Jianing Mu CLM Retreat Presentation

Jianing Mu CLM Retreat Presentation

April 10, 2025

2025 retreat for the Center for Learning and Memory, The University of Texas at Austin (VUKA, 5540 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, Texas; 11 APR 2025) Members of our lab had a fantastic time at this year’s UT Austin Center for Learning and Memory (CLM) retreat! The annual event brings together researchers from labs across the center to share exciting ongoing work and hear from a keynote speaker on cutting-edge topics in the field. We were proud to have our very own graduate student, Jianing Mu, represent our lab with a talk on how Efficient uniform sampling yields non-uniform memory of narrative stories. Overall, it was a great opportunity to connect with peers, exchange ideas, and get inspired by the innovative research happening all around us. ... Read more » Jianing Mu CLM Retreat Presentation

Jianing Mu presenting at CNS 2025

Jianing Mu presenting at CNS 2025

March 26, 2025

Will you be at CNS? Check out graduate student Jianing Mu’s poster (C25) on Sunday, March 30, from 5:00-7:00 pm. She’ll present her new work showing how uniform sampling of naturalistic narratives allows listeners to both remember unique moments and the global gist of narrative stories. ... Read more » Jianing Mu presenting at CNS 2025

Dissociable mechanisms for learning generalities and event details

Dissociable mechanisms for learning generalities and event details

October 21, 2024

Real-world decisions require understanding generalities and the ability to remember specific events. For instance, an art student might learn both the general painting style of JMW Turner and specific locations of each of his major works. In a new publication, we show that discriminating between broad categories versus individual events benefit from different learning sequences. ... Read more » Dissociable mechanisms for learning generalities and event details

Lab awarded new NIH grant!

Lab awarded new NIH grant!

October 19, 2024

The lab received a new 5-year NIH grant to study how changes in hippocampus and frontoparietal cortex from adolescence to emerging adulthood impact knowledge acquisition and reasoning. Reach out if you are an interested student or postdoctoral fellow who wants to get involved in the research. ... Read more » Lab awarded new NIH grant!

Undergraduate Research Assistant Application

Undergraduate Research Assistant Application

May 20, 2024

Interested in becoming a Volunteer Research Assistant with the Preston Lab? You can apply to one of our RA positions using this link: https://forms.gle/oXB2muVabkpkpFj17   Please note that the Preston Lab accepts Research Assistants on a rolling basis, depending on the needs of our lab during a given period of time. Due to the volume of applicants we receive, you will only be contacted if your application is selected to move on to the next round. If you have any additional questions, please reach out to our Lab Manager, Sara Abbas, at saabbas@austin.utexas.edu ... Read more » Undergraduate Research Assistant Application

Congratulations Ayesha!

Congratulations Ayesha!

March 27, 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Ayesha Nadiadwala for successfully defending her dissertation today! Ayesha joined the Preston Lab as a graduate student in Fall 2019. Co-mentored with Dr. Preston and Dr. Joey Dunsmoor, Ayesha spent her time as a graduate student at UT Austin exploring how different episodic memory processes are modulated by emotion. More specifically, she was interested in learning how emotion influences relationships between memory representations for events. Congratulations Ayesha! ... Read more » Congratulations Ayesha!

Congratulations Neal!

Congratulations Neal!

May 11, 2023

Congratulations to post-doctoral fellow Neal Morton, who will be starting a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee this Fall! Neal’s lab will use neuroimaging and modeling to examine how the brain organizes memory to reflect knowledge about the world and aid reasoning. ... Read more » Congratulations Neal!

Congratulations Christine!

Congratulations Christine!

April 25, 2023

Congratulations to post-doctoral fellow Christine Coughlin, who will be starting a faculty position at the University of Illinois – Chicago this fall! Christine’s lab will focus on how the developing brain supports the flexible use of memories to imagine the future, create, reason, and more! ... Read more » Congratulations Christine!