To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides:
gershmanlab.com/lectures.html
I'll continue to update these as I improve them.
What makes adaptive decision-making possible?
New preprint connecting cognitive, social, biological, and computational views! w/ Dorst, FeldmanHall, @smfleming.bsky.social, @catehartley.bsky.social, Gottlieb, Lejarraga, Müller-Trede, @angelaradulescu.bsky.social, and Rosati
osf.io/preprints/ps...
New 🦍 💭 paper in @psychscience.bsky.social
We continue to ask simple questions that are hard to answer
"Individual Differences in Great Ape Cognition Across Time and Domains: Stability, Structure, and Predictability"
Bonus: Rasch models in the supplement 🤓
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Going from neural activity to blood flow just became easier! Two brainwide populations, each with its neurovascular coupling. (But going backwards... is now a tad more complicated.)
By @agnesland.bsky.social & team.
Thanks @intlbrainlab.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org
We are recruiting!
My lab at the University of Haifa is looking for new team members to join our research on the links between sensory perception (focus on #smell and human #olfaction) and human memory.
Please help me spread the word
#newPI #academia #neurostuff
Introducing...the PMADS Study!! Check out our preprint and below thread describing our multimodal study protocol integrating MRIs at 3T and 7T, biofluid collection, and clinical and cognitive assessments to characterize risk for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Congrats @noemirubau.bsky.social!
Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain — a Perspective by Lisa Feldman Barrett & Earl K. Miller
@lisafeldmanbarrett.com @earlkmiller.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our paper finding that infants infer helpers’ relationships, and not their dispositions, is now out in PNAS! Sharing in case anyone needs something to read on the way home from #CDS2026 ;)
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
New paper from our group out in @pnas.org! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... Big thank you to coauthors @vosstacular.bsky.social and @anikka-jordan.bsky.social. Anikka spearheaded this project during her time as an RA and is now a grad student at Yale.
Another new one from the lab in J Neurosci:
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Evidence accumulation is a core principle by which brains convert information into decisions. But what happens when the evidence the brain needs can't be directly read from an external stimulus or memory? 1/N
Can we really measure replay in humans using MEG with current methods? In our most recent paper we simulated replay under realistic conditions via a novel hybrid approach with astonishing results.
we're delighted that it has now been published @elife.bsky.social!
elifesciences.org/articles/108...
What are the downstream implications of censoring high motion volumes in fMRI? Two new preprints find that aggressive censoring leads to noisier FC, more attenuated and variable BWAS, and worse personalized TMS targets.
arxiv.org/html/2603.07...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New paper from the Neural Computation Group: "A theory of subicular function and generalized vector coding." by @ffeiwang.bsky.social. Link to preprint and a quick overview in Fei's short thread.
Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social
Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro!
(1/2)
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Zhishun Wang, Jack Grinband, et al:
MEPrep: A robust pipeline for multi-echo fMRI denoising and preprocessing
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Replicability of representational similarity and its role in
successful memory retrieval
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
New book on navigation (open access). The result of the Ernst Strüngemann Forum 2024. Was great to be there and discuss for a week with 50+ wonderful colleagues. Many thanks to the organizers, Julia Lupp + ESF team, the editors
@noranewcombe.bsky.social, Ken Cheng
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow as part of a recently funded R01 on memory and dementia. Please circulate widely:
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
🧠 Focused ultrasound changes emotional processing 🔊
In a new study published in Neuron today, we stimulated the human amygdala using transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) and show it plays a causal role in detecting and resolving emotional ambiguity.
New paper out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social 🎉
What determines contextual modulation in V1? Why does the visual surround sometimes facilitate and sometimes suppress a neuron's response to its preferred stimulus?
📢 PhD position in the @cognition-zurich.bsky.social at University of Zurich
I’ve been part of the lab for 7+ years, and it’s a genuinely collaborative and supportive place to grow as a researcher and do research on working memory and cognition 👇
My (very) short piece on how prenatal experience with the mother's voice may rapidly scaffold the development of face perception in newborn infants is now out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com !
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
What does it mean for culture to “shape” cognition?
In our new TiCS paper, @benjaminpitt.bsky.social & I offer a typology of four possible effects: culture
can Privilege one cognitive process over others, Prune out disfavored ones, Produce new ones, or have no effect.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
I've seen a lot of demoralized posts (and emails) from people who didn't get into grad school this cycle.
This was one of the worst cycles I've ever seen due to massive cuts to research funding, financial difficulties at universities, and technological disruptions.
📄 We introduce a computational-linguistic framework to probe memory in 32
individuals with hippocampal amnesia. CA2/3 sustains lifespan episodic memory, with CA1 only supporting recent remembering. Local (not global) narrative coherence mediates episodic detail loss. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New paper! 🚨 ~1.8K Mooney images from THINGS + ~1K participants to study visual ambiguity resolution.
Results suggest the visual system shifts from a top-down guess to bottom-up matching after disambiguation, and a U-shaped link between info gain and identification.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
