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Heather L Kosakowski

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Assistant Professor @ USC

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Rebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vassar is hiring a clinical psychologist!! This is a terrific position for someone seeking a true balance of research & teaching responsibilities on a gorgeous campus 75 miles north of NYC. Please repost!
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Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
UCSD Psychology is hiring!! We’re seeking a new assistant professor colleague who studies high-level human cognition, broadly construed. Please share and/or apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04646
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Assistant Professor in High-level Human Cognition
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Dr Anna Leshinskaya @annaleshinskaya.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thrilled to announce that my department, UCI cognitive sciences, is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of computational social cognition. Further information including the application can be found at: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411
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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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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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languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
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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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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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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
October office hours now posted for 10/10 1-3 pm EDT. Theme=applications (for lab manager jobs, grad school, post-docs, fac jobs, whatever you're applying for) but feel free to bring unrelated questions too! Sign up here: calendly.com/lah2201/open.... #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky
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Open Office Hours: October 2025 - Larisa Heiphetz Solomon
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
In the latest #UndertheCortex episode, cognitive scientists @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social‬ of ‪@mit.edu ‬and @kosakowski.bsky.social of ‪@harvard.edu‬ discuss their groundbreaking findings about the development of the brain’s face-processing network.
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How Our Brains Grasp Faces
Podcast: In this episode, cognitive scientists Rebecca Saxe of MIT and Heather Kosakowski join host Scott Sleek to discuss their groundbreaking findings about the development of the brain’s face-proce...
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We were blown away by the public response to our findings that the infant brain can store memories. Many people wrote to share with us their first memories. To help us capture these reports, we created a short, anonymous survey. We hope you might also consider taking it. Please share with others! 🧠🧪
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Survey of Earliest Memories
This survey pertains to your earliest memories. It is anonymous and all participation is voluntary.
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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The question we ask: when do face responses arise in human infant cortex? Neuroscientists and developmental psychologists (my two disciplines) have different intuitions.
Graphic showing two alternative theories of the sequence and timing of development of cortical face responses: slow and sequential, or early and parallel.
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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Very excited to share this new paper, out this week. An attempt to express an idea I have been working on for more than a decade. Responses, questions, critiques, suggestions encouraged!
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Heather L Kosakowski @kosakowski.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
When you see this image, does it make you wonder what that baby is thinking. Do you think the baby is merely perceiving a set of shapes or do you think that the baby is also inferring meaning from the face they are looking at? (1/5)
Video of a baby on its parent's chest looking at the parent's face and smiling.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This month’s “Liftoff” features @jocelynbreton.bsky.social discussing the importance of patience when opening a lab. And @vivianpaulun.bsky.social shares how she'll use a traditional German custom in her lab to foster a supportive and uplifting culture. #neuroskyence bit.ly/4hFNosx
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Liftoff: New lab alerts
Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.
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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs: dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
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Are we paying too much for biomedical research?
Trump's attack on NIH
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.
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Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
As if there wasn’t enough to worry about… It turns out the Salience (SAL) and Parietal Memory Networks (PMN) are the same thing! 😩😩😩 🧵
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
In rough periwinkle snails, embryos form and mature inside the brood pouch at different rates. When it’s time to hatch, youngsters may have to crawl out of mom’s body and into the world on their own.
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These snails give live birth, and it’s the babies that may do the labor
Protecting eggs in mom’s body may have given rough periwinkle snails an advantage over egg-laying cousins, letting them spread to far more coastline.
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Whitney Stevens-Sostre, PhD Boricua @stevenssostre.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The official website for the #DSPAN F99/K00 transition award is down, together with the official #NINDSDiversity social media account and webpage. This is beyond terrifying. neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/archived/tra...
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Maureen M Sampson PhD @maureenbiologies.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Keep in touch with NINDS #DSPANscholars here 🧠 Reply or DM to be added! go.bsky.app/TQdWJr3
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NINDS DSPAN Scholars
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Ev Fedorenko @evfedorenko.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So excited to receive the Troland Award!! Huge congrats to the other winner—Nick Turk-Browne! And TY, as always, to my mentors&nominators, to my amazing labbies past&present, and to all the wonderful and supportive colleagues in our broader scientific community. <3 www.nasonline.org/award/trolan...
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Troland Research Award – NAS
Two Troland Research Awards of $75,000 are given annually to recognize unusual achievement by early-career researchers (preferably 45 years of age or younger) and to further empirical research within ...
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OHBM Sustainability & Environmental Action SIG (SEA-SIG) @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
✨ Do you know anyone who is making a real impact in area of increasing environmental sustainability in neuroimaging research? 🌎 🍃 🏆 Nominate them for an OHBM Sustainability Award today! The recipient will receive $2500 USD! See below for award terms 👇 www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/in...
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Sustainability Award | Organization for Human Brain Mapping
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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 and then submit your abstract so you can be there too! More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
so excited about this one, out now in American Psychologist, "The Detection of Automatic Behavior in Other People" (with Ilona Bass & me) link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
"The Illusion-Illusion: Vision Language Models See Illusions Where There are None" osf.io/preprints/ps... (this is a more systematic examination of the thing I was looking at a few days ago)
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Josh McDermott @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing - Nature Communications
Ears encode sound with precisely timed spikes, but the perceptual role of this temporal coding remains uncertain. Here, the authors report that high-fidelity temporal coding is necessary for neural ne...
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/laur...
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We are now up to 78 accounts on our Black In Neuro starter pack! Be sure to check back and make sure you have everyone added 🤗 Please let us know if we missed you! #BlackInSTEM #Neuroskyence #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪 go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe
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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz @laurasn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"
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Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study
Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...
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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The title page of the special issue, which reads "Introduction to the special issue on visual cognition and visuomotor control: A tribute to Mel Goodale" The authors of the Intro are: Jody C. Culham, Gavin Buckingham, Monika Harvey, Irene Sperandio, Ingrid S. Johnsrude
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Maureen M Sampson PhD @maureenbiologies.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
"results highlight the importance of going beyond the nuclear family towards the impact of the wider family network when examining children's socio-emotional development" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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More Than Just Treats? Effects of Grandparental Support for Children Growing up in Adversity
ABSTRACT This study examined whether grandparental support is a protective factor for children's socio-emotional development in the context of adversity. Using longitudinal data from the Millennium ...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Are you a new principal investigator? Reach out to @franciscorr25.bsky.social, The Transmitter's associate opinion and community editor, at: francisco@thetransmitter.org. Selected labs will be featured in the monthly Launch newsletter. www.thetransmitter.org/contributor/...
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Heather L Kosakowski @kosakowski.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
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