Publications & Preprints

Cowan ET, Zhang Y, Rottman BM, & Murty VP (In press). The effects of mnemonic variability and spacing on memory over multiple timescales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2311077121 

Cowan ET, Chanales AC, Davachi L, Clewett D (2024). Goal shifts structure memories and prioritize event-defining information in long- term memory. PsyArXiv. osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ejsrf 

Tanriverdi B, Cowan ET, Metoki A, Jobson KR, Murty VP, Chein J, Olson IR (2023). Awake hippocampal-cortical co-reactivation is associated with forgetting. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 35 (9):1446-1462. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02021

Benear SL, Horwath EA, Cowan ET, Camacho MC, Ngo CT, Newcombe NS, Olson IR, Perelman SB, Murty VP (2022). Children show adult-like hippocampal pattern similarity for familiar but not novel events. Brain Research. 147991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2022.147991 

Cowan ET, Schapiro AC, Dunsmoor JE, Murty VP (2021). Memory consolidation as an adaptive process. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 28:1796–1810. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-01978-x 

Cowan ET, Fain MR, O’Shea I, Ellman MR, Murty VP (2021). VTA and anterior hippocampus target dissociable neocortical networks for post-novelty enhancements. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(38):8040-8050. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0316-21.2021 

Cowan ET, Liu A, Henin S, Kothare S, Devinsky O, Davachi L (2021). Time-dependent transformations of memory representations differ along the long-axis of the hippocampus. Learning & Memory. 28(9):329-340. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.053438.121 

Cowan E, Liu A, Henin S, Kothare S, Devinsky O, Davachi L (2020). Sleep spindles promote the restructuring of memory representations in ventromedial prefrontal cortex through enhanced hippocampal–cortical functional connectivity. The Journal of Neuroscience. 40(9):1909–191. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1946-19.2020
    * Featured in the Journal of Neuroscience’s Annual Spotlight top papers for 2020

Foley MA, Fried AR, Cowan E, Bayes RB (2014). Collaborative encoding and memory accuracy: Examining the effects of interactive components of co-construction processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 40(1), 25-40. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034303  

Foley MA, Cowan E, Schlemmer E, & Belser-Ehrlich J (2012). Acts of generating and their sources: Predicting the effects of imagery encoding in false recognition errors. Memory. 20(4), 384-399. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2012.667813