Associate Prof of Neuroscience @BrownUniversity studying cognitive sequences integrating across animals and humans. Opinions my own. More @website #WomenInSTEM
Providence, RI
Joined April 2016
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Something fun: Like illusions? 👀 Vote for the best one of the year! (I like the first one :) #neuroscience 🧠 🧪
Best Illusion of the Year Contest 2025 vote.illusionoftheyear.com/
Primates (other than us) may have pets?! #science 🧪
Heterospecific social behavior in primates: insights into the evolutionary roots of pet-keeping - Primates link.springer.com/article/10…
Doing my best to try to amplify the value of our international colleagues in our labs as quoted in this piece (opinions my own) #science 🧪
US government probe into postdoc visas worries scientists nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Good morning @BrownUniversity #fall
ALT A cityscape with autumn-colored trees and buildings under a blue sky. The buildings include a church with a steeple and a structure with tall chimneys.
I'm proud to have hosted one of these fantastic students, Aida Abkenova who worked with Defne Buyukyazgan 👩🔬 🧪 🧠 #WomenInSTEM
Brown students, faculty deploy data-driven approaches to solve problems in brain science brown.edu/news/2026-10-08/ca…
How about some brain trivia for an afternoon pick-me-up? 🧠 🧪 🍅
Eating tomato paste may improve selective attention and associative memory (Source: randomized crossover clinical trial by López-Solís et al. 2026, Antioxidants, 15:644) h/t NfK news
How is it October already? Kudos to Brown for sending out this cute little friend in their latest email. Made me smile (which we can all use sometimes). Good luck to everyone submitting grants! 👻 🎃 🍁
Defne Buyukyazgan, shown here illustrating sequences with dance 🧑🩰💃 , did an awesome job presenting her work at In-House seminar today! Congrats Defne! 🙌🧠🧪 #neuroscience #WomenInSTEM
ALT Slide with dance icons on it illustrating AAAB pattern projected on screen with Defne standing at the podium to the right
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“Construction zone ahead: building abstract representations in the PFC”
Great work showing that group networks are not the same as individuals, and fun to think about ways in which some of the areas we investigate in our lab might be at the conjunction of networks #neuroscience
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Are short-term and long-term memories kept in the same part of the brain? Nicole Rust explains the difference between these two types of memories and where we stash them. #AskaNeuroscientist @NicoleCRust
Having a mini break/“celebration” for the data rerun/recheck coming out the same as the original 🧠🧪 #smallVictories #WomenInSTEM
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Check out a cool new SciTunes about how AI works from @BrownUniversity youtu.be/r_kSGs14syA?si=RR85… 🧪
Very proud of Aida for her summer project as part of the Carney Quantitative Scholars program! She tackled a hard problem and we all learned a lot! #WomenInSTEM #neuroscience 🧠🧪👩🔬
ALT Aida Abkenova in front of her poster
Most parents who have worked outside the home have questions about maternal work and I found this conclusion striking "the perception of maternal work harming child development does not align with measured findings" #WomenInSTEM 👩🔬
Review in Science: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Having an amazing start to the Neurobiology of Cognition Gordon Conference! Took advantage of the beautiful weather to hike with the lab after the first couple of fantastic sessions 🧠🧪👩🔬 #WomenInScience #neuroscience
ALT Left to right: Theresa Desrochers, Defne Buyukyazgan, M. Vanessa Rivera Nunez in front of a waterfall in a forest
ALT Gazebo by the side of a small lake with mountains , blue sky, and white puffy clouds in the background
ALT View of a ski mountain from a chair lift going down