Behaviorally-relevant features of observed actions dominate cortical representational geometry in natural vision available at bioRxiv!

🚨 New paper out with @samnastase.bsky.social and @haxbylab.bsky.social! We use representational similarity analysis to test how well behavioral, semantic, and visual models capture cortical representational geometries when viewing naturalistic action videos: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

a woman with blonde hair is sitting in a red chair with a bottle in her hand . ALT: a woman with blonde hair is sitting in a red chair with a bottle in her hand .

Me remembering that likes here are public

Very pleased to report that my open access article on precision medicine in neurology has finally appeared! Besides "-omics", discussion includes computation, devices, brain simulation (thevirtualbrain.org), and value-based care. Hope you find it useful! Take a look: doi.org/10.1016/j.ar...

Eeee love this photo!!! Thank you!!! ❤️

PS My advisors @slsmall.bsky.social and @thelablab.bsky.social also deserve all the congrats for dealing with my shenanigans through this PhD! 😂 I couldn’t be more thankful for their guidance and support. They’re the BEST.

Annette being hooded at her PhD graduation

Annette, her spouse, and her PhD advisor after graduation

Annette and her mom after graduation

Annette and her family at a celebratory dinner

I’ve been dreaming about today for a long time…

And it was AMAZING!!!! 👩🏻‍🎓🤩

Naturalistic encoding of concepts in the brain

@viktorkewenig.bsky.social shows that, while concepts generally encode habitual experiences, the underlying neurobiological organisation is not fixed but depends dynamically on available contextual information. 👏🍾🐐

elifesciences.org/articles/91522

Assistant / Associate Professor in Computational Neuroscience opening at University of Texas Dallas.
jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/28027

Annette standing in front of a sign that says “Happy Birthday Dr. Annette” and holding balloons of a “D” and a picket fence

Back on BlueSky, with an updated title! 😀

In our new paper out today at Trends in Cognitive Science, @lisik.bsky.social and I argue that social interaction perception is a visual process–computed by the visual system. (1/3)

tinyurl.com/nhh2dhx

#PsychSciSky #CogSci #CogPsyc #compneuro

#KeepKinseyIU chng.it/tFK4fNjRFX

Happy Halloween #neuroskyence

Graph of resting heart rate with a peak on Oct 25

Guess which day I presented my poster at SNL 🫠😅

There are a lot fewer atrociously bad takes on this site compared to Twitter. It’s nice.

Yes I mean politically, but also, I haven’t seen a single Swiftie here calling for Jack Antonoff’s head because they didn’t like the production on 1989 TV

Was wonderful to finally meet you in person!

Had so much fun presenting my research at SNL (Society for the Neurobiology of Language) today! 🤬🎞️🧠😁

Lolllll

Beyond Theory of Mind: A formal framework for social inference and representation
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Fixation-related heart rate perturbation when reading curse words. AOI triggers mark parts of the biopac HR time series delineating heartrate changes while people are visually attending to curse words. Our SNL poster next week.

Nice! 🤬🩺❤️ Glad you’ll (or your lab will) be in Marseille. Looking forward to hearing more about this!

@stancarey.bsky.social How do you think Bluesky is on swearing so far? Do you think they downweight sweary text, or can one fuck about with abandon?

Someday when I’m old and gray I will have given it permission for all the steps I need 🥲

My favorite thing about CONN Toolbox is how it asks me over and over again to give it security permissions, then dies

Trial 1, Step 1: permission please! 💀
Trial 2, Step 1: I got this! Step 2: permission please! 💀
Trial 3, Step 1: all good Step 2: I got this! Step 3: permission please! 💀

if this is really going to be a twitter a replacement, a whole lot of us need to band together and start posting way dumber stuff

Seeing social interactions Seeing the interactions between other people is a critical part of our everyday visual experience, but recognizing the social interactions of others i…

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Seeing social interactions

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cardiogenic control of affective behavioural state - Nature Direct elevation of heart rate using noninvasive optogenetics in mice influences anxiety-like behaviours in specific environmental contexts, and the posterior insular cortex is implicated in this...

Optogenetic 💡 control over mouse heart rate - without surgery (!) - can promote anxiety. Awesome data on the brain-body axis in anxiety, and amazing proof-of-principle that optogenetics can work in intact mammals to study physiology: 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗠𝗥𝗜 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?
Check out the study below by Davide Coraci and collaborators.
Needless to say, very tricky question! :-)
#neuroscience

www.sane-elab.eu/NRIA/welcome...

Compliance training is so fun.

Intro to training: Did you know all things have a magnetic field? Pretty cool huh?

Quiz portion: Do CT machines have a magnetic field?

Guess the answer! 😛

Well, FUCK.

Tacos 🌮 for break fast. Texas is rubbing off on us!