Coraline Rinn Iordan
Assistant Professor @ University of Rochester ◆ narratives, episodic memory, naturalistic cognition, neurofeedback ◆ natcoglab.org ◆ mom ◆ moon elf warlock ◆ 🌈 she/her
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanWe are hiring a research specialist, to start this summer! This position would be a great fit for individuals looking to get more experience in computational and cognitive neuroscience research before applying to graduate school. #neurojobs Apply here: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21503/r...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanVoxelwise Encoding Models (VEMs) are a great framework for modeling fMRI data, but it can be difficult to implement. We've made VEM accessible by providing software, tutorials and reviews that guide its use an implementation. Get it here: gallantlab.org/blog/2025-12... #neuroscience, #neuroimaging
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanExcited to share a new article, led by Barnes Jannuzi. Here we tried to pinpoint something about visual familiarity that isn't reflected in visual cortex via something putatively hippocampal. Nope! Per the theme of this era, the brain is not so simple. /1 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanThe brain represents the world around us as a series of neural states - stable patterns of activity that change as we move from one event to the next. New paper by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social showing that neural states get longer as people age. #PsychSciSky nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08792-4
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanPlease share: New postdoc position in human intracranial neuroscience is open in the Castellucci Lab. www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/pos... #Postdoc #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs #HiringAcademics #JobSearch #Neuroscience #ResearchJobs #STEMjobs #ScienceJobs
- Congratulations, Claire!!! So well deserved! If you're in San Diego this November, be sure to stop by Claire's SfN poster on Saturday 11/15 on how narrative summarization reflects underlying event structure in episodic memory (Poster 042.26/FF11). 🌴🧠⚙️
- Congratulations to BCS grad student Claire Sun, recipient of a Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA), which recognizes trainees who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research. @cvsuor.bsky.social @coralineiordan.bsky.social
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanI'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanExcited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings. We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity. 1/
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanExcited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory! We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵1/9
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn Iordan1/ 🚨 Preprint alert! How does the brain make sense of continuous experience? We find that continuous experiences can be compressed using a subset of key moments that dominate comprehension and recall. 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.30.…
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanHow do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience? Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as event familiarity increases. Fine-tuning predicts memory recall. Excited to share this work with Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanExcited to present our new work reading minds! Ok, not *that* kind of mind reading, but we have created a deep learning method capable of using single neuron recordings from people watching episodes of TV that can predict when they recall specific memories from the episode. 1/6
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn Iordan/1 New preprint alert! 💫“Expertise Shapes the Multidimensional Perception of Stories”! 💫 We generated a novel corpus of improvised spoken stories using diverse prompts designed to elicit creative and complex narrative structure. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanCheck out our latest preprint! BlueSky-less Gayathri Subramanian tried combining odor & sound presentation during sleep to shape memories and discovered that multisensory cuing of unassociated memories nullified the benefits of reactivation. @paller.bsky.social
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanExcited to share my first fMRI paper in @pnas.org We found that suppressing the encoding of one event can strengthen the neural representation of the next in CA1, and bias retrieval-related neural restatement away from suppressed information. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanSuccessful prediction of the future enhances encoding of the present. I am so delighted that this work found a wonderful home at Open Mind. The peer review journey was a rollercoaster but it *greatly* improved the paper. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
- When you successfully anticipate future events, what happens to your ability to encode the present? 🤔 Successful prediction increases the likelihood of successful encoding. We speculate about how switching between distinct encoding & prediction states can produce this effect. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanNew paper with @mujianing.bsky.social & @prestonlab.bsky.social! We propose a simple model for human memory of narratives: we uniformly sample incoming information at a constant rate. This explains behavioral data much better than variable-rate sampling triggered by event segmentation or surprisal.
- Efficient uniform sampling explains non-uniform memory of narrative stories biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanCheck out Zaid's open "Podcast" ECoG dataset for natural language comprehension (w/ Hasson Lab). The paper is now out at Scientific Data (nature.com/articles/s41...) and the data are available on OpenNeuro (openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...).
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanMusic is an incredibly powerful retrieval cue. What is the neural basis of music-evoked memory reactivation? And how does this reactivation relate to later memory for the retrieved events? In our new study, we used Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to find out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn Iordan🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9l
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanOur new paper out now in Science explores how neural activity in the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) *drifts* over time - and *jumps* at key boundaries - to help organize events in memory. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Here's a quick summary of what we found 🧵👇
- Your brain doesn’t just passively track time ⏳ - it structures it. In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2) 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanI am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
- I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanNew from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it. We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanNew paper out! 🎉 “Evolving Engrams Demand Changes in Effective Cues” (Hippocampus). In this opinion piece, we discuss how retrieval processes can be enhanced and offer an alternative to one of the field’s few enduring principles: encoding specificity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn Iordan🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences. We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanProud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience" www.nature.com/articles/s44... This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs. #psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanNew preprint! Excited to share our latest work “Accelerated learning of a noninvasive human brain-computer interface via manifold geometry” ft. outstanding former undergraduate Chandra Fincke, @glajoie.bsky.social, @krishnaswamylab.bsky.social, and @wutsaiyale.bsky.social's Nick Turk-Browne 1/8
- Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! Keep hope and kindness in your hearts -- we are all in this together! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanAre short-term memories just noisier versions of what we perceive? Are they fundamentally different? We (Chaipat Chunharas, @mjwolff.bsky.social, @meikehettwer.bsky.social and myself) delved into this in a paper out now in #elife: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre.... For a quick summary, a 🧵 below:
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanOur memories are not encoded with timestamps. How do we reconstruct the passage of time from our memories? In a new paper (accepted at Psych Science) @samiyousif.bsky.social and I demonstrate a powerful illusion of time that results from repeated experience osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanAnnouncing CVS Research Talks March 19 at 2:30-4PM in URMC 2-6408, K207 Auditorium. Sara Patterson, Cora Iordan, and Cristina Canavesi will be giving talks. buff.ly/40qf4fX @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @coralineiordan.bsky.social
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanOur paper on how neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details, led by @collinsilvy.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/d93Vc #neuroskyence #psychscisky
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanHappy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! You can try to silence or erase us, but we aren’t going anywhere. We will keep fighting and being awesome 😤
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanSince there has been a lot of misinformation circulating since last night, I find this AAMC infographic helpful in illustrating which types of expenses are and are not covered by NIH indirect cost reimbursements.
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn Iordan[Taking a break from bouts of 🤯 😑😩 to be...] Happy that our paper is officially out in the latest issue of TICS: go.illinois.edu/Lee2025_TICS and highlighted with a beautiful cover art by Ally Dworetsky. Check 👇 for a quick summary
- 📅 New lab review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social with allydworetsky.bsky.social, & @laboranathan.bsky.social Check it out here: go.illinois.edu/ticsReview #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #neuroscience 🧵below...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanAfter years of work designing and running this study with a multi-University team, we have our first preprint 🎉🎉 showing how a memorization technique builds neural representations through conjunctive representations! See thread and preprint link ⬇️
- New preprint with Akshay Manglik, Nick Dutra, Hannah Tarder-Stoll, @tchamberlain.bsky.social, Robert Ajemian, @qiongzhang.bsky.social, @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social, @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social looking at conjunctive representation during Method of Loci! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanMentors and advisors, a very impactful thing you can do right now is to assure your mentees from all backgrounds that you will continue to support them because their worth is not contingent on any program or funding mechanism 💕
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanWow, non-invasive stimulation of the human hippocampus & entorhinal cortex during VR-navigation inside the MRI scanner! Impressive technical achievement and interesting result. By Beanato et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanScientists have developed a novel approach to human learning through noninvasive manipulation of brain activity patterns @urochester.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social #URochesterResearch
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanI have recently launched the relational cognition lab at UC Irvine: relcoglab.org! We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician (lab manager/junior specialist). Job ad & application here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09400.
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanCan dreams help us see memory consolidation as it unfolds in the sleeping brain? In this new paper, we describe how dreams reactivate multiple memories simultaneously, combining fragments of recent and remote memory in a way that may be adaptive. 1/2 #SleepPeeps #neuroskyence #psychscisky
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn Iordan🚨New paper alert! What would you call this object? Most folks would say "guitar". You could be less specific ("musical instrument") or more ("Fender Stratocaster"), but we tend to use the mid-level (the "basic level" coined by Eleanor Rosch). Why? 1/ #neuroskyence #visionscience
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanReally happy to see this out! We show that behavioral judgments of the purpose and social content of observed actions capture a surprisingly large portion of variance in neural representational geometry throughout the action observation network and in ventral temporal cortex: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanGreat overview on brain atlases here by Revell et al! Which one is best though? Well, it's not that simple! None of them reflects "ground truth", and parcellation scale, shape, and coverage impact structure-function predictions. Good discussion in the paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanOur paper "Memory reactivation generates new, adaptive behaviours that reach beyond direct experience" is now out www.nature.com/articles/s41...! With Annie Rawson, Jill O’Reilly and Helen Barron at MRC BNDU @ndcnoxford.bsky.social 1/6
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanWomen’s Lunch #ACNP2024 General strategies for addressing micro/macroaggressions in the moment
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn Iordan🔔𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓🔔 Beyond excited to present our new work showcasing 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝! Wait what? Exciting collab w/ @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/11)
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanWe use our memories to make predictions – but what happens when our memories are outdated and our predictions are wrong? @cnwahlheim.bsky.social & @jzacks.bsky.social review evidence for how memories can be differentiated or integrated in light of new evidence www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanScientists, including BCS faculty Coraline Iordan, have developed a novel approach to human learning through noninvasive manipulation of brain activity patterns. Read More: buff.ly/4ivoQEC #URochesterResearch @coralineiordan.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Coraline Rinn IordanNew paper out! Memory for object features is warped according to their role in a category, w/ features shared across category-mates misremembered as more similar. We explored the phenomenon in our NN model of the hipp. w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social & @codydong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/opmi...
