Early sensory deprivation drives local reorganization of sensory integration within a conserved global hierarchy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Well done Filippo !!

Filippo Cerpelloni@fcerpelloni.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How to assess the roles of vision and language to reading? We studied how purely visual computational models for word and letter recognition processed visual Braille (⠉⠑⠗⠏⠑) and found that they don't replicate human behavioural / neural results, showing the need of language processing in reading

Check out our new study published in Nature Communication where we show that hMT+/V5—alongside a fronto-parietal network—encodes visual and tactile motion directions using a shared external frame of reference, independent of body posture. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 We are pleased to announce that the Abstract Submission deadline #IMRF2026 has been extended. 📅 New Deadline: 14th March 🔗 Submit here: imrf2026.sciencesconf.org This is your final opportunity to propose and present your studies!!

We're thrilled to announce that our new research article, "Global remapping of the sensory homunculus emerges early in childhood development”, has just been published in Nature Communications (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) with @dorothycowie.bsky.social and Matej Hoffman.

Global remapping of the sensory homunculus emerges early in childhood development - Nature Communications

Children born without a hand show early, widespread changes in brain maps, with body parts shifting across the homunculus. Adaptive behaviours explain individual differences but cannot override this e...

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Congratulation Filippo, it was a pleasure to work with you on how visual features influence (or not) the learning of a new script.

Filippo Cerpelloni@fcerpelloni.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Out now another piece of my PhD. In short, we show that learning a new script, with or without line junctions (├ v. ⠗), mostly relies on the linguistic mapping of one script to a pre-existing orthography, with limited contribution of the script's visual features doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02788-1

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please check out and RT this new position for an exciting collaborative project with @boninlab.bsky.social and @franckp.bsky.social on the links between human-specific mechanisms and neurodevelopmental disorders in cortical circuits.

Vincent Bonin@boninlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Please repost widely. @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoc with expertise in sensory physiology and in vivo circuit imaging/manipulation. The project centers on human-specific brain development and SYNGAP1-related disorders. Call closing soon—apply ASAP jobs.vib.be/j/119852/pos...

Excited to see this article out! Congratulations to Maria Czarnecka, @lenastroh.bsky.social, and the whole author team for this great piece of work!

Association between cortical thickness and functional response to linguistic processing in the occipital cortex of early blind individuals

Abstract. Blindness has been shown to induce changes in the structural and functional organization of the brain. However, few studies have investigated the

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Association between cortical thickness and functional response to linguistic processing in the occipital cortex of early blind individuals academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... by @olicolli.bsky.social @lenastroh.bsky.social et al.

Association between cortical thickness and functional response to linguistic processing in the occipital cortex of early blind individuals

Abstract. Blindness has been shown to induce changes in the structural and functional organization of the brain. However, few studies have investigated the

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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

It is difficult to express all the work that has been dedicated to this study by @stefaniamatt.bsky.social and all the team / Very proud / Incredibly insightful study and a great thread by Stefania- check it out.

Stefania Mattioni, Ph.D.@stefaniamatt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1. 🧵 Thread: What happens to the visual brain after early transient blindness? Our new Nature Communications paper examines a rare population: people born with dense bilateral cataracts—a short blindness occurring during a critical window of visual development. 🔗 rdcu.be/eQjMH

Deux cents ans après son invention, le braille devrait être bientôt reconnu par l'Unesco. Son apprentissage et son usage, grâce à la mobilisation en particulier d'un homme. Et alors que ce système est confronté à des technologies vocales boostées par l'IA. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Deux cents ans après son invention, le braille devrait être bientôt reconnu par l'Unesco

L'apprentissage et l'usage du braille devraient être reconnus fin 2026 par les Nations unies. Alors que cet alphabet universel est confronté à des évolutions comme l'intelligence artificielle, le Fran...

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Super excited to share a new preprint! We asked a simple-but-big question: What changes in the brain when someone becomes an expert? Using chess ♟️ + fMRI 🧠 + representational geometry & dimensionality 📈, we ask: 1️⃣ WHAT information is encoded? 2️⃣ HOW is it structured? 3️⃣ WHERE is it expressed? 1/n

Do a postdoc with us in San Francisco! A fellowship slot in vision science, clinical vision, blindness, or rehabilitation is available via a NEI T32 slot: 👇🏼

Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute@skeriresearch.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨Postdoc fellowship alert! Applications due Dec. 10🚨 Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs

Interested in how the brain encodes numerosity across the senses or presentation formats? Check out our latest paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social masterfully executed by @yyagpsy.bsky.social

Ying Yang@yyagpsy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It has been published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Check it out! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia

Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

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Subretinal Photovoltaic Implant to Restore Vision in Geographic Atrophy Due to AMD www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Results look impressive.

Subretinal Photovoltaic Implant to Restore Vision in Geographic Atrophy Due to AMD | NEJM

Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in ...

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(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

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The Georgetown Difference We are invested in providing a transformative experience through holistic training, accessible resources, and personalized career strategies to help you reach your aspiration...

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First time I share a time-slot in a conf with a minister (Rachida Dati, Minister for culture in France) 🤔 Celebration day for the 200 years of the Braille system, the universal tactile reading system for blind. I will speak about how the mind and brain process this crucial cultural invention.

Congratulation Filippo, it was an interesting and fun ride.

Filippo Cerpelloni@fcerpelloni.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Yep, that finally happened. Thank you @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social and @olicolli.bsky.social for the great supervision over the years and to all the colleagues that accompanied me in this terrific experience

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PhD position available! Are you fascinated by #sensory #perception and #autism? Then this position might be for you! #cogneurojobs #neurosky #PhDposition #Jobs #career #neuroscience #fMRI Full description here: tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12400

🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨 We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes: ⚡ Neuropixels recordings ⚡ Opto/chemo ⚡ Behavior ⚡ Neural network modeling If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏 www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Where I acquired some of my best fMRI data during my postdoc (a while ago unfortunately). Highly recommended environment and a terrific new director.

Sylvain Baillet@sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Rejoignez ma nouvelle équipe au @crchum.bsky.social. Merci de partager! www.chumontreal.qc.ca/emplois/tech...

Rejoignez ma nouvelle équipe au @crchum.bsky.social. Merci de partager! www.chumontreal.qc.ca/emplois/tech...

Might focused ultrasound one day replace DBS? UK Scientists built a 256-panel focused ultrasound helmet that can precisely target deep brain regions. Using theta-burst TUS, they stimulated the LGN and found visual cortex activity with effects lasting up to 40 minutes. #neuroskyence #ultrasound

Ultrasound system for precise neuromodulation of human deep brain circuits - Nature Communications

Modulating deep brain structure can lead to therapies for neurological conditions. Here, the authors show a transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) system featuring a 256-element helmet-shaped trans...

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#CallforExpressionofInterest Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the CLIC Lab, @cimecunitrento.bsky.social 📅Deadline: September 14, 2025 📍 Rovereto, Italy 🔗More info: shorturl.at/EnvLy @szymanikjakub.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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