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Anna-Lena Stroh

@lenastroh.bsky.social

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Neuroscientist interested in neuroplasticity, blindness, deafness, and Sign Language

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Anna-Lena Stroh @lenastroh.bsky.social · Mar 4

Preprint alert! 🚨 Atypical functional connectome in congenitally blind humans. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... co-led by @cemalkoba.bsky.social and me, together with Joan Falco-Roget, @olicolli.bsky.social, @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social, Marina Bedny, Mengyu Tian, and Marcin Szwed

Atypical functional connectome in congenitally blind humans

The cortex is organized along macroscale structural and functional gradients that extend from unimodal to transmodal association areas and from somatosensory to visual regions. It has not been tested ...

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 2h

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ammar I. Marvi, Nancy G. Kanwisher, et al:

An efficient multifunction fMRI localizer for high-level visual, auditory, and cognitive regions in humans

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 15h

Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence

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Jessie Baldwin @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social · 1d

When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration, and how should this be done? 🧐

Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea!

October 28, 1pm GMT.

Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...

@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org

When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration, with Prof Daniël Lakens

Prof Daniël Lakens will share guidance on appropriate circumstances and methods for deviating from a pre-registration

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 4d

By utilizing the visual backward masking paradigm, this study aimed to disentangle the contributions of feedforward and recurrent processing, revealing that recurrent processing significantly shapes the object representations across the ventral visual stream.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Recurrence affects the geometry of visual representations across the ventral visual stream in the human brain

The specific roles of feedforward and recurrent processing in human visual object recognition remain incompletely understood. In this neuroimaging and computational modelling study the authors isolate...

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Anna-Lena Stroh @lenastroh.bsky.social · 5d

How disabled scientists spice up science, technology, and everywhere and all at once. Powerful preprint by the brilliant @jennychenlu.bsky.social & @sheilaxu.bsky.social on the ethics of hiring deaf and disabled people in STEM.
Read here: tinyurl.com/52kceckw

How disabled scientists spice up science, technology, and everywhere and all at once

My good friend and incredible colleague, Sheila Xu (see linkedin profile here), and I recently co-authored a book chapter, titled ” Deaf Leaders Now! The ethics of hiring disabled people in s…

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 22d

Functional organization of the human visual system at birth and across late gestation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677834v1

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Sep 5

The human brain mechanisms of afterimages: From networks to cortical layers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.30.673266v1

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · Aug 31

🚨 Very excited to have this manuscript with Haydée García-Lázaro out in the world! With psychophysics and #EEG decoding, we show how echoacoustic evidence accumulates over multiple click-echo presentations. The first temporally resolved account of the brain doing #echolocation in blind humans. 🦇🔊

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 31

Neural and behavioral correlates of evidence accumulation in human click-based echolocation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.30.673202v1

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Marek Pedziwiatr @marekpedziwi.bsky.social · Aug 25

End of August means ECVP! This year, I am here (in beautiful Mainz) with a special mission - to find postdocs who will join us in (equally beautiful) Krakow, PL! Drop me a DM if you are interested!
@ecvp.bsky.social

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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )

Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS

How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...

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Hunter Schone @hunterschone.bsky.social · Aug 21

Now out in @natneuro.nature.com

What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?

Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation

www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Aug 21

#Myelination enables faster signal propagation in the brain, but takes more energy & space. @philipruthig.bsky.social &co reveal how short- & long-range #WhiteMatter fibers differ, showing how these variations affect neural communication & processing efficiency @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4mq5tOy

Arrangement of raw data, semantic, and instance segmentation of human corpus callosum fibers, acquired by transmission electron microscopy. The data used for this image were generated by Maria Morozova, David Edler von der Planitz, and Philip Ruthig. All cover Art was created by the MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Graphics department (Andrea Sandmann)

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 15

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator

As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 13

Disentangling the influences of pre- and postnatal periods on human cortical microstructure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.669812v1

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Esther Kuehn @estherkuehn.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thanks to all (co)authors & reviewers for their contribution to this study on #layer specific changes in #sensory #cortex across the #lifespan in #humans & #mice now out in @natneuro.nature.com Here is a short summary of our findings 1/6

DZNE research center @dzne.science · Aug 11

🧠 The human brain ages less than thought and in layers – at least in the area of the cortex responsible for the sense of touch. See study @natneuro.nature.com by @estherkuehn.bsky.social and colleagues at DZNE, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de:

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Layer-specific changes in sensory cortex across the lifespan in mice and humans - Nature Neuroscience

The principal layer architecture of the sensory cortex is altered with aging. The authors show that overall thinning of the primary somatosensory cortex is driven by deep layer degeneration but that l...

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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 10

On Friday, niklasmuller.bsky.social shows that estimating population receptive fields (pRF) using DNN feature maps but without assuming a Gaussian pRF shape yields better predictions of THINGS ephys data, uncovering surprising pRF geometries! 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=1... Poster C105, 14:00-17:00

Poster Presentation

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is wild. Dirt-cheap, un-patentable lithium supplements might just reverse Alzheimer's (in mice, admittedly...).

Nature @nature.com · Aug 10

Replenishing the brain’s natural stores of lithium can protect against and even reverse Alzheimer’s disease

go.nature.com/4m8zW3H

New hope for Alzheimer’s: lithium supplement reverses memory loss in mice

Nature - Studies in rodents and humans suggest that low levels of the metal contribute to cognitive decline.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · Aug 3

Decoding semantic sound categories in early visual cortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... "semantic and categorical sound information is represented in early visual cortex, potentially used to predict visual input"; #neuroscience

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · Aug 4

Analysis of >11,000 pediatric MRI scans suggests that suboptimal image quality may introduce bias in cortical thickness and area estimates in over half the cases 🤔🧐

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development - Nature Neuroscience

As large-scale neurodevelopmental MRI studies gain prominence, the authors identify tradeoffs between sample size and quality control that can dramatically affect results, and they evaluate a range of...

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danielhaenelt.bsky.social @danielhaenelt.bsky.social · Aug 1

I’m happy to share that our manuscript on the cortical depth-dependency of the GE- and SE-BOLD point spread function at 7 Tesla is now available on bioRxiv!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spatial specificity of the functional gradient echo and spin echo BOLD signal across cortical depth at 7 T

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at high magnetic field strengths (≥ 7 T) is a promising technique to study the functioning of the human brain at the spatial scale of cortical columns and ...

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · Jul 30

While many believe being ‘more in tune with your body’ improves mental health, we surprisingly found the opposite: worse mental health (higher anxiety, depression, stress, fatigue & reduced well-being)—with stronger stomach-brain connections.

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Courtois Project on Neuronal Modelling @cneuromod.ca · Jul 30

New CNeuroMod-THINGS open-access fMRI dataset: 4 participants · ~4 000 images (720 categories) each shown 3× (12k trials per subject)· individual functional localizers & NSD-inspired QC . Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.09024 Congrats Marie St-Laurent and @martinhebart.bsky.social !!

four brain maps showing noise ceiling estimates in response to image presentation

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You’d prefer an astronaut, PhD @iamdamion.bsky.social · Jul 28

6/11 One of our most striking (and unexpected) findings was that an individual child’s brain functional connectivity is more similar to their childhood peers than adults are to other adults. That is, children showed less inter-individual variability than adults.

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You’d prefer an astronaut, PhD @iamdamion.bsky.social · Jul 28

1/11 Very excited to say that our preprint, Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain, is up on biorxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain

Human brain organization shares a common underlying structure, though recent studies have shown that features of this organization also differ significantly across individual adults. Understanding the...

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Jul 29

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jochen Schmidt, Nikolaus Weiskopf, et al:

High-resolution quantitative T2 mapping of the human brain at 7 T using a multi-echo spin-echo sequence and dictionary-based modeling

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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