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Cliona O'Doherty

@clionaod.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Stanford | Developmental NeuroAI

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Freddy Kamps @fkamps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New paper! We found basic scene selectivity arises across the scene network early in infancy (i.e., by ~3.5 months old), prior to independent navigation experience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The cortical scene processing network emerges in infancy, prior to independent navigation experience | PNAS
Sighted people rely on vision to recognize and navigate the local environment. By adulthood, human cortex contains at least three regions that resp...
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Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Super excited to be back @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in NYU - this year presenting new exciting work from Project Simsom with @camerontellis.bsky.social, Dan Yamins and the team. Are we ready to build an AI model of infant development? We think so ... come check it out Thursday 10:30 E39 👶🤖
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Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Lots of exciting work coming from the Stanford NeuroAI Lab! Come check out everyone's posters @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in NYU
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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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 🧵
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International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Latest from the Baby Blog: Uncovering cognition in young infants using deep neural networks and awake fMRI by @clionaod.bsky.social and @ainedineen.bsky.social infantstudies.org/uncovering-c... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #Research #science #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky
Text: Latest from the Baby Blog - Uncovering cognition in young infants using deep neural networks and awake fMRI by Clíona O’Doherty and Áine T. Dineen against an image background of an infant lying in a supine position reading a book
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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for #InfantNeuroAI The project will investigate how human infants learn to understand the visual world, by combining awake infant neuroimaging (fMRI and OPM-MEG) with computational models from AI.
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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My paper with @mikearcaro.bsky.social exploring the organization of the visual system in newborn infants is now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social !
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Áine T. Dineen @ainedineen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I am very excited to be presenting our work using awake infant fMRI and developmentally inspired deep neural networks to better understand the visual features that the developing brain encodes infants view objects at #CNS2026 in Vancouver this week!
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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The Transmitter writes about @clionaod.bsky.social's work with @ainedineen.bsky.social, @annatruzzi.bsky.social, Graham King, @lorinanaci.bsky.social, Keelin Harrison, Enna-Louise D'Arcy, Jessica White, @chiarac.bsky.social, Tamrin Holloway, Anna Kravchenko, @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social!
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Infant brain categorizes common objects by two months of age
Brain activity patterns in the ventral visual cortex appear to distinguish images across 12 categories, including birds and trees, fMRI scans suggest.
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Lillian Behm @lillianbehm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Awake infant fMRI offers a rare window into early brain and cognitive development. In a new paper out now in Infancy, we leverage data from hundreds of infant scans from the Saxe and Turk-Browne Labs to reveal what factors drive scanning success — and how future studies can maximize data retention!
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Infants: Insights From More Than 750 Scanning Sessions
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in awake infants has the potential to reveal how the early developing brain gives rise to cognition and behavior. However, awake infant fMRI poses signifi....
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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 02/02/2026
Human babies may be able to visually categorize different objects earlier than previously thought, even at two months of age, according to research published in Nature Neuroscience. The results challenge our understanding of visual development in infancy: #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence 🧠
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Infants have rich visual categories in ventrotemporal cortex at 2 months of age - Nature Neuroscience
Using infant fMRI, the authors show that, by 2 months of age, representations in high-level visual cortex encode visual categories that align with deep neural networks, and lateral object-selective regions are later to develop.
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Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
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Victoria Bosch @initself.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬 1/n
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Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
It's been a great FIT'NG so far 🧠👶🏻 I'm always excited to present the work from the amazing FOUNDCOG team, and chat all things developmental cog comp neuro. Feel free to reach out to me or find me on the last day tomorrow!
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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing. Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This was so fun to write! Grateful to ICIS and the Baby Blog for the space to reflect on infant memory
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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
My paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social ‬is now out in Science Advances! We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children
The visual recognition abilities of preschool children rival those of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.
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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thanks to fellow defenders @clionaod.bsky.social, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, and @charvetcj.bsky.social Defending the foundation model view of infant development www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Defending the foundation model view of infant development
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Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Excited for CCN this year! The lineup is full of super interesting developmental work👶🏻🧠🤖 Looking forward to presenting my results as a contributed talk as well!
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine Intelligence
An interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual ...
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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
There are 2 PhD positions in my lab in Amsterdam (collaboration with Sander Bohte, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and Ingmar Visser) on NeuroAI of developmental vision. academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-w...
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2 PHD-STUDENTS IN NEUROAI OF DEVELOPMENTAL VISION (M/F/X) - Academic Positions
Join an interdisciplinary team to research developmental vision in NeuroAI. Requires a strong computational background, deep learning skills, and a Master's ...
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Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Thinking about brain development is hard ... but modern computational models can hint towards potential learning mechanisms! Of course, these need to be contextualised within the findings from developmental psychology. Check out the discussion out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Please help: Do you know a baby, less than 12 months old, who can walk? We are trying to complete a project, 7 years in the works. And all we need are 3 infants who are less than a year old and can walk, to do a short online looking-time study. 🆘
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Fascinating talk by @rhodricusack.bsky.social showing his & @clionaod.bsky.social’s work on 2 and 9-month olds with 130 (!) infants & 20 min (!) data showing a largely similar representation of medial ventral vision but a largely absent response in LO, dovetailing with myelin development. #CAOS2025
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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"How infants learn and explore: From behavior to computations" 👶⚙️ This review outlines my take on early development, mostly driven by frustration that infancy research focuses on what infants can do, not how. Still a Preprint! Missing-literature suggestions welcome :) osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
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Calli McMurray @callimcflurry.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A brave (and patient) group of neuroscientists have figured out how to do task-based fMRI in babies and toddlers. They aim to uncover how the infant mind takes shape—and the method has already provided new insight into infantile amnesia. My latest www.thetransmitter.org/cognitive-ne... #neuroskyence
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What infant fMRI is revealing about the developing mind
Cognitive neuroscientists have finally clocked how to perform task-based fMRI experiments in awake babies. Now they want watch cognition take shape.
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MIT Kids Brains @kidsbrains.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The Saxe Lab @ MIT is hiring! We seek one lab manager to start in summer 2025. Research in our lab focuses on social cognition (learn more on saxelab.mit.edu). Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993). Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025. Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
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Saxelab Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at MIT |
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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Plus PhD positions for April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky We had to re-start the process after our preferred candidate withdrew. Info 👇.
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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If you are a member of the FIT'NG society then please consider voting for me! To vote, check for the email, and here is a link describing the candidates... fitng.org/elections/ I can't believe this is my first ever election!! @fitngin.bsky.social
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Elections | fitng.org
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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🥁 FIT'NG is thrilled to announce our 2025 destination is 🌎 Dublin, Ireland. Join us next fall September 7 - 8, 2025! 🌐 Learn more about this beautiful and historic city by visiting: fitng.org/destination/ #FITNG2025 #RSNA2024 #BrainDevelopment
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Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It's been so rewarding discussing our results throughout the year, and I can't wait for the community to continue to hear what we have been working on! 👶🏻🧠👩🏻‍💻 @rhodricusack.bsky.social
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Jascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
What if you are a student interested in NeuroAI and are looking for resources to learn more? We provide a list of resources with the paper! If you know other great resources, please open a pull request or DM me! We hope this to become a ‘living document’! github.com/8erberg/Neur...
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GitHub - 8erberg/NeuroAI_Trainee_Resources
Contribute to 8erberg/NeuroAI_Trainee_Resources development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
It's done! 👩🏻‍🎓 I'm so happy to share that last Friday I successfully defended my PhD. After a crazy four years of ambitious awake infant neuroimaging, NeuroAI and everything in between ... somehow, I'm even more excited now to see where this research takes me next 💡 #PhDone
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
A great new piece on infant neuroscience, from two of the best: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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