Agreed. It could stem from the fear of maths in students who opt for psychology or biology as a major. Those comfortable with math may incline towards more quant-heavy fields. We need both.

Current status.

Video link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xtr3w3WXhs

She along with her colleagues have developed tools like WHATNET that can help compare the networks reported in a study with various atlases. Hopefully the community comes in board with such attempts to make it easier to talk amongst each other.

And compiling literature that brings about these networks together becomes harder still. What Prof. Uddin is trying to do is make it cohesive for the cognitive neuroscience community to have a consistent language to talk amongst each other whenever these networks are concerned.

Having worked in the field of large-scale brain networks for a few years, it was always confusing to see different names used by various groups for similar brain networks. The same network could be called Salience, Ventral Attention or Insula network or something else.

It was exciting to host an online Cognitive and Brain Sciences seminar at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar by @lucinauddin.bsky.social where she talked about her recent efforts to create a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks.

My first first co-author paper! Big thank you to @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social, Joe McGuire, and @profsomers.bsky.social. Cool to take a deeper look at how different WM networks interact at resting state and during WM tasks, and learned a lot of new analysis techniques along the way.

Or maybe just like patents, we renew papers if they still hold valid after every x years.

Hoping for further discussions and collaborations on the central role of thalamus in cognition.

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the contents of consciousness. He demonstrated robust modeling attempts for how the core and matrix nuclei project to the cerebral cortex and able to control the dynamics of the brain from wakefulness to dreams to sleep. Loved the extent of work covered in his talk.

It was great listening to
@macshine.bsky.social
for our online Cognitive and Brain Sciences Seminar
@cogsiitgn.bsky.social. Mac talked about the "Thalamic Contributions to the State and Contents of Consciousness". He talked about the integral role thalamus plays in defining the brain states and

Lots of thanks to David Somers @profsomers.bsky.social and Joseph McGuire for their amazing mentorship.

So glad to see this paper come out. Amazingly led by @tom-poss.bsky.social. Auditory working memory reconfigures task connectivity utilizing more supramodal and visual regions. Had a great time working on this data collection, the task design was challenging but learnt so many things in the process.

Investigating Human Infant Perception & Knowledge with fMRI YouTube video by Integrative Neuroscience & Technology Lab

Here's the video link if you are interested to know more:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvfv...

She developed a new coil and headphones and then studied the development of different brain regions related to various aspects of visual and auditory processing. The students appreciated the depth and extent of the work.

Infants are particularly hard to study using fMRI, which allows for an unprecedented look into the functioning of the brain. MRI is noisy, and not super comfortable for infants who tend to move a lot, thus need for better tools.

It was a pleasure hosting @kosakowski.bsky.social for the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Seminar at IIT Gandhinagar. Heather talked about her pioneering work on studying perception and development in infants using fMRI.

He highlighted the key aspects of studying aging, the limitations of developing brain age prediction tools, as it is aging that we are keen on studying and not only the age of an individual (which can always be asked). It was a brilliant talk and lovely interaction.

Max talked about his recent paper in Nature Aging on DunedinPACNI: a method to understand brain age and aging, and how they used the Dunedin dataset to create this useful tool to understand how people age.

DunedinPACNI: A Next Generation Brain Clock to Assess Brain Aging YouTube video by Integrative Neuroscience & Technology Lab

We had the privilege of hosting @maxwellelliott.bsky.social for the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Seminar yesterday. Max is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, and we worked together as Postdocs at Harvard.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_D7...

It was fun going through talks across such broad areas at intersection of biology and AI. Excited about the development of the field in the country.

Another NeuroAI Conclave was organized at IIT Gandhinagar by Sharad and Ashutosh. I presented my work on use of AI models to make predictive models of fMRI based FC to predict function in healthy individuals, tumor patients and predicting tau/amyloid in AD.

I talked about the recent advancements in NeuroAI that we are starting to work on from developing better learning rules for ANNs, finding representation similarities between human and animal vision models to developing hybrid SNNs and CNN models for optimized object detection.

So glad to see the activity around NeuroAI happening in Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar area. First, I had a lovely discussion at Ahmedabad University's NeuroAI symposium. Thanks Rupesh Chillale for inviting me. It was lovely meeting Shihab Shamma after about 10 years.

Met with amazing scientists Neeraj Kumar and Rahul Kumar as well, and discussed potential areas of collaboration.

IIT Hyderabad: Also had a great time playing for the IIT Gandhinagar TT team at the Inter IIT sports meet. Even though we didn't go further in the tournament, the women's TT & men's badminton team did such a great job, was glad to support them.

I had a great time sharing the stage with Profs. Rahul Garg and Vignesh Muralidharan discussing the psychometric, neuroimaging, and genomic-level understanding of meditative processes in the brain and body.

INCOFYRA 2026: Organized by SVYASA in Bengaluru, a beautiful campus dedicated to research and teaching the art and science of Yogic practices. I discussed some of our findings related to the neuroscience of meditation and yogic processes.

Link for the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?t=26460