & Wednesday 🤘
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reposted by Alison Preston
The Preston Lab will be at @sfn.org #SfN2025! Come see what we've been working on 🧠

We'll discuss how kids & adults remember when things happen, how memory changes impact reasoning & how we learn different actions have different consequences based on the setting.

Find us Monday & Wednesday 🤘
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reposted by Alison Preston
Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in!
tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition
*can this be a thing??
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The Preston Lab will be at @sfn.org #SfN2025! Come see what we've been working on 🧠

We'll discuss how kids & adults remember when things happen, how memory changes impact reasoning & how we learn different actions have different consequences based on the setting.

Find us Monday & Wednesday 🤘
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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🧠 Did you know that kids remember time differently than adults? Our new preprint review w/ @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social discusses the real implications for juvenile justice & why we need to ask about timing in ways that match kids' developing brains ⚖️

Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reposted by Alison Preston
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.

Caveats:
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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees

> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Met a celebrity the other day! Bevo is the ultimate longhorn 🤘🐂
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Big thanks to #ThinkeryATX Children's Museum for hosting us at their STEAM Sunday Halloween celebration! 🎃

We love connecting with families and future scientists while sharing what we do at the Preston Lab 🤘
#SciComm #AustinScience
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It was great fun working with @alexanderhuth.bsky.social and @mujianing.bsky.social on these theoretical ideas. We are excited for everyone to check out the preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Reposted by Alison Preston
New paper with @mujianing.bsky.social & @prestonlab.bsky.social! We propose a simple model for human memory of narratives: we uniformly sample incoming information at a constant rate. This explains behavioral data much better than variable-rate sampling triggered by event segmentation or surprisal.
Efficient uniform sampling explains non-uniform memory of narrative stories https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667952v1
August 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM