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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · 13h

(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

Home Page - Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

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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...

www.pnas.org

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · Aug 21

The role of visual experience in haptic spatial perception: evidence from early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #haptics

The role of visual experience in haptic spatial perception: evidence from early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals - Biology of Sex Differences

There is contradictory evidence on the effect that visual experience has on haptic abilities. Indeed, some studies have documented that a lack of vision (blindness) results in decreased haptic percept...

bsd.biomedcentral.com

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Katarzyna Raczy @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social · Aug 12

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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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International Multisensory Research Forum 2025 @imrf.bsky.social · Jul 18

It's a wrap!
We are happy to bring IMRF 2025 to a close, but also sad to say goodbye to so many lovely, smart people! (or at least "until next year").

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Katarzyna Raczy @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social · Jul 18

@lenastroh.bsky.social, @paulmatusz.bsky.social, @nikaradziun.bsky.social, Lénia Amaral, Rashi Pant

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Katarzyna Raczy @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social · Jul 18

What a fantastic time at IMRF! 🎉

Huge thanks to the brilliant speakers for making our symposium on “Blindness as a Window into Brain Organisation” a big success! Big thanks to the organisers and the scientific community for this stellar event! Great to see so many friends and colleagues! #IMRF2025

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International Multisensory Research Forum 2025 @imrf.bsky.social · Jul 16

Symposia 3 and 4: what blindness reveals about brain organisation (Raczy, Stroh) and metacognition in mutlisensory decision-making (Noppeney) are on now. Such interesting topics and talks! 🤩 #IMRF2025

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Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social · Jul 16

Today @nikaradziun.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on cardiac interoception processing in the blind as part of the symposium "Blindness as a window into fundamental principles of brain organisation" #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social

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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · Jul 15

Thrilled to be attending the #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social in beautiful Durham this week! I'll be presenting in Symposium 3 on Wednesday at 11:00, kindly organized by @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social and @lenastroh.bsky.social. Looking forward to the discussions ahead! 🧠

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International Multisensory Research Forum 2025 @imrf.bsky.social · Jul 14

IMRF folks, we are ready for you!
We cannot wait to see you all tomorrow for the opening (1.30pm) or the workshops (9am).

Safe travels & looking forward to catching up tomorrow
Your organising team

imrf2025.sciencesconf.org

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International Multisensory Research Forum 2025 @imrf.bsky.social · Jun 25

Got any job openings/PhD positions in your #multisensory research labs? Let us know by tagging us - we are happy to share it with the community

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International Multisensory Research Forum 2025 @imrf.bsky.social · Jul 10

New to IMRF? Or just not sure what to do on the evening before the conference? 🙌

Come down to the *Head of Steam* on Monday evening, 14th July, at 8 pm to meet new and old friends!

Look out for people wearing IMRF t-shirts! 👕

maps.app.goo.gl/T6hcD9t5JtaU...

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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · Jul 4

How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions? Using a custom-built finger-extending exoskeleton, we show that wearable augmentations are quickly integrated into body representation, with proprioceptive space adapting to the device’s structure and function.

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

Dynamics of sensorimotor plasticity during exoskeletal finger augmentation

How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions into its somatosensory representation? While prior work has shown that tool use alters body representation, little is known about how artificial...

www.biorxiv.org

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International Multisensory Research Forum 2025 @imrf.bsky.social · Jun 18

There is still ~2 weeks time to sign up for one of our exciting pre-conference methods workshops:
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

International Multisensory Research Forum 2025 @imrf.bsky.social · Jun 5

As part of this year's conference, we are excited to offer three amazing methods workshops run *by* and *for* the multisensory community: Focusing on behavioural, neural, and computational methods🕹️🧠📈

More information and the sign-up link can be found here imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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Lenny van Dyck @levandyck.bsky.social · Jun 18

How is high-level visual cortex organized?

In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence

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www.biorxiv.org

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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · Jun 18

I'm particularly happy to see this preprint out! Lenny compellingly demonstrates, in a data-driven way, a coding scheme unifying distributed dimensions and category selectivity. The idea:Higher visual cortex comprises many partially overlapping tuning maps that include but go beyond category tuning.

Lenny van Dyck @levandyck.bsky.social · Jun 18

How is high-level visual cortex organized?

In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence

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www.biorxiv.org

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Dr. Rebecca Hirst @hirstrj.bsky.social · Jun 11

If you use PsychoPy we would be very grateful for 5-15 mins of your time to complete this survey 🙏🏼

PsychoPy @psychopy.org · Jun 11

📣 Seeking participants for a short survey

2 years on from our first survey we’re keen to know if the community has changed at all. Whether or not you participated last time, please take a few minutes, whatever your background, to help us understand our community🙏

run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...

Pavlovia Survey 2024.1.0

run.pavlovia.org

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Maciek Szul @maciekszul.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!

Overview of the simulation strategy and analysis. a) Pial and white matter boundaries
surfaces are extracted from anatomical MRI volumes. b) Intermediate equidistant surfaces are
generated between the pial and white matter surfaces (labeled as superficial (S) and deep (D)
respectively). c) Surfaces are downsampled together, maintaining vertex correspondence across
layers. Dipole orientations are constrained using vectors linking corresponding vertices (link vectors).
d) The thickness of cortical laminae varies across the cortical depth (70–72), which is evenly sampled
by the equidistant source surface layers. e) Each colored line represents the model evidence (relative
to the worst model, ΔF) over source layer models, for a signal simulated at a particular layer (the
simulated layer is indicated by the line color). The source layer model with the maximal ΔF is
indicated by “˄”. f) Result matrix summarizing ΔF across simulated source locations, with peak
relative model evidence marked with “˄”. g) Error is calculated from the result matrix as the absolute
distance in mm or layers from the simulated source (*) to the peak ΔF (˄). h) Bias is calculated as the
relative position of a peak ΔF(˄) to a simulated source (*) in layers or mm.

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International Multisensory Research Forum 2025 @imrf.bsky.social · May 9

Happy Friday Multisensory pals,

the talk/poster session schedule for IMRF 2025 is now available on our website - check it out here: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

✌️👁️👅👂👃🦇🦾🦻⚖️

International Multisensory Research Forum - Sciencesconf.org

imrf2025.sciencesconf.org

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Olivier Collignon @olicolli.bsky.social · May 9

New paper! We show written word-selective ventral occipito-temporal region, the superior temporal sulcus, and orofacial sensorimotor regions encode phonological information from auditory and visual speech, but with multisensory abstraction only in STS and SM. 💬 🧠

www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · May 1

Phonological representations of auditory & visual speech in the occipito-temporal cortex and beyond www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... "studies suggested that occipital and temporal regions encode both auditory and visual speech features but their location and nature remain unclear" so an fMRI study

Phonological representations of auditory and visual speech in the occipito-temporal cortex and beyond

Speech is a multisensory signal that can be extracted from the voice and the lips. Previous studies suggested that occipital and temporal regions encode both auditory and visual speech features but th...

www.jneurosci.org

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Katarzyna Raczy @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social · Apr 25

Very much looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues and to sharing some great ideas! 🤩🧠

International Multisensory Research Forum 2025 @imrf.bsky.social · Apr 16

Hi pals,
our preliminary conference schedule + symposium schedule are online imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

Also, this year we are planning some exciting pre-conf methods-focused workshops! More details and info how to sign up will be added soon
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · Mar 27

Does anyone know of a cognitive neuroscience (or adjacent) travel grant for researchers based in the Netherlands, but presenting data from a previous position (e.g., PhD work)? Looking for options to support conference travel! Any leads appreciated 🧠

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