New paper from Karl Rosengren in Frontiers in Developmental Psychology: Why Santa but not witches?”: Parents' reasoning behind encouraging and discouraging fantasy beliefs in children. doi.org/10.3389/fdpy... #URochesterResearch

Are humans predisposed to understand the complexities of music? New #URochesterResearch by @elisepiazza.bsky.social via Psychological Science 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social

New research from @elisepiazza.bsky.social published in Psychological Science, suggests that nonmusicians have a surprisingly sophisticated ear when it comes to music. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats to BCS grad student Oviya Mohan, runner-up in the Three Minute Thesis competition, which challenges doctoral students to describe their research to a global audience—within three minutes. @dorabiro.bsky.social

New publication from the @aplabur.bsky.social in Current Biology: Non-uniform signal pooling across the foveola. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social

Come out & support Oviya TODAY at 4 PM in Hoyt Auditorium (followed by a reception after) BCS grad student Oviya Mohan has made it to the final of UR’s 3-minute thesis: an annual University competition among grad students to explain their thesis in an accessible way in just 3 minutes.

For decades, scientists assumed only humans experienced dementia. Now, new field observations suggest that wild chimpanzees—our closest primate relatives—may also show signs of cognitive decline with age. #URochesterResearch @dorabiro.bsky.social www.rochester.edu/newscenter/a...

OUT NOW from Florian Jaeger @hlplab.bsky.social in Linguistics Vanguard: Reintroducing and testing the Probabilistic Sliding Template Model of vowel perception doi.org/10.1515/ling... #URochesterResearch

#cvstoday October 24, 8:30 am-4:45 pm, Feldman Ballroom, Frederick Douglass Commons CVS Retreat: See full agenda on our website www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/cvs_r... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social

📢❗🚨 CVS Members: don't miss the CVS Retreat TOMORROW at 8:30AM held in the Feldman Ballroom. See agenda and more details: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/cvs_r... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social

Please share: New postdoc position in human intracranial neuroscience is open in the Castellucci Lab. www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/pos... #Postdoc #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs #HiringAcademics #JobSearch #Neuroscience #ResearchJobs #STEMjobs #ScienceJobs

Congratulations to BCS grad student Claire Sun, recipient of a Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA), which recognizes trainees who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research. @cvsuor.bsky.social @coralineiordan.bsky.social

We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Prof in Computational Neuroscience/Cognition at @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social! Join a Simons-supported cluster across Math/Physics/Biology/BCS. Apply by Nov 1, 2025: www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/fac... #ComputationalNeuroscience #Cognition #FacultyJobs

NEW from Manuel Gomez-Ramirez & @johnfoxe.bsky.social Distinct audio and visual accumulators co-activate motor preparation for multisensory detection. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #URochesterResearch @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social

Dr. @elisepiazza.bsky.social of @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social has woven her love of music & science into her lab-aiming to understand how the brain organizes natural sounds and how multiple people’s brains & behaviors align to support interpersonal communication 👉 bit.ly/46oMVYs #URochesterResearch

New paper from Manuel Gomez-Ramirez Distinct audio and visual accumulators co-activate motor preparation for multisensory detection. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social

NEW from Martina Poletti in eNeuro: The Speed of Visual Discrimination Differs between Foveola and Perifovea: A Combined EEG and Behavioral Investigation. doi.org/10.1523/ENEU... #URochesterResearch @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @aplabur.bsky.social

OUT NOW from Karl Rosengren: “What happens when you get corona?”: Children’s questions and parental responses about the COVID-19 pandemic doi.org/10.1371/jour... #URochesterResearch

New publication from Jie Wang & Michele Rucci: Spatial and Temporal Factors Influencing Fixational Saccades in J. Neuroscience. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social

New paper from Martina Poletti, "The Speed of Visual Discrimination Differs between Foveola and Perifovea: A Combined EEG and Behavioral Investigation," published in eNeuro. doi.org/10.1523/ENEU... #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social @aplabUR

NEW from Florian Jaeger in Cognition: People quickly get better at understanding new accents, but how this happens isn't fully known. A study found that while listeners might use distributional learning to adapt, their improvement has limits not predicted by current models. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

An international team of researchers @spk3lly.bsky.social @johnfoxe.bsky.social et al, discovered when we see & hear simultaneously our senses integrate & send information to the part of the brain that controls movement #URochesterResearch @nathumbehav.nature.com 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Announcing a joint BCS/CVS Research Talk 9/10 at 12PM, Kresge Room: Eli Merriam, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health Representations in human primary visual cortex drift over time more: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index... @cvsuor.bsky.social

New publication from @dorabiro.bsky.social in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Baboon route repetition in a seasonal environment. #URochesterResearch doi.org/10.3389/fevo...

New article in J. Neuroscience from Sam Jenks & Martina Poletti: Asymmetries in foveal vision. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social @aplabur.bsky.social

NEW research from Jude Mitchell shows that marmosets are more easily distracted than macaques. Their brain cells have more dopamine receptors, which may make it harder to stay focused when unexpected things happen. #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s420...

OUT NOW from @aplabur.bsky.social The speed of visual discrimination differs between foveola and perifovea: a combined EEG and behavioral investigation, published in eNeuro. doi.org/10.1523/ENEU... #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social

New article from Greg DeAngelis: When we move our eyes and body, the resulting image motion complicates visual scene analysis. This article reviews how the brain uses these signals to compute the motion and depth of objects while an observer is moving. doi.org/10.1146/annu... #URochesterResearch

Congrats to the recent UR recipients of the Fulbright US Student program, including 2 BCS/NSC students: Isabelle Miranda (neuroscience) & Daniel Pyskaty. More: www.rochester.edu/college/stud...

Yue Guzhang is a fourth-year student in the @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social at the @urochester.bsky.social in the @aplabur.bsky.social studying how attention and fixational eye movements influence our ability to see fine details in the fovea #URochesterResearch Read More ➡️ bit.ly/3GcWIaO

1of2) NEW from Martina Poletti: Distinct modulation of microsaccades in motor planning and covert attention, published in Scientific Reports. This study found that microsaccades are a reliable indicator of attentional shifts but not of motor intentions...

OUT NOW from @dorabiro.bsky.social Sex-mediated Gene Flow in Grayfoot Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus griseipes) in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique in International Journal of Primatology. doi.org/10.1007/s107... #URochesterResearch

New from Ralf Haefner & Greg DeAngelis: How can we measure the subjective percepts of animals, for instance for visual illusions? Scientists have developed a new method using Bayesian math and context cues doi.org/10.1371/jour... #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social

Congratulations Jude!🎊

Welcome Scholars! We've kicked off another summer of NEURO RocHS. Looking forward to seeing what these high school students will accomplish this summer! @urochestersmd.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social #URochesterResearch

NEW from @dorabiro.bsky.social West Side Story: Regional Inter-Troop Variation in Baboon Bark-Stripping at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique doi.org/10.1002/ajpa... #URochesterResearch

During undergrad at @urochester.bsky.social, Yue Guzhang learned a programming language from grad students while working in a lab Today, as a @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social grad student, she is meeting undergrads in the classroom, teaching them @matlab4neuro.bsky.social before they enter a lab 👇

🧠 How do the brain & mind work? Students from the BCS Class of 2025 created short videos breaking down key concepts in brain and cognitive science — clear, fun, and informative! 🎓 Check them out: shorturl.at/Qr6m2

New publication from Dora Biro in American Journal of Biological Anthropology, "Landscape-Scale Effects of Season and Predation Risk on the Terrestrial Behavior of Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus)." doi.org/10.1002/ajpa... #URochesterResearch

NEW from Sabya Shivkumar, Greg DeAngelis & Ralf Haefner in Nat. Commun. on how motion is always defined with respect to a reference frame. This study shows how the brain uses causal inference to find the right reference frame to guide our perception. doi.org/10.1038/s414... #URochesterResearch

1of2) New in NeuroImage: Adults on the autism spectrum differ from neurotypical peers when self-generating but not passively-experiencing somatosensation: a high-density electrophysiological (EEG) mapping and virtual reality study. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social

New from Scott & Snyder: This study uses deep neural networks to create naturalistic stimuli that better map to neural responses in visual areas, helping understand complex neural activity more efficiently than simpler stimuli. doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social

1 of 2) OUT NOW from Bikash Sahoo & Adam Snyder in J. Neuroscience: Neural Dynamics in Extrastriate Cortex Underlying False Alarms. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social

Congrats to Riesa Cassano & Rithwik Cherian, recipients of this year’s Open Scholarship Awards, & Sanjana Kapisthalam, recipient of the Edward Peck Curtis Award for excellence in teaching! opensci.lib.rochester.edu/open-scholar...

Thank you, @coryjwhite.bsky.social for an engaging #research talk! We are delighted to welcome another NEUROYES speaker, Dr. Cellas Ari’ka Hayes, on 4/10/25! @c3llas.bsky.social @drnathanasmith.bsky.social #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social #neuroskyence

Computer scientist Christopher Kanan offers a primer on generative AI, large language models, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence. #URochesterResearch www.rochester.edu/newscenter/a... @cvsuor.bsky.social @chriskanan.bsky.social

Congrats to Ruby Zeng who won a best poster award for her poster “Prosodic and other paralinguistic features of speech differ across social contexts and roles” at the Graduate Research Day. This is a fantastic achievement Ruby, well done!! 🎉 @elisepiazza.bsky.social

Support our students Yue, Howard, Riesa and Ruby at Graduate Research Day. Check out the event program: www.rochester.edu/college/grad... All are welcome to attend.

NEW from Dennis Jung, Bikash Sahoo, & Adam Snyder in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience: Distractor anticipation during working memory is associated with theta and beta oscillations across spatial scales. doi.org/10.3389/fnin... #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social  @cvsuor.bsky.social

1 of 2) NEW in JOV: The visual system does not operate like a camera, co-authored by Michele Rucci & Martina Poletti. buff.ly/2S7Qa1u #URochesterResearch @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @aplabur.bsky.social