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Overview

Lila Davachi is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their research focuses on cognitive neuroscience with a significant emphasis on memory and neural mechanisms. The subfields of study in which the scientist has contributed include Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research

The scientist's recent publications illustrate a broad engagement with memory and its neural underpinnings. Notable papers include:

  • "Pupil-linked arousal signals track the temporal organization of events in memory," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "The Future of Women in Psychological Science," 2020, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Mnemonic prediction errors bias hippocampal states," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "Sleep Spindles Promote the Restructuring of Memory Representations in Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex through Enhanced Hippocampal-Cortical Functional Connectivity," 2020, published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Neurophysiology of Remembering," 2021, published in Annual Review of Psychology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Camille Gasser, Oded Bein, David Clewett, Elizabeth A. Phelps, and Alexa Tompary.

The venues in which their research has most often appeared are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Nature Communications
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Learning & Memory

Best Publications

  • Item, context and relational episodic encoding in humans

    Lila Davachi

  • Multiple routes to memory: Distinct medial temporal lobe processes build item and source memories

    Lila Davachi;Jason P. Mitchell;Anthony D. Wagner;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Enhanced Brain Correlations during Rest Are Related to Memory for Recent Experiences

    Arielle Tambini;Nicholas Ketz;Lila Davachi;Lila Davachi

  • Hippocampal Contributions to Episodic Encoding: Insights From Relational and Item-Based Learning

    Lila Davachi;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Functional-neuroanatomic correlates of recollection: implications for models of recognition memory.

    Itamar Kahn;Lila Davachi;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Enhanced intersubject correlations during movie viewing correlate with successful episodic encoding.

    Uri Hasson;Orit Furman;Dav Clark;Yadin Dudai

  • Emotional learning selectively and retroactively strengthens memories for related events

    Joseph E. Dunsmoor;Vishnu P. Murty;Lila Davachi;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Similarity breeds proximity: pattern similarity within and across contexts is related to later mnemonic judgments of temporal proximity.

    Youssef Ezzyat;Lila Davachi;Lila Davachi

  • What Constitutes an Episode in Episodic Memory

    Youssef Ezzyat;Lila Davachi

  • Memory and Space: Towards an Understanding of the Cognitive Map.

    Daniela Schiller;Howard Eichenbaum;Elizabeth A. Buffalo;Lila Davachi

  • Differential Encoding Mechanisms for Subsequent Associative Recognition and Free Recall

    Bernhard P. Staresina;Lila Davachi

  • How the hippocampus preserves order: the role of prediction and context

    Lila Davachi;Sarah DuBrow

  • Mind the Gap: Binding Experiences across Space and Time in the Human Hippocampus

    Bernhard P. Staresina;Lila Davachi;Lila Davachi

  • Quantitative Comparison of 21 Protocols for Labeling Hippocampal Subfields and Parahippocampal Subregions in In Vivo MRI: Towards a Harmonized Segmentation Protocol

    Paul A. Yushkevich;Robert S C Amaral;Jean C. Augustinack;Andrew R. Bender

  • Episodic sequence memory is supported by a theta–gamma phase code

    Andrew C Heusser;David Poeppel;Youssef Ezzyat;Lila Davachi;Lila Davachi

  • Evidence for area CA1 as a match/mismatch detector: A high‐resolution fMRI study of the human hippocampus

    Katherine Duncan;Nicholas Ketz;Nicholas Ketz;Souheil J. Inati;Lila Davachi;Lila Davachi

  • Differential Activation of the Caudate Nucleus in Primates Performing Spatial and Nonspatial Working Memory Tasks

    Richard Levy;Harriet R. Friedman;Lila Davachi;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • The influence of context boundaries on memory for the sequential order of events

    Sarah DuBrow;Lila Davachi

  • Selective and shared contributions of the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex to episodic item and associative encoding.

    Bernhard P. Staresina;Lila Davachi

  • Perirhinal and Parahippocampal Cortices Differentially Contribute to Later Recollection of Object- and Scene-Related Event Details

    Bernhard P. Staresina;Katherine D. Duncan;Lila Davachi

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University
Orrin Devinsky
Orrin Devinsky New York University
Bernhard P. Staresina
Bernhard P. Staresina University of Birmingham
Anthony D. Wagner
Anthony D. Wagner Stanford University
Werner Doyle
Werner Doyle New York University
Joseph E. Dunsmoor
Joseph E. Dunsmoor The University of Texas at Austin
Lucia Melloni
Lucia Melloni Max Planck Society
Charan Ranganath
Charan Ranganath University of California, Davis
Brian McElree
Brian McElree New York University

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