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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 22d

Very excited to share @landrybulls.bsky.social's 1st lead-author preprint in my lab! Using datasets from MySocialBrain.org we measured people's beliefs about how mental states change in intensity over time, the dimensional structure of those beliefs, and their correlates: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇

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Veronica Diveica @veronicadiveica.bsky.social · 29d

🧠 Interested in how the brain constructs and uses meaning?
 In my Journal Club piece for @natrevpsychol.nature.com, I summarize the Controlled Semantic Cognition Framework by Lambon Ralph et al. — a leading model of how the brain represents and flexibly applies semantic knowledge.

👉🏼 rdcu.be/eE31i

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Aug 27

Some scientists haven't yet internalized the "why" behind science writing for the public - not just as a service, but for themselves. (I didn't always get it). In this piece for @natrevneuro.nature.com, I draw on the neuroscience of curiosity & decision making to unpack its value.

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The unexpected value of communicating science to the public

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - As a group, our scientific community has a responsibility to unpack the ‘what’ and ‘why’ behind our work for the public, not least because much...

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Felipe De Brigard @felipedebrigard.bsky.social · Aug 6

This was a fun paper to write, and one that fits nicely with some recent work I've been doing on the role of counterfactual simulation in memory encoding. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Episodic details are better remembered in plausible relative to implausible counterfactual simulations - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

People often engage in episodic counterfactual thinking, or mentally simulating how the experienced past might have been different from how it was. A commonly held view is that mentally simulating alt...

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OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group @ohbmossig.bsky.social · Aug 5

The OHBM Open Science SIG is looking for new leadership! Self-nominations are now open! If you're passionate about open science in neuroimaging, get involved.
Multiple roles are available, with nominations reviewed in rolling rounds through October. ossig.netlify.app/elections/

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Veronica Diveica @veronicadiveica.bsky.social · Jul 31

Super interesting! Congratulations, Irina! 🌟

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Irina Giurgea @dirinagiurgea.bsky.social · Jul 31

✨️Excited to share my first paper is out in Behavior Research Methods with @rjbinney.bsky.social and @pennypexman.bsky.social! We quantified the association of a word's meaning with reward, showing that it is a dimension relevant to semantic processing.
📄🔗Link: rdcu.be/eyqvn

Reward as a facet of word meaning: Ratings of motivation for 8,601 English words

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Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social · Jul 22

Finally published:
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations

Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...

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Emiko J Muraki @emij.bsky.social · Jul 17

🧠 Just out with @pennypexman.bsky.social “Simulation in the ‘Blind’ Mind”.

We found that even without conscious imagery (aphantasia), people still simulate sensorimotor info when processing language. 💭🔤

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OHBM Communications Committee (ComCom) @ohbm-com.com · Jul 9

Tired of mismatched brain maps? 🧠

The Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) brings consistency to neuroimaging by aligning findings across atlases. A big leap toward reproducible brain science! @lucinauddin.bsky.social

www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...

#OHBM2025 #BrainBites #neuroscience

Keynote series Dr. Lucina Uddin - Mapping the Brain: Why Standardization Matters — OHBM Communications

The Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) helps neuroscientists compare brain imaging data across different atlases, addressing inconsistencies in how brain networks are labeled. Developed by Dr. Lucin...

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Veronica Diveica @veronicadiveica.bsky.social · Jul 7

Proud to be an alumnus of the Bangor Imaging Unit 🎓 The knowledge and skills I gained over four years there shaped my career and how I approach 🧠 research.

Amazing to see the work the team has been doing since I graduated in 2023—still raising the bar for neuroimaging in Wales and beyond! 🚀

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OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group @ohbmossig.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨 Apply NOW for the 2025 Neuro–Irv & Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes!
Rewarding #OpenScience in neuroscience - the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute

💡 $80K Main Prize
🎓 $10K Intl. Trainee Prize
🍁 $5K Canadian Trainee Prize

🔗 www.mcgill.ca/neuro/open-s...)
🗓️ Aug 15

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Veronica Diveica @veronicadiveica.bsky.social · Jun 28

Had a fantastic time presenting our work on the shared neural substrate of autobiographical, semantic, and social cognition at #OHBM2025 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 🧠🫂 Check out the poster below 📈

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pskolasinska.bsky.social @pskolasinska.bsky.social · Jun 27

Come by my poster on network controllability in aging and MCI!

Poster #1228 today and tomorrow
#OHBM2025

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Emiko J Muraki @emij.bsky.social · Jun 25

🚨📄 New paper!

Abstract words are hard to acquire: Does social relevance help?

We tested if social experience helps children learn words—analyzing >4,000 words by socialness, valence, and concreteness.

👬 More social words were learned earlier
💭 Socialness particularly helped abstract words, but…

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Richard J. Binney @rjbinney.bsky.social · Jun 21

Excited to announce a call for papers for a new virtual special issue in Cortex on Concept Knowledge.

Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here:

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · May 9

OHBM Lunch with Mentors will be happening in Brisbane! Fill out the registration form below to enter a lottery draw. Registration closes May 25th 12pm AEST.

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1vuF...

Information on this year's Mentors is available here: www.ohbmtrainees.com/lunch-with-m...

Lunch with Mentors - Expression of Interest

Dear OHBM trainees, On behalf of the OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group (SIG), we are pleased to announce the in-person Lunch With Mentors event for the OHBM 2025 Annual Meeting. This ev...

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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · Jun 3

Sign up now for one of *two in-person science communication competitions* at the #OHBM2025 annual meeting: 📊 A Best Figure Competition 🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition ⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions: https://forms.gle/iDHGmWzgN5rPBY2R8

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OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group @ohbmossig.bsky.social · Jun 10

🧠 Join us at Brainhack 2025 in Brisbane!
We’re running a Neurodesk workshop on reproducible, portable neuroimaging workflows.
📅 21 June
🌐 Learn, hack, and contribute! 💻🌏
🔗 ohbm.github.io/hackathon202...

#Neurodesk #Brainhack2025 #Neuroimaging #OpenScience

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Marc Coutanche @marccoutanche.bsky.social · Jun 3

Here's a 🧵 on a new pre-print with @amyqixx.bsky.social giving fMRI evidence that retrieving a concept leaves a unique neural fingerprint:

Semantic memories carry a trace of how they were last accessed, detectable during later recognition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Semantic Memory Traces Reflect How They Were Last Retrieved

Episodic memories are known to change with each act of retrieval. We hypothesize that semantic memories are altered in a similar way when retrieval draws on a core dimension of conceptual knowledge: s...

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · May 28

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature

This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...

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Philipp Kuhnke @philkuhnke.bsky.social · May 24

I’m extremely excited that this work of 3 years is finally published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social. Using condition-and-perturb TMS with e-field-based optimized targeting and dosing, we provide causal evidence for hybrid theories of semantic cognition: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Left inferior parietal lobe and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval

PDF | Background Conceptual knowledge is central to human cognition. Neuroimaging studies suggest that conceptual processing relies on the joint... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

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Felipe De Brigard @felipedebrigard.bsky.social · May 23

The first of many papers from the Memory and Forgiveness project is now out at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Led by the indefatigable Gabriela Fernández Miranda, and with Matt Stanley, Sam Murray, and Leonard Faul, we systematically explored differences (1/n)

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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · May 12

I’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com!

In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory.

Some key take-aways:

A learning and memory account of impression formation and updating - Nature Reviews Psychology

Impression formation occurs when a perceiver infers another person’s traits, goals and preferences and forms an attitude towards that person. In this Perspective, Amodio describes the unique and inter...

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OHBM Communications Committee (ComCom) @ohbm-com.com · May 12

Going to #OHBM2025 in Brisbane?

We're accepting entries for *two in-person science communication competitions* at the annual meeting:
📊 A Best Figure Competition
🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition

⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions:
forms.gle/1X9ccz2vpsRQ...

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