How does the infant brain process faces? I will present results from awake infant fMRI data that took 4 years to collect. #cogsci2020 4th track9 14:20. Work w/ Rebecca Saxe KanwisherLab Michael Cohen spoiler alert: as potential social partners, not only visual patterns

Time to announce the exciting news that I will start my own lab at Giessen University in the fall 2020! If you're interested in cognitive computational neuroscience and want to pursue a PhD or Postdoc in a thriving university town at the center of Germany, please get in touch!

Check out our new preprint, "A network linking perception and memory systems in posterior cerebral cortex". We show that scene perception and place memory are subserved by two distinct, but overlapping, functional networks in posterior cerebral cortex.

A new study from Marius Peelen’s lab with N=72 (!!) beautifully replicates our 2013 paper (web.mit.edu/bcs/nklab/medi…) showing a causal double dissociation between OPA, which is engaged in scene recognition, versus LOC, which is engaged in object recognition. Yay replications!

The @svrhm2020 workshop at NeurIPS Conference was renewed again this year! We'll be accepting papers soon. Organized by Arturo Deza @joshuacpeterson, Apurva Ratan Murty, & Tom Griffiths (Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab). Grace Lindsay SP Arun Tim Kietzmann Bria Long, PhD Martin Hebart Gamaleldin Elsayed Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social

New paper from the Kanwisher lab about the development of face selective regions in congenitally blind individuals by Apurva Ratan Murty and colleauges

What guides our attention during active vision in 360° degree scenes? Check out AJ Haskins's new paper using eyetracking + immersive VR w Jeff Mentch and Tommy Botch! nature.com/articles/s4159…

How far will a professor go to show her students how the brain works? I showed this neuroanatomy lesson from Nancy Kanwisher to my students today and they thought it was pretty badass youtube.com/watch?v=PcbSQx…

Do you have a kid with questions about how scientists study the brain? Ask a Scientist! Me, ⁦Heather Lynne Kosakowski⁩ and Brandon Davis Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 1:00 PM eventbrite.com/e/ask-a-scient…

With democracy itself at stake in this election, here are some ideas of what academics can do. Please retweet, adding your own ideas.

Our paper about the brain basis of computer code comprehension is now published in eLife! elifesciences.org/articles/58906

Spread the word. The online application for the MIT postbac program to increase diversity in neuroscience is now open MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT Science #BlackInNeuro Society for Neuroscience (SfN) @NINDSnews Check out program description and eligibility here bcs.mit.edu/academic-progr…

Apply here for the full-time lab tech position in my lab: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie… We use brain, behavior, and computational methods to understand the human mind and brain. This position is a great stepping stone to grad school. Nancy

Check out & open review the CogCompNeuro #CCNGAC proposal “What constitutes understanding of ventral pathway function?” by openreview.net/forum?id=I913S… Charles Connor, Gabriel Kreiman, Carl Craver, Carlos R. Ponce margaret livingstone Martin Schrimpf Binxu Wang 🐱

Psyched to share the first results from a ~7yr journey, from an email I sent to Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] in 2014 about an idea to develop lang(uage) 'localizers' for as many of the world's langs as possible to having fMRI data from native speakers of 45 langs. tinyurl.com/b5xv7e32 1/n

Thrilled to announce that I have received the NIH NEI K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award to continue my work McGovern Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with my awesome mentors Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] and James DiCarlo. Can't wait to share the exciting work in the pipeline.

New paper out in eLife led by Pramod RT/ಪ್ರಮೋದ್ ರಾ ತಾ with Michael Cohen and Josh Tenenbaum! Invariant representation of physical stability in the human brain doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

🔥Preprint Alert🔥 Excited to share some new work modeling human 3D shape perception! “Approaching human 3D shape perception with neurally mappable models” w/ tyler bonnen, Yoni Friedman, Ayush Tewari, Josh Tenenbaum, Vincent Sitzmann, Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] arxiv.org/abs/2308.11300 🧵

We are delighted to announce the newest season of "Mi Ultima Neurona," a Spanish-language neuroscience podcast in which KanwisherLab postbac, Jessica Chomik-Morales, brings conversations with neuroscientists to Spanish speakers around the world. mcgovern.mit.edu/2023/09/18/new…

The amazing Jessica Chomik just launched the third season of her Spanish-language neuroscience podcast Mi Ultima Neurona: Youtube: youtube.com/@miultimaneuro… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4tif9z6zO… Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mi-…