When viewers recount an episode, their brains all appear to retrieve the shape of its plot from the same areas.
– The Atlantic
December 14, 2016
2016
Your Mind Works More Like Sherlock Holmes’s Than You Think
Sherlock Holmes possesses a “mind palace”—a highly organized mental catalog of nearly every memory he’s ever had. We mere mortals can’t match Holmes’s remarkable recollection, but when we store and recall memories, our brain activity probably looks a lot like his.
– Science
December 5, 2016
Our Brains Record and Remember Things in Exactly the Same Way
You might think your memories are unique, but a study involving a Sherlock Holmes drama suggests the opposite. When people describe the episode, their brain activity patterns are almost exactly the same as each other’s, for each scene. And there’s also evidence that, when a person tells someone else about it, they implant that same activity into their brain as well.
– New Scientist
December 5, 2016
The Brain Performs Feats of Math to Make Sense of the World
Princeton University researchers show in a new study how our brains combine complicated observations from our surroundings into a simple assessment of the situation that aids our behavior and decisions.
– News at Princeton
August 29, 2016
Professor Ken Norman Receives Graduate Mentoring Award
Professor Ken Norman has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2016 Graduate Mentoring Award administered by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning.
– Princeton University
May 6, 2016
Complementary learning systems within the hippocampus: A neural network modeling approach to reconciling episodic memory with statistical learning
Schapiro, A.C., Turk-Browne, N.B., Botvinick, M.M., & Norman, K.A. (2016). Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Using an inverted encoding model to reconstruct spatial position and forward planning in a virtual reality environment
Antony, J.W., Baldassano, C., Aly, M., Turk-Browne, N.B., & Norman, K.A. (2016). Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Reward prediction errors enhance episodic memory
Rouhani, N., Norman, K., & Niv, Y. (2016). Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Representation of real-world event schemas during narrative perception
Baldassano, C., Hasson, U., & Norman, K. (2016). Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
The strategic allocation of working memory and episodic memory in prospective remembering: A neural network model
Momennejad, I., Tomov, M., Norman, K.A., & Cohen, J.D. (2016). Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Weakening memories through close-loop modulation of perceptual distraction
Mennen, A.C., Poppenk, J., deBettencourt, M.T., & Norman, K.A. (2016). Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Samples from past experience set a starting point for perceptual decisions
Bornstein, A.M., Aly, M., Feng, S.F., Turk-Browne, N.B., Norman, K.A., & Cohen, J.D. (2016). Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
The strategic allocation of working memory and episodic memory in prospective remembering: A neural network model
Momennejad, I., Tomov, M., Norman, K. & Cohen, J. (2016). Poster presented at the 15th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW).
Neural evidence of the strategic choice between working memory and episodic memory in prospective remembering
Lewis-Peacock, J.A., Cohen, J.D., & Norman, K.A. (2016). Neuropsychologia.
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Complementary learning systems within the hippocampus: A neural network modeling approach to reconciling episodic memory with statistical learning
Schapiro, A.C., Turk-Browne, N.B., Botvinick, M.M., & Norman, K.A. (2016). Philosophical Transactions B.
Neural pattern change during encoding of a narrative predicts retrospective duration estimates
Lositsky, O., Chen, J., Toker, D., Honey, C.J., Poppenk, J.L., Hasson, U., & Norman, K.A. (2016). ELife.
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A probability distribution over latent causes, in the orbitofrontal cortex
Chan, S.C.Y., Niv, Y., & Norman, K.A. (2016). Journal of Neuroscience.
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A neural signature of contextually mediated intentional forgetting
Manning, J.R., Hulbert, J.C., Williams, J., Piloto, L., Sahakyan, L., & Norman, K.A. (2016). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
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Statistical learning of temporal community structure in the hippocampus
Schapiro, A.C., Turk-Browne, N.B., Norman, K.A., & Botvinick, M.M. (2016). Hippocampus.
Neuroscience: Incepting associations
deBettencourt, M.T. & Norman, K.A. (2016). Current Biology.