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Nikolaus Weiskopf

@nikweiskopf.bsky.social
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My personal views on: physics, MRI and neuroscience - and sometimes more (or less).

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IMPRS CoNI @imprsconi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Call for Applications! Interested in the brain 🧠 & in doing a #PhD 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 in Cognitive NeuroImaging with our research partners @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? 📅 Apply by 2 Nov 2026 shortlink.win/1y98h We look forward to your application! 😀
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ISMRM @ismrm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’re excited to introduce Fritz Schick, M.D., Ph.D., the 2027 Mansfield Lecturer! Join us in Vancouver for the 2027 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition, 08-13 May 2027. LEARN MORE: ow.ly/JzSi50ZMNaX #ISMRM2027 #ISMRM #ISMRT #MRI #MagneticResonance #MedicalImaging #Radiology #MR
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 09/09/2026
We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack
Call for independent Max Planck Research Groups
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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We're hiring! 2 postdocs + 3 PhD students to join InfantNeuroAI at Trinity College Dublin: awake infant fMRI & OPM-MEG, plus computational models of how infants learn. Aims: understand infant visual cognition, infant neuroimaging methods, more energy-efficient learning 🧵 www.cusacklab.org/vacancies
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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As part of OHBM online meetings next week: "25 years of FSL" Register by Monday. Talks from: Stephen Smith, Frederik Lange, Ludovica Griffanti, Rezvan Farahibozorg, Amy Howard and Hossein Rafipoor, William Clarke, Michiel Cottaar.
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Romy Lorenz @romy-lorenz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Please share widely! 🚀 I am recruiting a PhD student for an exciting cross-species collaborative project using layer fMRI to investigate how interoception shapes cognitive control - Application deadline is: 1.10.2026 - Start: Jan 2027 www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...
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PhD Position (m/f/d) | Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception
PhD Position in Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception
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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Since 2018, the Max Planck Schools have brought together Germany’s leading scientists to train a new generation of outstanding early career researchers! We are looking forward to new fellows applications by Nov 2nd, 2026 via the online portal! www.maxplanckschools.org/536437/fello...
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Mara Mather @maramather.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Starting September 1, I will be working with a team to start a new research center at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. We currently have a couple of positions posted but there will be more so if you are interested stay tuned and feel free to get in touch.
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Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Thanks to Kshipra Guranandan, my notebook on how to design efficient fMRI experiments (for activity, connectivity and pattern analysis) is now available in Python as a Jupyter notebook (as well as previous Matlab): github.com/RikHenson/fM...
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GitHub - RikHenson/fMRIefficiency
Contribute to RikHenson/fMRIefficiency development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3
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Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The 2026 fMRI Summer Course with @fmri-today.bsky.social has begun and the recordings and slides are shared here: fmrif.nimh.nih.gov/SummerCourse
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FMRIF Summer Course
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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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IMPRS CoNI @imprsconi.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Welcome to the 2nd #IMPRSCoNI #SummerSchool in #Leipzig! The event kicked off yesterday with welcoming words by @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social, Deputy Spokesperson of IMPRS CoNI & Professor of Cognitive and Biological Psychology at @unileipzig.bsky.social. We wish everyone an inspiring Summer School!😁😍
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Jack Van Horn @jackvanhorn8.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I am very excited for this OHBM @ohbmofficial.bsky.social symposium on axonal and myelin measurement USING MRI/DWI and their contributions to the g-ratio and neural signal conduction estimation!! @stikov.bsky.social @siawooshmr.bsky.social @mfcallaghan.bsky.social @mathieuboudreau.bsky.social
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Antoine Lutti @antoinelutti.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
📢📢 As part of the #OHBM2026 brainhack, we're organising a workshop about the #hMRI toolbox for the processing and analysis of #MRI relaxometry data in #neuroscience studies. The workshop will take place on June 12th - just prior to #OHBM2026. See 👇 for details Everyone welcome 🤗
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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Schmidt et al. present PyLORAKS, a GPU-accelerated implementation of LORAKS, built with the PyTorch framework: doi.org/10.52294/001... @nikweiskopf.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 - www.cpconf.org @robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop More info to come soon!
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Nikolaus Weiskopf @nikweiskopf.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
What a view from the office!
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Nikolaus Weiskopf @nikweiskopf.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
We are looking for “Data Scientist or ML/AI expert” who will work at the cutting edge of data science and neuromaging in a collaboration between @mpicbs.bsky.social and the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF). Deadline: 10th Nov. 2025. Apply here:
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Data Scientist or Machine Learning / AI expert (m/f/d)
Data Scientist or Machine Learning / AI expert (m/f/d) to join the AI and High-Performance Data Analytics division of MPCDF.
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🔎Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine engagierte und kompetente Persönlichkeit für die Verwaltungsleitung (m/w/d) in Vollzeit | unbefristet | #Leipzig Bitte hier bewerben: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...? #wissenschaft #administration #career #maxplanck
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Verwaltungsleitung (m/w/d) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Verwaltungsleitung (m/w/d) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
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IMPRS CoNI @imprsconi.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The 1st #IMPRS CoNI Retreat is underway at the Augustinian Monastery in Erfurt! Our doctoral researchers connect through speed dating, alumni talks & AI sessions, plus workshops on open science & more. Grateful to all alumni & experts for sharing their insights! 😍😃🧠 imprs-coni.mpg.de #PhDLife
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IMPRS CoNI @imprsconi.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Interested in the brain 🧠 & in doing a PhD 👩‍🎓 🧑‍🎓 in the field of Cognitive NeuroImaging @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? Check out lnkd.in/egb9quuj & apply until 📅 Nov 2 through lnkd.in/eepFkaJs. 👉Excited to receiving your application! 🤩
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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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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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈 Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc! Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?
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Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🧠 Want to do a PhD in neuroimaging? 🏥 Want to have clinical impact? 👨‍🏫 Want to have an amazing supervisor to guide you? Look no further... 👇
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Deborah Talmi @dtalmi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We have an open postdoc position with Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social and Emily Holmes, at the Emotional Cognition Lab dtalmi.wixsite.com/emotional-co..., @uniofcam.bsky.social to conduct advanced memory modelling. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50770/ Apply by 21.4!
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Research Assistant/Research Associate in computational modelling of emotional memory (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant/Research Associate in computational modelling of emotional memory (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
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Siawoosh Mohammadi @siawooshmr.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Beautiful work from the @mpicbs.bsky.social! Tractography of short association fibres at 200 mu with @nikweiskopf.bsky.social &other colleagues not yet @bsky
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Saskia Helbling @saskiahelbling.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
U-fibres! <3 More exciting work on short association fibres led by the fabulous Fakhereh Movahedian Attar, together with Evgeniya Kirilina, @denischaimow.bsky.social, @lukejoeledwards.bsky.social, @tstr137.bsky.social, @siawooshmr.bsky.social, @nikweiskopf.bsky.social et al.
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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Ileana Jelescu @ijelescu.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
📢Registration is open for the 3rd GRC on *Tissue Microstructure Imaging*, happening July 12-18 at Stonehill College (Easton, MA, USA). Register early and spread the word!! Full program and registration: www.grc.org/tissue-micro...
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Denis Chaimow @denischaimow.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Excited to share our latest preprint: "Challenges in replicating layer-specificity of working memory processes in the human prefrontal cortex.”, where we attempted to replicate layer-specific fMRI findings in the human dlPFC during a working memory task. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Challenges in replicating layer-specificity of working memory processes in human dlPFC
Although working memory reliably activates the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), the functional significance of its distinct cytoarchitectonic layers is not well understood in humans. A recent f...
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Nikolaus Weiskopf @nikweiskopf.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Great job opportunity: Important Head of IT leadership position at our @mpicbs.bsky.social is open.
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling: Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
DCM is just a framework for estimating the statistical evidence for state-space models, which are fitted to time series data using Bayesian methods. Each model is a hypothesis. So the question is, what's the right data and models for your question. [1/5]
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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 25/11/2024
📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025! 📆 March 10-12, 2025 📍 Berlin & online 🔎 mindbrainbody.de Keynotes: - Ivan de Araujo - Nadine Gogolla - Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social - Markus Ullsperger - Tor Wager - Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social #interoception
Logo of the MindBrainBody Symposium
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Looking for a PhD in Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience or related in Germany? One week left to apply for the Max Planck School of Cognition: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application #PsychSciSky #compneurosky #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #Neuroimaging
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Christophe Phillips @chphillips.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#OHBM peeps might be interested in following Aperture Neuro, @apertureohbm.bsky.social , the organization official (and supported) publication outlet! And check it on apertureneuro.org
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Aperture Neuro
Enables a diverse approach to sharing and communicating high quality, community-based, open neuroscience research.
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Ileana Jelescu @ijelescu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
[clears throat, first BlueSky post] The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on *Tissue Microstructure Imaging* program is out! This unique meeting format offers a unifying look at tissue microstructure based on #MRI, #US, #optics, #EM , #x-ray, #photoacoustic, etc. Join us July 12-18 & repost! More 👇
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Read on the recent metascience retraction at NHB and how the authors have not been forthcoming with the truth, how they ended up engaging in many practices and decisions they would call QRPs themselves, and how due to power dynamics only their false framing gets media coverage (with one exception).
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Francesco Santini - ESMRMB2025 Program Chair @mrifranz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Let's create an #MRI researcher starter pack! There are a couple that are neuroimaging-based, but not really the method development community. I started putting together a few profiles, but please spread the word and tell me who else to add. If there is already one, let me know! go.bsky.app/EVqd6pe
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Philip Ruthig @philipruthig.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Recently, we preprinted our paper on the question if short and long white matter fibers in the human brain are different in fiber diameter, myelination, and g-ratio, using electron microscopy and deep learning approaches! biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵
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Human short association fibers are thinner and less myelinated than long fibers
The size and complexity of the human brain requires optimally sized and myelinated fibers. White matter fibers facilitate fast communication between distant areas, but also connect adjacent cortical r...
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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Join us for the Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org July 14-16 2025 in beautiful Tübingen, Germany. Proposals for symposia can now be submitted. Each symposium should have 4 speakers, and we are looking for symposia across the range from basic to clinical and big data.
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Computational Psychiatry Conference
University of Minnesota (July 16-18, 2024)
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Don't miss out on securing your spot for our upcoming #SPM course for #fMRI and #MRI/#VBM! Join us online from 14-16 October! The deadline to reserve your place is 13 October, and approaching fast! 🧠⬇️ onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
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D07 Statistical Parametric Mapping for fMRI & MRI/VBM Oct 2024 | UCL Online Store
This three-day online course introduces the analysis of neuroimaging data, including Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI). It covers:
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
We are now on Bluesky! 🧠 While we have appreciated the capacity to engage with colleagues on X, we have collectively decided to leave the platform because we feel Bluesky will be a more optimal platform for our scientific discourse.
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Prof. Vladimir Litvak @vlitvak.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
It's an amazing Nobel week for Queen Square as two people who worked at No. 12 and No. 17-19 get two Nobel prizes in two consecutive days. Not sure there is another location where this kind of coincidence has ever happened.
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Nikola Stikov @stikov.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Our vendor-neutral work got an oral in the News on relaxometry session at ESMRMB 2024 (3:30pm on Thursday) Agah Karakuzu could not get the visa to come to Barcelona, so it is up to me to live up to the title of the abstract
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
Studies by Nancy Kanwisher, Winrich Freiwald and Doris Tsao revealed how the brains of humans and other primates identify faces and helped establish an understanding of brain specialization. By @oliviagieger.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/20...
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2024 Kavli Prize awarded for research on face-selective brain areas
Studies by Nancy Kanwisher, Winrich Freiwald and Doris Tsao revealed how the brains of humans and other primates identify faces and helped establish an understanding of brain specialization.
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