New publication from @dorabiro.bsky.social Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons, published in Scientific Reports. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #URochesterResearch

BCS grad student Oviya Mohan has won the 2026 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student. Congratulations Oviya! 🥳 www.rochester.edu/provost/hono...

New publication from Ralf Haefner in Neuron: Statistics of natural scenes shape contextual modulation in the visual cortex. #URochesterResearch doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... @cvsuor.bsky.social

Congrats to Oviya Mohan & Yue Guzhang, who were selected as winners in the 2026 Open Scholarship Awards! These awards celebrate students with "exemplary efforts in making their research open and accessible to the wider community”. Read more: osc-rochester.org/open-scholar...

NEW from Cell Reports Methods: Projection-specific intersectional optogenetics for precise excitation and inhibition in the marmoset brain, co-authored by Jude Mitchell. #URochesterResearch doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... @urneuroscience.bsky.social  @cvsuor.bsky.social

OUT NOW from Ashley Clark, Krish Prahalad, & Martina Poletti: Distinct eccentricity-driven dynamics in foveal and extrafoveal visual crowding. #URochesterResearch doi.org/10.1016/j.is... @aplabur.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats to former BCS member Ilker Yildirim, recipient of the 2026 Elsevier/VSS Young Investigator Award. Dr. Yildirim received his PhD in 2014 and was advised by Robert Jacobs. www.visionsciences.org/2026-yia/ @cvsuor.bsky.social

1of2) OUT NOW from Chigusa Kurumada: Researchers created a zip code–based measure of language diversity using U.S. Census data... doi.org/10.3758/s134...

For cognitive biologist @dorabiro.bsky.social the question of animal thought extends beyond pets. She studies how individual minds come together in coordinated groups, from pigeons navigating home in flocks to primates negotiating social life. www.rochester.edu/newscenter/w... #URochesterResearch

1of3) NEW study from Krystel Huxlin & Duje Tadin suggests that adults with occipital stroke can exhibit greater variability in lane positioning when steering compared to those with intact vision... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#cvstoday March 18 at 12pm, Kresge Room, 269 Meliora Hall BCS Third Year Lunch Talks: Krishnaveni Nagarajan (Advisor: Martina Poletti) and Sabya Goswami (Advisor: Duje Tadin) more: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...

#cvstoday Mar 17 at 3pm, Class of '62 Auditorium/Zoom Boynton Colloquium: Anna Roe, The Nathan Klein Institute for Psychiatric Research Discovery of a new cortical area for central vision Co-sponsored by @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social  There will be reception following the talk at 5PM at Grappa

NEXT Tuesday, Mar 17: BCS is co-sponsoring Boynton Colloquium speaker Anna Roe. 3:00 pm, URMC G-9425, Class of '62 Auditorium & Zoom Discovery of a new cortical area for central vision more info: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index... @cvsuor.bsky.social

A new study challenges a long-standing theory in neuroscience and could reshape how scientists think about perception, learning disorders, and artificial intelligence. www.rochester.edu/newscenter/l... @urneuroscience.bsky.social  @cvsuor.bsky.social

#cvstoday March 6 at 12:30 pm, 221 Meliora Hall & Zoom BCS Thesis Defense: Sam Jenks, Graduate Student (Advisor: Martina Poletti) Visual Asymmetries in the Foveola more: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social

1of2) New research shows that stroke damage causing cortical blindness is associated with minute gaze shifts toward the blind side during passive fixation, but not when subjects are engaged in a foveal visual task, showing that the brain adapts fixational control after visual cortex injury...

Applications are OPEN for the Meliora Fellowships and the Wiesman Scholarship. Learn more about undergraduate summer research opportunities in BCS: www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/undergra...

NEW from Adam Snyder in Frontiers in Psychology: Resonant hierarchies: a multiscale framework for oscillatory dynamics in the brain. doi.org/10.3389/fpsy... #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social  @cvsuor.bsky.social

TODAY from 4-6PM: Join us for this celebration of first-year undergraduate students on the River Campus in honor of completing their first semester as a member of the URochester family! More: events.rochester.edu/event/first-...

NEW research from the DeAngelis lab shows that contrary to long-standing beliefs, motion from eye movements helps the brain perceive depth—a finding that could enhance virtual reality. www.rochester.edu/newscenter/b... #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social

New publication from Dora Biro in Physiology & Behavior: Associations of genetic polymorphisms with boldness, stress response, and route efficiency in homing pigeons (Columba livia). doi.org/10.1016/j.ph... #URochesterResearch

OUT NOW from @aplabur.bsky.social Chromatic induction and retinal image motion, published in Perception. doi.org/10.1177/0301... #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social

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