{"pk":27902,"title":"A neurocognitive model for predicting the fate of individual memories","subtitle":null,"abstract":"One goal of cognitive science is to build theories of mentalfunction that predict individual behavior. In this project wefocus on predicting, for individual participants, which specificitems in a list will be remembered at some point in the future.If you want to know if an individual will remember something,one commonsense approach is to give them a quiz or test suchthat a correct answer likely indicates later memory for an item.In this project we attempt to predict later memory without ex-plicit assessments by jointly modeling both neural and behav-ioral data in a computational cognitive model which capturesthe dynamics of memory acquisition and decay. In this paper,we lay out a novel hierarchical Bayesian approach for com-bining neural and behavioral data and present results showinghow fMRI signals recorded during the study phase of a mem-ory task can improve our ability to predict (in held-out data)which items will be remembered or forgotten 72 hours later.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"memory"},{"word":"joint modeling"},{"word":"cognitive neuroscience"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7c9885bn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Shannon","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Tubridy","name_suffix":"","institution":"NYU","department":""},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Halpern","name_suffix":"","institution":"NYU","department":""},{"first_name":"Lila","middle_name":"","last_name":"Davachi","name_suffix":"","institution":"NYU","department":""},{"first_name":"Todd","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Gureckis","name_suffix":"","institution":"NYU","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27902/galley/17540/download/"}]}