Heather Kosakowski @kosakowski@qoto.org

Happy to share our recent paper with @NancyKanwisher and @pranjulgupta where we used CNNs to address a classic
debate of domain specificity in the brain:

Is the FFA face-specific or is it a
domain-general area engaged in all forms of visual expertise?

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)00053-6

Wrapping up an Intro course with one of my favorite topics: Consciousness (C)!

I really like how @anilkseth parses the conceptual space of C in this essay (a precursor to his recent book, Being You):
https://aeon.co/essays/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-a-distraction-from-the-real-one

There's:
C level (awake vs coma);
C content (awareness);
C self (that little person in our heads who is driving it all; free will).

On the topic of free will & the brain, do you know of references appropriate for early undergrads? (No Penrose please).

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

#Introduction I'm a prof in cognitive neuroscience at University College London. My research group studies spatial cognition in range of areas and methods from single-unit recordings in rodents to self-reports in humans.

Here's a painting of my brain from 20 years ago. I still do a lot of fMRI

POSTDOC alert: We're looking for a postdoctoral scientist to join our lab at Dartmouth! We study the neural basis of perception, memory, and neurodiversity using fMRI + VR.

www.robertsonlab.com/current-openings

Learn about the brain and live in the mountains! Please share.

“The disproportionate scientific productivity of elite researchers can be largely explained by their substantial labor advantage rather than inherent differences in talent.” #AcademicMastodon #ScienceMastodon https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq7056

Developmentalists: have you been wondering if online experiments with young children are comparable to in-lab studies? Here's our new meta-analysis suggesting that overall they are!

https://psyarxiv.com/qc6fw - work by Aaron Chuey, @veroboyce@twitter.com and @anjie_cao@twitter.com