Check out Yuxuan's website for a comprehensive view of her work! You want her for a postdoc!!

Recent work by Kelly Hiersche in collaboration with @osherlab.bsky.social demonstrates that language and theory of mind are functionally and spatially distinct in the brain of 3-9 year old children! @zeynepsaygin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

✨Your 2025-2026 CBC Lab✨ Another great academic year comes to an end! Thank you to all our lab members and collaborators for their hard work, and a big congrats to all you have accomplished!

We had a great time at the Ohio Science Olympiad STEM Expo, giving middle and high school students a chance to learn about brain research!

Excited to share that our new paper is out! Holistic processing can emerge for non-face objects, with no expertise required. Configuration (both 1st and 2nd order) is all you need! For CNN and correlation with face recognition read the paper!

‼️ New article alert! ‼️ Yuxuan Zeng and @zitonglu.bsky.social challenge the idea that faces are unique in their ability to recruit holistic processing. Read the paper here!: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to see this paper officially published in Cognitive Psychology! A nice collaboration with Yuxuan Zeng and David Osher at OSU. We find face-like holistic processing in non-face stimuli - and Configuration is the answer! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Guess what's not just a preprint anymore... full post coming soon!

Stay tuned for a super cool article coming out of our lab soon... SO soon!!!

And of course, our annual holiday party with the @zlab.bsky.social ! Our white elephant gift exchange was particularly lively this year, with great creativity going into the wrapping and one gift being a rotisserie chicken (stored safely in the fridge until the game!)!

Last Thursday was this account's manager's favorite day of the year... CCBBI Research Day! Dr Osher gave an awesome talk and here is @isaacliao.bsky.social with his poster!

‼️ New article alert! ‼️ In collaboration with Kelly Hiersche from the @zlab.bsky.social ! Read the scholarly article here: direct.mit.edu/netn/article... The article from Ohio State News here: news.osu.edu/a-birds-eye-... And read on through this thread for a summary!

📅 Save the Date: November 3, 2025 The #OHBM2026 Call for Content & Call for Reviewers opens! ✨ New this year: submissions via Oxford Abstracts. 🗓 Submission Window: November 3-December 15, 2025 🌍 Join us in shaping the program for Bordeaux, France!

We're nearly halfway through the semester (woo!) and over halfway to the OSU application deadline of Nov 15 (ah!)! If you have questions or want to learn more about our work, feel free to reach out! We'd love to hear from you!

NSF GRFP solicitation is up! Eligibility has changed! Second year grad students are no longer eligible. Only first years, senior undergrads and those in between. Deadlines moved back a bit from late October to early November. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience has turned 25! To mark the anniversary, the October issue features an expanded selection of Comments and Journal Clubs, and our first World View and Tools of the Trade articles. Check out the issue here: www.nature.com/nrn/volumes/... #neuroscience #neuroskyence

I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026 through both the cognitive and developmental areas at Ohio State. If you are interested in spatial cognition, visual perception, and/or mental representation -- please reach out! I'd love to hear from you. www.cogdevlab.org

Check out the awesome science coming to you this week at FLUX from the @zlab.bsky.social !!!

🧠 We are accepting graduate students for fall 2026! 🧠 If you are interested in vision or attention and how they relate to function and behavior, and want to explore these with a plethora of tools, we'd love for you to apply! Check out our website (www.davidosher.com/index.html) and get in touch!

Happy start of the semester Buckeyes!!! We can't wait to have our whole lab back together in person!

PhD candidate in the house!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Huge congratulations to Yuxuan, who passed her candidacy exam today! We are so proud!!

Scientists! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun! We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15 If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

19 days til the start of the semester... we haven't been resting but discussing our current and future research projects in lab meeting yesterday sure did make us excited for the next few months!!! What are you most looking forward to this upcoming semester?

I'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

Incredibly excited and grateful to share that I’ll be starting a lab at The Ohio State University this(!) fall! My lab will study human learning and memory, with related interests in sleep, stress, and time perception. More info soon, but do get in touch if you’re interested in joining!

Finally, we have Isaac perfectly matching the VSS vibe and presenting on his awesome first-year project! Thanks everyone for a wonderful #VSS2025, we'll see you next summer!

Yuxuan killed it with her third poster investigating configuration and feature processing! Way to go Yuxuan, your work is fantastic!

I spy our very own Isaac in the crowd! Such an awesome satellite event!

Keara's poster session was amazing, thanks everyone for stopping by and asking such engaging questions! We are super proud of @kearaginell.bsky.social's hard work.

Having fun at dinner with the @zlab.bsky.social! What's better than hanging out with research friends on the beach :)

Come see us at #VSS2025! Kelly w/ "Developmental Variability in Location and Function of High-Level Visual Areas" and Lauren w/ "Investigating Visual and Auditory Language Responses in the Ventral Temporal Cortex of Pre-Reading Children: A Multivariate Analysis" in the Pavilion on Sunday afternoon!

We'll be at #VSS2025, presenting on the awesome work that's been happening in the lab all year long. Come check out our posters and say hi! Thanks for all the organizing, @vssmtg.bsky.social, we see the work you do!

Congratulations to Julie Golomb, The Ohio State University and Chris Baker, National Institute of Mental Health! They have been elected by the VSS membership to serve on the VSS Board of Directors. Their four-year term will begin in May 2025. Image Image

Over the weekend, some of our lab members volunteered their time at the Science Olympiad STEM Expo, sharing our research with students, parents, and educators from all over Ohio! We thank CCBBI and Ohio Science Olympiad for the opportunity, we had a lot of fun!

Congratulations to our graduate student, Kelly Hiersche for winning the Herbert A. Toops Research Award for the most outstanding and creative article published by a Psychology graduate student in 2024!

✨CBC Lab 2024-25✨ Happy last day of classes, it's been a great semester!

Today is also very good day because we are collecting our very first eye tracking data! Huge thank you to our PI, grad students, support staff, and @pupil-labs.bsky.social for their help getting this off the ground!

HUGE congratulations to grad student @kearaginell.bsky.social for being awarded the NSF GRFP!!! We are so proud and excited to see where her work goes!!!

‼️ Exciting preprint alert ‼️ Yuxuan Zeng and @zitonglu.bsky.social demonstrate that holistic processing, commonly associated with face processing can be induced using configural, nonface stimuli! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Today we are super excited because we are welcoming potential new grad students to the lab! It's visit day! We will continue to train the next generation of scientists and it's lovely to have them here.

⚕️ What are the 'overhead' costs that the NIH wants to cut? ✂️ Improved and simplified explainer. As usual, feel free to reuse and remix as needed (as long as it's for educational purposes). This is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC license. #NIHcuts #overheadcosts #academicsky

Sharing in case this is useful for others in a similar role. Today I taught my undergrad Intro Cog Neuro class about indirects and research grant funding. Some details:

Our lab manager got to see some super cool science being done around Ohio State yesterday! So many exciting applications and amazing work. Thank you CTSI for hosting the Annual Scientific Meeting! #CTSIASM25

We had a great time at CCBBI's lunch and speaker series today! A huge thank you to CCBBI and center director @ruchikaprakash.bsky.social for the amazing work they do.