So excited and proud to share this project that was a major group effort! We show that, despite having lower acuity and no fovea as compared to primates, tree shrews have the ability to consistently identify objects across identity-preserving transformations.

bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition@biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Transformation-tolerant object recognition in tree shrews despite lacking a fovea https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.10.717715v1

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans. By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/42Wifxr

‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux

Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.

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Excited to share my first first-author paper out now in PNAS! By comparing retinotopically-defined visual areas in macaques and humans, we found that evolutionary expansion is reflected in the size, not number, of visual areas. #neuroskyence #neuroscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper out! Memory for object features is warped according to their role in a category, w/ features shared across category-mates misremembered as more similar. We explored the phenomenon in our NN model of the hipp. w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social & @codydong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/opmi...

Object Feature Memory Is Distorted by Category Structure

Abstract. Memory systems constantly confront the challenge of capturing both the shared features that connect experiences together and the unique features that distinguish them. Across two experiments...

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Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social for highlighting my soon-to-open lab! My lab will explore the neural and computational mechanisms that support perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood. And, yes, the first piece of 'equipment' bought for the lab was a nintendo switch :)

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 2y ago

This month’s “Liftoff” features @vayzenb.bsky.social talking about how he plans to build a tight-knit social dynamic in his lab via a big-screen TV. And @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social shares how she was inspired by @karalmarshall.bsky.social and @leslievosshall.bsky.social bit.ly/3BA1TiL

We have collected Penn Neuroscience faculty, students, staff, and alumni into a starter pack! Give these awesome neuroscientists a follow and let us know if you want to be added to the list. go.bsky.app/V6S8gHT #neuroskyence

Please share, would love to add more people to this! #neuroscience #neuroskyence #compneuro go.bsky.app/B6LsheP

Loving the starter packs and would love to put one together full of #compneuro trainees on here! Please share and comment if you want to be added or tag your trainees and I’ll put one together😊 #neuroscience #neuroskyence

New preprint! We use real-time TMR to show that sleep reactivation transforms object memories, enhancing certain features at the expense of others. W/ Sindhuja Uppuluri, Jianing Mu, @marlietandoc.bsky.social @jameswardantony.bsky.social @annaschapiro.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.14.571683

Memory reactivation during sleep does not act holistically on object memory

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Now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience! Here we examined the degree to which dorsal and ventral visual pathways can functionally reorganize after children have half of their brain surgically removed (!!) doi.org/10.1016/j.dc... #cogsci #devpsy #neuroscience

Vlad Ayzenberg@vayzenb.bsky.social · 3y ago

Excited to share my first #bluesci preprint with Marlene Behrmann! Here we explored the developmental trajectories of ventral and dorsal pathways in patients who have had half their brains removed (‼️) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.03.551494v1.full

If you’d like to learn how suboptimal decision-making, choice variability, and individual differences can all reflect information-efficient inference, come to my poster at UU22 tomorrow, Monday morning from 8 am - 12 noon! #SfN23

If you're at SfN and interested in memory reactivation during sleep, come check out my talk on Sunday morning! (8:45am, WCC 150) Part of an awesome nanosymposium on learning and memory led by @emilycowan.bsky.social #SfN23 #neuroskyence

Anna Schapiro@annaschapiro.bsky.social · 3y ago

The lab has three SfN presentations to check out this year!!  Sun 8:45am WCC 150 nanosymposium @lizsiefert.bsky.social Tues 2:30pm WCC 144 nanosymposium Zhenglong Zhou Wed 8am TT13 poster @brynnsherman.bsky.social I am planning to be in DC myself Tues-Wed, so hope to see you there! #neuroskyence

Come by my poster Sunday morning at #SfN titled "Investigating the capacity for tree shrew high-level vision"! Poster no. X1 #neuroskyence