So excited and proud to share this project that was a major group effort!
We show that, despite having lower acuity and no fovea as compared to primates, tree shrews have the ability to consistently identify objects across identity-preserving transformations.
Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.
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Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans.
By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social
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Huge thanks to my wonderful mentor @mikearcaro.bsky.social and co-authors Marcelina, Sabine, and Marge for their support!
Excited to share my first first-author paper out now in PNAS! By comparing retinotopically-defined visual areas in macaques and humans, we found that evolutionary expansion is reflected in the size, not number, of visual areas. #neuroskyence #neuroscience
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New paper out! Memory for object features is warped according to their role in a category, w/ features shared across category-mates misremembered as more similar. We explored the phenomenon in our NN model of the hipp. w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social & @codydong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/opmi...
Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social for highlighting my soon-to-open lab!
My lab will explore the neural and computational mechanisms that support perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood.
And, yes, the first piece of 'equipment' bought for the lab was a nintendo switch :)
Added you!
We have collected Penn Neuroscience faculty, students, staff, and alumni into a starter pack! Give these awesome neuroscientists a follow and let us know if you want to be added to the list.
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#neuroskyence
Done!
Interesting! I’ve never heard of people having an issue with it, I tend to think of all researchers as being in training in some sense, but particularly those of us who are not yet running our own labs :) thanks for the perspective though!
Of course! Thinking mainly grad students and postdocs 😊
Done!
Please share, would love to add more people to this! #neuroscience #neuroskyence #compneuro
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Loving the starter packs and would love to put one together full of #compneuro trainees on here! Please share and comment if you want to be added or tag your trainees and I’ll put one together😊 #neuroscience #neuroskyence
New preprint! We use real-time TMR to show that sleep reactivation transforms object memories, enhancing certain features at the expense of others. W/ Sindhuja Uppuluri, Jianing Mu, @marlietandoc.bsky.social @jameswardantony.bsky.social @annaschapiro.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.14.571683
Now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience!
Here we examined the degree to which dorsal and ventral visual pathways can functionally reorganize after children have half of their brain surgically removed (!!)
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#cogsci #devpsy #neuroscience
If you’d like to learn how suboptimal decision-making, choice variability, and individual differences can all reflect information-efficient inference, come to my poster at UU22 tomorrow, Monday morning from 8 am - 12 noon! #SfN23
If you're at SfN and interested in memory reactivation during sleep, come check out my talk on Sunday morning! (8:45am, WCC 150) Part of an awesome nanosymposium on learning and memory led by @emilycowan.bsky.social #SfN23 #neuroskyence
Come by my poster Sunday morning at #SfN titled "Investigating the capacity for tree shrew high-level vision"! Poster no. X1 #neuroskyence