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Our lab uses cognitive neuroscience methods to study how humans understand other people 🧠

06/05/2026

Introducing Noa Richman, a Research Assistant in the Social Memory Lab

Noa Richman is a sophomore at Tulane University from Tampa, Florida. In the lab, Noa is assisting on a project investigating how different factors associated with social networks influence social attention and memory. In her free time, Noa enjoys reading, baking sweets, and exploring the world.

05/16/2026

Congratulations to our 2026 graduates! Ian, Roma, Katie, Morgan, and Ella received their Bachelor’s degrees, and Stephen and Elizabeth received their Master’s. You all have bright futures ahead - we look forward to seeing what comes next!

05/13/2026

Congratulations to Ian Faul for defending his Honors Thesis and winning the Psychology department’s Senior Scholar award! This award is given to the most outstanding graduating student in the department. Ian also received several university-wide honors, including the Tulane 34 award and acceptance into the William Wallace Perry society. researchstudy neurolab psychlab

04/17/2026

Elizabeth Neal is a Neuroscience Master's student from Frisco, Texas. In the lab, Elizabeth has been working on a study which investigates how attention and memory are influenced by familiarity and reward. In her free time, Elizabeth loves reading and cooking from scratch.

04/10/2026

Everything is not what it seems 👀 Our lab went to the Museum of Illusions to see how perception can trick the brain! 🧠

03/20/2026

New preprint alert!

Visual processing in the brain proceeds from early stages in occipital cortex, to later stages in the anterior temporal lobe (ATL). However, the ATL is hard to study with neuroimaging, and therefore not well understood. Here, we use a large-scale imaging study with over 800 participants to show that the ATL includes at least three distinct visual areas, which prefer different categories of image such as faces or bodies.

https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.11.711089

02/20/2026

New paper alert!

How can scientists best study infant brain development using MRI? Using a large dataset from over 750 study visits, we ask what factors influence successful data collection when scanning awake infants.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/infa.70062

02/13/2026

Calling all parents of infants: participate in our infant MRI study!

We are asking how infants’ brains develop the circuits that support social understanding in the first year of life. During study visits, infants lie in a comfy recliner and watch baby-friendly videos while we measure their brain activity. MRI is safe and noninvasive, and the study doesn't involve sedation, drugs, or injections. As compensation for participating, we offer a $100 payment for each session.

For more information about our study or to sign up, visit our website: https://www.socialmemorylab.com/sml-infant-studies. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions or if you would like to talk to the research team

12/12/2025

New preprint alert!

We generated a probabilistic atlas of brain regions in the medial temporal lobe. This will provide a tool for neuroimaging researchers studying the function of regions that interface with the hippocampus to support long-term memory.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692420v1

11/24/2025

The lab had a great trip to San Diego last week for the Society for Neuroscience 2025 meeting! Congrats to Adya and Isabel for their successful poster presentations.

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