👁️🧠🧪 Vision takes time. But how does visual information flow through the human brain? Our new PLOS Computational Biology paper uses population receptive field (pRF) modelling to bring the spatial precision of fMRI to MEG, revealing the temporal dynamics of visual areas. 📖 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex

Author summary Vision doesn’t happen instantaneously, but unfolds over time. While we understand a lot about how the brain processes visual space, understanding how the brain processes information ove...

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New paper in Science Advances! We show that congenital blindness reduces myelination in the human visual cortex, challenging the long-standing idea that thicker visual cortex in blind people mainly reflects disrupted pruning. (1/4) doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Congenital blindness reduces myelination in human visual cortex

Altered myelin and microstructure in congenital blindness illuminate how sensory experience guides human brain development.

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The #brains of #blind people reorganize differently than previously thought: a Polish-German team of researchers from the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social & @lenastroh.bsky.social @nikweiskopf.bsky.social shows how the lack of visual experience affects the maturation of the brain. tinyurl.com/yrfa7scv

The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought

The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought

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How dynamics arise from the structure is my biggest interest. In this study, we started with a small step and asked how structure constrains dynamics. Spoiler: would that it were so simple… (1/6)

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Inter- and intra-individual variability in structure-function coupling in human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.25.707886v1

New Research on Patterning in Early Math Skills: Circular patterns are a valuable learning resource, demonstrated by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing children fluent in visual-spatial sign language. See our paper (w/ Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber) in IJSME: doi.org/10.1007/s10763-025-10639-7 🥳

Linear and Circular Format of Repeating Patterns – an Inclusive Approach to Patterning of 6-Year-Olds - International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education

Several studies have demonstrated that understanding repeating patterns is associated with early mathematical development in young children. In these studies, the structure of repeating patterns typic...

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How does superficial white matter contribute to large-scale #brain function? @borismontreal.bsky.social &co use an approach based on 3D histology & 7-Tesla MRI to reveal associations between superficial #WhiteMatter microstructure & diverse cortical properties @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/460WNIz

Decoding the ''bouba-kiki'' effect in early visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.17.700088v1

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

Nature research paper: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain go.nature.com/4839zaL

Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature

A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic processing.

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Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature

NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...

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Much of the way we articulate words isn’t random. It reflects how the brain balances effort & clarity. Common words are shorter & more “shrunk”, confusable words are pronounced more clearly. We asked if ASL signs show similar patterns of reduction using pose-tracking on thousands of ASL signs.

Pls report: We're hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our study of individual differences in plasticity in #blindness (+ possible extension to #deafness) using fMRI. Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838 #hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter

New paper by @avbarchet.bsky.social from Gesa Hartwigsen’s group, @jonasobleser.bsky.social @ae.mpg.de @mpicbs.bsky.social We suggest attentional filtering during comprehension requires target enhancement and distractor suppression at different hierarchical levels www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Attentional engagement with target and distractor streams predicts speech comprehension in multitalker environments

Understanding speech while ignoring competing speech streams in the surrounding environment is challenging. Previous studies have demonstrated that attention shapes the neural representation of speech...

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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

PhD Opportunity at UCL – Tactile Sign Language & DeafBlind Communication. Funded PhD at DCAL exploring tactile BSL and DeafBlind interaction. UK only. Deadline 1 Dec 2025. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

PhD Opportunity at UCL – Tactile Sign Language & DeafBlind Communication

Join a pioneering ERC-funded project at UCL’s DCAL, Europe’s leading centre for Deafness, Cognition & Language research.

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ammar I. Marvi, Nancy G. Kanwisher, et al: An efficient multifunction fMRI localizer for high-level visual, auditory, and cognitive regions in humans doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroskyence

When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration, and how should this be done? 🧐 Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea! October 28, 1pm GMT. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h... @tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org

When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration, with Prof Daniël Lakens

Prof Daniël Lakens will share guidance on appropriate circumstances and methods for deviating from a pre-registration

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By utilizing the visual backward masking paradigm, this study aimed to disentangle the contributions of feedforward and recurrent processing, revealing that recurrent processing significantly shapes the object representations across the ventral visual stream. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Recurrence affects the geometry of visual representations across the ventral visual stream in the human brain

The specific roles of feedforward and recurrent processing in human visual object recognition remain incompletely understood. In this neuroimaging and computational modelling study the authors isolate...

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How disabled scientists spice up science, technology, and everywhere and all at once. Powerful preprint by the brilliant @jennychenlu.bsky.social & @sheilaxu.bsky.social on the ethics of hiring deaf and disabled people in STEM. Read here: tinyurl.com/52kceckw

How disabled scientists spice up science, technology, and everywhere and all at once

My good friend and incredible colleague, Sheila Xu (see linkedin profile here), and I recently co-authored a book chapter, titled ” Deaf Leaders Now! The ethics of hiring disabled people in s…

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Functional organization of the human visual system at birth and across late gestation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677834v1

The human brain mechanisms of afterimages: From networks to cortical layers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.30.673266v1

🚨 Very excited to have this manuscript with Haydée García-Lázaro out in the world! With psychophysics and #EEG decoding, we show how echoacoustic evidence accumulates over multiple click-echo presentations. The first temporally resolved account of the brain doing #echolocation in blind humans. 🦇🔊

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Neural and behavioral correlates of evidence accumulation in human click-based echolocation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.30.673202v1

End of August means ECVP! This year, I am here (in beautiful Mainz) with a special mission - to find postdocs who will join us in (equally beautiful) Krakow, PL! Drop me a DM if you are interested! @ecvp.bsky.social

Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )

Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS

How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...

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Now out in @natneuro.nature.com What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed? Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7 🧵1/18

#Myelination enables faster signal propagation in the brain, but takes more energy & space. @philipruthig.bsky.social &co reveal how short- & long-range #WhiteMatter fibers differ, showing how these variations affect neural communication & processing efficiency @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4mq5tOy

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

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Disentangling the influences of pre- and postnatal periods on human cortical microstructure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.669812v1

Thanks to all (co)authors & reviewers for their contribution to this study on #layer specific changes in #sensory #cortex across the #lifespan in #humans & #mice now out in @natneuro.nature.com Here is a short summary of our findings 1/6

DZNE research center@dzne.science · 12mo ago

🧠 The human brain ages less than thought and in layers – at least in the area of the cortex responsible for the sense of touch. See study @natneuro.nature.com by @estherkuehn.bsky.social and colleagues at DZNE, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de: 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...