For more than a century, the study of brain lesions has been central to understanding cognitive processes and normal brain function (e.g., Broca’s studies). However, what electrophysiological signatures emerge following a brain lesion?

We dedicate this paper to Jonny Smallwood (1975-2025), who was instrumental in this project from inception to submission. Jonny thank you for your mentorship & you are dearly missed!

Our new paper on brain networks engaged during imagining is out now in Neuron! Here is a download link (free for 50 days): authors.elsevier.com/c/1msNE3BtfH... Congratulations to Nate Anderson for leading this work @rementurus.bsky.social 🧵

Until next fall, Santa Fe. I'll miss you.

Cortical Labs says the stunt points toward a new kind of low-power computing—and perhaps a new way to study neurological drugs

Very mixed feelings about this study. While its results are somewhat consistent with prior animal studies using causal methods, I don’t like that they use prior work as a free pass to skip over functional localization of the tFUS effects.

This is precisely the situation where I believe functional synthetic serum markers could help with interpretation of tFUS results. And where cognitive neuro has to look past novelty-maxxing tFUS results & build direct translational bridges with animal studies (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)

Some argue that prefrontal cortex is just premotor cortex— but how does it relate to actions we make, really? We dug into this in work led by @idavrautio.bsky.social: unlike most of cortex, PFC is weakly connected to motor behavior and operates at longer timescales. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Do you censor high motion frames in fMRI? In two preprints by @twktan.bsky.social @mandymejia.bsky.social, we find that we may be censoring too much! doi.org/10.64898/202... arxiv.org/html/2603.07... Strict censoring leads to worse personalized TMS targets than no censoring, even with high motion!

On the latest episode, @braininspired.bsky.social with @juangallego.bsky.social about the wealth of evidence that supports the view that neural manifolds are real and useful, even if they may not completely solve the age-old mind-body problem. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Me: The R01 human subjects docs are basically just a vibe check, I'll do them closer to the deadline. NIH: laughs in 40 pages of PDFs

Distinct representational properties of cues and contexts shape fear and reversal learning

New preprint!🚨 How do people learn how to search the visual world? Across 3 experiments, @chrisahn.bsky.social and I show that abstract environmental statistics shape visual strategy selection, but asymmetrically. People readily lean into bottom-up salience, but only override it when they have to.

Our latest work looking at the neuroanatomical basis of impulsivity in youth is out now in Molecular Psychiatry!

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience? Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as events become familiar. Slow-timescale structure predicts memory. Excited to share this work w/ Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution.... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The MultiTaskBattery toolbox is live: 20+ implemented tasks, object-oriented design and a battery optimizer built in! Docs: multitaskbattery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Github: github.com/DiedrichsenL... With @carobellum.bsky.social Jinkang Derrick Xiang @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social 🙌

Pycortex, our awesome brain viewer software, has a major new feature! Thanks to the hard work of Dr. Matteo Visconti and Aditya Vaidya, Pycortex now supports headless webgl viewers! You can create 3D inflated plots without needing a display, and in Jupyter notebooks! gallantlab.org/pycortex/aut...

happy to announce the official release of my first R package on CRAN! 🎉 building on the Hmetad toolbox by @smfleming.bsky.social, the hmetad package allows users to fit the meta-d' model of confidence ratings using a familiar brms/lme4-style formula syntax

Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani, Anina N. Rich, and Alexandra Woolgar: Spatiotemporal characterisation of information coding in the multiple demand network doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf

When we acquire multimodal MRI data, they give us complementary views on the same tissue. How can we combine this rich information to improve the specificity of tissue modelling in MRI?

NIH is requesting comments on a new draft policy that may require human brain imaging data (and other data) from nih-funded research to only be shared via controlled access, & only with certain countries. I suggest neuroimagers read closely & submit comments by 3/18. osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...

🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8

“Area 10m is the only common ‘driver’ of both pgACC and sgACC” New connectomic scale understanding of ACC from Daulton Myers and Julie Fudge. #mustread #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

A recent @natneuro.nature.com paper analyzed lesion network mapping and raised concerns about the validity of the method. See below 👇 for our response. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you’re going to Cog Neuro Soc in Vancouver next week please stick around til Tuesday afternoon, our neurodev symposium is going to be 🔥 ! www.cogneurosociety.org/documents/CN...

I couldn't find a tool to plot different #neuroimaging data in one consistent style, so I made one! Meet yabplot (yet another brain plot) - a #Python package for (sub)cortex & tracts.🧠 - Simple API - Built-in atlases - Custom atlas support 🔗 github.com/teanijarv/ya... (drop a ⭐️!)

"Multiple demand" network cognitive control interrogation across humans and macaques. Lateral PFC more functionally heterogeneous in humans than NHPs. Very cool translational work from @markboxf.bsky.social and colleagues! doi.org/10.64898/202...

My alma mater is hiring in behavio_u_ral neuroscience—Waterloo ON is a fine place to live and there are some very clever folks in the Dept, strongly recommend!

The science budgets generally getting passed with steady funding was a big win, but only if the money gets spent...

📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social! Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does? In short, yes!

I already need a change of subjects from politics so here it is, Clingy Dogs. Tony

How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories? We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate! Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!

Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test? In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers. nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Plane about to take off just in time for the third period to start 😆…. Go 🇨🇦 go!!!

Good news - a little less paperwork for some human studies: Planning an NIH Application involving Basic Experimental Studies with Humans (BESH)? | Grants & Funding grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

One community addressing the "species problem" is the Gordon Research Conference on the Frontal Cortex, which intentionally built itself on bridging connections between researchers studying human, NHP, and rodents of all kinds. www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

Very excited to get to share culmination of this large-scale project to understand spatial gene expression in schizophrenia. Really proud of the amazing team work here working out lots of roadblocks to deploy these spatial strategies and analysis methods at scale!

I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred. Apply here: jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/po... Lab website: wessellab.org

Alice in Chains' MTV Unplugged episode is objectively better than Nirvana's. I will be taking no further questions on this matter.

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization