The Transmitter writes about @clionaod.bsky.social's work with @ainedineen.bsky.social, @annatruzzi.bsky.social, Graham King, @lorinanaci.bsky.social, Keelin Harrison, Enna-Louise D'Arcy, Jessica White, @chiarac.bsky.social, Tamrin Holloway, Anna Kravchenko, @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social!

Intelligence is not just about having "strong" brain connections. It’s also about how efficiently the brain coordinates processing speed across regions. @lindenmp.bsky.social and @jason-z-kim.bsky.social share what their computer model is revealing about cognitive power: https://bit.ly/3LQuoxT

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

Data quality biases normative models derived from fetal brain MRI | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Renauld et al. present scilpy, an open-source #Python library for diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and tractography: doi.org/10.52294/001... @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wow, very cool!

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

#106 - Chiara Caldinelli, Jing-Jing Li, Garrett Chao, Mike Arcaro & Anne Collins. The role of the thalamus in dynamic decision-making

🔆 I'm hiring! 🔆 There are two open positions: 1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition. 2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨 We're looking for a postdoc to work on EEG and fNIRS projects with 3-18-month-old infants, looking at whether/how/when infants represent affordances: careers.ceu.edu/job-invite/8... Part of the @simonsfoundation.org SCENE project: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...

Better Code, Better Science - Introducing a new open-source book project on scientific coding using AI tools russpoldrack.substack.com/p/better-cod...

Six people near Seattle. That's all researchers need to create a new human brain map that combines functional and cellular data. Thank you @callimcflurry.bsky.social for sharing the study in @thetransmitter.bsky.social! More incl. eligibility criteria: www.thetransmitter.org/brain-mappin... 🧠📈

Changing cognitive chimera states in human brain networks with age: Variations in cognitive integration and segregation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.28.650949v1

We’re hiring postdocs to join my lab at UNC. If you’re interested in adolescence, brain, and social development, DM me. Our work incorporates fMRI, social media, and longitudinal methods. We study risks and opportunities in adolescence. If you’re at #SRCD2025 and want to meet, please reach out!

"How infants learn and explore: From behavior to computations" 👶⚙️ This review outlines my take on early development, mostly driven by frustration that infancy research focuses on what infants can do, not how. Still a Preprint! Missing-literature suggestions welcome :) osf.io/preprints/ps...

Tiny brains, big strategy. Bumblebees scan the world with purpose, using active vision to lock onto just the info they need. Precision flight, selective focus, and fast pattern recognition all in a split second. buff.ly/SLoGXQ0

New paper out at @openmindjournal.bsky.social!! We studied early vocab in deaf, hearing, blind, and sighted children in order to learn how sensory access (vision 👀, hearing 👂) and linguistic experiences shape how children learn words... Read on for a quick summary! 1/N

Excited that we are recruiting for a new postdoctoral program in Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience at #WashU! Get in touch if you have questions! sites.wustl.edu/systemsneuro...

We are accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences in autism research, healthy cognitive aging, and systems and computational #neuroscience. Deadline is 5/22/2025: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science #autismresearch

Excited to get started on this @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project led by @karlaholmboe.bsky.social together with Mara Cercignani - examining how the building blocks of cognition unfold over time. www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-item...

THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping. It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron. @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.

How does the brain integrate information from new experiences while preserving established memories? Have a look at our latest preprint, "Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques" 🧵 🧪🧠🤖👩‍🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Polyglot brains: A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.

We hope to see you there!

Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle (new from Adriano Tort and colleagues) #neuroskyence 🧠🫁 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Growth charts of infant visual neurodevelopment generalize across global contexts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.645314v1

TL;DR- CBGT-driven evidence accumulation is not static during a deliberation, but highly pliable on a moment-by-moment basis. This raises interesting questions about current assumptions of how decision policies arise. Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Code: github.com/zhuojunyu-ap... 9/9

𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 "theoretical framework to analyse individual variability in biological and artificial systems that perform flexible decision-making tasks" Looks like must read! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Parenting behaviours can influence adolescents’ aggressive behaviors - a short review of the evidence childandfamilyblog.com/aspects-of-p...

👏👏👏 The developing Human Connectome Project fetal functional MRI release: Methods and data structures | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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... 1/n

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

Time trends and area-level socioeconomic inequalities in early childhood development at 2 to 2.5 years old in England between 2019 and 2024 | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mathematical modelling supports the idea that the brain’s nerve networks are designed to transmit information as efficiently as possible.

🚨This week, many Columbia scientists lost grants that funded over half their annual income. Others will no longer be able to do research that helps treat thousands of sick patients across the US. "It hurts," they told me. My story for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A map of all the Starlink satellites orbiting around Earth one year ago. They have now almost doubled. The plan is to add 30k more. How is this allowed?

Big opportunity! 🎉 🏅The best abstracts & posters from the FIT’NG Annual Conference will be invited to submit a paper to a special issue in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Showcase your best research—submit your abstracts to #FITNG2025! 📄✨ 🌐https://fitng.org/submissions/

Have you ever gotten lost in fantasies and thought to yourself, "What a waste of time"? Well, think again! In our new piece in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Moshe Bar and I explain one reason why spontaneous thoughts, even when seemingly useless, may be key to human intelligence.

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

🤔 How do individual differences in fetal, infant, and toddler (FIT) neurodevelopment shape long-term #brain and #behavioral outcomes? 💡 A new paper from the FIT’NG community explores this question and the challenges of measuring early brain #development. 🌐 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

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Our memories are not encoded with timestamps. How do we reconstruct the passage of time from our memories? In a new paper (accepted at Psych Science) @samiyousif.bsky.social and I demonstrate a powerful illusion of time that results from repeated experience osf.io/preprints/ps...

What factors impact the success of an awake infant fMRI scan? What can be done to maximize the data we collect from each infant? In our new preprint, the Turk-Browne Lab and Saxe Lab combine our data from over 750 attempted scans to try to answer these questions: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights! TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5)

Reliability of structural brain change in cognitively healthy adult samples. | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Averaging brain responses is not a great idea... #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Distinct White Matter Fiber Density Patterns in Bipolar and Depressive Disorders: Insights from Fixel-Based Analysis | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Imagine listening to a language you don't know. When does one word end, and another begin? Human infants face a similar challenge. Scientists have looked at exactly how babies recognise patterns in speech from birth.