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Simona Ghetti

University of California, DavisORCID 0000-0001-8282-0616Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Animal Behavior & Cognition· 2 Neuroscience· 2

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Organism:human· 3 Assay:imaging· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1

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Joy J. GengiD· 2 shared Qianqian WaniD· 2 shared Silvia A. BungeiD· 2 shared Charan Ranganath AiD· 1 shared Elliott Gray JohnsoniD· 1 shared Garvin BrodiD· 1 shared Harry (Shiyang) Ren· 1 shared Jack J. LiniD· 1 shared

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2018-2026 · peak 2/yr

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Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprintOct 1, 2026

The development of navigation and attentional abilities shapes how children explore naturalistic environments

Qianqian Wan, Nathalie Moriarty, Shea Duarte…·Joy J. Geng

This study shows that children explore less comprehensively than adults in large environments due to navigational and attentional limitations that improve with age.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.29.755223

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Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprintSep 25, 2026

Self-guided search in immersive VR reveals active hierarchical planning

Qianqian Wan, Harry (Shiyang) Ren, Shea E. Duarte…·Joy J. Geng

This study uses immersive VR to show that naturalistic visual search involves hierarchical planning with shifting attentional priorities across subgoals.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.23.753863

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NeuroscienceDevelopmental Cognitive NeurosciencePeer-reviewedNov 29, 2019

Changes in anterior and posterior hippocampus differentially predict item-space, item-time, and item-item memory improvement

Joshua K. Lee, Yana Fandakova, Elliott Gray Johnson…·Simona Ghetti

The paper shows that volumetric changes in specific hippocampal subregions predict different types of memory improvement in children.

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintDec 6, 2018

The more you know: Investigating why adults get a bigger memory boost from semantic congruency than children

Wei‐Chun Wang, Simona Ghetti, Garvin Brod, Silvia A. Bunge

The paper investigates age-related differences in memory benefits from semantic congruency using fMRI data from children and adults.

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