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Zihan Bai

New York UniversityORCID 0009-0002-8610-6537Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Episodic memory rescues working memory via pattern separation, pattern completion, and predictive recall

Zihan Bai, Daryl Lawrence Fougnie, Sebastian Michelmann

This study shows how episodic memory enhances working memory through pattern separation, completion, and predictive recall, using eye-tracking and behavioral tasks.

bioRxiv · Sep 1, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Stress drives the hippocampus to prioritize statistical prediction over episodic encoding

Irene Zhou, Zihan Bai, Yuye Huang, Elaine G. Wijaya, Brynn E. Sherman, Nicholas B. Turk‐Browne, Elizabeth V. Goldfarb

This study shows acute stress shifts hippocampal processing from episodic encoding to statistical learning, enhancing predictive feature representation and suppressing pattern separation.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · Jul 9, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Dynamic functional connectivity encodes generalizable representations of emotional arousal across individuals and situational contexts

Jin Ke, Hayoung Song, Zihan Bai, Monica D. Rosenberg, Yuan Chang Leong

The paper identifies a generalizable arousal representation from dynamic functional connectivity across different individuals and movie-watching contexts, while finding no evidence of a generalizable valence representation.

bioRxiv · Nov 14, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience