I am incredibly proud to share my first, first-author paper as a postdoc with @benhayden.bsky.social . How does the human hippocampus, known for encoding concepts, represent the meanings of words while listening to narrative speech? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out now in Nature Comms. To learn a new word, we need to remember it. We track factors driving memory of novel words, showing which words we remember or forget is predictable across people, and isolate a distinct region of fusiform cortex sensitive to this memorability. 🧠📈 #VisionScience 🧠💬 🧵👇

Our new preprint is up now, wherein we directly record from a relatively large population of single neurons in human insula, as well as primary auditory cortex, while intracranial participants passively listen to simple sounds (tones/clicks). doi.org/10.1101/2025... (1/5) 🧠📈🧵👇

New results! Despite their varied molecular actions, anesthetics alter brain wave alignment in the same way. Convergent effects of different anesthetics are due to changes in phase alignment of cortical oscillations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience

Our new paper on tinnitus and the hippocampus is out now in Human Brain Mapping: doi.org/10.1002/hbm.... The TL;DR is that we are highlighting a role for the hippocampus that focuses on sustaining the memory of a phantom percept, based on current literature. 1/4 🧠📈 #PsychSciSky

Our study examining intracranial responses to vocoded speech, relevant to cochlear implants, is out now ( www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... ), led by Kirill Nourski & Mitch Steinschneider. Some very interesting dorsal/ventral stream differences dependent on task performance.

I'll be presenting the poster below at APAN this afternoon and SfN on Tuesday afternoon, based on the intracranial local field potential and unit data we collect at Iowa. Come and say hi! Thank you to my lovely colleagues and our patients 🧠🟦

Our work on decoding speech using high-density micro-scale recordings was published today in Nature Communications! We demonstrate the potential of high-spatial sampling technology for future neural speech prostheses. nature.com/articles/s4146… The thread below outlines our main findings.

Have you heard that PLOS Mental Health is now open for submissions? Learn more about this new global, multidisciplinary #OpenAccess journal: plos.io/MHOpen

We publish today with @alexwiesman.bsky.social in Progress in Neurobiology another advance in the fight against Parkinson’s disease. Slowing of 🧠 activity is not systematically an adverse effect of pathology: it can also be a sign of compensatory activity that preserves cognitive functions.

Are you a neuroscientist who recently joined Blue Sky? Don't forget to like and pin #neuroskyence, the largest channel for all things brain-science related! You can post with #neuroskyence or 🧠🟦 ! #psychscisky 🧪 #academicsky bsky.app/profile/did:...

Two new misophonia papers from our group. First (bit.ly/mismi), led by Paris Ash and Sukhbinder Kumar examines the incidence of mimicry in misophonia. The second (bit.ly/SocMi, preprint) presents misophonia within a social cognitive framework (1/6)🧵in comments #Psychology #PsychSci 🧠🟦

Come join the lab! I'll be at SfN if you want to chat about the cool things we're up to or about the position.

Our new paper is out now in Nature Communications, highlighting what happens in the brain during a semantic context task when you disconnect the anterior temporal lobe: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈

My colleague Phil Gander and I are looking to hire a postdoc for collaborative misophonia research in Iowa. We're keen for people who are interested and experienced in fMRI/EEG analyses, with the opportunity to learn analyses of human intracranial data: jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view... #neuroskyence

Hi Bluesky peeps, a brief introduction - I'm a neuroscientist working with amazing intracranial patients in Iowa, recording single neurons and local field potentials, mainly to understand aspects of auditory cognition and pathological auditory processing #neuroskyence #introduction