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Yuan Chang Leong

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https://mcnlab.uchicago.edu/

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Huge congrats to @monicarosenb.bsky.social, an amazing scientist and even better friend

10.03.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Register now for the trainee focused (pre-grad β†’ postdoc) #SANS2026 Pre-Conference Workshop: Building a Thriving Research Career!

NIH staff from OBSSR, NICHD, NIA & NINDS will be there to talk about funding opportunities, career development programs, and to answer YOUR questions directly.

07.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ever wonder how much your fMRI preprocessing choices shape your results? πŸ€”

Register now for the #SANS2026 pre-conference workshop: Navigating the fMRI Multiverse

Learn best practices in fMRI preprocessing and explore how analytic variability affects reproducibility through multiverse analyses

07.03.2026 02:08 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sad to miss #CNS26, especially when @monicarosenb.bsky.social receives the young investigator award πŸŽ‰

But for all attending, do go see postdoc extraordinaire @atabk.bsky.social's poster B121 "Tracking sampling strategies during value construction to guide novel choice" on Sunday morning.

06.03.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats Zach! So happy to hear this!

07.03.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great news! ✨ The Early-Bird registration rate for SANS 2026 has been extended to March 15th!

This year we have two fantastic pre-conference workshops you won't want to miss - on fMRI preprocessing and building a thriving research career.

05.03.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The inferred value of unchosen options spreads to related items in memory Counterfactual thinking β€” considering what could have come of choosing the other path β€” can facilitate inference. Previous studies have demonstrated t…

πŸ“’New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social!

Does the value of an unchosen option β€” inferred through counterfactual reasoning β€” spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option β€” acquired through direct experience β€” does?

In short, yes!

28.02.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Final version now in press at Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience! Congratulations to Rachel for her hard work on this ☺️🧠⚑
trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/...

28.02.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Eric!

24.02.2026 13:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not going to CNS unfortunately :(! Do you mean you're going to APS as well? If so, we should definitely hang out there!

24.02.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Jeongjun! Hope to see you again soon!

24.02.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Hayoung! Very honored by the award!

24.02.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Ryan, so nice to see you a couple of days back!

24.02.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Kim!!! Gosh, it's been so long... hope we'll get a chance to catch up some time!

24.02.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Jin!!!

24.02.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thank you! nice to meet you a couple weeks back!

24.02.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Shannon!!! Looking forward to seeing you at the hyperscanning workshop in August!

24.02.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Jim!!!

24.02.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much Monica! And second everything Emily said in the message ⬆️!!! Honored to be in this company!

24.02.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much Akram!

24.02.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Emily! Congratulations to you too! Was very happy when I heard you were one of the awardees this year! I Hope we'll get to celebrate together in Barcelona :)!

24.02.2026 00:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Deeply honored by this recognition from @psychscience.bsky.social, and to be in the company of scientists whose work I greatly admire! A big thank you to lab members, collaborators and mentors, past and present for the work we do together!

23.02.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

I will be hiring a full-time pre-doctoral Research Professional to work with me at Chicago Booth.

Know someone interested in studying conversation and connection? Please help spread the word!

More details, including application instructions, are here: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu...

13.02.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

How do brain networks tracking past trauma react to stress in the future? Thrilled to share new work from the lab led by rockstar postdoc @felhardi.bsky.social with wonderful collab @dylanggee.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence

06.08.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

Three more days to submit to SANS 2026 in San Diego!

Not done with data collection/analyses yet? In case you missed it, we have a "Pre-Registration" category where you can submit an abstract for a study you plan to conduct!

More info here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/abstract-sub...

16.01.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Junior Specialist - Lapate Laboratory, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

πŸ“£ Our lab is hiring a full-time RA/lab manager! Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara to study the neural bases of affect-cognition interactions using fMRI and brain stimulation. Great stepping stone to a PhD in cognitive/affective neuro πŸ§ πŸ¬πŸ–οΈ Apply by Jan 22: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03048

13.01.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

Our new paper out in NHB! We started this back in @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social's lab when I was a postdoc and Rolando was a grad student, showing that stable fMRI representations of places (learned in Rolando's custom-made VR world) provide the best anchors for later item learning

05.01.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dynamic brain mechanisms supporting salient memories under cortisol The stress-related hormone cortisol alters dynamic brain networks predicting memory and arousal to promote emotional memories.

How does cortisol tune brain networks to form strong emotional memories? Excited to share new work led by amazing former RA Flory Huang w collabs Rajita Sinha and @toddc.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

11.12.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
a red building on UPENN's campus photographed during the fall

a red building on UPENN's campus photographed during the fall

the Philadelphia skyline, with clear skies and autumn trees

the Philadelphia skyline, with clear skies and autumn trees

starting fall 2026 i'll be an assistant professor at @upenn.edu πŸ₯³

my lab will develop scalable models/theories of human behavior, focused on memory and perception

currently recruiting PhD students in psychology, neuroscience, & computer science!

reach out if you're interested 😊

25.11.2025 21:36 πŸ‘ 227 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 3
Overcoming distortion in multidimensional predictive representation

Thrilled to see this reviewed preprint by grad student extraordinaire (but bsky-less) Euan Prentis posted on @elife.bsky.social! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Thank you to the reviewers and editors for encouraging, insightful and helpful comments. We will be revising the paper, stay tuned!

21.11.2025 19:18 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0