Alex Kafkas
@KafkasAlex
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Cognitive neuroscientist researching memory. Lecturer at the University of Manchester
Joined February 2014
3-year postdoc position available with me (@KafkasAlex) @OfficialUoM to explore the functionally heterogenous role of the #thalamus in #memory. With Adrian Parry-Jones (@adrianpj1), Nelson Trujillo-Barreto (@NelsonJTrujill1) and the MRC (@The_MRC) .
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RT @ScienceMagazine: In 21 papers across Science, @ScienceAdvances, and @ScienceTM, researchers with the #BICCN consortium present an atlas….
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New #PhD opportunity in #Neuroimaging, #memory and #eyetracking. Funded @MRC PhD with @0Shrutigarg @CLeaCarnall and @KafkasAlex! 🧠👁️.Come and work with us!.
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PhD Project - (MRC DTP) Exploring neurotransmission and pupil response changes in learning: A combined neuroimaging and eye tracking study at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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RT @SfNJournals: The interplay between stress & memory is complicated & somewhat contradictory. In a recent manuscript in #JNeurosci, @bryn….
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Read my latest #research on false memory and pupillometry, published with @SpringerNature in @SciReports .
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Scientific Reports - Pupil response patterns distinguish true from false memories
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I am thrilled to receive funding from the MRC (£800k +), along with Adrian Parry-Jones @adrianpj1 and Nelson Trujillo-Barreto @NelsonJTrujill1, for our project on the role of thalamus in memory. I am so grateful for this opportunity and eager to start working on this project!!.
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RT @ucu: IMPORTANT UPDATE from @DrJoGrady. The employers have communicated their position which offers us nothing. They will want you to….
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Interested in exploring how glutamate and GABA neurotransmission modulates oculomotor and pupillary responses in learning and memory tasks? . Apply for this PhD opportunity combining eye tracking and MR spectroscopy, with me, @CLeaCarnall and @0Shrutigarg.
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Larger capacity for unconscious versus conscious episodic memory
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Humans draw inferences when encoding episodes with and without consciousness. Schneider et al. find a larger memory capacity for unconscious than conscious episodic encoding. Hippocampus supports...
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RT @FrankDarya: Very excited to share my review with @KafkasAlex on expectation-driven novelty effects in episodic memory .
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Concurrent feature-specific reactivation within the hippocampus and neocortex facilitates episodic memory retrieval
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The hippocampus is a key brain region for the storage and retrieval of episodic memories, but how it performs this function is unresolved. According to the hippocampal indexing theory, the hippocam...
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RT @nicholaraihani: I just tweeted an open letter asking the UK Gov't to provide the evidence base for their policy decisions re: coronavir….
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We are writing as behavioural scientists to express concern about the timing of UK delay measures involving social distancing. As is clear from the disaster unfolding in Italy, there is a unique...
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Very useful summary of Cognitive Neuroscience Journals charges by @TraversEoin. Good to have it in mind for next submission 👍.
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RT @biorxiv_neursci: Spatial Coding in the Subiculum Requires Anterior Thalamic Inputs #biorxiv_neursci.
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RT @guardian: A Place for Everything by Judith Flanders – the curious history of alphabetical order
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We take it for granted, yet it plays a key role in our daily lives – the ABC and how it conquered the world
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Very happy this is finally published online in Cerebral Cortex! Comments are welcome: "Thalamic-Medial Temporal Lobe Connectivity Underpins Familiarity Memory".
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Abstract. The neural basis of memory is highly distributed, but the thalamus is known to play a particularly critical role. However, exactly how the differ
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