New paper in Imaging Neuroscience The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social by Jixing Li, Marco Lai and Liina Pylkkänen: Semantic composition in experimental and naturalistic paradigms doi.org/10.1162/imag_a…

Led by Satoka Fujimoto and with Brian Russ and Helen Mayberg, MD our first paper on the effects of deep brain stimulation in the brain. What’s exciting is that we find it induces white matter remodeling in specific tracts. Friedman Brain Institute biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Keep your glass of milk close but keep your cookies closer. 🍪🥛

Hard launched the lab website today! 🤩 check it out! I’m recruiting!!! provenza-lab.com

Grateful to be an audio editor for these interviews to champion women’s experiences in neuroscience! I really enjoyed Bing Wen Brunton episode, #99 for her sincere and candid conversation!

This was my 1st time leading a #GRC Power Hour & it was AMAZING! I didnt know it could be this good!!! Maybe its the #favoritismfairy in me, but Shansky Lab is an absolute #genius for bringing in a dedicated human w/ experience in #JEDI to transform the power hour! #blackinneuro

Poor physical health is associated with depression. Yes, we know. But how so? Our new study Nature Mental Health reveals integrated pathways that explain the interplay between brain, body, lifestyle and their collective influence on mental health. nature.com/articles/s4422… 🧵1/7

I strongly believe in transparency in PhD admissions, especially in the face of changing guidelines about how we select students. So, Tari Tan, PhD (she/her) Veronica G Martinez Acosta Michelle Tomaszycki and I wrote this paper for Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience to expose the hidden curriculum. 🔦 funjournal.org/wp-content/upl…

My paper on how top down predictions enable increased pattern separation and invariance in the monkey face patch system is finally out in Nature Communications rdcu.be/dRCg9 ! I was particularly impressed & amazed by the extent of flexibility even the visual cortex can exhibit!

Accepted at PNAS! 📣🎉 PNASNews 'Leader-follower dynamics during early social interactions matter for infant word learning' - by Louise Goupil, with Isabelle Dautriche Isabelle Dautriche and Ira Marriott Haresign osf.io/preprints/psya…

I have given this a lot of thought- I think it’s state matching- and actually not all that surprising that when we are socially communicating and matching each other moods (eg you tell a funny joke and we both laugh) that our physiological patterns and neural activity are similar

We recently published a commentary on a review paper by Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦, Anna Ivanova, and Tamar Regev and I wanted to expand on one of the points raised in their reply to us about functionally defining language cortex. nature.com/articles/s4158… Thread🧵:

It's finally out, on Joe's last day in the lab before heading off to postdoc! We asked whether a putative "social" brain area does anything unique with social cues when they're not used for any social reasoning. Turns out it does! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Curious about human brain development through an animal model? 🧠🐒Check out our new preprint on Brain Charts of the Rhesus Macaque Lifespan! We've mapped normative trajectories for macaque brains using 1.5k MRI scans from PRIME-DE and collaborators! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nature Communications A concentration of visual cortex-like neurons in prefrontal cortex nature.com/articles/s4146…

The big mixup: Neural representation during natural modes of primate visual behavior doi.org/10.1016/j.conb… #neuroscience

Happy to see this one out ! Full follow up paper coming soon 😎 To understand consciousness one must look at the body in relation to other bodies (not just inside the brain alone) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A student asked me a question: I am sometimes told that it is “easier” for me in STEM as a student from an UR background because of all the grants available to me. How do I respond to this? I wanted to expand on my answer a bit here…

How does the brain bind action to value? How does it navigate a tradeoff between this binding and generalization to novel situations? Out today in Nature Neuro! rdcu.be/dUbMd Justin Fine Neuro Polarbear Becket Ebitz Seng Bum Michael Yoo See original 🧵 + updates below