Ella Striem-Amit
@striemamit.bsky.social
Cognitive+systems neuroscientist, studying brains/abilities in blindness, deafness or handlessness to probe brain plasticity & development. Opinions are my own.
samp-lab.facultysite.georgetown.edu
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Pls report: We're hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our study of individual differences in plasticity in #blindness (+ possible extension to #deafness) using fMRI.
Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
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Reviving this account to say that the last paper from my PhD is out in final form!
Here, we look at how the timing of artificial tactile sensations (delivered via intracortical microstimulation/ICMS) is perceived relative to visual cues in two participants with spinal cord injuries. 🧠✋👀
Here, we look at how the timing of artificial tactile sensations (delivered via intracortical microstimulation/ICMS) is perceived relative to visual cues in two participants with spinal cord injuries. 🧠✋👀
Visual context affects the perceived timing of tactile sensations elicited through intracortical microstimulation: a case study of two participants | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiologica...
Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) is a technique to provide tactile sensations for a somatosensory brain-machine interface (BMI). A viable BMI must function within the rich, multisensory environme...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Reviving this account to say that the last paper from my PhD is out in final form!
Here, we look at how the timing of artificial tactile sensations (delivered via intracortical microstimulation/ICMS) is perceived relative to visual cues in two participants with spinal cord injuries. 🧠✋👀
Here, we look at how the timing of artificial tactile sensations (delivered via intracortical microstimulation/ICMS) is perceived relative to visual cues in two participants with spinal cord injuries. 🧠✋👀
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Tenure track position in motor control at Northeastern University
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Open Rank (Professor, Associate or Assistant) AI, Sensors, and Human Movement
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November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Tenure track position in motor control at Northeastern University
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This week the Trump CDC attacked science — and our health, and our kids’ health — by twisting the truth on the CDC website.
There’s things to say about the playbook they used, and that’s helped by a little explanation about scientific truth in practice.
New vid explainer from me:
🧪 part 1/
There’s things to say about the playbook they used, and that’s helped by a little explanation about scientific truth in practice.
New vid explainer from me:
🧪 part 1/
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This week the Trump CDC attacked science — and our health, and our kids’ health — by twisting the truth on the CDC website.
There’s things to say about the playbook they used, and that’s helped by a little explanation about scientific truth in practice.
New vid explainer from me:
🧪 part 1/
There’s things to say about the playbook they used, and that’s helped by a little explanation about scientific truth in practice.
New vid explainer from me:
🧪 part 1/
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I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com
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Much of the way we articulate words isn’t random. It reflects how the brain balances effort & clarity. Common words are shorter & more “shrunk”, confusable words are pronounced more clearly. We asked if ASL signs show similar patterns of reduction using pose-tracking on thousands of ASL signs.
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Much of the way we articulate words isn’t random. It reflects how the brain balances effort & clarity. Common words are shorter & more “shrunk”, confusable words are pronounced more clearly. We asked if ASL signs show similar patterns of reduction using pose-tracking on thousands of ASL signs.
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Online Now: Hierarchical interactions between sensory cortices defy predictive coding
Hierarchical interactions between sensory cortices defy predictive coding
Perceptual experience depends on recurrent interactions between lower and higher cortices. One theory, predictive coding, posits that feedback from higher to lower brain regions decreases neuronal activity predicted by higher-level representations. Despite the widespread adoption of predictive coding in neuroscience, the correspondence to neurophysiological findings in sensory cortices remains elusive. Here, we review how the canonical patterns of intra- and inter-cortical interactions that occur during perception and shifts of attention deviate from those predicted by predictive coding. We argue that these circuit interactions are better captured by alternative theories, which we summarize under the umbrella term BELIEF. We review how BELIEF theories account for the inter-areal interactions during attentive perception.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Online Now: Hierarchical interactions between sensory cortices defy predictive coding
Pls report: We're hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our study of individual differences in plasticity in #blindness (+ possible extension to #deafness) using fMRI.
Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
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November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Pls report: We're hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our study of individual differences in plasticity in #blindness (+ possible extension to #deafness) using fMRI.
Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
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1. 🧵 Thread: What happens to the visual brain after early transient blindness?
Our new Nature Communications paper examines a rare population: people born with dense bilateral cataracts—a short blindness occurring during a critical window of visual development.
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Our new Nature Communications paper examines a rare population: people born with dense bilateral cataracts—a short blindness occurring during a critical window of visual development.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
1. 🧵 Thread: What happens to the visual brain after early transient blindness?
Our new Nature Communications paper examines a rare population: people born with dense bilateral cataracts—a short blindness occurring during a critical window of visual development.
🔗 rdcu.be/eQjMH
Our new Nature Communications paper examines a rare population: people born with dense bilateral cataracts—a short blindness occurring during a critical window of visual development.
🔗 rdcu.be/eQjMH
At #Sfn2025?
Starting soon - Zhiqing will present about SII's reorganization in people born without hands this afternoon.
Poster session LBP077.06 /board #38, SDCC Hall B
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
#SfN25 #SocietyForNeuroscience #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter #SciTwitter
Starting soon - Zhiqing will present about SII's reorganization in people born without hands this afternoon.
Poster session LBP077.06 /board #38, SDCC Hall B
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
#SfN25 #SocietyForNeuroscience #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter #SciTwitter
November 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
At #Sfn2025?
Starting soon - Zhiqing will present about SII's reorganization in people born without hands this afternoon.
Poster session LBP077.06 /board #38, SDCC Hall B
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
#SfN25 #SocietyForNeuroscience #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter #SciTwitter
Starting soon - Zhiqing will present about SII's reorganization in people born without hands this afternoon.
Poster session LBP077.06 /board #38, SDCC Hall B
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
#SfN25 #SocietyForNeuroscience #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter #SciTwitter
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Markerless tracking shouldn’t feel like a coding project!
We released TrackStudio (arxiv.org/abs/2511.07624), a fully graphical, open-source toolkit for markerless human motion tracking. It enables use of current 2D/3D tools and video synchronisation without coding.
We released TrackStudio (arxiv.org/abs/2511.07624), a fully graphical, open-source toolkit for markerless human motion tracking. It enables use of current 2D/3D tools and video synchronisation without coding.
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Markerless tracking shouldn’t feel like a coding project!
We released TrackStudio (arxiv.org/abs/2511.07624), a fully graphical, open-source toolkit for markerless human motion tracking. It enables use of current 2D/3D tools and video synchronisation without coding.
We released TrackStudio (arxiv.org/abs/2511.07624), a fully graphical, open-source toolkit for markerless human motion tracking. It enables use of current 2D/3D tools and video synchronisation without coding.
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Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in!
tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition
*can this be a thing??
tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition
*can this be a thing??
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in!
tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition
*can this be a thing??
tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition
*can this be a thing??
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MLMC2025 is tomorrow!
For those joining remotely, here is the link for the meeting:
harvard.zoom.us/j/9544921964...
Reminder, the conference will start promptly at 9am PST.
Please visit the website for additional information, schedule, registration, etc!
motor-conference.org/openconf.php
For those joining remotely, here is the link for the meeting:
harvard.zoom.us/j/9544921964...
Reminder, the conference will start promptly at 9am PST.
Please visit the website for additional information, schedule, registration, etc!
motor-conference.org/openconf.php
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November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
MLMC2025 is tomorrow!
For those joining remotely, here is the link for the meeting:
harvard.zoom.us/j/9544921964...
Reminder, the conference will start promptly at 9am PST.
Please visit the website for additional information, schedule, registration, etc!
motor-conference.org/openconf.php
For those joining remotely, here is the link for the meeting:
harvard.zoom.us/j/9544921964...
Reminder, the conference will start promptly at 9am PST.
Please visit the website for additional information, schedule, registration, etc!
motor-conference.org/openconf.php
Curious how early sensorimotor experience reorganizes the brain?
Come check out Zhiqing Deng’s poster #SfN: “From Hands to Feet: Experience-Driven Plasticity in Secondary Somatosensory Cortex in People Born without Hands”.
Mon afternoon (Nov 18th)
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171... #SfN25
Come check out Zhiqing Deng’s poster #SfN: “From Hands to Feet: Experience-Driven Plasticity in Secondary Somatosensory Cortex in People Born without Hands”.
Mon afternoon (Nov 18th)
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171... #SfN25
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November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Curious how early sensorimotor experience reorganizes the brain?
Come check out Zhiqing Deng’s poster #SfN: “From Hands to Feet: Experience-Driven Plasticity in Secondary Somatosensory Cortex in People Born without Hands”.
Mon afternoon (Nov 18th)
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171... #SfN25
Come check out Zhiqing Deng’s poster #SfN: “From Hands to Feet: Experience-Driven Plasticity in Secondary Somatosensory Cortex in People Born without Hands”.
Mon afternoon (Nov 18th)
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171... #SfN25
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Registration is open. Please spread the word. The preliminary schedule will be up on the site later this month, and we've got an amazing line up!
#CNS2026 | Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop
Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F
The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th
@cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay
Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F
The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th
@cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay
Workshops, Socials & Special Events - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 CNS Account CNS 2026 | Workshops, Socials & Special Events SESSION DATE TIME LOCATION Satellite – International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Salon F Wor...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Registration is open. Please spread the word. The preliminary schedule will be up on the site later this month, and we've got an amazing line up!
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Looking for graduate students for next year! We have fully-funded positions open to study signed languages, cognitive/educational neuroscience, development, and educational technology! Email me for more info or see here: tinyurl.com/EdNeuro2026
Please share!!
Please share!!
Educational Neuroscience PhD: Application Information
Fully-Funded Ph.D. Positions in Educational Neuroscience At Gallaudet University in Washington, DC The Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience (PEN) Program at Gallaudet University invites prospective st...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Looking for graduate students for next year! We have fully-funded positions open to study signed languages, cognitive/educational neuroscience, development, and educational technology! Email me for more info or see here: tinyurl.com/EdNeuro2026
Please share!!
Please share!!
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It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
AND If you’re interested in language-related aspects of individual differences for blindness or deafness, you can also already apply through neurolang.georgetown.edu/admission
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
AND If you’re interested in language-related aspects of individual differences for blindness or deafness, you can also already apply through neurolang.georgetown.edu/admission
I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.
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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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🏆 #CNS2026 Young Investigator Award Winners 🏆
Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉
We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨
@cogneuronews.bsky.social
Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉
We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨
@cogneuronews.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🏆 #CNS2026 Young Investigator Award Winners 🏆
Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉
We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨
@cogneuronews.bsky.social
Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉
We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨
@cogneuronews.bsky.social
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“Revealing Key Dimensions Underlying the Recognition of Dynamic Human Actions”
New work led by Andre Bockes and Angelika Lingnau - with some small support from me - on dimensions underlying the mental representation of dynamic human actions.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
New work led by Andre Bockes and Angelika Lingnau - with some small support from me - on dimensions underlying the mental representation of dynamic human actions.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Revealing Key Dimensions Underlying the Recognition of Dynamic Human Actions - Communications Psychology
Large-scale similarity ratings of 768 short action videos uncover 28 interpretable dimensions—such as interaction, sport, and craft—offering a framework to quantify and compare human actions.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“Revealing Key Dimensions Underlying the Recognition of Dynamic Human Actions”
New work led by Andre Bockes and Angelika Lingnau - with some small support from me - on dimensions underlying the mental representation of dynamic human actions.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
New work led by Andre Bockes and Angelika Lingnau - with some small support from me - on dimensions underlying the mental representation of dynamic human actions.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
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October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
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Emmorey et al (2008) was wrong (underpowered)! New paper by Asanowicz et al. shows that bimodal bilinguals (Codas), like unimodal bilinguals, exhibit enhancements in specific aspects of executive control. Codas also showed unique effects of visuospatial attention.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
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October 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Emmorey et al (2008) was wrong (underpowered)! New paper by Asanowicz et al. shows that bimodal bilinguals (Codas), like unimodal bilinguals, exhibit enhancements in specific aspects of executive control. Codas also showed unique effects of visuospatial attention.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond
Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine
motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritability is consistently
estimated to be 25%. After decad...
www.cell.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!