Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available. What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will. oecs.mit.edu

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🔊 New preprint 🧠 for the first time we show congenital #aphantasia has physical brain anatomy alterations. Surprisingly, they have structurally intact #visual pathways. Structural alterations instead found in the fronto-temporal and cingulate systems. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

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📄 We introduce a computational-linguistic framework to probe memory in 32 individuals with hippocampal amnesia. CA2/3 sustains lifespan episodic memory, with CA1 only supporting recent remembering. Local (not global) narrative coherence mediates episodic detail loss. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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New ggsegverse update! I finally got around to pre-release new ggseg.extra (notice name change) package, for creating new atlases. ggsegverse.github.io/news/ggseg.e...

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"Neighborhood street connectivity and hippocampus volume in older adults" Impressive study linking hippocampal volume in later life and street connectivity: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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