Michael Mack

Cognitive Neuroscientist, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto
Moved to BlueSky: @drmack.bsky.social

[Yongzhen (Dory) Xie @yongzhen_xie]

Looking forward to presenting my work on exception learning at #VSS2024! Come see my poster in the morning of May 18 to discuss how prefrontal, hippocampal, and visual areas can distinctively support the learning of complex visual categories with exceptional items!

[Yongzhen (Dory) Xie @yongzhen_xie]

🎉 My first first-author paper is now published in PBR! @mmack and l used novel computational modeling & behavioral approaches to show how selective pattern differentiation and integration can support learning and generalization of category exceptions!
https://t.co/98eHFWwqON

[Gaeun Son @son_gaeun]

Brief category learning distorts the perceptual space of complex scenes! Our new paper is now in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: https://t.co/uP3cAYEDRH.
@DirkBWalther @mmack

[Michael Mack @mmack]

The Mack Lab is at #SfN22!
Saturday PM poster: @PerovicMateja & @em_heffernan UU2
Sunday AM poster: @yongzhen_xie WW37
Monday PM talk: Melisa Gumus, room SDCC 24

Titles below, visit https://t.co/884idvg1gN for PDF downloads!

[alex barnett🧠 @abarnettPhD]

We are looking for an MRI technologist at our downtown campus MRI scanner in Toronto. Please RT or pass to someone you know! :)

https://t.co/h98Xbtiz2a

[Penn Memory Lab @MemoryLab]

Thanks to the contributions of an amazing group of field-leading authors, Mike Kahana and Anthony Wagner (@SUMemoryLab) are excited to announce that the Oxford Handbook of Human Memory is nearing publication! Chapters can be found at: https://t.co/8glKIzIVfD

[Bryan Hong @bryan_hong_]

Excited for @cogsci_soc #CogSci2022! I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow (July 28 / 3-4:40PM / Room 104B) on work w/ Carleigh Pace-Tonna, @mmack & @morganbarense. We explore how to leverage associations in memory during review to benefit later free recall. Would love to see you there!

[Bradley Love @ProfData]

Work w @Rob_Mok, "A multi-level account of hippocampal function from behaviour to neurons". How can high-level cognitive constructs like symbols, clusters, and so forth be implemented in neurons? That's a gap not addressed by model-based neuroscience. 1/8
https://t.co/dHvPGyef1y

[Dirk Bernhardt-Walther is on Bluesky @DirkBWalther]

Parallel contours are important for scene perception. Scenes are more clearly represented in PPA if they have more parallel contours. The parallelism signal seems to originate in V4. Meticulous work by @wilder_jd, @MortezaRezanej1 et al. out in @PLOSONE. https://t.co/ZgRE3PoIRk

[Morgan Barense @morganbarense]

Come work with us at the Toronto Neuroimaging Facility at the #UofT! We are recruiting an MRI Physicist/Engineer. Please RT! #neurojobs #neurosciencejobs

Job info here: https://t.co/wjzi0V4ujM.

[Emily Heffernan @em_heffernan]

For a quick (and timely!) summary of this work, check out our Psychonomics talk today at 12PM EST as part of the session "(045-050) Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition" #psynom21

[Marlie Tandoc @MarlieTandoc]

Do different kinds of representations support the learning of generalized and specific knowledge? Check out my poster at #SfN2021 w/ @AnnaSchapiro where we use distortions in color memory to examine how such representations change with category learning https://t.co/3FlvR4vJs3

[Michael Mack @mmack]

Excellent work by @em_heffernan, very excited to see it published!

[Emily Heffernan @em_heffernan]

Some work I did with @mmack and @megschlichting at @macklabuoft has officially been published! People learn better when rule-violating exceptions are presented later in learning (and so does a neural network model of the hippocampus 🧠) https://t.co/x8echasmQm

[Michael Mack @mmack]

Our lab's first MRI study entirely conducted at @UofT is now published! Learning exceptions to category rules is related to white matter circuity of the hippocampus. In collab with @megschlichting, Melisa Gumus, and Teresa Zhu. https://t.co/JCGZT5IIRG

[Michael Mack @mmack]

@JennRichler Gustatory lickpad?

[Dirk Bernhardt-Walther is on Bluesky @DirkBWalther]

Cool work with the talented @son_gaeun and @mmack.
Manuscript: https://t.co/ufi3KQi39P
Code and data: https://t.co/Qwu69snipx