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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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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Meet @esfinn.bsky.social, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social. Finn is a 2026 APS Spence Award recipient whose research focuses on individual variability in brain activity and behavior. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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Zizhuang Miao @zizhuangmiao.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Excited to share my first-author paper now out in @natcomms.nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Here, we asked whether verbal narratives about social interactions activate the same brain areas as audiovisual presentations, and whether they overlap with theory of mind (ToM). (1/11)

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Common and distinct neural correlates of social interaction processing and theory of mind in narratives - Nature Communications

Miao et al. find that recognizing social interactions in third-person narratives engages canonical brain areas subserving theory of mind. Using theory of mind recruits additional areas linked to action understanding.

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Huge congrats to @monicarosenb.bsky.social, an amazing scientist and even better friend

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This one feels good 😊 Humbled and honored to be in the company of Spence Award winners, past and present. All credit goes to mentors, colleagues, and especially members of my lab -- thank you!!!

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Tommy Botch @tommybotch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

New preprint! Thrilled to share my latest work with @esfinn.bsky.social -- "Sensory context as a universal principle of language in humans and LLMs" osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi new followers! My lab studies when/how/why the same input can provoke different interpretations in different people (or in the same person across time). But we also do fun stuff with human-AI alignment and conversation. Hoping we can make bsky like the old days of science Twitter; miss that!

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