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Anna-Lena Stroh

@lenastroh.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist interested in neuroplasticity, blindness, deafness, and Sign Language

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 21/07/2026
👁️🧠🧪 Vision takes time. But how does visual information flow through the human brain? Our new PLOS Computational Biology paper uses population receptive field (pRF) modelling to bring the spatial precision of fMRI to MEG, revealing the temporal dynamics of visual areas. 📖 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex
Author summary Vision doesn’t happen instantaneously, but unfolds over time. While we understand a lot about how the brain processes visual space, understanding how the brain processes information ove...
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Anna-Lena Stroh @lenastroh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New paper in Science Advances! We show that congenital blindness reduces myelination in the human visual cortex, challenging the long-standing idea that thicker visual cortex in blind people mainly reflects disrupted pruning. (1/4) doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Congenital blindness reduces myelination in human visual cortex
Altered myelin and microstructure in congenital blindness illuminate how sensory experience guides human brain development.
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The #brains of #blind people reorganize differently than previously thought: a Polish-German team of researchers from the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social & @lenastroh.bsky.social @nikweiskopf.bsky.social shows how the lack of visual experience affects the maturation of the brain. tinyurl.com/yrfa7scv
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The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought
The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought
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Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
How dynamics arise from the structure is my biggest interest. In this study, we started with a small step and asked how structure constrains dynamics. Spoiler: would that it were so simple… (1/6)
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Viktor Werner @viktorwerner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New Research on Patterning in Early Math Skills: Circular patterns are a valuable learning resource, demonstrated by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing children fluent in visual-spatial sign language. See our paper (w/ Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber) in IJSME: doi.org/10.1007/s10763-025-10639-7 🥳
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Linear and Circular Format of Repeating Patterns – an Inclusive Approach to Patterning of 6-Year-Olds - International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education
Several studies have demonstrated that understanding repeating patterns is associated with early mathematical development in young children. In these studies, the structure of repeating patterns typic...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 02/02/2026
How does superficial white matter contribute to large-scale #brain function? @borismontreal.bsky.social &co use an approach based on 3D histology & 7-Tesla MRI to reveal associations between superficial #WhiteMatter microstructure & diverse cortical properties @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/460WNIz
Histology-based SWM microstructure intensity profile. Top: SWM sampling framework from 3D postmortem histology. The Laplacian field within the white matter domain was solved for each histological classified volume to sample 50 SWM surfaces, spanning from the GM/WM interface to 3 mm into the white matter. These surfaces were then mapped to each histological staining method, allowing the extraction of intensity profiles for each vertex across SWM depths. Bottom: Alterations in the intensity distributions of histological features across SWM depths. The GM/WM interface (0 mm) and 25 representative SWM surfaces (up to 3 mm into the white matter) are shown. The surfaces showing the greatest variation in SWM, from 0 to 1.8 mm into the white matter, were mapped onto the brain alongside the intensity profiles on the left.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Decoding the ''bouba-kiki'' effect in early visual cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Tomas Knapen @tknapen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
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Nature @nature.com · 27/11/2025
Nature research paper: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain go.nature.com/4839zaL
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Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature
A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic processing.
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 21/11/2025
Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
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Dr. Zed Sehyr @zedsehyr.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Much of the way we articulate words isn’t random. It reflects how the brain balances effort & clarity. Common words are shorter & more “shrunk”, confusable words are pronounced more clearly. We asked if ASL signs show similar patterns of reduction using pose-tracking on thousands of ASL signs.
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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Pls report: We're hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our study of individual differences in plasticity in #blindness (+ possible extension to #deafness) using fMRI. Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838 #hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
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Johanna Rimmele @johannarimmele.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
New paper by @avbarchet.bsky.social from Gesa Hartwigsen’s group, @jonasobleser.bsky.social @ae.mpg.de @mpicbs.bsky.social We suggest attentional filtering during comprehension requires target enhancement and distractor suppression at different hierarchical levels www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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Attentional engagement with target and distractor streams predicts speech comprehension in multitalker environments
Understanding speech while ignoring competing speech streams in the surrounding environment is challenging. Previous studies have demonstrated that attention shapes the neural representation of speech...
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) @dcal-ucl.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
PhD Opportunity at UCL – Tactile Sign Language & DeafBlind Communication. Funded PhD at DCAL exploring tactile BSL and DeafBlind interaction. UK only. Deadline 1 Dec 2025. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
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PhD Opportunity at UCL – Tactile Sign Language & DeafBlind Communication
Join a pioneering ERC-funded project at UCL’s DCAL, Europe’s leading centre for Deafness, Cognition & Language research.
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ammar I. Marvi, Nancy G. Kanwisher, et al: An efficient multifunction fMRI localizer for high-level visual, auditory, and cognitive regions in humans doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroskyence
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Jessie Baldwin @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration, and how should this be done? 🧐 Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea! October 28, 1pm GMT. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h... @tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org
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When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration, with Prof Daniël Lakens
Prof Daniël Lakens will share guidance on appropriate circumstances and methods for deviating from a pre-registration
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
By utilizing the visual backward masking paradigm, this study aimed to disentangle the contributions of feedforward and recurrent processing, revealing that recurrent processing significantly shapes the object representations across the ventral visual stream. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Recurrence affects the geometry of visual representations across the ventral visual stream in the human brain
The specific roles of feedforward and recurrent processing in human visual object recognition remain incompletely understood. In this neuroimaging and computational modelling study the authors isolate...
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Anna-Lena Stroh @lenastroh.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
How disabled scientists spice up science, technology, and everywhere and all at once. Powerful preprint by the brilliant @jennychenlu.bsky.social & @sheilaxu.bsky.social on the ethics of hiring deaf and disabled people in STEM. Read here: tinyurl.com/52kceckw
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How disabled scientists spice up science, technology, and everywhere and all at once
My good friend and incredible colleague, Sheila Xu (see linkedin profile here), and I recently co-authored a book chapter, titled ” Deaf Leaders Now! The ethics of hiring disabled people in s…
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Functional organization of the human visual system at birth and across late gestation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The human brain mechanisms of afterimages: From networks to cortical layers www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
🚨 Very excited to have this manuscript with Haydée García-Lázaro out in the world! With psychophysics and #EEG decoding, we show how echoacoustic evidence accumulates over multiple click-echo presentations. The first temporally resolved account of the brain doing #echolocation in blind humans. 🦇🔊
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Marek Pedziwiatr @marekpedziwi.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
End of August means ECVP! This year, I am here (in beautiful Mainz) with a special mission - to find postdocs who will join us in (equally beautiful) Krakow, PL! Drop me a DM if you are interested! @ecvp.bsky.social
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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )
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Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS
How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...
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Hunter Schone @hunterschone.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Now out in @natneuro.nature.com What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed? Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7 🧵1/18
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 21/08/2025
#Myelination enables faster signal propagation in the brain, but takes more energy & space. @philipruthig.bsky.social &co reveal how short- & long-range #WhiteMatter fibers differ, showing how these variations affect neural communication & processing efficiency @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4mq5tOy
Arrangement of raw data, semantic, and instance segmentation of human corpus callosum fibers, acquired by transmission electron microscopy. The data used for this image were generated by Maria Morozova, David Edler von der Planitz, and Philip Ruthig. All cover Art was created by the MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Graphics department (Andrea Sandmann)
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 15/08/2025
PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky
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Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator
As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Disentangling the influences of pre- and postnatal periods on human cortical microstructure www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Esther Kuehn @estherkuehn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Thanks to all (co)authors & reviewers for their contribution to this study on #layer specific changes in #sensory #cortex across the #lifespan in #humans & #mice now out in @natneuro.nature.com Here is a short summary of our findings 1/6
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
On Friday, niklasmuller.bsky.social shows that estimating population receptive fields (pRF) using DNN feature maps but without assuming a Gaussian pRF shape yields better predictions of THINGS ephys data, uncovering surprising pRF geometries! 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=1... Poster C105, 14:00-17:00
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This is wild. Dirt-cheap, un-patentable lithium supplements might just reverse Alzheimer's (in mice, admittedly...).
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Decoding semantic sound categories in early visual cortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... "semantic and categorical sound information is represented in early visual cortex, potentially used to predict visual input"; #neuroscience
fMRI experimental design and procedure
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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Analysis of >11,000 pediatric MRI scans suggests that suboptimal image quality may introduce bias in cortical thickness and area estimates in over half the cases 🤔🧐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development - Nature Neuroscience
As large-scale neurodevelopmental MRI studies gain prominence, the authors identify tradeoffs between sample size and quality control that can dramatically affect results, and they evaluate a range of...
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danielhaenelt.bsky.social @danielhaenelt.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I’m happy to share that our manuscript on the cortical depth-dependency of the GE- and SE-BOLD point spread function at 7 Tesla is now available on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spatial specificity of the functional gradient echo and spin echo BOLD signal across cortical depth at 7 T
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at high magnetic field strengths (≥ 7 T) is a promising technique to study the functioning of the human brain at the spatial scale of cortical columns and ...
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
While many believe being ‘more in tune with your body’ improves mental health, we surprisingly found the opposite: worse mental health (higher anxiety, depression, stress, fatigue & reduced well-being)—with stronger stomach-brain connections.
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Courtois Project on Neuronal Modelling @cneuromod.ca · 30/07/2025
New CNeuroMod-THINGS open-access fMRI dataset: 4 participants · ~4 000 images (720 categories) each shown 3× (12k trials per subject)· individual functional localizers & NSD-inspired QC . Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.09024 Congrats Marie St-Laurent and @martinhebart.bsky.social !!
four brain maps showing noise ceiling estimates in response to image presentation
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You’d prefer an astronaut, PhD @iamdamion.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
6/11 One of our most striking (and unexpected) findings was that an individual child’s brain functional connectivity is more similar to their childhood peers than adults are to other adults. That is, children showed less inter-individual variability than adults.
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You’d prefer an astronaut, PhD @iamdamion.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
1/11 Very excited to say that our preprint, Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain, is up on biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain
Human brain organization shares a common underlying structure, though recent studies have shown that features of this organization also differ significantly across individual adults. Understanding the...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jochen Schmidt, Nikolaus Weiskopf, et al: High-resolution quantitative T2 mapping of the human brain at 7 T using a multi-echo spin-echo sequence and dictionary-based modeling doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Visual Word Form Area demonstrates individual and task-agnostic consistency but inter-individual variability www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Katarzyna Raczy @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
What a fantastic time at IMRF! 🎉 Huge thanks to the brilliant speakers for making our symposium on “Blindness as a Window into Brain Organisation” a big success! Big thanks to the organisers and the scientific community for this stellar event! Great to see so many friends and colleagues! #IMRF2025
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CogBooster @cogbooster.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Lénia Amaral presented her work at the ‪@imrf.bsky.social! Her talk, “Stable, but unique: individualized connectivity in the blind V1 over time” reflects her postdoctoral work with @striemamit.bsky.social at the SAMP Lab, Georgetown University. @durham-university.bsky.social
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Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Today @nikaradziun.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on cardiac interoception processing in the blind as part of the symposium "Blindness as a window into fundamental principles of brain organisation" #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social
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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🧠✨ Excited to share that our literature review on retinotopic mapping in the human visual cortex is now published! tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
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Human retinotopic mapping: From empirical to computational models of retinotopy | JOV | ARVO Journals
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Fakhereh Movahedian Attar, Nikolaus Weiskopf, et al: Short association fibres form topographic sheets in the human V1–V2 processing stream doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
New mesoscale manuscript looking at functional connectivity of ocular dominance columns during resting state. By Schmidt et al., doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Thrilled to be attending the #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social in beautiful Durham this week! I'll be presenting in Symposium 3 on Wednesday at 11:00, kindly organized by @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social and @lenastroh.bsky.social. Looking forward to the discussions ahead! 🧠
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