EPISODE · Dec 1, 2021 · 22 MIN
Futuristic Nostalgia w/ Yeon Soon Shin and Rolando Masís-Obando
from Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond · host The Daily Princetonian
In this episode of The Highlights, we're joined by Yeon Soon Shin, who completed her doctoral degree in neuroscience at Princeton in 2020 and Rolando Masís-Obando, a 5th-year graduate student in neuroscience. We discuss their paths to graduate work in psychology, their research on how environmental context affects memory, and the virtual reality environments they created to test their ideas.This episode of The Highlights was produced under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian in partnership with Princeton Insights. Rolando Masís-Obando is a graduate student in the Princeton Computational Memory Lab and can be reached at [email protected]. Yeon Soon Shin is currently a postdoctoral research associate at Yale University and can be reached at [email protected] view the transcript for this episode, click “More Info” and then “Full Transcript” in the episode player.RESOURCES:Princeton Insights coverage: Using virtual reality to demonstrate the environmental reinstatement effectOriginal Paper: Context-dependent memory effects in two immersive virtual reality environments: On Mars and underwaterCREDITSWritten and hosted by Thiago Tarraf Varella GS and Paula Brooks GSEdited and sound engineered by Sophia Villacorta and Isabel RodriguesProduced by Isabel RodriguesOriginal Princeton Insights coverage by Paula Brooks GSFor more from The Daily Princetonian, visit www.dailyprincetonian.com. For more from Princeton Insights, visit insights.princeton.edu. Subscribe to The Highlights on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!
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In this episode of The Highlights, we're joined by Yeon Soon Shin, who completed her doctoral degree in Neuroscience at Princeton in 2020 and Rolando Masís-Obando, a 5th-year graduate student in Neuroscience. We discuss their paths to graduate work in psychology, the two distinct VR environments that they created, and the importance of using VR in their research on the environmental reinstatement effect.
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