Samantha Scudder
@SammerSci
Assistant Teaching Professor in Psych & Brain Sciences at UCSB, competitive gaming enthusiast, craft beer lover, crazy cat lady, mom. She/her 🏳️🌈
The Sprague Lab has a job opening for a Junior Specialist to help with ongoing projects in the lab. Full ad here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02013. Read more about our work at spraguelab.psych.ucsb.edu
new paper from my postdoc work: we found that an attended distractor during spatial WM transiently disrupts neural WM representations, but they recover. importantly, the distractor induced a neural bias in visual, but not parietal, cortex, which predicted behavior recall errors
Working Memory Representations in Visual Cortex Mediate the Effects of Distraction biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci
Beautiful work from @flickerfusion (as always)!
"Striatal activity topographically reflects cortical activity": the relationship between cortical and striatal activity is topographic, consistent, causal, and scalable with learning (w/ @basal_gang @SteinmetzNeuro @kennethd_harris @MatteoCarandini) nature.com/articles/s4158…
PhD & Postdoc positions available in cognitive neuroscience! Become an inaugural member of the lab, and study cognitive & perceptual processes in humans, using behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational techniques. More information here (please RT): rademakerlab.com/job-add
How do thalamic inputs to L1 influence inhibition and dendritic activity? Our paper in @NeuroCellPress shows how it depends on the thalamic nucleus, with MD and VM targeting different L1 sublayers and interneuron subtypes in the PFC. cell.com/neuron/fulltex… Summary in thread:
🚨The next instalment of our PFC thalamo-cortical project is out on bioRxiv 🚨 It’s got interneurons, rabies tracing, optogenetics, 2 types of disinhibition and cell-type-specific dendritic calcium signalling. Summary below 1/n disq.us/t/3l4r9wm
We are hiring! We have a postdoctoral position in my lab @uclnpp to support investigation of ventral hippocampal circuitry and its role in value-based decision making. Looking for cellular, circuit or behavioural types. please RT and DM me for more info. atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/…