🎧 OHBM Podcast Neurosalience — S6, Ep 3 is out now! Philosophy, deep sampling & the advancing tide of AI Host Peter Bandettini talks with Kendrick Kay on how AI is shaping neuroscience. Listen now!
Peter Bandettini
@fmri-today.bsky.social
Notes on functional MRI and related topics.
Paper by @frosas.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...
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As we chase whole-brain signatures of cognition with fMRI, this fascinating perspective argues that cognitive signals are broadly distributed...but far from everywhere! For those of us using whole-brain neuroimaging lots to think about.. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition? - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Both localized and distributed views on the functional organization of the brain have been put forward. In this Perspective, Rosen and Freedman examine the degree to which these two views account for ...
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We're kicking off Season 6 (!!) of #Neurosalience! This week, we have a chat between Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social our new podcast team lead Xuqian Michelle Li, looking back at the past season, as well as preview what's to come! YouTube: youtu.be/qFcqCkNWTUE Spotify: bit.ly/4qCiaZ4
Neurosalience #S6E1 - Highlights of season 5 and looking ahead to season 6
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One of the more provocative and important articles I've read in a while: A call for a "map" of neuroscience understanding and relationships between domains. apertureneuro.org/article/1388...
Bridging the epistemological divide in neuroscience to improve ontological clarity | Published in Aperture Neuro
By Giulia Baracchini, Eli Muller & 1 more. This perspective highlights the epistemological divide that arises from the wide variety of different experimental approaches... which in turn lead to ontolo...
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A new season of OHBM Neurosalience has started. Here's our kickoff episode where I talk with Lead Producer, Michelle Li about highlights from the past season, reaching our 100th episode, the controversial DIANA paper from last year, and what to expect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcq...
Neurosalience #S6E1 - Highlights of season 5 and looking ahead to season 6
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Alam et al. develop a canonical time-series feature set for characterizing biologically informative dynamical patterns in fMRI: doi.org/10.52294/001... @bendfulcher.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
Excited to share our News&Views on Kamitani Lab's NatComputSci paper! Their neural code converter enables transformation of brain activity patterns across individuals, and it doesn't need shared stimuli or connectivity information! www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Advancing neural decoding with deep learning - Nature Computational Science
A recent study introduces a neural code conversion method that aligns brain activity across individuals without shared stimuli, using deep neural network-derived features to match stimulus content.
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Wrapping up our fifth season of OHBM Neurosalience with a live audience podcast at OHBM discussing diverse academic experiences from graduate student to professor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCEo...
Neurosalience #S5E15 [Season Final] - OHBM 2025 Live Podcast
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All of these measures are opportunities to further inform analyses of the fMRI signal.
Sleuthing subjectivity: a review of covert measures of consciousness — a Review by Sharif I. Kronemer, Peter A. Bandettini & Javier Gonzalez-Castillo www.nature.com/articles/s41... @sharifkronemer.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social #neuroscience #neuroskyence
Merchant et al. perform a meta-analytic investigation of neurocognitive systems involved in real-time social interaction doi.org/10.52294/001... @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
A new #Neurosalience episode is out! 🧠 The hippocampus, aging, memory and discovery with Rosanna Olsen and Peter Bandettini @rosannaolsen.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social youtu.be/cvPjImt9iv8
Neurosalience #S5E14 with Rosanna Olsen - The hippocampus, aging, memory, and discovery
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It was an honor to be asked to share my thoughts on this! Here's my entire powerpoint for those interested. docs.google.com/presentation...
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Feeding the Fire Peter Bandettini
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Academics, including students, postdocs, and ECRs often face high expectations for long work hours and limited work-life balance. At #OHBM2025 we will be hosting a symposium on "Academic burnout and how to deal with it". Speakers: Daniel Margulies Amy Brodtmann @fmri-today.bsky.social
Thanks for sharing this slide! Here is the ppt of my entire talk if anyone is interested. It was fun to present something different at OHBM! docs.google.com/presentation...
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Feeding the Fire Peter Bandettini
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I'm a fervent believer in non-negotiable rituals to scaffold my academic/parenting balancing act. But it's so easy to get overwhelmed... So if you're feeling the twinge of burnout - even if you're not an academic - these strategies from @fmri-today.bsky.social are a great place to start 🔥 #OHMB2025
If you want to add something fun to your experience at OHBM in Brisbane, take part in this competition! All invited! We are judging more on the skill in presenting and communicating and less on the content.
Going to #OHBM2025 in Brisbane? We're accepting entries for *two in-person science communication competitions* at the annual meeting: 📊 A Best Figure Competition 🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition ⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions: forms.gle/1X9ccz2vpsRQ...
Zhang and Tremblay investigate age-related changes in resting-state functional connectivity among amateur singers, instrumentalists, and active controls: doi.org/10.52294/001... @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
Analog computing with waves works—and it's vastly more energy-efficient than digital. Here, it's done with light, but all waves apply. Biology exploits useful things. Our brains constantly generate electric field waves. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Enabling Optical Analog Computing with Metamaterials
The manipulation of light with structured materials could allow mathematical operations to be performed with compact optics. [Also see Report by Silva et al.]
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I'm pleased to report that the board has now heard from NIH that the appointments of these three investigators and similarly situated folks are being extended. Thank you NIH! Delighted that the stellar work there will be continuing!
Compelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE. 1/2
Thanks @sadaghiani.bsky.social! I really enjoyed this conversation! The novel insights and promising directions discussed here were particularly exciting!
Incredible fun! Thanks @fmri-today.bsky.social for taking the conversation through so many topics!
Early Bird Registration by 15 March USD $595 inc welcome drinks, 2 day meeting, accommodation + ferry ride between Brisbane & the island BCW have a unique format, featuring short presentations (15 minutes, 3 slides) then 45 minutes of discussion brain-connectivity-workshop.org/bsw/zwei/bcw
Virtual registration is now open for the Whistler Workshop. Can't make it there in person, but still want the science - signup here: web.cvent.com/event/34b0c2...
Thank you to my collaborators for making this study possible! A great example of the power of teamwork in cognitive neuroscience research. @Victoria Gobo, @Shruti Japee @elimerriam.bsky.social @Benjamin Osborne @fmri-today.bsky.social @Tina Liu Would love to hear your thoughts or questions!
Thanks Ravi! It really was special to be able to have this conversation with him. Thanks for getting us in touch! My questions start from a sincere curiosity and respect for the guests' stories as well as their ideas and contributions - and the context from which they emerged.
Mandatory listening. Peter has a knack for these interviews. And this dropped just a week after Seiji turned 91.
To help you expand your brain mapping network here on Bluesky, we have initialized an OHBM Neurosalience Podcast starter pack! 🧠🦋 Please feel free to comment if we've missed you or others out. Listen to the Neurosalience podcast here: open.spotify.com/show/1d5umtP... go.bsky.app/7gDbeAm
The is particularly true in the area of precision medicine, where models trained in homogeneous populations largely fail to generalize to diverse samples. Eg work by @bttyeo.bsky.social and others. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cross-ethnicity/race generalization failure of behavioral prediction from resting-state functional connectivity
fMRI-based machine learning models predict behavioral measures biasedly against African Americans.
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The brain’s action-mode network — a Perspective by Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Marcus E. Raichle & Evan M. Gordon @ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The brain’s action-mode network - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The brain enters an action-mode of function during goal-directed behaviour. In this Perspective, Dosenbach, Raiche and Gordon describe “action-mode” as an informative functional label that reduce...
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This paper is an excellent reminder that the brain works across space and time and that we can appreciate both, even with fMRI data.
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Sarah A. Cutts, Olaf Sporns, et al: Temporal variability of brain–behavior relationships in fine-scale dynamics of edge time series doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Voets et al. outline best practice recommendations from the OHBM Working Group on clinical language fMRI mapping: doi.org/10.52294/001... @cyrilrpernet.bsky.social @lindadouw.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
Dr. Seiji Ogawa discovered and coined "Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent" BOLD contrast - used in almost all fMRI today. It was my great honor to interview him over two days on the very beginnings of fMRI, and so much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBK...
Neurosalience #S5E7 with Seiji Ogawa - The discoverer of the BOLD contrast and fMRI
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