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The Cognition and Brain Circuitry Lab at OSU, focusing on brain connectivity, function, and behavior, with a special focus on visual perception and attention. Thoughts and opinions are our own. Lab website: www.davidosher.com/index.html

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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
‼️ New article alert ‼️ from @isaacliao.bsky.social! Using a connectivity fingerprint modeling framework, we show that localizer task data is comparable to resting state data for predicting category selective areas at an individual level.
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Congratulations to @kearaginell.bsky.social for being awarded the Gibson Research Award from CCBBI! We are so proud and can't wait to see the amazing science she produces with this award. Read more about the award here: ccbbi.osu.edu/gibson-resea...
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Gibson Research Award | Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging
This fund was generously established by H. Dean and Susan Regis Gibson to help one or two outstanding graduate or undergraduate students to conduct brain imaging research in the Center for Cognitive a...
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We had a great time getting to meet @mikearcaro.bsky.social and hearing about his work! Thank you to CCBBI for bringing in such a wonderful speaker!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Happy start of the semester from the CBC Lab!! Let's make it a great one!
The CBC Lab stands in two rows in front a tree in front of the psychology building at OSU.  Each member is making a heart with their hands.
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tragically forgot to take a picture (having too much fun), but today we welcomed our new grad student, Libby, to the lab! This lab manager highly recommends bringing Kahoots to your lab meetings, we had a very laughter-filled time playing a get-to-know-you game! Turns out Keara knows us best :)
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zeynepsaygin.bsky.social @zeynepsaygin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Huge congrats to Dr. Hiershe who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation 🥳 We @zlab.bsky.social will miss her but look forward to seeing her flourish as she joins @evfedorenko.bsky.social lab as a postdoc this year!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Huge congratulations to our longtime academic bestie-- scientific term for close collaborator-- Dr (!!!) Kelly Hiersche of the @zlab.bsky.social for successfully defending her dissertation today!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Don’t miss your chance to see our posters!! Last day for our posters— we standby from 1:30-2:30/13:30-14:30 and the poster reception 4:45-6:00/16:45-18:00! #OHBM2026
Keara stands next to her poster, “Striatum Involvement in Sequence-based Covert Spatial Attentional Habits”.Ren stands next to the poster “Task-derived Functional Connectivity Captures Individual Differences in Functional Brain Activity”.
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Come chat neuroimaging with us this afternoon from 2:45-3:45/14:45-15:45! #OHBM2026
Keara stands next to her poster, “Striatum Involvement in Sequence-based Covert Spatial Attentional Habits”.Ren stands next to the poster, “Task-derived Functional Connectivity Captures Individual Differences in Functional Brain Activity”.
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Yuxuan Zeng @yuxuanzeng.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Nice week at #VSS2026! Many great talks and posters and a lovely reunion with friends!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We made it!!! Excited to be here for #OHBM2026
CBC lab members Ren, David (PI), and Keara (from left to right) stand among the crowd at the welcome reception.CBC lab members Ren and Keara (from left to right) pose with the OHBM 2026 banner outside the Palais.
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Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
📢 We are recruiting a full-time lab manager/RA joint between our lab and @marinabedny.bsky.social 's lab. A great opportunity for a recent grad interested in gaining more research experience in cognitive neuroscience. Details and apply here: hiring.jhu.edu/careers/job/...
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Research Assistant (KSAS - Cognitive Science) | Johns Hopkins University
We are seeking a Research Assistant who will work jointly in the Isik and Bedny labs on projects involving neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG), behavioral testing, and computational approaches. The position is p...
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The CBC Lab is going to @ohbmofficial.bsky.social ! We're so excited to talk about super awesome science in Bordeaux! #OHBM2026
A flyer with motherboard detailing in the background reads "CBCers at OHBM 2026", giving the information that Keara Ginell is presenting a poster entitled "Putamen involvement in sequence-based covert spatial attentional habits" and Ren Hentz is presenting "Task-derived functional connectivity captures individual differences in functional brain activity".  Both presenters will be on standby in Hall 1 at their posters on Monday, 6/15/2026 from 2:45-3:45 and Tuesday, 6/16/2026 from 1:30-2:30.  The Ohio State University and CBC Lab logo sit at the bottom of the flyer.
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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
First time at OHBM? Or looking to meet fellow OHBMers before the conference gets underway? Join us for a Morning Coffee and connect with other attendees. ☕ Monday, June 15 | 8:00–9:00am 📍 Loop Coffee (location in replies) Sponsored by @thetransmitter.bsky.social #OHBM2026
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
One more day of #VSS2026 to discuss functional connectivity with @isaacliao.bsky.social !
Isaac stands to the left of his poster, presenting it to a VSS attendee.  His poster is titled "Task-derived functional connectivity is sufficient to capture individual differences in ventral visual selectivity".
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Hopefully you didn't miss the chance to talk visual attention and eye movements with @kearaginell.bsky.social earlier this week! If you did, just a few more days to catch her in conversation! #VSS2026
Keara stands to the left of her poster, "Sequential spatial regularities bias visual attention via predictive eye movements".
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Come chat configural and featural processing with @yuxuanzeng.bsky.social, she is presenting NOW! #VSS2026
Yuxuan talks configural and featural processing with a VSS attendee.  They stand in front of her poster, with its original title crossed out and replaced with "When does expertise produce holistic processing and when does it fail?" as the new title.
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Come visit CBC Lab posters at @vssmtg.bsky.social! All of our posters are on Sunday, so you only have one day to see us. Don't miss out on the chance to chat with our lovely researchers!!
This is a poster describing where and when members of the CBC Lab are presenting posters at VSS 2026.  The heading reads "CBCers at VSS 2026".  On Sunday 5/17 from 8:30-12:30 in the Pavilion, Yuxuan Zeng is presenting "Holistic processing requires expertise, but expertise may develop rapidly" and Isaac Liao is presenting "Task-derived functional connectivity is sufficient to capture individual differences in ventral visual selectivity".  On Sunday 5/17 from 2:45-6:30 in the Pavilion, Keara Ginell is presenting "Sequential spatial regularities bias visual attention and guide anticipatory eye movements".
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Lil end-of-year treat!! Some things we are celebrating: 🎓 @isaacliao.bsky.social getting his Master's (defended today!) 🧠 @kearaginell.bsky.social completing an fMRI AND eye tracking experiment (two new methods!) 📝 @yuxuanzeng.bsky.social publishing a paper that lays the foundation for future work!
The CBC lab sits around a rectangular table, smiling for the camera with our bubble tea.Cheers-ing with our bubble tea!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Today we had our hands-on workshop with David Pitcher, and we learned so much!! It was so good we forgot to take pictures!!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The COSI Science Festival was a blast!! We had a great time doing some neuroscience demos and thanks @isaacliao.bsky.social for representing our lab!!
CCBBI members stand in front of their booth at the COSI Science Festival.  Isaac Liao of the CBC Lab is second from left.
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Today kicks off CCBBI's multi-day TMS workshop with Dr David Pitcher, and we couldn't be more excited to start learning!!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Check out Yuxuan's website for a comprehensive view of her work! You want her for a postdoc!!
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Z-Lab OSU @zlab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Recent work by Kelly Hiersche in collaboration with @osherlab.bsky.social demonstrates that language and theory of mind are functionally and spatially distinct in the brain of 3-9 year old children! @zeynepsaygin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Functional dissociation of language and theory of mind in the developing superior temporal lobe - Communications Biology
Functional MRI in young children demonstrates that brain regions supporting language and theory of mind are functionally and spatially distinct within the superior temporal lobe, and these functions a...
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
✨Your 2025-2026 CBC Lab✨ Another great academic year comes to an end! Thank you to all our lab members and collaborators for their hard work, and a big congrats to all you have accomplished!
Members of the CBC Lab stand in front of the psychology building in two rows.  A fully grown tree takes up the majority of the upper third space, the sunlight nicely backlighting it.  Members in the back row are (from left to right): Joseph Gera, Derrek Montalvo, David Osher, Isaac Liao, and Terra Miller.  Members in the front row are (from left to right): Ren Hentz, Sam Froehle, Yuxuan Zeng, Keara Ginell, and Lily Dettmer.Members of the CBC Lab stand in two rows in front of the psychology building, as in the previous photo, but now they are making hearts with their hands!!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We had a great time at the Ohio Science Olympiad STEM Expo, giving middle and high school students a chance to learn about brain research!
Lab member Ren stands behind a table of demos, talking to a group of students about brain research.  Demos on the table include a miniature MRI machine, model brain, and fMRI activation maps.
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Yuxuan Zeng @yuxuanzeng.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Excited to share that our new paper is out! Holistic processing can emerge for non-face objects, with no expertise required. Configuration (both 1st and 2nd order) is all you need! For CNN and correlation with face recognition read the paper!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
‼️ New article alert! ‼️ Yuxuan Zeng and @zitonglu.bsky.social challenge the idea that faces are unique in their ability to recruit holistic processing. Read the paper here!: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Face-like holistic processing in non-face stimuli
Holistic processing of visual stimuli has long been regarded as unique to faces, or otherwise extended to other object categories given sufficient exp…
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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Happy to see this paper officially published in Cognitive Psychology! A nice collaboration with Yuxuan Zeng and David Osher at OSU. We find face-like holistic processing in non-face stimuli - and Configuration is the answer! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Guess what's not just a preprint anymore... full post coming soon!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Stay tuned for a super cool article coming out of our lab soon... SO soon!!!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
And of course, our annual holiday party with the @zlab.bsky.social ! Our white elephant gift exchange was particularly lively this year, with great creativity going into the wrapping and one gift being a rotisserie chicken (stored safely in the fridge until the game!)!
The CBC lab stands in front of a Christmas tree.  There are two rows of lab members; in the back row is Terra, Isaac, Joseph, and David, and in the front row is Ren and Keara.
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Last Thursday was this account's manager's favorite day of the year... CCBBI Research Day! Dr Osher gave an awesome talk and here is @isaacliao.bsky.social with his poster!
Isaac stands to the right of a large poster on an easel.  The poster is entitled "Task-derived Functional Connectivity is Sufficient to Capture Individual Differences in Functional Brain Region Selectivity".
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
‼️ New article alert! ‼️ In collaboration with Kelly Hiersche from the @zlab.bsky.social ! Read the scholarly article here: direct.mit.edu/netn/article... The article from Ohio State News here: news.osu.edu/a-birds-eye-... And read on through this thread for a summary!
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Connectivity and function are coupled across cognitive domains throughout the brain
Abstract. Decades of neuroimaging have revealed that the functional organization of the brain is roughly consistent across individuals, and at rest, it resembles group-level task-evoked networks. A fu...
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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📅 Save the Date: November 3, 2025 The #OHBM2026 Call for Content & Call for Reviewers opens! ✨ New this year: submissions via Oxford Abstracts. 🗓 Submission Window: November 3-December 15, 2025 🌍 Join us in shaping the program for Bordeaux, France!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We're nearly halfway through the semester (woo!) and over halfway to the OSU application deadline of Nov 15 (ah!)! If you have questions or want to learn more about our work, feel free to reach out! We'd love to hear from you!
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Dr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
NSF GRFP solicitation is up! Eligibility has changed! Second year grad students are no longer eligible. Only first years, senior undergrads and those in between. Deadlines moved back a bit from late October to early November. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 18/09/2025
Nature Reviews Neuroscience has turned 25! To mark the anniversary, the October issue features an expanded selection of Comments and Journal Clubs, and our first World View and Tools of the Trade articles. Check out the issue here: www.nature.com/nrn/volumes/... #neuroscience #neuroskyence
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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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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Check out the awesome science coming to you this week at FLUX from the @zlab.bsky.social !!!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🧠 We are accepting graduate students for fall 2026! 🧠 If you are interested in vision or attention and how they relate to function and behavior, and want to explore these with a plethora of tools, we'd love for you to apply! Check out our website (www.davidosher.com/index.html) and get in touch!
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Cognition and Brain Circuitry Laboratory
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Happy start of the semester Buckeyes!!! We can't wait to have our whole lab back together in person!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
PhD candidate in the house!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Huge congratulations to Yuxuan, who passed her candidacy exam today! We are so proud!!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Scientists! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun! We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15 If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
a canva graphic that says "How it works Step 1:  Go to SkypeAScientist.com
Step 2: Click “Sign Up” then “Scientist
              Sign Up Form”
Step 3: Tell us about yourself
Step 4: Get matched with a classroom
Step 5: Connect with the teacher
Step 6: Make a kid’s day 
isn't that great?
@SkypeAScientist"
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
19 days til the start of the semester... we haven't been resting but discussing our current and future research projects in lab meeting yesterday sure did make us excited for the next few months!!! What are you most looking forward to this upcoming semester?
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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...
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Research Associate
Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...
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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Incredibly excited and grateful to share that I’ll be starting a lab at The Ohio State University this(!) fall! My lab will study human learning and memory, with related interests in sleep, stress, and time perception. More info soon, but do get in touch if you’re interested in joining!
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Finally, we have Isaac perfectly matching the VSS vibe and presenting on his awesome first-year project! Thanks everyone for a wonderful #VSS2025, we'll see you next summer!
Isaac discusses his poster, entitled "Distinct connectivity fingerprints reveal functional specialization in the ventral visual stream", with viewers at VSS 2025.Isaac discusses his poster, entitled "Distinct connectivity fingerprints reveal functional specialization in the ventral visual stream", with viewers at VSS 2025.
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Yuxuan killed it with her third poster investigating configuration and feature processing! Way to go Yuxuan, your work is fantastic!
Yuxuan chats with a fellow VSS attendee in front of her poster, entitled "Rethinking configurational and feature-based processing in visual recognition".Yuxuan chats with a fellow VSS attendee in front of her poster, entitled "Rethinking configurational and feature-based processing in visual recognition".
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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I spy our very own Isaac in the crowd! Such an awesome satellite event!
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