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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This work is in collaboration with @zeynepsaygin.bsky.social @zlab.bsky.social and Kendrick Kay. Check out the full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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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 · 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

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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

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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.

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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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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

We also ask how these effects relate to face recognition ability and whether they extend to CNNs—spoiler alert, they do!

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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

They did, but specifically for configural information, and not just for second-order configuration. First-order configuration showed the same pattern. This suggests that configuration itself may be what fundamentally drives holistic processing.

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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

In this new paper, we used novel non-face stimuli and briefly trained participants to process either configural or featural information. We then tested whether classic signatures of holistic processing would emerge.

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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

This suggests a universal principal of brain function: neural selectivity is generally governed by global patterns of connectivity.

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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

These models all fit extremely well, demonstrating that, across the brain and across a multitude of mental functions, around 80% of the variance in neural responses can be explained by connectivity.

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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We designed models that combine the average functional connectivity pattern across 1,018 individuals from the Human Connectome Project, with meta-analytic maps of brain function from NeuroQuery, across 33 different cognitive domains.

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Osher Lab @osherlab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We wanted to know whether brain connectivity and neural response patterns are broadly linked, at a bird’s eye view.

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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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