🎧 OHBM Podcast Neurosalience — S6, Ep 3 is out now!
Philosophy, deep sampling & the advancing tide of AI
Host Peter Bandettini talks with Kendrick Kay on how AI is shaping neuroscience.
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Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...

Paper by @frosas.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition? - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Both localized and distributed views on the functional organization of the brain have been put forward. In this Perspective, Rosen and Freedman examine the degree to which these two views account for ...

As we chase whole-brain signatures of cognition with fMRI, this fascinating perspective argues that cognitive signals are broadly distributed...but far from everywhere! For those of us using whole-brain neuroimaging lots to think about..
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neurosalience #S6E1 - Highlights of season 5 and looking ahead to season 6 YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping

We're kicking off Season 6 (!!) of #Neurosalience!

This week, we have a chat between Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social our new podcast team lead Xuqian Michelle Li, looking back at the past season, as well as preview what's to come!

YouTube: youtu.be/qFcqCkNWTUE
Spotify: bit.ly/4qCiaZ4

One of the more provocative and important articles I've read in a while: A call for a "map" of neuroscience understanding and relationships between domains. apertureneuro.org/article/1388...

Neurosalience #S6E1 - Highlights of season 5 and looking ahead to season 6 YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping

A new season of OHBM Neurosalience has started. Here's our kickoff episode where I talk with Lead Producer, Michelle Li about highlights from the past season, reaching our 100th episode, the controversial DIANA paper from last year, and what to expect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcq...

Alam et al. develop a canonical time-series feature set for characterizing biologically informative dynamical patterns in fMRI: doi.org/10.52294/001...

@bendfulcher.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Advancing neural decoding with deep learning - Nature Computational Science A recent study introduces a neural code conversion method that aligns brain activity across individuals without shared stimuli, using deep neural network-derived features to match stimulus content.

Excited to share our News&Views on Kamitani Lab's NatComputSci paper! Their neural code converter enables transformation of brain activity patterns across individuals, and it doesn't need shared stimuli or connectivity information!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Neurosalience #S5E15 [Season Final] - OHBM 2025 Live Podcast YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Wrapping up our fifth season of OHBM Neurosalience with a live audience podcast at OHBM discussing diverse academic experiences from graduate student to professor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCEo...

All of these measures are opportunities to further inform analyses of the fMRI signal.

Merchant et al. perform a meta-analytic investigation of neurocognitive systems involved in real-time social interaction doi.org/10.52294/001...

@fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Thanks @fmri-today.bsky.social for the interview! I really enjoyed sharing my work on your podcast.

Neurosalience #S5E14 with Rosanna Olsen - The hippocampus, aging, memory, and discovery YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping

A new #Neurosalience episode is out! 🧠

The hippocampus, aging, memory and discovery
with Rosanna Olsen and Peter Bandettini
@rosannaolsen.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social

youtu.be/cvPjImt9iv8

It was an honor to be asked to share my thoughts on this! Here's my entire powerpoint for those interested. docs.google.com/presentation...

Thanks for sharing this slide! Here is the ppt of my entire talk if anyone is interested. It was fun to present something different at OHBM! docs.google.com/presentation...

If you want to add something fun to your experience at OHBM in Brisbane, take part in this competition! All invited! We are judging more on the skill in presenting and communicating and less on the content.

Zhang and Tremblay investigate age-related changes in resting-state functional connectivity among amateur singers, instrumentalists, and active controls: doi.org/10.52294/001...

@fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Enabling Optical Analog Computing with Metamaterials The manipulation of light with structured materials could allow mathematical operations to be performed with compact optics. [Also see Report by Silva et al.]

Analog computing with waves works—and it's vastly more energy-efficient than digital. Here, it's done with light, but all waves apply. Biology exploits useful things. Our brains constantly generate electric field waves.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm pleased to report that the board has now heard from NIH that the appointments of these three investigators and similarly situated folks are being extended. Thank you NIH! Delighted that the stellar work there will be continuing!

Thanks @sadaghiani.bsky.social! I really enjoyed this conversation! The novel insights and promising directions discussed here were particularly exciting!

Early Bird Registration by 15 March
USD $595 inc welcome drinks, 2 day meeting, accommodation + ferry ride between Brisbane & the island

BCW have a unique format, featuring short presentations (15 minutes, 3 slides) then 45 minutes of discussion

brain-connectivity-workshop.org/bsw/zwei/bcw

Virtual registration is now open for the Whistler Workshop. Can't make it there in person, but still want the science - signup here: web.cvent.com/event/34b0c2...

Thank you to my collaborators for making this study possible! A great example of the power of teamwork in cognitive neuroscience research. @Victoria Gobo, @Shruti Japee @elimerriam.bsky.social @Benjamin Osborne @fmri-today.bsky.social @Tina Liu

Would love to hear your thoughts or questions!

Thanks Ravi! It really was special to be able to have this conversation with him. Thanks for getting us in touch! My questions start from a sincere curiosity and respect for the guests' stories as well as their ideas and contributions - and the context from which they emerged.

To help you expand your brain mapping network here on Bluesky, we have initialized an OHBM Neurosalience Podcast starter pack! 🧠🦋 Please feel free to comment if we've missed you or others out.

Listen to the Neurosalience podcast here: open.spotify.com/show/1d5umtP...

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Cross-ethnicity/race generalization failure of behavioral prediction from resting-state functional connectivity fMRI-based machine learning models predict behavioral measures biasedly against African Americans.

The is particularly true in the area of precision medicine, where models trained in homogeneous populations largely fail to generalize to diverse samples. Eg work by @bttyeo.bsky.social and others. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The brain’s action-mode network - Nature Reviews Neuroscience The brain enters an action-mode of function during goal-directed behaviour. In this Perspective, Dosenbach, Raiche and Gordon describe “action-mode” as an informative functional label that reduce...

The brain’s action-mode network — a Perspective by Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Marcus E. Raichle & Evan M. Gordon
@ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This paper is an excellent reminder that the brain works across space and time and that we can appreciate both, even with fMRI data.

Good observation. Of course they are not precisely the same, and the subtle differences may have significance in some contexts.

Voets et al. outline best practice recommendations from the OHBM Working Group on clinical language fMRI mapping: doi.org/10.52294/001...

@cyrilrpernet.bsky.social @lindadouw.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social