By insisting that every brain-behavior association study include hundreds or even thousands of participants, we risk stifling innovation. Smaller studies are essential to test new scanning paradigms. By Emily S. Finn thetransmitter.org/future-of-fmri…

I am very excited to share that our paper has now been published in nature. We describe a single-cell correlate of theta-gamma phase amplitude coupling and show how these cells are involved in the cognitive control of working memory storage processes. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Very excited to see our review of relational inductive biases in neural networks out now in TICS x.com/TrendsCognSci/… see below for thread:

Amazing opportunity!! Go join her lab 🤩

Now online at Nature Mental Health ✨✨ Leveraging a computational psychiatry approach, we found that #autism-related traits are specifically associated with reduced observational learning through reduced goal emulation. nature.com/articles/s4422…

Hopeful parenting is successful parenting. New meta-study: We often focus on protecting kids from a dangerous world, but parents who instead pursue positive goals are more connected, less stressed, and more constructive with their children. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

A few postdocs asked me to read over their job applications. Here’s a few bits of advice: 🧵 /10 1. If any advice doesn’t ring true for you, discard it (including this!) 2. People on the search committee are keen to welcome a colleague, they aren’t looking to take you down

It's graduate recruitment season! 8 labs in the developmental area UC Riverside are recruiting Psychology PhD students for Fall 2025. More info: tinyurl.com/mudc9pcb

I will be recruiting 💫two PhD students💫 for my new lab! (computational learning & memory applied to individual & interactive behavior, rouhanilab.com). Feel free to e-mail if interested and catch me at SfN! (poster 06 at 1 PM on Wed 10/09)

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

Special Focus recognizing the outsized influence on memory research of Sarah DuBrow doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a…

Just published in nature! Research by Google DeepMind including Nobel Laureate Demis Hassabis introduces a novel technique for reliably identifying LLM-generated content. At its core, this approach subtly alters the next-token sampling process to introduce minor adjustments

This is finally out, after so many years in the making! 🥹🥹 We have a new paper out in PNAS today! "Aligning the smiles of dating dyads causally increases attraction" ❤️ PNASNews A thread... 🧵🧵

🌟New preprint with Lynn Sörensen and James DiCarlo When animals learn new object discrimination tasks, how much does their IT cortex change? In their untrained state, animals can still see objects but can’t attach labels—so we don’t expect the ventral stream to fully

the air quality in LA is going to be terrible over the next few days due to the fires. prolonged exposure to wildfire smoke can increase the risk of respiratory issues, heart problems, and may even contribute to cognitive decline. here’s how to protect yourself 🧵

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, Chaz Firestone & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Very proud to share our ICLR 2026 paper: TopoNets! High-performing vision and language models with brain-like topography! Expertly led by grad student mayukh09 and Mainak Deb! A brief thread..

This year my lab is hosting undergraduates for the SURFiN program. If you want to come over to York University Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience Centre for Vision Research in Toronto and work on a Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative funded project on using brain-inspired AI for autism research please apply! simonsfoundation.org/grant/shenoy-u…

"autistic adults are not impaired relative to non-autistic participants in their ability to transfer information accurately" nature.com/articles/s4156… Minus 'neurotypes' & 40 participants 'self-identified' (but were tested for autistic traits) important findings for some autisms...

What shapes the topography of high-level visual cortex? Excited to share a new pre-print addressing this question with connectivity-constrained interactive topographic networks, titled "Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision", w/ Marlene Behrmann & David Plaut. 🧵 ↓ 1/n