RT @TMR_et_al
Please share this exciting opportunity among your undergrads. Members of underrepresented minorities and women are especially encouraged to apply! https://twitter.com/ucicnlm/status/1599858065297526784
RT @martin_hebart
Our visual world contains 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤, like plants, people, animals, or vehicles. But there is also 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕗𝕗, what these things are made of, like glass, metal, or hair.
But how do we make sense of stuff? How do we structure it in our minds? 🧵 1/n
An examination of over 1 million funding proposals to the National Science Foundation from 1996 to 2019 reveals that white principal investigators are consistently funded at higher rates than most non-white PIs and relative funding rates for white PIs have been increasing. https://elifesciences.org/articles/83071?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_features
RT @ambrafer
And a thoughtful piece by @BattalCeren and @StefaniaMatti10 on how neurovariability in congenital blindness may arise, coupled with interesting ideas on how to address the issue in the future.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/42/47/8755 #connectomics #neurovariability
Please boost:
Today I'll be co-chairing a zoom panel discussion with Fiona Zisch today (6-8pm UK time) on 'Architecture and Mind'. A first launch event between UCL and the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (USA).
We will be discussing research in neuroscience on spatial coding and the challenges in architecture of designing successful buildings and cities.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/events/2022/nov/uclxanfa-architecture-and-mind
All welcome to attend (free) and listen / ask questions.
Want to know what congenital blindness or handlessness can tell us about brain development and plasticity? Or how individual differences in plasticity affect rehabilitation?
To join a #phd in our lab apply by Dec 1st https://neuroscience.georgetown.edu
RT @lauriebayet
🚨 Only 3 days left! Deadline Dec 1! 🚨
Do you want to build #neuroimaging 🧠 & #computational 🤖 skills to research how #babies see, think, & learn 👶? Join us as a #PhD student in Washington DC 🌸!
Opportunity to contribute to #NSF funded… https://fediscience.org/@lauriebayet/109422578983238750
RT @ambrafer
While spoken language probably makes us uniquely human, maybe body language doesn't: macaques seem to read it (not only from conspecifics but also across species). See below 👇
@MPI_NL @Multimodallang https://twitter.com/ScienceAdvances/status/1596911780080525312
RT @dcowiedurham
Registered yet for our first @bodyrepnetwork seminar? Let's make it to nearly 100 on our first seminar!! https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/interacting-components-of-body-perception-registration-463506358997
all wellcome - tell your colleagues, students, friends!!!
RT @fpereira
The Machine Learning Team at NIMH is hiring a research scientist
https://nih-fmrif.github.io/ml/index.html
with an emphasis on deep learning methods for applications in psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry, using brain imaging, text, and other data types. Please RT or forward, thank you!
Pls Boost!
New review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
"From cognitive maps to spatial schemas"
With co-authors:
Delaram Farzanfar, Morris Moscovitch & Shayna Rosenbaum
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00655-9
The annual reminder of avoiding bias in recommendation letters: use the guide, and check yourself http://slowe.github.io/genderbias
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RT @RoxanaDaneshjou
This year, I’ve been putting together reference letters for students. After years involved in residency and medical school selection, I’ve noticed biases in how women are talked about. Since none of us (including myself) are immune, this guide is helpful:
https://twitter.com/RoxanaDaneshjou/status/1595084115560103936
RT @cogscinl
Would there be demand for a cogsci-hosted #Mastodon 🐘 server for the psychology/ neuroscience community? If yes, what would be important for you in terms of content moderation, privacy, sign-up, etc.? And would you be interested in helping out? #psychtwitter 🌟Please RT!🌟 (1/2)
RT @echodislocation
Do you wonder how the #brain derives meaningful information from sensory input, how people use that information to interact with the world, and how we can better understand these phenomena in the absence of #vision? Inquire about a @SKERIResearch #postdoc fellowship in my lab! https://twitter.com/SKERIResearch/status/1594756787622019072
Case studies are important - a timely reminder.
If you want recent examples of how single cases and small-sample size studies can benefit cog neuro research, check out:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neuropsychologia/special-issue/10QJBR0NL0G
(w @MeikeRamon)
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RT @cogscimon
New perspective paper on why single case studies have been, and will continue to be, important for theory development in cognitive science. https://twitter.c…
https://twitter.com/cogscimon/status/1595417574971506689
Slowly figuring out how predictive coding happens in the brain ...
A beautiful piece by @ViolaPriesemann and her team.
Out now in TINS
https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(22)00186-2
the concept of the motor homunculus is dying. After Grazaino ha been desconstructing it, there was a preprint recently
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.26.513940v1 that suggested a totally different organization than our traditional concept,
and now today
https://qoto.org/@biorxivpreprint/109386462902444450
RT @paulmatusz
See you tomorrow (& Tuesday) for the @SSECR_ 's annual meeting taking place at @CHUVLausanne . The program is *packed* w talks, posters, keynotes (1 of those by @drElsje, we cant wait!), symposia,research-to-practice transfer and SIGs.. It'll be great! Tweet under #ssecr_events https://twitter.com/drElsje/status/1594393090869297152
Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.
#Cognitive & systems #neuroscience researcher at Georgetown University.
I study #brains and abilities in #blindness, deafness or handlessness to understand brain #plasticity and #development.
samp-lab.facultysite.georgetown.edu