Job alert! Here’s a great opportunity to start a research program #NIH as a staff scientist (FTE), w/ pot’l to convert to tenure track. Candidates proposing *any* form of research w/ relevance to clinical populations & vision will be considered. nei.nih.gov/jobs/Sensorimo…

My paper with Spencer Andrews Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam and Chris Baker is out in Cerebral Cortex! TL;DR food-selectivity is not a (new) form of "category-selectivity". Rather, food images recruit neural regions associated with action planning and understanding. academic.oup.com/cercor/article…

(1/2) NIMH's Office of Fellowship Training is launching the new NIMH Cohort Program for Advancing Scientific Excellence (CPASE) for prospective postbaccalaureate fellows! Apply between Oct. 1, 2024–Jan. 13, 2025. Learn more and apply: go.nih.gov/c07YNAj

Competing models of visual mental imagery: Reverse hierarchy or heterarchy? Finally, we have two models - the RHT & HeXaGeN - that can be used to test alternative predictions on the neural bases of conjuring visual mental images at will. Check this out: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thanks to everyone who provided comments and suggestions to help us refining the HeXaGeN model. (@nadine_dijkstra Chris Baker Brian Odegaard @adykstra2000 Merlin Monzel Jianghao Liu Paolo Bartolomeo among many others..) #Onward #Imagination #Heterarchy

📢 Last call!! We are hiring! 📢 Are you a recent PhD recipient (within the last 3 years) interested in high-level vision with experience in multivariate fMRI? If so, email me ([email protected]) asap, to start a joint application to the Portuguese Science Foundation!

Attention neuroimagers 🧠, brain computer interface peeps 🦾, and those that just generally like science 👩‍🔬… Nikole Chetty and I will be presenting our 12ft mega poster (J1/J2) at #SfN24 on Tue, Oct 8 at 8am! Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Synchron RNEL NeuroMechatronics Lab Doug Weber Jen Collinger

Our recent paper just got featured as a research highlight at Nature Neuroscience. Thanks to Etta Howells for covering our work! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Congrats to Max Lichtenfeld, a postbac from NIH/NINDS, for an outstanding #sfn2024 talk on how prior associative semantic knowledge contributes to visual change detection in the medial temporal lobe — a key issue to address for understanding human natural visual cognition.

Pleased to announce an AFNI Bootcamp Oct 28-30. It will be virtual, see here: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/afni-bootcam… This is Part 1 of the typical course. It will cover FMRI visualization and single subject processing, including discussions of alignment, templates, ROIs and quality control.

Looking to improve your #PeerReview skills? The Reviewer Mentor Program pairs trainees with #JNeurosci & #eNeuro editors & top reviewers to conduct strong manuscript reviews. Open to SfN members at any career stage: jneurosci.org/rmp

The human brain leverages multiple codes to efficiently represent information, such as by organizing the relative timing of neuronal firing within a population of neurons. Learn more about this in our upcoming research article in nature!

How is vision and language related in human material perception? New paper from my lab is now out at PLOS Comp Biol. We find verbal descriptions capture material appearance at a coarse level, but precise alignment is still lacking. Chenxi Liao Masataka Sawayama（澤山 正貴） journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

I think my point here has been misunderstood by most commentators. Obviously I agree that ephys is a more direct measure of spiking activity. Let me try to clarify...

NIMH Director search is now open. Country is looking for someone totally devoted to focusing NIH resources on the research that's necessary to develop and test effective treatments for those with mental health disorders. hr.nih.gov/jobs/search/ex…

#GazeReinstatement & #NeuralReactivation may be linked through a common process that reinstates past experiences during #MemoryRetrieval! doi.org/10.1101/2024.1… Check out our #Preprint that integrates #EyeTracking into the Sherlock #fMRI Dataset (Postdoc work w/Chris Baker)!

🧵New preprint with cvnlab, @tnaselar & @tknapen: How does the brain connect vision and touch representations to infuse vision with body-related meaning? TLDR: We found high-level visual cortex is tiled with maps 'multiplexing' vision and touch. tinyurl.com/seesoma 1/n

This one remains a great review and some of you may have missed it. Great work by Hunter Schone et al from 2022 on Phantom limb pain.

"Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex" with Susan Wardle Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam Dwight Kravitz Chris Baker 1/3