Tamara Vanderwal
@headspace_lab
Using movies to study brain responses to complex stimuli @UBC and @BCCHresearch | @vanderlab.bsky.social
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01-11-2016 18:38:36
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Congrats to Ahmad Samara and all of these exceptional trainees! And kudos/thanks to Brain Canada for such a great, practical funding mechanism at an important career stage.
Any psychiatrists interested in serving patients in rural/remote locations (w/ research and infrastructure support, and med students/residents via UBC), there is a tenure-track opportunity in Prince George, BC, Canada...…ychiatry-sandbox2019.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/11/… It's pretty amazing country!
Thoughts on the use of naturalistic conditions to study social development? Sam Wass, Chiara Bulgarelli, Tessa George, Ahmad Samara do! Hear about them in the Flux 2023 symposium led by Chiara Bulgarelli.
Congrats to Hallee Shearer (far right in pic) for successfully defending her Master's thesis on movie-fMRI for FC-based precision psychiatry....Top marks, no revisions, and a great reason for a lab lunch in Vancouver. (-:
Postdoc position as part of a new multisite cohort team! With Catherine Lebel at UCalgary and Anne Wheeler Conrod Venture Lab -- meet us at #flux2023 brayneuroimaginglab.ca/join-us
Check out Lisa Musz's paper on the effect of early visual experience in shaping brain development out in Neuopsychologia! Fantastic to collaborate with Marina Bedny and the team. Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College (TCIN) Trinity College Dublin Johns Hopkins University
Upcoming work driven by Enning Yang + Jakub Kopal !
We show that #NLP can be used on 2-hour movie video/audio to link moment-level #semantic #structure to dynamic neural activity responses
Thanks for the great collabo: Emily Finn Bratislav Misic @milisav Avram Holmes Avram Holmes !!
Multimodal transformers make it possible to transfer fMRI encoding models between language and vision! (though mostly from L->V and not V->L 🤔) New paper from Jerry Tang Meng Du Vy Vo vasudevlal arxiv.org/abs/2305.12248
The west coast-east coast movie gradient is fully operational! Thanks to Hasson Lab and Sam Nastase for the support, and well-deserved congrats to Ahmad Samara. Can't wait to see what this yields...
Our paper on decoding natural language from fMRI is out now in Nature neuroscience: nature.com/articles/s4159…
Pls read Jerry Tang’s excellent blogpost on it(+privacy implications) here: medium.com/Jerry Tang/so…
And here is his explainer video: youtube.com/watch?v=Fj6Z2r…
Just resigned from the editorial board at NI (dm me if you want to know how). This groundswell makes me happy and hopeful...Imaging Neuroscience EiC
Are you interested in learning how to predict individualized topographies using naturalistic stimuli without localizers? I will present 'Cross-movie Prediction of Individualized Functional Topography' at CNS 2024 Annual Meeting CNS News on Monday, March 27 (Poster E83). Welcome! #CNS2023