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Latest news from Nancy Kanwisher's lab (and lab alumni)! https://teapaw.org/t.co/mOalRgoX9q…

Joined June 2020
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The amazing @jessica__chomik just launched the third season of her Spanish-language neuroscience podcast Mi Ultima Neurona: Youtube: youtube.com/@miultimaneurona Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4tif9z… Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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We are delighted to announce the newest season of "Mi Ultima Neurona," a Spanish-language neuroscience podcast in which @KanwisherLab postbac, Jessica Chomik-Morales, brings conversations with neuroscientists to Spanish speakers around the world. mcgovern.mit.edu/2023/09/18/…
New Spanish-language neuroscience podcast flourishes in third season - MIT McGovern Institute

New Spanish-language neuroscience podcast flourishes in third season - MIT McGovern Institute

A Spanish version of this news story can be found here. (Una versión en español de esta noticia se puede encontrar aquí.) ___ Sylvia Abente, a clinical neurologist at the Universidad Nacional de...

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🔥Preprint Alert🔥 Excited to share some new work modeling human 3D shape perception! “Approaching human 3D shape perception with neurally mappable models” w/ @tylerraye, @_yonifriedman, @_atewari, Josh Tenenbaum, @vincesitzmann, @Nancy_Kanwisher arxiv.org/abs/2308.11300 🧵
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New paper out in eLife led by @PramodRT9 with @m_the_cohen and Josh Tenenbaum! Invariant representation of physical stability in the human brain doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71736
Invariant representation of physical stability in the human brain

Invariant representation of physical stability in the human brain

Scenario-invariant representation of physical stability is found in the frontoparietal regions but not the ventral visual pathway (and ImageNet-trained convolutional neural networks), consistent with...

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Thrilled to announce that I have received the @NIH @NatEyeInstitute K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award to continue my work @mcgovernmit @MIT with my awesome mentors @Nancy_Kanwisher and @JamesJDiCarlo. Can't wait to share the exciting work in the pipeline.
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Psyched to share the first results from a ~7yr journey, from an email I sent to @Nancy_Kanwisher in 2014 about an idea to develop lang(uage) 'localizers' for as many of the world's langs as possible to having fMRI data from native speakers of 45 langs. tinyurl.com/b5xv7e32 1/n
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Check out & open review the @CogCompNeuro #CCNGAC proposal “What constitutes understanding of ventral pathway function?” by openreview.net/forum?id=I913… Charles Connor, @gkreiman, Carl Craver, @HombreCerebro @mlivingstonehms @martin_schrimpf @WangBinxu
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Apply here for the full-time lab tech position in my lab: careers.peopleclick.com/care… We use brain, behavior, and computational methods to understand the human mind and brain. This position is a great stepping stone to grad school. Nancy
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MandanaMSRP@MandanaMsrp17 Dec 2020
Spread the word. The online application for the MIT postbac program to increase diversity in neuroscience is now open @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT #BlackInNeuro @SfNtweets @NINDSnews Check out program description and eligibility here bcs.mit.edu/academic-program…
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Anna Ivanova@neuranna15 Dec 2020
Our paper about the brain basis of computer code comprehension is now published in eLife! elifesciences.org/articles/5…
Comprehension of computer code relies primarily on domain-general executive brain regions

Comprehension of computer code relies primarily on domain-general executive brain regions

The domain-general executive brain regions support the use of a novel cognitive tool even when it is structurally similar to natural language.

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Anna Ivanova (@neuranna) profile pictureAnna Ivanova@neuranna18 Apr 2020
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Does the brain treat code like natural language? Or like logic and math? We addressed this question by measuring fMRI responses to two very different programming languages - Python and ScratchJr (graphical programming language for kids). 1/n
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With democracy itself at stake in this election, here are some ideas of what academics can do. Please retweet, adding your own ideas.
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Do you have a kid with questions about how scientists study the brain? Ask a Scientist! Me, ⁦@heatherlkos⁩ and Brandon Davis Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 1:00 PM eventbrite.com/e/ask-a-scien…
Ask a Scientist: Exploring the Human Brain - #Livestream

Ask a Scientist: Exploring the Human Brain - #Livestream

Join us for this free live presentation of #MOSatHome MOS Live as we bring the museum to you!

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How far will a professor go to show her students how the brain works? I showed this neuroanatomy lesson from Nancy Kanwisher to my students today and they thought it was pretty badass youtube.com/watch?v=PcbSQxJ7…
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What guides our attention during active vision in 360° degree scenes? Check out @AJ_Haskins's new paper using eyetracking + immersive VR w @jshoonm and @tommy_botch! nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
Active vision in immersive, 360° real-world environments

Active vision in immersive, 360° real-world environments

Scientific Reports - Active vision in immersive, 360° real-world environments

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New paper from the Kanwisher lab about the development of face selective regions in congenitally blind individuals by @apurvaratan and colleauges
Nancy Kanwisher @NancyKanwisher@mas.to (@Nancy_Kanwisher) profile pictureNancy Kanwisher @[email protected]@Nancy_Kanwisher24 Aug 2020
My first tweet! Psyched to share our cool new paper led by @apurvaratan showing face-selective responses in the fusiform in congenitally blind people: pnas.org/content/early/2020/…
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The @svrhm2020 workshop at @NeurIPSConf was renewed again this year! We'll be accepting papers soon. Organized by @ArtDeza @joshuacpeterson, @apurvaratan, & Tom Griffiths (@cocosci_lab). @neurograce @sparuniisc @TimKietzmann @brialong @martin_hebart @gamaleldinfe @leylaisi
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Check out our new preprint, "A network linking perception and memory systems in posterior cerebral cortex". We show that scene perception and place memory are subserved by two distinct, but overlapping, functional networks in posterior cerebral cortex.
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A new study from Marius Peelen’s lab with N=72 (!!) beautifully replicates our 2013 paper (web.mit.edu/bcs/nklab/media/…) showing a causal double dissociation between OPA, which is engaged in scene recognition, versus LOC, which is engaged in object recognition. Yay replications!
Marius Peelen (@MariusPeelen) profile pictureMarius Peelen@MariusPeelen11 Aug 2020
Pre-registered TMS replication study (N=72) providing evidence for a double dissociation between object-selective LOC and scene-selective OPA: TMS over LOC selectively impaired object recognition, while TMS over OPA selectively impaired scene recognition. doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.24.2…
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Time to announce the exciting news that I will start my own lab at Giessen University in the fall 2020! If you're interested in cognitive computational neuroscience and want to pursue a PhD or Postdoc in a thriving university town at the center of Germany, please get in touch!
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How does the infant brain process faces? I will present results from awake infant fMRI data that took 4 years to collect. #cogsci2020 4th track9 14:20. Work w/ @rebecca_saxe @KanwisherLab @m_the_cohen spoiler alert: as potential social partners, not only visual patterns
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