UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨ Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21. Please share widely! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

🚀Excited to share our project: Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience. @schottdorflab.bsky.social and I propose a novel multivariate method to isolate neural representations aligned with specific cognitive hypotheses 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673485v1

That's a wrap for CCN2025 -- and so planning for CCN2026 in New York is starting today! Save travels to all participants and remember to fill out the feedback survey sent via email!

The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!

New paper out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (open access)! Using behavioral masked priming and single word reading with concurrent MEG recording, we investigate how our brain spots the tiny pieces of words (a.k.a. morphemes)—even when they’re playing hide-and-seek. 👀 Link ⬇️

I'm thrilled to introduce DR. Brennan Terhune-Cotter who defended his dissertation last week! His work shows that occipital (visual) cortex is recruited during high-level language processing for ASL and that deaf adults who lack early sign access show greater activation in occipital cortex

Fascinating new work by @federicamosti.bsky.social @debbysilver.bsky.social on human-specific neurodevelopment, linking ‘Human Accelerated Regions’ to chromatin architecture, cortical cell fate and expansion and folding of brains 🧪🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

tryin' to be in the band, not the band manager. todd.gureckislab.org/2024/09/25/l...

Check out the mini-review I wrote about ipRGCs on visual processing! doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

Nice preprint on the neuroscience of cross-modality 🧪🧠 👇

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....

Excited to share that our work, "Changes in auditory evoked responses at different levels of linguistic processing in adults and school-age children: An MEG study," is now out in Neuropsychologia! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVCr_fKKp...

This was such a fun collaboration! I am thrilled to see this out today!! Amazing work by Cody Dong comparing memory-augmented LLMs to human episodic memory.

We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested! More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

Fantastic work by our (now former) lab manager Liv Christiano. We assess the test-retest reliability of OPM and compare it to fMRI and iEEG. 🧠📄🧵

Check out our new paper “Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area” in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Stanford researchers found that bias against non-native speakers persists even when AI tools are used, highlighting the ongoing challenges of language discrimination in academic publishing. hai.stanford.edu/news/how-lan...

this figure from 1944 is cited as the first topoplot, from Koiti Motokawa. in an era where only handful of EEG channels across space were used, he measured the mean alpha amplitude for 90 points across the scalp. ❗ (compiling a presentation about the evolution of topoplots, cool stuff out there 🙂)

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Honored and thrilled to receive the GGN Early Career Award @jlugiessen.bsky.social 🏆 Huge thanks to my awesome supervisors Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social & Marius @peelen.bsky.social , all my collaborators, and the amazing colleagues from both labs — couldn’t have done it without you! 💗

🧠 Newly out: Paper-with-a-way-too-long-name-for-social-media! How does the brain turn words into sentences? We tracked words in participants' brains while they produced sentences, and found some unexpectedly neat patterns. 🧵1/9 rdcu.be/epA1J in @commspsychol.nature.com

Super proud of this! Thread to come soon…

Our latest study on reading using MEG, eyetracking and Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging headed by Yali Pan from @thechbh.bsky.social : Parallel and dynamic attention allocation during natural reading www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

Excited to share the new OECS article on 'Sentence Processing' written by Matt Wagers and myself! It's humbling to be included in the OECS, we hope you enjoy :) oecs.mit.edu/pub/mn7mjhx9...

🚨Our Brain & AI team at Meta opens a new contingent worker position in US (or UK). If you have solid Python experience and/or a background in neuroimaging, you can apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I had a lovely time chatting with @teresaschubert.bsky.social of @natrevpsychol.nature.com about my experience transitioning from a career as an academic research scientist to an industry data scientist. Gift link below 🧪🧠👨🏾‍🔬 #science #psychsky #neuroskyence #SciFri cc: @blackinneuro.bsky.social

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us! PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... (please share widely)

Tomorrow morning (May 18, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm) I will be presenting my poster with Marisa Carrasco @vssmtg.bsky.social at Pavilion Endogenous attention enhances contrast sensitivity similarly around cardinal meridians despite differential adaptation effects! #VSS2025

I'm very pleased to share our latest study: ‘Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain’, by L Evanson, P Bourdillon et al: - Paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub... - Blog: ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fa... - Thread below 👇

Excited to dig into this, from @jeanremiking.bsky.social 's group. Compares neural representations of language across age. The stimulus? Le Petit Prince. ai.meta.com/research/pub...

Can you use the literature to estimate developmental changes in key cognitive and linguistic abilities? Spoiler: maybe not!

The uncorrected proof of my latest paper is now out at @jocn.bsky.social ! The manuscript significantly benefited from the comments & suggestions from the reviewers. :) direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

New preprint + toolbox! BrainTRACE is a MATLAB tool for localizing intraOp ECoG electrodes. It was designed for brain tumor patients, but appropriate for all ECoG implants. github.com/dbrang/Brain... www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

A new preprint by myself! I drafted a journal club article arguing that intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are responsible for more than just non-image-forming functions osf.io/preprints/os...

New preprint ✨ w/ @olafhauk.bsky.social and Matt Lambon Ralph @mrccbu.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @gatescambridge.bsky.social The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) seems crucial for both semantic memory and semantic composition. How to make sense of this neuroanatomical alignment? 🧠 🧵

Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...

Ancient proteomic analysis of a mandible from Taiwan show it was from a Denisovan, a hominin lineage first discovered via genomics & with only a few fossils. Confirms prior predictions of group’s widespread occurrence, including in warmer climates. Exciting work from @fridowelker.bsky.social & co!🧪

Attention PhD grads looking for research and teaching jobs! Barnard College in NYC is hiring "Faculty Fellows." It's a 2-year mentored position that requires 2 courses/year (or equivalent) and research in one of our labs. Due April 20th. More info: barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Faculty/job/...

I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739

Lau, E. (2025). How single-neuron computation matters for cognitive neuroscience. JoCN Forum. jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/vhhe4nh9

This paper w/ additional analyses and content (thanks to the extremely helpful comments of reviewers 😀) is now accepted at Visual Cognition! Published version coming soon...

New preprint from the lab: Aakash Agrawal and I use 7T fMRI and MEG to dissect the cortical stages of invariant word recognition and test our recent theoretical proposal of an ordinal letter code in the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you’re at #CNS2025, come check out our work on speech planning (poster C165) this Sunday!

Just presented our work using #ECoG to decode words during sentence production at #HSP2025. Really grateful for all the great feedback. I got more clever ideas for future directions than I can possibly follow up on. Love this conference! doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Finally a new textbook for theoretical neuroscience. Xiao-Jing Wang wrote a nice book with very broad coverage of the field. Highly recommend. www.amazon.com/Theoretical-...

Our new preprint ‘Preferred spatial frequency covaries with cortical magnification in human primary visual cortex' is now online. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...