📆SAVE THE DATE! The 2026 New York Memory Hub conference will be on October 29th & 30th at @nyulangone.bsky.social, hosted by Jayeeta Basu & André Fenton 🧠Stay tuned for more information about speakers, registration & abstract submissions.
Michael Granovetter
@michaelgranovetter.bsky.social
🧠scientist, child neuro PGY3 at NYU via Pitt-CMU MSTP. Interests in: Epilepsy | Autism | Plasticity | Learning/Memory/Vision | Neuroimaging | Med/grad ed | Health justice. My views. he/him https://www.michaelgranovetter.com
📣 New study out today! We show that the brain's language network stays remarkably stable with age — same topography, lateralization, selectivity and connectivity as in younger adults — while the domain-general multiple demand network showed altered activity patterns. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Preserved topography, lateralization, selectivity, and functional connectivity of the language network in older brains - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show that aging affects brain networks differently, with neural changes mirroring the preservation or decline of the cognitive functions they support. The multiple demand network exh...
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Tons of folks are about to be uninsured, will likely delay care until emergencies, and then a chunk will be hurt, die, or go medically bankrupt while safety net hospitals shoulder increasing burdens (or close)... apple.news/A5_9ityNMTx6...
New Medicaid work rules put NYC enrollees and hospitals at risk. Here’s who will be hit the hardest — Healthbeat
Bronx leads the U.S. among congressional districts vulnerable to changes to Medicaid. Here’s a look at other NYC areas at risk.
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How do we make good decisions with little experience? Adults can rely on memories of past choices. In our new study in @pnas.org we show kids & teens do something similar–but what they remember turns out to be quite different! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Developmental changes in memory structure and precision alter the use of retrieved episodes during decisions for reward | PNAS
Most widely studied option evaluation strategies rely on knowledge accumulated across repeated experiences. But how should options be evaluated in ...
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Europe’s wildfires are a warning: climate policy is health policy. A new Lancet Editorial calls for health to be at the centre of wildfire preparedness and climate policy. Read this & more: tinyurl.com/2t2wm8ty
Very happy to share our new review on visual computation in the cephalopod brain, with @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social, out now! We discuss exciting recent advances in understanding how the radically different brain of cephalopods processes the visual scene. 🐙🔬👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧠 Today is #WorldBrainDay! To mark this year's theme, Brain Health: Access for All, we're highlighting some research and commentary from Communications Biology that is advancing brain health discovery, prevention, care, and awareness worldwide. 🌍✨ Image/Cover Art by Berhmann et al.
Excited to share our review in @cp-neuron.bsky.social with @lauriebayet.bsky.social and @mickbonner.bsky.social! We describe how implementing principles from child development can advance the mechanistic plausibility and capacities of AI models We packed A LOT into this review, here's a quick 🧵
Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy paper with @mikearcaro.bsky.social exploring the organization of the visual system in newborn infants is now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social !
Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 5mo ago
Science is on the ballot this year. ✅ We’re launching Science Votes the Future to help scientists vote, engage, and advocate with confidence. 🗳️🧪 Learn more, explore our resources, and share with others! 👉ScienceVotesTheFuture.org
Large language models (LLMs) trained on outputs from other LLMs/AI can inherit undesirable behaviors, even if they are not directly referenced in the training data shows a recent @nature.com paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Language models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data - Nature
During model distillation, large language models can subtly transmit traits unrelated to the training data.
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Function & cytoarchitecture don't overlap ... they're orthogonal. Prefrontal cortex is plastered with chains of functional patches previously mostly known from face processing. Why multi-modal parcellations are wrong ... and other insights hidden by group-averaging of fMRI data. great explainer👇🏻
Evan Gordon@gordonneuro.bsky.social · 5mo agoI always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break
Your Guide to NASA's Budget
How big is NASA's budget right now? What was it like in the past? How does it compare to the rest of government spending? These answers, as well as…
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Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients Into Clear Quantities - Julia M. Rohrer, Vincent Arel-Bundock, 2026
Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear model...
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Introducing Datapages, a new project from Mika Braginsky and me. Datapages are open-source templates for creating interactive websites that make research datasets easy to find, explore, and reuse. No coding required for the basic setup. babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/data...
Datapages for reusable (and pretty!) data sharing
Blog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science.
babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com
Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found. There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX
At the @aanmember.bsky.social #AANAM this AM? Check out the Contemporary Clinical Issues Plenary Session where “Enhancing Glymphatic Transport via Vasopressin: Implications of Neurodegenerative Disease and Drug Delivery” will be presented by Dr. Eman Hamed, NYUGSoM @childneurosoc.bsky.social PGY-3!
More interested in stroke? Poster 4-8: Medium Vessel Occlusion Thrombectomy Achieves Outcomes Comparable to Large Vessel Occlusion Using an Aspiration-first Approach, will also be presented by NYUGSoM @childneurosoc.bsky.social resident Dr. Lauren Smith at the @aanmember.bsky.social #AANAM:
Near Main Hall F this morning and interested in epilepsy? Check out Poster 10-2: Unmasking Focal Epilepsy in the Emergency Department: A Missed Diagnostic Opportunity, presented by NYUGSoM @childneurosoc.bsky.social resident Dr. Michelle Goodman at the @aanmember.bsky.social #AANAM 11:45Am-12:45PM:
Checking out posters at the #AANAM today? If you’re interested in neurology, epilepsy, neurosurgery, or cognition check out both presentations by NYUGSoM @aanmember.bsky.social @childneurosoc.bsky.social resident and Futures in Neurologic Research Scholarship recipient Dr. Michael Granovetter!
Presenting this study today at #AANAM. If interested in pediatric epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, structural MRI, or plasticity, stop by poster 8-4 in the first poster session! @aanmember.bsky.social @childneurosoc.bsky.social @amepilepsysoc.bsky.social
Michael Granovetter@michaelgranovetter.bsky.social · 6mo agoMy new paper is out, co-led with Marge Maallo! Using high-resolution T1 MRI from pediatric epilepsy surgery patients, we see differences in morphometrics of the preserved hemisphere relative to controls following LEFT but NOT RIGHT surgery. direct.mit.edu/imag/article... 🧵⬇️ 1/7
Excited for my first #AANAM! Come chat at my posters Sunday! P1 8-9am: morphometric differences from typical development after left but not right pediatric resection P2 11:45am-12:45pm: characterization/prediction of functional outcomes after pediatric hemispheric surgery @aanmember.bsky.social
Excited for my first #AANAM! Come chat at my posters Sunday! P1 8-9am: morphometric differences from typical development after left but not right pediatric resection P2 11:45am-12:45pm: characterization/prediction of functional outcomes after pediatric hemispheric surgery @aanmember.bsky.social
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia L. Frisby, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph, et al: All spectral frequencies of neural activity reveal semantic representation in the human anterior ventral temporal cortex doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab: Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex @nature.com "..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature
Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.
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My new paper is out, co-led with Marge Maallo! Using high-resolution T1 MRI from pediatric epilepsy surgery patients, we see differences in morphometrics of the preserved hemisphere relative to controls following LEFT but NOT RIGHT surgery. direct.mit.edu/imag/article... 🧵⬇️ 1/7
Morphometrics of the preserved post-surgical hemisphere in pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy and implications for post-operative cognition
Abstract. Characterization of the structural integrity of cortex in adults who have undergone resection for epilepsy treatment has revealed persistent or even accelerated cortical atrophy in some case...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Michael C. Granovetter, Marlene Behrmann, et al: Morphometrics of the preserved post-surgical hemisphere in pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy and implications for post-operative cognition doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
My new paper is out, co-led with Marge Maallo! Using high-resolution T1 MRI from pediatric epilepsy surgery patients, we see differences in morphometrics of the preserved hemisphere relative to controls following LEFT but NOT RIGHT surgery. direct.mit.edu/imag/article... 🧵⬇️ 1/7
Morphometrics of the preserved post-surgical hemisphere in pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy and implications for post-operative cognition
Abstract. Characterization of the structural integrity of cortex in adults who have undergone resection for epilepsy treatment has revealed persistent or even accelerated cortical atrophy in some case...
direct.mit.edu
Song et al. show that visuospatial impairments after stroke follow distinct anatomo-behavioural patterns across recovery phases. Acute symptoms primarily reflect lateralized attention deficits to frontoparietal damage and interhemispheric disconnections 👉https://buff.ly/7XnwLTm
