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Erica Busch

@elbusch.bsky.social
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Young Scientist Fellow, Institute for Basic Science CNIR @ Sungkyunkwan University Incoming Assistant Professor, CCC @ Vanderbilt University Prev. Yale & Dartmouth | bunny & dog parent | ericabusch.github.io

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Laurent Caplette @laucaplette.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm excited to share that I'll be joining Université de Montréal's School of Optometry as an Assistant Professor this fall! My lab will focus on understanding how we process and represent the dynamic and complex visual world, using AI, behavior and neuroimaging. Recruiting grad students for 2027!
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🧠 New preprint! How does the brain build specialized, efficient representations as we grow up? We used manifold learning to track the "intrinsic dimensionality" (ID) of brain activity in ~800 participants (aged 3mo–53yrs), as they performed naturalistic tasks and rested/slept.
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Excited to be at #ohbm2026 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social presenting our real-time fMRI paper just published in @natneuro.nature.com ! come learn more at my talk on Wed at 9am in the symposium on “Closed-loop fMRI Neurofeedback” in Room E
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:
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Human learning of noninvasive brain–computer interfaces via manifold geometry - Nature Neuroscience
Busch et al. use nonlinear neural manifolds to help humans gain rapid control over a noninvasive brain–computer interface, allowing them to learn how to play a video game with real-time fMRI neurofeed...
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🎉🎉🎉🎉 I'm thrilled and humbled to share some major updates! (A 🧵 but TLDR: graduated from Yale, joining Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea as an IBS Young Scientist Fellow this summer, and starting as an assistant professor in Vanderbilt's College of Connected Computing in Fall 2027!)
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Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🎊New Lab Alert! I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come. thesonglab.github.io I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The @nasonline.org has elected @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professor James Haxby as a member, recognizing his distinguished research in computational cognitive neuroscience, including how thoughts and perceptions can be decoded from brain activity patterns.
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James Haxby Elected to the National Academy of Sciences | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The professor specializes in computational cognitive neuroscience and neural decoding.
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
In the first #SANS2026 session on social learning @csavasegal.bsky.social shows that self-generated interpretations anchor how we remember ambiguous social info, even when others offer a different take, and how neural shifts help us make the shift
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Feilong Ma @feilong.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🎓Recruiting Ph.D. students for Fall 2026!🎓 The Feilong Lab @sc.edu studies commonalities & differences across brains, and how they relate to cognition, language, & disorders. We develop brain templates, improve hyperalignment, and compare human brains with monkey brains & DNNs. feilonglab.github.io
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Feilong Lab @ UofSC — Feilong Lab
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New Perspective out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We consider why neuroimaging analyses struggles to predict adolescent mental health, discuss approaches for improving prediction, and provide open-source implementations and tutorials: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Revamping neuroimaging analysis to reveal biomarkers of adolescent mental health - Nature Mental Health
Neuroscience research struggles to link neurobiological phenotypes with real-world mental health experiences, especially in youth. Here the authors challenge assumptions in functional neuroimaging stu...
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Manasi Malik @manasimalik.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Excited to share new work on how the brain makes social inferences from visual input! 🧠👯‍♂️ (With @lisik.bsky.social , @shariliu.bsky.social, @tianminshu.bsky.social , and Minjae Kim!) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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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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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Congratulations to @lillianbehm.bsky.social, Nick Turk-Browne, and a huge team for putting together this paper (out today) on lessons from a decade of attempts to study awake infants with fMRI: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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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Kelsey Han @chihyehan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Human visual cortex representations may be much higher-dimensional than earlier work suggested, but are these higher dimensions of cortical activity actually relevant to behavior? Our new paper tackles this by studying how different people experience the same movies. 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...
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High-dimensional structure underlying individual differences in naturalistic visual experience
Han and Bonner reveal that individual visual experience arises from high-dimensional neural geometry distributed across multiple representational scales. By characterizing the full dimensional spectru...
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Nitzan Lubianiker @nitzanlubi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Our new paper is out in @natmed.nature.com 😱! A thread: Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Excited to share our NEWEST PREPRINT led by @rochellekaper.bsky.social!! osf.io/preprints/ps... We ask: How do people learn multiple layers of environmental structure – w/o feedback – & how well do they *know* they’ve learned? Turns out, stimulus familiarity matters more than we thought! 🧵👇
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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵 rdcu.be/eVZ1A
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Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization
Nature Neuroscience - Parcellation of the cortex into functionally modular brain areas is foundational to neuroscience. Here, Hayden, Heilbronner and Yoo question the central status of brain areas...
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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
WTI is hiring a Research Software Engineer. Join our interdisciplinary community at Yale to collaborate with researchers on brain + behavioral data. Learn more at the link below + share this opportunity with your network! 🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
To add further enticement to the coolness of VR and laser scanning microscopy -- Manuel is among the coolest scientists I know & a PhD working with him would be the coolest 😎
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Krishnaswamylab.org @krishnaswamylab.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
We're @neuripsconf.bsky.social HiPoNet: neurips.cc/virtual/2025... HELM: Hyperbolic LLM openreview.net/forum?id=Rnb... Talk: hyperboliclearning.github.io/events/neuri... (Unireps/Neureps) Measure Before You Look openreview.net/forum?id=5Yn... (FM4LS) CellSpliceNet: openreview.net/forum?id=gVA...
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Krishnaswamylab.org @krishnaswamylab.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
We have 3 papers at TAG-DS @NeurIPSConf! DYMAG: Message Passing Using Dynamical-systems-based Waveforms (Oral) openreview.net/forum?id=WYi... A Graph Laplacian Eigenvector Pretraining Method for GNNs (Spotlight) openreview.net/forum?id=r5c... Reeb Graphs and Towers openreview.net/forum?id=U8I...
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Endlessly lucky to have friends who not only wait around for me to finish out the final poster session of SfN but also help engineer and fly a poster airplane … apologies to anyone inconvenienced by our chaos 🙃 @hhillman.bsky.social @zhoui.bsky.social
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Happening soon! come chat with me about noninvasive BCI, neural manifolds, and human learning at W15 (or message me if you’re interested but have already left 🙃)
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Excited to be at #SfN25! Come catch my poster “Neural dimensionality expands over the course of brain-computer interface learning” wed PM (W15) if you’re interested in non-invasive BCIs, neural manifolds, human learning, etc. Building upon our recent work (doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.29.646109)
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Accelerated learning of a noninvasive human brain-computer interface via manifold geometry
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) promise to restore and enhance a wide range of human capabilities. However, a barrier to the adoption of BCIs is how long it can take users to learn to control them. W...
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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Presenting on contingency representations in PFC during WM on Saturday at SfN! Featuring fMRI and multi-area RNN modeling from my time with John Murray 🤓 And, recruiting a PhD student for Fall ‘26 in my new lab at U-Miami! Check us out here, and feel free to reach out: jam-lab.org (apps due 12/1)
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Heather L Kosakowski @kosakowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
My lab at USC is recruiting! 1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829 2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
New manuscript from the lab! "Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening" Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening
Participants in conversations need to associate words their speakers but also retain those words general meanings. For example, someone talking about their hand is not referring to the other speakers ...
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
How does spontaneous memory reinstatement at rest relate to episodic memory during development? And how do early experiences influence neural mechanisms of episodic memory encoding and reinstatement? New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spontaneous reinstatement of episodic memories in the developing human brain
The hippocampus supports episodic memories in development, and yet how the brain stabilizes these memories determines their long-term accessibility. This study examined how episodic memories formed in...
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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026 through both the cognitive and developmental areas at Ohio State. If you are interested in spatial cognition, visual perception, and/or mental representation -- please reach out! I'd love to hear from you. www.cogdevlab.org
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PCDL @ OSU
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Claire Richards @clairerich.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I made the world’s first bioprinted placenta organoids (mini placentas) and they’ve just been published in @natureportfolio.nature.com We found that the matrix environment chosen for these organoids was critical to how they grew and developed 🤰 idp.nature.com/authorize?re...
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Matrix directs trophoblast differentiation in a bioprinted organoid model of early placental development - Nature Communications
The placenta plays vital roles in supporting fetal development. Here, Richards et al. develop a high-throughput bioprinted trophoblast organoid&nbsp;model to recapitulate the microenvironment of the e...
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Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬? We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do! Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇
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A neural network with episodic memory learns causal relationships between narrative events
Humans reflect on past memories to make sense of an ongoing event. Past work has shown that people retrieve causally related past events during comprehension, but the exact process by which this causa...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈
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Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Preprint⭐ Our attention changes over time and differs across contexts—which is reflected in the brain🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we find that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects such changes in attention! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Geometry of neural dynamics along the cortical attractor landscape reflects changes in attention
The brain is a complex dynamical system whose activity reflects changes in internal states, such as attention. While prior work has shown that large-scale brain activity reflects attention, the mechan...
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Excited to be in Amsterdam for #CCN2025! Come learn about a project combining many of my favorite interests - naturalistic neuroimaging, development, & manifold learning (of course). Catch me at poster C181 on Fri - “Intrinsic dimensionality of brain activity manifolds across tasks and development”
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Elizabeth Goldfarb @evgoldfarb.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
How do brain networks tracking past trauma react to stress in the future? Thrilled to share new work from the lab led by rockstar postdoc @felhardi.bsky.social with wonderful collab @dylanggee.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #psychscisky #neuroskyence
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost. cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪
Dog-sled going past the Le Château Montebello.Main public room in Le Château Montebello decorated for Christmas. The building is the world's largest "log cabin".Le Château Montebello is situated on the banks of the Ottawa river, separating Quebec and Ontario.Group photo the school of 2018 at the Winter school on the Neuroscience of Consciousness
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Online Now: The ubiquity of episodic-like memory during infancy
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The ubiquity of episodic-like memory during infancy
Considerable progress has been made in understanding early memory development. However, much of this research pre-dates contemporary theories of memory systems in the mature brain. This review provides a refresher on these conceptual frameworks and proposes a common theoretical foundation for reconciling adult and infant studies. This foundation enables a critical analysis of infant studies that have directly tested memory and suggests that they may not capture the full nature and extent of episodic memory abilities in infancy. The analysis is extended to infant studies that are ostensibly focused on cognitive domains other than memory and finds that many such tasks require episodic-like memory. Thus, there may be substantially more evidence for episodic-like memory in infants than previously recognized.
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Lillian Behm @lillianbehm.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
So excited to share my *first* first-author paper, out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!! In this review, we argue that even if you don’t remember being a baby, evidence that infants form episodic-like memories is actually all around us: authors.elsevier.com/c/1l82g4sIRv...
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Such timely, relevant, and creative work by @tommybotch.bsky.social and @esfinn.bsky.social — and features very cute robots throughout :) congratulations!
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Kylie Falcione @kyliefalcione.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Absolutely blown away by the groundbreaking research on direct brain stimulation and social cognition! @shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social's work really stood out—capturing incredibly detailed brain activity using implanted electrodes during a theory of mind and reward processing task. #sans2025
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
@qilin7.bsky.social has gotten her own funding (IBS-YSF) to start as a junior PI at our center (cnir.ibs.re.kr) she'll use AI models & our 7T to study individual differences in perception, learning & memory, among other things she's hiring - contact her if u'd like to join her group 🧠📈🧠💻
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Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Now out in Plos Computational Biology! We identified a generalizable neural signature of emotional arousal across contexts and individuals during movie watching. work with the best team: @hayoungsong.bsky.social @Zihan Bai @monicarosenb.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Dynamic brain connectivity predicts emotional arousal during naturalistic movie-watching
Author summary This study explores how the brain represents two key dimensions of emotional experience: valence (how positive or negative an experience feels) and arousal (the level of emotional activ...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2025
Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.
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Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
New preprint! Excited to share our latest work “Accelerated learning of a noninvasive human brain-computer interface via manifold geometry” ft. outstanding former undergraduate Chandra Fincke, @glajoie.bsky.social, @krishnaswamylab.bsky.social, and @wutsaiyale.bsky.social's Nick Turk-Browne 1/8
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Accelerated learning of a noninvasive human brain-computer interface via manifold geometry
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) promise to restore and enhance a wide range of human capabilities. However, a barrier to the adoption of BCIs is how long it can take users to learn to control them. W...
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
What an awesome paper from a group of incredible scientists!! Congrats @tristansyates.bsky.social and team (and nice fMRI action shot 😉)
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.
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