Paula Pacheco Brooks

Narratives: fMRI data for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension

The paper introduces a benchmark dataset of fMRI data from human subjects listening to naturalistic stories for evaluating language and narrative comprehension models.

Targeted memory reactivation during sleep elicits neural signals related to learning content

The paper decodes memory reactivation content from sleep EEG, showing lateralized signals predict memory stabilization and correlate with spindles.

Competitive learning modulates memory consolidation during sleep.

This study shows that memory consolidation during sleep involves competition and selective weakening, with beta power indicating competition-based forgetting and sigma power indicating memory strengthening.

Reductions in Retrieval Competition Predict the Benefit of Repeated Testing

This study shows that reduced retrieval competition during practice predicts better long-term memory retention from repeated testing.