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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thrilled to receive Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA)! Grateful to the Ontario Government for this support, which will help us grow our team, train next generation of researchers, and push the boundaries of AI + neuroscience: news.westernu.ca/2025/08/earl...

Early Researcher Awards recognize Western faculty - Western News

Early Researcher Awards from Ontario government fund four Western faculty projects tackling youth impaired driving, plant resilience, dementia and memory

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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · Aug 11

Very much looking forward to #CCN2025! Would love to see you at our lab's talks and posters, and meet me at the panel discussion in the Algonauts session on Wednesday!

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Aug 11

Excited to share that our lab has three presentations at #CCN2025! Please check out our posters:

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · May 20

Willow Han is presenting her talk @vssmtg.bsky.social this morning at 9:00 AM in Talk room 2:

Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · May 17

If you are @vssmtg.bsky.social, please check out our lab’s presentations:

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · May 19

Brandon (Yu) Hu is presenting his poster @vssmtg.bsky.social Banyan Breezway #310 this morning! Please check it out!

Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · May 17

If you are @vssmtg.bsky.social, please check out our lab’s presentations:

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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · May 17

Our lab is present at #VSS2025, so let me highlight some of the things we have been up to with a talk and three posters. Would love to see you around! 🧵

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · May 17

If you are @vssmtg.bsky.social, please check out our lab’s presentations:

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Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social · May 16

I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year!

I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday

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Western Institute for Neuroscience (WIN) @westernuwin.bsky.social · May 7

Three WIN Trainees Awarded 2024 CAN-CIHR-INMHA Brain Star Awards🧠🌟 from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience! Congratulations to Caroline Nettekoven, Diego Piza, and Hayley Shanks!! Read the news release on our website!! shorturl.at/wzJYu

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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · Apr 10

Welcoming Yalda Mohsenzadeh to our Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience board! 🧠 @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social brings expertise in perception & visual memory, neuroimaging methods and deep & machine learning. We look forward to working with you!

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Mar 19

Many congratulations to our very own @culhamari-lab.bsky.social, so well-deserved! 🎉

Western Institute for Neuroscience (WIN) @westernuwin.bsky.social · Mar 19

Congratulations to #WIN member @culhamari-lab.bsky.social! The winner of the Vision Sciences Society 2025 Davida Teller Award!! www.visionsciences.org/2025-davida-...

VSS 2025 Davida Teller Award – Jody Culham2025 Davida Teller Award – Jody Culham – Vision Sciences Society

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Mar 19

Our research has been covered by Western News; check it out here:

Western Institute for Neuroscience (WIN) @westernuwin.bsky.social · Mar 19

Read about the groundbreaking research by #WIN member @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social - Brain imaging technique discovered by Western researchers drives AI audiovisual analysis news.westernu.ca/2025/03/audi... via @westernu.bsky.social

Brain imaging techniques allow AI models to analyze audiovisual events

A new 4D imaging technique devised by PhD student Yu (Brandon) Hu and computer science professor Yalda Mohsenzadeh shows how the brain processes multi-sensory audiovisual information.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 7

Do you know how hard it is to anger Canadians?!?

A screenshot of an X post by Jon Cryer (@mrjoncryer
.bsky.social) dated March 7, 2025, commenting on the deteriorating relationship between the U.S. and Canada, blaming a "criminal president" after six weeks. The post includes a poll from Polling Canada (@canadianpolling
...) conducted by Pollara on Feb 23, 2025, with 1,506 online respondents. The poll shows support for: removing U.S. alcohol from stores (77%), retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products (75%), punishing Elon Musk by tariffing his companies/cancelling his contracts (74%), and cancelling contracts with American companies (65%).

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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · Feb 23

In happier news, here a new motor learning paradigm and paper by Ali Ghavampour, @mnlmrc.bsky.social, @andpru.bsky.social, @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social, @jjodx.bsky.social.

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

A paradigm to study the learning of muscle activity patterns outside of the natural repertoire

The acquisition of novel muscle activity patterns is a key aspect of motor skill learning which can be seen at play, for example, when beginner musicians learn new guitar or piano chords. To study thi...

www.biorxiv.org

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · Jan 28

Neural processing of naturalistic audiovisual events in space and time www.nature.com/articles/s42... by @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social et al., showing auditory information represented in both early visual and auditory regions, but visual information only identified in visual cortices; #neuroscience

Neural processing of naturalistic audiovisual events in space and time - Communications Biology

This study investigated audiovisual perception using naturalistic audio-video stimuli with fMRI and EEG, and revealed how different levels of stimuli information are represented in the brain and acros...

www.nature.com

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Jan 29

6/By fusing EEG (temporal precision) with fMRI (spatial precision), this study offers a spatiotemporally resolved map of how audiovisual stimuli unfold across the brain.

Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Jan 29

5/ A two-branch deep neural network (DNN) model trained on audiovisual data couldn't replicate early cross-modal integration seen in the brain, emphasizing the need for early fusion in models

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Jan 29

4/ High-level semantic & categorical info only appears later in high level auditory, visual, and multisensory areas.

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Jan 29

3/ visual & auditory features were processed with similar onsets, but different temporal dynamics. Auditory info takes longer to peak than visual, likely due to the temporal nature of sounds.

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Jan 29

2/ Using EEG and fMRI, we discovered early asymmetrical cross-modal interactions, with acoustic information represented in both early visual and auditory regions, while visual information only identified in visual cortices.

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Jan 29

1/ The human brain seamlessly integrates distinct sensory information to create a coherent percept. This paper dives deep into where and when different types of audiovisual information are processed in the brain using naturalistic stimuli.

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Jan 29

Excited to share our paper published in Nature Communications Biology, led by my brilliant PhD student, Yu Hu: go.nature.com/3Wuqj4G

Neural processing of naturalistic audiovisual events in space and time - Communications Biology

This study investigated audiovisual perception using naturalistic audio-video stimuli with fMRI and EEG, and revealed how different levels of stimuli information are represented in the brain and acros...

go.nature.com

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Jan 24

Checkout our paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience:

Western Institute for Neuroscience (WIN) @westernuwin.bsky.social · Jan 24

New 📄by #WIN members @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social and @drmarcj.bsky.social - Multivariate Pattern Analysis of EEG Reveals Neural Mechanism of Naturalistic Target Processing in Attentional Blink www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Multivariate Pattern Analysis of EEG Reveals Neural Mechanism of Naturalistic Target Processing in Attentional Blink

The human brain has inherent limitations in consciously processing visual information. When individuals monitor a rapid sequence of images for detecting two targets, they often miss the second target ...

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Aug 8

Diana will present her talk at @CogCompNeuro on Thursday at 9:30 AM! Don't miss it: 2024.ccneuro.org/contributed-...

Contributed Talk Session

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Yalda Mohsenzadeh @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social · Aug 5

If you are at #CCN2024, please visit Mohsenzadeh Lab presentations, we have 4 posters and 1 talk: