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Cheng-Yu Hsieh @cyhsieh.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks for the invite. Looking forward to seeing many of you online!

German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · 8d

Welcome to join our upcoming Journal Club meetings in Oct & Nov! Happy to have @cyhsieh.bsky.social & Dr. Cosimo Iaia as our guest speakers!

Register to get the Zoom link or sign up as our next guest speaker:
forms.gle/TY6Cuxut87Ej...

More exciting talks coming up. Please share & see you there!

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · Sep 8

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨

Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.

Please share widely!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Sebastian Michelmann @s-michelmann.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚀Excited to share our project: Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience. @schottdorflab.bsky.social and I propose a novel multivariate method to isolate neural representations aligned with specific cognitive hypotheses 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673485v1

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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Aug 15

That's a wrap for CCN2025 -- and so planning for CCN2026 in New York is starting today! Save travels to all participants and remember to fill out the feedback survey sent via email!

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 15

The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!

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Dr. Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado @dkcayado.bsky.social · Aug 12

New paper out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (open access)!

Using behavioral masked priming and single word reading with concurrent MEG recording, we investigate how our brain spots the tiny pieces of words (a.k.a. morphemes)—even when they’re playing hide-and-seek. 👀

Link ⬇️

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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'm thrilled to introduce DR. Brennan Terhune-Cotter who defended his dissertation last week! His work shows that occipital (visual) cortex is recruited during high-level language processing for ASL and that deaf adults who lack early sign access show greater activation in occipital cortex

Brennan standing next to his title slide "Exploring the neural network for sign language comprehension across deaf signers"

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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · Aug 9

Fascinating new work by @federicamosti.bsky.social
@debbysilver.bsky.social on
human-specific neurodevelopment, linking ‘Human Accelerated Regions’ to chromatin architecture, cortical cell fate and expansion and folding of brains 🧪🧠🧬

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

Species-specific chromatin architecture and neurogenesis mediated by a human enhancer

Genomic modifications underlie the evolution of human features, including a larger neocortex and enhanced cognition. Human Accelerated Regions (HARs) are highly-conserved loci containing human-specifi...

www.biorxiv.org

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todd gureckis @toddgureckis.bsky.social · Aug 6

tryin' to be in the band, not the band manager. todd.gureckislab.org/2024/09/25/l...

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Hsing-Hao Lee @hsinghaolee.bsky.social · Aug 5

Check out the mini-review I wrote about ipRGCs on visual processing!

doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

Frontiers | Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and visual processing: ipRGCs beyond non-image-forming functions

Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are relatively newly discovered photoreceptors other than rods and cones. For the last decade, p...

doi.org

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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · Aug 2

Nice preprint on the neuroscience of cross-modality 🧪🧠
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Benita Turner-Bridger @bturner-bridger.bsky.social · Aug 1

How are cross-modal projections patterned across the cortex? So excited to share my postdoc work at the Crick - it was a wonderful collaboration with co-first author @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social in the labs of @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social & @petrznam.bsky.social

Flor Iacaruso @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social · Aug 1

1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections?
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & ‪@bturner-bridger.bsky.social‬ in collab w/ ‪@petrznam.bsky.social‬ @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · Jul 31

Read all about the neural network for sign language comprehension! New review paper with Brennan Terhune-Cotter! Please email me (or Brennan) for a copy if you can't access the paper compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Marco Chia-Ho Lai @marcochlai.bsky.social · Jul 28

Excited to share that our work, "Changes in auditory evoked responses at different levels of linguistic processing in adults and school-age children: An MEG study," is now out in Neuropsychologia!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVCr_fKKp...

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Sebastian Michelmann @s-michelmann.bsky.social · Jul 26

This was such a fun collaboration! I am thrilled to see this out today!! Amazing work by Cody Dong comparing memory-augmented LLMs to human episodic memory.

Cody Dong @codydong.bsky.social · Jul 26

My first, first author paper, comparing the properties of memory-augmented large language models and human episodic memory, out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV174sIRv...

Here’s a quick 🧵(1/n)

authors.elsevier.com

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Jul 24

We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested!
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · Jul 23

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

www.unicog.org

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Sebastian Michelmann @s-michelmann.bsky.social · Jul 19

Fantastic work by our (now former) lab manager Liv Christiano. We assess the test-retest reliability of OPM and compare it to fMRI and iEEG. 🧠📄🧵

Olivia Christiano @oliviachristiano.bsky.social · Jul 19

How reliable is OPM-MEG, and how does it compare to other neuroimaging modalities? 🤔

In a new preprint with ‪@s-michelmann.bsky.social‬, we evaluate the reliability of OPM-MEG within & between individuals, and compare it to fMRI & iEEG during repeated movie viewing. 🧠

📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Reliability and signal comparison of OPM-MEG, fMRI & iEEG in a repeated movie viewing paradigm

Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) offer a promising advancement in noninvasive neuroimaging via magnetoencephalography (MEG), but establishing their reliability and comparability to existing metho...

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Hsing-Hao Lee @hsinghaolee.bsky.social · Jul 14

Check out our new paper “Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area” in PNAS!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area | PNAS

Visual adaptation reduces bioenergetic expenditure by decreasing sensitivity to repetitive and similar stimuli. In human adults, visual performance...

www.pnas.org

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Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social · Jun 25

Stanford researchers found that bias against non-native speakers persists even when AI tools are used, highlighting the ongoing challenges of language discrimination in academic publishing. hai.stanford.edu/news/how-lan...

How Language Bias Persists in Scientific Publishing Despite AI Tools | Stanford HAI

Stanford researchers highlight the ongoing challenges of language discrimination in academic publishing, revealing that AI tools may not be the solution for non-native speakers.

hai.stanford.edu

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · Jul 1

this figure from 1944 is cited as the first topoplot, from Koiti Motokawa. in an era where only handful of EEG channels across space were used, he measured the mean alpha amplitude for 90 points across the scalp. ❗

(compiling a presentation about the evolution of topoplots, cool stuff out there 🙂)

Black-and-white scientific illustration of the first EEG topoplot by Koiti Motokawa (1944).
G = glabella
P = protuberantia occipitalis externa,
S = central sulcus

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Lu-Chun Yeh @luchunyeh.bsky.social · Jun 26

Honored and thrilled to receive the GGN Early Career Award @jlugiessen.bsky.social 🏆 Huge thanks to my awesome supervisors Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social & Marius @peelen.bsky.social , all my collaborators, and the amazing colleagues from both labs — couldn’t have done it without you! 💗

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · Jun 16

www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/st-catz-host...

St Catz Hosts International Workshop on Next-Generation Brain Imaging - St Catherine's College

In early June, researchers from the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA) ran a highly successful four-day international workshop...

www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk

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Adam Morgan @adumbmoron.bsky.social · Jun 5

🧠 Newly out: Paper-with-a-way-too-long-name-for-social-media! How does the brain turn words into sentences? We tracked words in participants' brains while they produced sentences, and found some unexpectedly neat patterns. 🧵1/9
rdcu.be/epA1J in @commspsychol.nature.com

Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure-dependent temporal dynamics

Communications Psychology - Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a...

rdcu.be

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Adam Morgan @adumbmoron.bsky.social · Jun 4

Super proud of this! Thread to come soon…

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Jun 4

Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a different order than they are ultimately spoken.
@adumbmoron.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure-dependent temporal dynamics - Communications Psychology

Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a different order than they are ...

www.nature.com

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