Osher Lab
@osherlab.bsky.social
The Cognition and Brain Circuitry Lab at OSU, focusing on brain connectivity, function, and behavior, with a special focus on visual perception and attention. Thoughts and opinions are our own. Lab website: https://www.davidosher.com/index.html
Tragically forgot to take a picture (having too much fun), but today we welcomed our new grad student, Libby, to the lab! This lab manager highly recommends bringing Kahoots to your lab meetings, we had a very laughter-filled time playing a get-to-know-you game! Turns out Keara knows us best :)
Huge congrats to Dr. Hiershe who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation 🥳 We @zlab.bsky.social will miss her but look forward to seeing her flourish as she joins @evfedorenko.bsky.social lab as a postdoc this year!
Huge congratulations to our longtime academic bestie-- scientific term for close collaborator-- Dr (!!!) Kelly Hiersche of the @zlab.bsky.social for successfully defending her dissertation today!
Don’t miss your chance to see our posters!! Last day for our posters— we standby from 1:30-2:30/13:30-14:30 and the poster reception 4:45-6:00/16:45-18:00! #OHBM2026
📢 We are recruiting a full-time lab manager/RA joint between our lab and @marinabedny.bsky.social 's lab. A great opportunity for a recent grad interested in gaining more research experience in cognitive neuroscience. Details and apply here: hiring.jhu.edu/careers/job/...
Research Assistant (KSAS - Cognitive Science) | Johns Hopkins University
We are seeking a Research Assistant who will work jointly in the Isik and Bedny labs on projects involving neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG), behavioral testing, and computational approaches. The position is p...
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The CBC Lab is going to @ohbmofficial.bsky.social ! We're so excited to talk about super awesome science in Bordeaux! #OHBM2026
First time at OHBM? Or looking to meet fellow OHBMers before the conference gets underway? Join us for a Morning Coffee and connect with other attendees. ☕ Monday, June 15 | 8:00–9:00am 📍 Loop Coffee (location in replies) Sponsored by @thetransmitter.bsky.social #OHBM2026
Hopefully you didn't miss the chance to talk visual attention and eye movements with @kearaginell.bsky.social earlier this week! If you did, just a few more days to catch her in conversation! #VSS2026
Come chat configural and featural processing with @yuxuanzeng.bsky.social, she is presenting NOW! #VSS2026
Come visit CBC Lab posters at @vssmtg.bsky.social! All of our posters are on Sunday, so you only have one day to see us. Don't miss out on the chance to chat with our lovely researchers!!
Lil end-of-year treat!! Some things we are celebrating: 🎓 @isaacliao.bsky.social getting his Master's (defended today!) 🧠 @kearaginell.bsky.social completing an fMRI AND eye tracking experiment (two new methods!) 📝 @yuxuanzeng.bsky.social publishing a paper that lays the foundation for future work!
Today we had our hands-on workshop with David Pitcher, and we learned so much!! It was so good we forgot to take pictures!!
The COSI Science Festival was a blast!! We had a great time doing some neuroscience demos and thanks @isaacliao.bsky.social for representing our lab!!
Today kicks off CCBBI's multi-day TMS workshop with Dr David Pitcher, and we couldn't be more excited to start learning!!
Check out Yuxuan's website for a comprehensive view of her work! You want her for a postdoc!!
Yuxuan Zeng@yuxuanzeng.bsky.social · 4mo agoFreshly redecorated personal site! → yxzeng.com Try typing "boo" on any page — there's a little something waiting Claude Design did most of the magic ✨
Recent work by Kelly Hiersche in collaboration with @osherlab.bsky.social demonstrates that language and theory of mind are functionally and spatially distinct in the brain of 3-9 year old children! @zeynepsaygin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Functional dissociation of language and theory of mind in the developing superior temporal lobe - Communications Biology
Functional MRI in young children demonstrates that brain regions supporting language and theory of mind are functionally and spatially distinct within the superior temporal lobe, and these functions a...
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✨Your 2025-2026 CBC Lab✨ Another great academic year comes to an end! Thank you to all our lab members and collaborators for their hard work, and a big congrats to all you have accomplished!
We had a great time at the Ohio Science Olympiad STEM Expo, giving middle and high school students a chance to learn about brain research!
Excited to share that our new paper is out! Holistic processing can emerge for non-face objects, with no expertise required. Configuration (both 1st and 2nd order) is all you need! For CNN and correlation with face recognition read the paper!
Osher Lab@osherlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago‼️ New article alert! ‼️ Yuxuan Zeng and @zitonglu.bsky.social challenge the idea that faces are unique in their ability to recruit holistic processing. Read the paper here!: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
‼️ New article alert! ‼️ Yuxuan Zeng and @zitonglu.bsky.social challenge the idea that faces are unique in their ability to recruit holistic processing. Read the paper here!: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Face-like holistic processing in non-face stimuli
Holistic processing of visual stimuli has long been regarded as unique to faces, or otherwise extended to other object categories given sufficient exp…
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Happy to see this paper officially published in Cognitive Psychology! A nice collaboration with Yuxuan Zeng and David Osher at OSU. We find face-like holistic processing in non-face stimuli - and Configuration is the answer! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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Osher Lab@osherlab.bsky.social · last yr.‼️ Exciting preprint alert ‼️ Yuxuan Zeng and @zitonglu.bsky.social demonstrate that holistic processing, commonly associated with face processing can be induced using configural, nonface stimuli! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Guess what's not just a preprint anymore... full post coming soon!
Osher Lab@osherlab.bsky.social · last yr.‼️ Exciting preprint alert ‼️ Yuxuan Zeng and @zitonglu.bsky.social demonstrate that holistic processing, commonly associated with face processing can be induced using configural, nonface stimuli! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Stay tuned for a super cool article coming out of our lab soon... SO soon!!!
And of course, our annual holiday party with the @zlab.bsky.social ! Our white elephant gift exchange was particularly lively this year, with great creativity going into the wrapping and one gift being a rotisserie chicken (stored safely in the fridge until the game!)!
Last Thursday was this account's manager's favorite day of the year... CCBBI Research Day! Dr Osher gave an awesome talk and here is @isaacliao.bsky.social with his poster!
‼️ New article alert! ‼️ In collaboration with Kelly Hiersche from the @zlab.bsky.social ! Read the scholarly article here: direct.mit.edu/netn/article... The article from Ohio State News here: news.osu.edu/a-birds-eye-... And read on through this thread for a summary!
Connectivity and function are coupled across cognitive domains throughout the brain
Abstract. Decades of neuroimaging have revealed that the functional organization of the brain is roughly consistent across individuals, and at rest, it resembles group-level task-evoked networks. A fu...
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