Looking forward to #SNL2025!

Tenure-track job in audiology at Western's School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, in beautiful Ontario, Canada -- work with a great team, benefit from all the resources that a large research-intensive uni can supply -- and enjoy amazing quality of life!

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 🧵1/18

Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory! We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵1/9

Preprint out -- using intramuscular microelectrode arrays to detect residual motoneuron activity in tetraplegic spinal cord injury, and then using that activity for control Credit to my other co-first authors Agnese Grison and Ciara Gibbs 1/n www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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... )

Check out our latest preprint! BlueSky-less Gayathri Subramanian tried combining odor & sound presentation during sleep to shape memories and discovered that multisensory cuing of unassociated memories nullified the benefits of reactivation. @paller.bsky.social

Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)

Our new paper, “A neural compass in the human brain during naturalistic human navigation” is out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! First-author @zhenganglu.bsky.social led the charge, with Josh Julian and collaborator @gkaguirre.com. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

This one is me!

The SNL 2025 Access Award will waive registration fees for up to 20 students, trainees, and faculty who face barriers to attending the Society for Neurobiology of Language conference. Apply by Aug 27; winners named Aug 28. Pls share! 🔗 tinyurl.com/SNLAcessAward #SNL2025 #NeurobiologyofLanguage

The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ

So much fun talking to classes about science - I highly recommend it!

Happy our commentary of the paper of @gvallortigara.bsky.social et al. as Editor's Choice in CerCo. We agree that the number sense (NS) is indeed likely innate but not grounded in vision because the NS is supramodal and develops in congenitally blind people. academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

Is the Language of Thought == Language? A Thread 🧵 New Preprint (link: tinyurl.com/LangLOT) with @alexanderfung.bsky.social, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen, Josh Rule, Yael Benn, @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social, ‪@spiantado.bsky.social‬, Rosemary Varley, @evfedorenko.bsky.social 1/8

Read all about the neural network for sign language comprehension! New review paper with Brennan Terhune-Cotter! Please email me (or Brennan) for a copy if you can't access the paper compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Running some fMRI experiments on how the human brain recognizes and processes information on actions — with Lénia Amaral. 🧠 @proactionlab.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social

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...

Newborn brains already show individual patterns of functional organization. 🧠✨ Using #fMRI for precision mapping, researchers at @washumedicine.bsky.social found that each baby's brain has a unique layout—already present just after birth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #MRI 🧪

Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Motor Learning and Neuromotor Ethics Our Reality Labs EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to announce an RFP! The topic is on motor learning for EMG-based HCI and the related neuromotor ethics. Submissions are due September 1! www.meta.com/blog/reality...

"Nearly 300 current & former #NASA employees including astronauts, engineers and scientists have signed the #VoyagerDeclaration, a formal statement protesting recent actions...[that] threaten the agency's scientific integrity & mission safety." Sign your Support here: zurl.co/Amwgp zurl.co/fifue

What a fantastic conference! Was a pleasure to meet everyone and hear great science. Thank you!

Happy to have contributed together with @lgrabot.bsky.social to discuss #traveling_waves and cognition!

The vOICe for Android v2.76 released. Added support for Android 16. Added an experimental AI compatibility mode for Google Gemini Live (hi-res color camera preview), toggled by fast-swiping right on The vOICe main screen on your smartphone. play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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

How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions? Using a custom-built finger-extending exoskeleton, we show that wearable augmentations are quickly integrated into body representation, with proprioceptive space adapting to the device’s structure and function. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 New paper out with Scott Glover @rhulpsychology.bsky.social @surreypsychology.bsky.social We show that motor imagery is functionally distinct from physical action, supporting the #Motor #Cognitive model of motor #imagery. Read the theoretical implications 👇 psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

the rare paper in which authors can describe their own work as "strange," "trippy," "crazy," or "bonkers" 😂

PS is pleased to announce the 2025 Mid-Career Award recipients! These awards recognize scientists who have made excellent contributions to the field in the middle of their careers. bit.ly/4k7eH0k @mindimager @Jason Chein @R.Shayna Rosenbaum @sarahshomstein

(YouTube) Dr Zvi Roth on "Representational drift in human visual cortex" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Itx... by @zviroth.bsky.social; what does it mean for the need to often recalibrate one's brain implant for restoring vision? #neuroscience #blindness #BCI

Humbled by the honor and looking forward to seeing y'all in Utrecht soon!

The spatial coding of touch is defined in intrinsic, limb-specific coordinates: an EEG study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657562v1

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

🧵 1/3 🧠 How is the human hand motor system organized at rest? A new study by Pierotti, Speranza, Cattaneo & Turella (CIMeC) used TMS + resting-state fMRI to explore changes in brain connectivity after targeting the anterior intraparietal area (hAIP). 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121254

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

Super excited to share this paper! We show that lesions to parietal areas involved in skilled action disrupt processing of tools in the ventral stream. 1/8

Trump’s NIH cuts aren’t just numbers. They are delayed cures, abandoned treatments, futures stolen, lives that will be lost. This is why we Stand Up For Science. #StandUpForScience #SummerFightForScience

New lab preprint (presented last Sunday as a VSS talk) from Zekun Sun: "Dissociating low-level visual features from high-level event structure in action segmentation" osf.io/preprints/ps...

Curious about action observation, it's generalization, and it's link to action execution? Come hear Kyungji Moon's talk about tool-use generalization across the hand and foot tomorrow morning at #VSS2025 (8:15am) www.visionsciences.org/talk-session/

We're hiring a lab manager! Ideal for aspiring researchers interested in sleep & memory in humans. Our inaugural manager is going to grad school after gaining experience w/ EEG, fMRI, coding, teaching & advanced analyses. He's now revising his 1st authored paper. This could be you! tinyurl.com/Uci81

Humans are sensitive to many different types of social interactions, but it has been difficult to isolate these differences in the human brain In this new preprint @yuanfangzhao.bsky.social w/ @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social applied data-driven methods to two fMRI video datasets to address this 1/n

Hi pals, Our early bird 🦜 registration is still open until tomorrow (16th May) - make sure to register to get the cheaper rates. Register here: pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham... More info: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org Full programme: tinyurl.com/IMRF25Prog

📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵

Can you show movies to infants to study their visual system? Yes! Check out the paper showing how movies can be useful in awake infant fMRI. elifesciences.org/articles/92119. Summarized as a digest (tinyurl.com/baby-fmri-PR), pod (tinyurl.com/baby-fmri-pod), & thread (tinyurl.com/baby-fmri-bsky)

Canceling targeted grants to train deaf scientists...there are no words. Well, here are some words: this is crazy, stupid, shameful, and shortsighted. DOGE, Trump, and everyone who voted for them should be disgusted with themselves. www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...

She is finally published. Small sample but valuable insights. We've been studying audio-haptic integration in sighted and early- vs. late-blind (EB/LB) people. EB integrate optimally, while LB don't (likely switch cues). Here, we're exploring the neural mechanisms of audio-haptic integration...

Curious how infant brains fold? I’m excited to share our new study spearheaded by Sarah Tung and Vaidehi Natu now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Sarah and Vaidehi examined how the grooves of the brain (sulci) develop in individual infant’s brain during the first year of life.

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)