In the spirit of sharing good news, I joined Dilks Lab as a postdoc this week! So excited to study and learn about how the kids' brain develops and changes!

Glad to feature Ryan Gosling in my first, first-author paper. Thank you to my mentor & collaborator Morris Moscovitch 😊 authors.elsevier.com/a/1dgK06TBFsXKX

Massage stones help scientists uncover role of prefrontal cortex in sensory perception, according to a new U of T Arts & Science study #UofT 🧠 uoft.me/71j

New paper! We find that combinations of contour features act as cues to relative safety or danger in scenes. Scenes with long horizontal flat lines are judged as positive and safe, while those containing short sharp lines are threatening. Read it here: rdcu.be/cyGED

Cool study by amazing Claudia Damiano Dirk Bernhardt-Walther is on Bluesky Wil Cunningham 🙌

Please RT! I am thrilled to announce that I am recruiting PhD students this application cycle to begin Sept. '22 at University of Toronto . Students interested in studying episodic memory, brain networks, and event cognition please consider applying! deadline Dec 1

Do different kinds of representations support the learning of generalized and specific knowledge? Check out my poster at #SfN2021 w/ Dr. Anna Schapiro where we use distortions in color memory to examine how such representations change with category learning youtube.com/watch?v=GUU7jg…

So glad to see this out! :)

Super creative work by this dream team spearheaded by the talented @MortezaRezanej1 at British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). An algorithmically straightforward way of computing good continuation in real-world scenes. Watch out for Morteza on the job market!

Memories of similar events sometimes cooperate to strengthen each other, but sometimes they compete. Why? Stability (vs variability) in spatial contexts can promote memory integration and strengthening — unless context is reinstated at memory retrieval. pnas.org/content/118/48…

Looking forward to this! 🙌

Need a new skill for the New Year? Try our #MachineLearning Workshop with Dirk Bernhardt-Walther is on Bluesky, a physicist, computer scientist, and Psychology professor doing awesome research on neural mechanisms of perception here at UofT! 🙌 Don't miss it! Register today at bit.ly/3EeEONP

Parallel contours are important for scene perception. Scenes are more clearly represented in PPA if they have more parallel contours. The parallelism signal seems to originate in V4. Meticulous work by John Wilder, @MortezaRezanej1 et al. out in PLOS One. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Happy to share this paper where we review behavioural and neuroimaging evidence suggesting that older adults store too much information in their memories, relative to young adults. These memory representations can be viewed as "cluttered" or "enriched" depending on the context.

Hiring!✨A full-time research specialist/lab manager in my new lab, The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment (LUMeN) Lab, at Emory starting this summer/fall! More details in photo below & link to apply in 🧵 - please share!

This should be so cool, plz check it out if you’re at Flux #Flux2022

Great opportunity! happy to chat w/ anyone who has questions about the lab or uoft! :)

Congrats Annie Cheng and Ray for their cool new paper! Check out their paper to see what about a visual scene makes it a scene, not an object!