Anna-Lena Stroh
@lenastroh.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist interested in neuroplasticity, blindness, deafness, and Sign Language
pinned post!
Preprint alert! 🚨 Atypical functional connectome in congenitally blind humans.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
co-led by
@cemalkoba.bsky.social
and me, together with Joan Falco-Roget,
@olicolli.bsky.social
,
@katarzynaraczy.bsky.social
, Marina Bedny, Mengyu Tian, and Marcin Szwed
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Atypical functional connectome in congenitally blind humans
The cortex is organized along macroscale structural and functional gradients that extend from unimodal to transmodal association areas and from somatosensory to visual regions. It has not been tested ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.28.640746v1
9 months ago
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Johanna Rimmele
10 days ago
New paper by
@avbarchet.bsky.social
from Gesa Hartwigsen’s group,
@jonasobleser.bsky.social
@ae.mpg.de
@mpicbs.bsky.social
We suggest attentional filtering during comprehension requires target enhancement and distractor suppression at different hierarchical levels
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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Attentional engagement with target and distractor streams predicts speech comprehension in multitalker environments
Understanding speech while ignoring competing speech streams in the surrounding environment is challenging. Previous studies have demonstrated that attention shapes the neural representation of speech...
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/10/23/JNEUROSCI.0657-25.2025
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Martin Hebart
12 days ago
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...
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Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL)
16 days ago
PhD Opportunity at UCL – Tactile Sign Language & DeafBlind Communication. Funded PhD at DCAL exploring tactile BSL and DeafBlind interaction. UK only. Deadline 1 Dec 2025.
www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
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PhD Opportunity at UCL – Tactile Sign Language & DeafBlind Communication
Join a pioneering ERC-funded project at UCL’s DCAL, Europe’s leading centre for Deafness, Cognition & Language research.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/deafness-cognition-and-language-research-centre-dcal/phd-opportunity-ucl-tactile-sign-language-deafblind-communication
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Imaging Neuroscience
about 1 month ago
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ammar I. Marvi, Nancy G. Kanwisher, et al: An efficient multifunction fMRI localizer for high-level visual, auditory, and cognitive regions in humans
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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PessoaBrain
about 1 month ago
Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
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Jessie Baldwin
about 1 month ago
When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration, and how should this be done? 🧐 Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens
@lakens.bsky.social
at the next ReproducibiliTea! October 28, 1pm GMT. Sign up:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...
@tabeasch.bsky.social
@reproducibilitea.org
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When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration, with Prof Daniël Lakens
Prof Daniël Lakens will share guidance on appropriate circumstances and methods for deviating from a pre-registration
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-how-to-deviate-from-a-preregistration-with-prof-daniel-lakens-tickets-1756686138529?aff=ebdsshcopyurl&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=organizer-profile&utm-share-source=organizer-profile
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Kaiser Lab
about 1 month ago
By utilizing the visual backward masking paradigm, this study aimed to disentangle the contributions of feedforward and recurrent processing, revealing that recurrent processing significantly shapes the object representations across the ventral visual stream.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Recurrence affects the geometry of visual representations across the ventral visual stream in the human brain
The specific roles of feedforward and recurrent processing in human visual object recognition remain incompletely understood. In this neuroimaging and computational modelling study the authors isolate...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003354
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How disabled scientists spice up science, technology, and everywhere and all at once. Powerful preprint by the brilliant
@jennychenlu.bsky.social
&
@sheilaxu.bsky.social
on the ethics of hiring deaf and disabled people in STEM. Read here:
tinyurl.com/52kceckw
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How disabled scientists spice up science, technology, and everywhere and all at once
My good friend and incredible colleague, Sheila Xu (see linkedin profile here), and I recently co-authored a book chapter, titled ” Deaf Leaders Now! The ethics of hiring disabled people in s…
https://jennychenlu.com/2025/10/09/how-disabled-scientists-spice-up-science-technology-and-everywhere-and-all-at-once/?preview_id=339&preview_nonce=efc00b5d12&preview=true
about 1 month ago
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
about 2 months ago
Functional organization of the human visual system at birth and across late gestation
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677834v1
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
2 months ago
The human brain mechanisms of afterimages: From networks to cortical layers
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.30.673266v1
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Santani Teng
3 months ago
🚨 Very excited to have this manuscript with Haydée García-Lázaro out in the world! With psychophysics and
#EEG
decoding, we show how echoacoustic evidence accumulates over multiple click-echo presentations. The first temporally resolved account of the brain doing
#echolocation
in blind humans. 🦇🔊
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Marek Pedziwiatr
3 months ago
End of August means ECVP! This year, I am here (in beautiful Mainz) with a special mission - to find postdocs who will join us in (equally beautiful) Krakow, PL! Drop me a DM if you are interested!
@ecvp.bsky.social
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Ella Striem-Amit
3 months ago
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...
)
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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...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2503188122
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Hunter Schone
3 months ago
Now out in
@natneuro.nature.com
What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed? Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation
www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7
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PLOS Biology
3 months ago
#Myelination
enables faster signal propagation in the brain, but takes more energy & space.
@philipruthig.bsky.social
&co reveal how short- & long-range
#WhiteMatter
fibers differ, showing how these variations affect neural communication & processing efficiency
@plosbiology.org
🧪
plos.io/4mq5tOy
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)
3 months ago
PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here:
forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ...
#PsychSciSky
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Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator
As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...
https://forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZwNhV9
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
3 months ago
Disentangling the influences of pre- and postnatal periods on human cortical microstructure
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.669812v1
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Esther Kuehn
3 months ago
Thanks to all (co)authors & reviewers for their contribution to this study on
#layer
specific changes in
#sensory
#cortex
across the
#lifespan
in
#humans
&
#mice
now out in
@natneuro.nature.com
Here is a short summary of our findings 1/6
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Iris Groen
3 months ago
On Friday,
niklasmuller.bsky.social
shows that estimating population receptive fields (pRF) using DNN feature maps but without assuming a Gaussian pRF shape yields better predictions of THINGS ephys data, uncovering surprising pRF geometries!
2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=1...
Poster C105, 14:00-17:00
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Poster Presentation
https://2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=1oPisnGthO
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Matt Wall
3 months ago
This is wild. Dirt-cheap, un-patentable lithium supplements might just reverse Alzheimer's (in mice, admittedly...).
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺
4 months ago
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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Alessandro Gozzi
3 months ago
Analysis of >11,000 pediatric MRI scans suggests that suboptimal image quality may introduce bias in cortical thickness and area estimates in over half the cases 🤔🧐
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development - Nature Neuroscience
As large-scale neurodevelopmental MRI studies gain prominence, the authors identify tradeoffs between sample size and quality control that can dramatically affect results, and they evaluate a range of...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01990-7
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Anna-Lena Stroh
4 months ago
I’m happy to share that our manuscript on the cortical depth-dependency of the GE- and SE-BOLD point spread function at 7 Tesla is now available on bioRxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spatial specificity of the functional gradient echo and spin echo BOLD signal across cortical depth at 7 T
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at high magnetic field strengths (≥ 7 T) is a promising technique to study the functioning of the human brain at the spatial scale of cortical columns and ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.667324v1
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Leah Banellis
4 months ago
While many believe being ‘more in tune with your body’ improves mental health, we surprisingly found the opposite: worse mental health (higher anxiety, depression, stress, fatigue & reduced well-being)—with stronger stomach-brain connections.
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Anna-Lena Stroh
Courtois Project on Neuronal Modelling
4 months ago
New CNeuroMod-THINGS open-access fMRI dataset: 4 participants · ~4 000 images (720 categories) each shown 3× (12k trials per subject)· individual functional localizers & NSD-inspired QC . Preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2507.09024
Congrats Marie St-Laurent and
@martinhebart.bsky.social
!!
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You’d prefer an astronaut, PhD
4 months ago
6/11 One of our most striking (and unexpected) findings was that an individual child’s brain functional connectivity is more similar to their childhood peers than adults are to other adults. That is, children showed less inter-individual variability than adults.
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You’d prefer an astronaut, PhD
4 months ago
1/11 Very excited to say that our preprint, Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain, is up on biorxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain
Human brain organization shares a common underlying structure, though recent studies have shown that features of this organization also differ significantly across individual adults. Understanding the...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.665760v1
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Imaging Neuroscience
4 months ago
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jochen Schmidt, Nikolaus Weiskopf, et al: High-resolution quantitative T2 mapping of the human brain at 7 T using a multi-echo spin-echo sequence and dictionary-based modeling
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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katja heuer
4 months ago
1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with
@r3rt0.bsky.social
,
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
4 months ago
Visual Word Form Area demonstrates individual and task-agnostic consistency but inter-individual variability
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.23.666206v1
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Katarzyna Raczy
4 months ago
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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CogBooster
4 months ago
Lénia Amaral presented her work at the @imrf.bsky.social! Her talk, “Stable, but unique: individualized connectivity in the blind V1 over time” reflects her postdoctoral work with
@striemamit.bsky.social
at the SAMP Lab, Georgetown University.
@durham-university.bsky.social
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Laura Crucianelli
4 months ago
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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Fernanda Ribeiro
4 months ago
🧠✨ Excited to share that our literature review on retinotopic mapping in the human visual cortex is now published!
tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b
Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
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Human retinotopic mapping: From empirical to computational models of retinotopy | JOV | ARVO Journals
https://tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b
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Imaging Neuroscience
8 months ago
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Fakhereh Movahedian Attar, Nikolaus Weiskopf, et al: Short association fibres form topographic sheets in the human V1–V2 processing stream
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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7 months ago
New mesoscale manuscript looking at functional connectivity of ocular dominance columns during resting state. By Schmidt et al.,
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Dominika Radziun
4 months ago
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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Oscar Woolnough
4 months ago
For everyone out there working at the intersection of vision and language. We are currently accepting submissions for a Journal of Vision Special Issue on the vision-language interface Submission deadline: Dec 31st
jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan...
#neuroskyence
#VisionScience
#PsychSciSky
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Martin Hebart
5 months ago
What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in
@natmachintell.nature.com
led by
@florianmahner.bsky.social
&
@lukasmut.bsky.social
, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine Intelligence
An interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-025-01041-7
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺
5 months ago
Beyond reorganization: Intrinsic cortical hierarchies constrain experience-dependent plasticity in sensory-deprived humans
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"we confirm that auditory and speech related features are redirected to deprived visual cortices in blind individuals";
#neuroscience
#blindness
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Zejin Lu
5 months ago
Now out in Nature Human Behaviour
@nathumbehav.nature.com
: “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Amin Saberi
5 months ago
🧠⚖️📉 How does the cortical excitation-inhibition ratio mature during adolescence? We asked this in our new paper just out in
#ScienceAdvances
✨ “Adolescent maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition ratio based on individualized biophysical network modeling” 📄
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Adolescent maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition ratio based on individualized biophysical network modeling
Individualized simulations reveal a decrease in excitation-inhibition ratio in association areas throughout adolescence.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adr8164
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Maciek Szul
6 months ago
🚨🚨🚨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!
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Xuyu Qian
6 months ago
Today in
@nature.com
, we report a spatial single-cell atlas of human cortical development, revealing surprisingly early specification of human cortical layers and areas. We built an interactive browser to explore the spatial data:
walshlab.org/research/cor...
Paper link below 👇
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Martin Hebart
6 months ago
Fascinating talk by
@rhodricusack.bsky.social
showing his &
@clionaod.bsky.social
’s work on 2 and 9-month olds with 130 (!) infants & 20 min (!) data showing a largely similar representation of medial ventral vision but a largely absent response in LO, dovetailing with myelin development.
#CAOS2025
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Preprint alert 📣 Check out our new preprint where we look into the relationship between cortical thickness and functional activation during linguistic processing in early blind individuals.
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7 months ago
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺
7 months ago
Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
by
@meike-scheller.bsky.social
@michaelproulx.bsky.social
et al.
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Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals
The ability to reduce sensory uncertainty by integrating information across different senses develops late in humans and depends on cross-modal, senso…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0079612325000378
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
8 months ago
Unraveling the mesoscale functional connectivity of the human primary visual cortex using high-resolution functional MRI.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.645795v1
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺
8 months ago
Imperfect sounds
www.science.org/content/arti...
by
@cathleenogrady.bsky.social
via
@striemamit.bsky.social
; "Cochlear implants give deaf kids unprecedented access to sound. But insisting they avoid using sign language may be risky"; nice sound samples!
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Implants can help deaf kids hear—but many still struggle with spoken language
Some researchers worry about risks of devaluing sign language, overreliance on imperfect devices
https://www.science.org/content/article/implants-can-help-deaf-kids-hear-many-still-struggle-spoken-language
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Audrey Luo
8 months ago
We think of white matter as the brain's highways—uniform conduits between cortices. But what if we study development along tracts? Turns out the journey matters as much as the cortical destination! We're thrilled to share “Two Axes of White Matter Development”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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