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Rosanna Olsen

@rosannaolsen.bsky.social
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Cognitive Neuroscientist; interested in understanding how memory changes as we age; I also love cats and running marathons Senior Scientist, Rotman Research Institute Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Toronto www.olsenmemorylab.com

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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#ThetaThursday! 〰️
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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Woohoo; our recontact of BHAMM study participants to come back for a longitudinal study is going well!! Let’s hope the Fall CIHR PJT reviewers appreciate all the efforts my lab had put into calling, emailing & surveying our BHAMM cohort 🤞🏽🙏🏽🤞🏽
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#OHBM2026 is over but the inspiration and learning continues at Univ Bordeaux at our @hipposubfields.bsky.social symposium and workshop! 🇫🇷🍤🧠
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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Come visit the OHBM SP-SIG table! We offer stickers to decorate your name tags, information about events at OHBM and more!
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Attending #OHBM2026.🇫🇷? You will not want to miss Monday morning's keynote by Nanthia Suthana (chaired by yours truly 😊). I can't wait!!
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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
📸✨ This year participate in the OHBM 2026 Photo Giveaway! Show us your OHBM POV — from inspiring sessions and poster hall discoveries to networking moments, coffee breaks, and everything in between. Capture your experience. Share your perspective. Show us your OHBM.
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I'll be chairing the Learning and Memory Oral session at #OHBM2026 on Tuesday! Hope to see you all there! See below for one of our six amazing speakers!
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu
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Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News  Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202...
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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Are you attending @ohbmofficial.bsky.social next week? If so, please visit our posters to say 👋🏽 and learn about our latest findings from the Brain Health at Midlife & Menopause (BHAMM) Study! #womensbrainhealth @bheamlab.bsky.social @rosannaolsen.bsky.social @researchtmu.bsky.social
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Finally, today is the day: Josefine Zerbe will present and release our new multi-echo 7T fMRI dataset LAION-fMRI during #VSS2026, with >30 fMRI session per subject and unprecedented stimulus diversity. Come to Talk Room 1 (Scene perception) today at 5:15. Details will follow in a separate thread!
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Excited to see/share this in its final published form!
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International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow @icom-memory.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We have a new preprint which characterizes characterizes two arteries that form the major blood supply to the hippocampus using in vivo Time-of-Flight (TOF) MR angiography 3T on 7T and . 🍤. We used compressed sensing to substantially reduce scan time and compare vessel diameter estimates and CNR.
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab: Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex @nature.com "..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature
Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Want to learn about our harmonized protocol for hippocampal subfield segmentation but can't make it to Bordeaux in June? We have another option available from May 7-8 in Detroit, Michigan (Wayne State University). Learn the hippocampal body protocol from expert @dranadaugherty.bsky.social !
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Hippocampal Subfields Group @hipposubfields.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Are you interested in learning the HSG protocol for hippocampal subfield segmentation? A HSG hosted symposium and workshop will be held in Bordeaux, June 19-20, immediately following OHBM2026. For more information about the event and to secure your spot, go here: simpli.events/e/hsg-bordea...
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HSG Symposium and Workshop in Bordeaux 2026 | Simpli Events
Get ready for a HSG Symposium and Workshop taking place right after OHBM in Bordeaux 2026! This event offers an opportunity to hear from fellow subfield imaging researchers and to learn how to apply t...
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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings. Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C... You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Only a few more days to get your application in to come and join our team as a Research Officer helping with recruitment on a large-scale brain imaging project! Applications close Jan 30: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Job Search
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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🚨 I'm searching for a full-time research coordinator to join my group & work on precision brain 🧠 network and cognitive control projects at both 3T and 7T. Please rt 🙌 Applications due: Feb. 26 Start date: flexible, as early as June More 👇 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
How do hippocampal pathways contribute to learning regularities and exceptions? To answer this, Melisa Gumus & @drmack.bsky.social use diffusion imaging to identify the endpoints of different hippocampal pathways, and then analyze functional activity within those "footprints". Super innovative!
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
PhD students: Do you have experience with structural or fMRI data analysis? Are you interested in data harmonization, open science, and cognitive aging? 🧠📊 💻 If yes, this post-doc position in my lab is perfect for you! Please share with your networks! jobs-ca.silkroad.com/Baycrest/Car...
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Hippocampal Subfields Group @hipposubfields.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Registration open for the HSG-hosted "Ricardo Insausti In Memorian Webinar" on February 12, 2026. Join as we reflect on Ricardo's many contributions to the field and the impact he had on those around him. The event is free but registration required (link below): www.eventbrite.com/e/ricardo-in...
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Matt Krause @prokraustinator.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Dear #Neuroskyence friends, Can anyone recommend a good database for (macaque) connectivity? I'd love something like CoCoMap, but it seems to have succumbed to bitrot.
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Opportunity to move to Canada. 🍁 The Lifespan Institute @brocku.ca is looking to hire a Canada Excellence Research Chair In Healthy Development Across the Lifespan. More info in the job ad (salary negotiable). brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree....
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Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Healthy Development Across the Lifespan at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured
This position is part of the BUFA (Employee Group) Brock University is located on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, many of whom continue to live and work here to...
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Robin de Flores @robindeflores.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
📢 Exciting Announcement! The Hippocampal Subfields Group (HSG) is hosting an in-person event right after #OHBM2026 in Bordeaux, France! 🇫🇷 Save the date! More details coming soon.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
If you are an MRI researcher interested in moving to 🇨🇦 for $500k a year or $1M a year for 8 years with a possibility of renewal at a reduced rate, take a look at our equipment cfmm.uwo.ca and this program www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl... . MSK, neuroscience, cardiac, cancer applications all encouraged!
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Canada Impact+ Research Chairs - Canada.ca
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This is a really excellent summary of the key points for data viz. Its so important in research and often overlooked in training.
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
please see the save the date below for more information about our 2026 workshop following #OHBM2026 @robindeflores.bsky.social
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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 15/11/2025
We are definitely going to sell out of laser cut brain earrings early in the conference!!! Warning! #SfN25
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Soroush Mirjalili @soroushmirjalili.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference? In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hippocampal transformations occur along dimensions of memory interference
The role of the hippocampus in resolving memory interference has been greatly elucidated by considering the relationship between the similarity of visual stimuli (input) and corresponding similarity o...
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Super excited for this paper from postdoc @grahamflick.bsky.social who has used eye tracking and MEG to better understand how the timing of our eye movements can affect our visual perception and memory.
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Fyi if you're an educator looking for videos about the brain and/or how neuroscience is done, check out @brainfacts.org's YouTube page: youtube.com/@brainfactsorg It includes submissions to their Brain Awareness Week video contest, which can be quite fun! #neuroskyence
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Deadline Oct 15: Asst. prof. (tenure track), AI in Psych Science, @uoftpsychology.bsky.social jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor - Artificial Intelligence in Psychological Science
Assistant Professor - Artificial Intelligence in Psychological Science
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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Woohoo 🥳 Congratulations to Sara for also succeeding defending her MA thesis (co-supervised by @rosannaolsen.bsky.social) yesterday !! @researchtmu.bsky.social
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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan
How does cerebral blood perfusion map onto micro-, meso- and macro-scale brain structure? Using arterial spin labeling data from the Human Connectome Project, this study provides a detailed characteri...
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Xiongbo Wu @xiongbowu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🚨 New preprint alert! Excited to share our latest work on alpha/beta activity, eye movements, and memory. Across 4 experiments combining scalp EEG/iEEG with eye tracking, we show that alpha/beta activity directly reflects eye movements, and only indirectly relates to memory. 👇 Highlights (1/7):
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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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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Western University is offering new scholarships of up to 40k CAD for four years to doctoral students who are studying at, have an offer from, or have had an offer rescinded from one of the top 100 American universities. Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!
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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Excited to share my new lab website! The Learning & Behavior Change Lab will launch at Rice in July 2026. I’ll be recruiting over the next year! @ricesocsci.bsky.social www.sinclairlab-rice.com
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The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair
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Jan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 08/07/2025
This is how you can test selected comparisons in #tidyplots 0.3.1 📋 #rstats #dataviz #phd
library(tidyplots)

study |>
  tidyplot(x = treatment, y = score, color = treatment) |>
  add_mean_dash() |>
  add_sem_errorbar() |>
  add_data_points() |>
  add_test_pvalue(comparisons = list(c(1,3),c(2,4)))
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OHBM Communications Committee (ComCom) @ohbm-com.com · 05/07/2025
We loved Dr Joana Cabral's excellent keynote at #OHBM2025 In our latest #BrainBite, we created a summary of some of her work, written for non-experts. Could slow rhythmic brain waves be key to understanding cognition? Read the article here: www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...
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Keynote series Dr. Joana Cabral - The Brain’s Slow Dance: How Macroscale Oscillations Orchestrate Long-Range Neural Communication — OHBM Communications
A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Joana Cabral (University of Minho) reveals how slow, brain-wide oscillations—detected via ultrafast fMRI—coordinate long-range neural communication in female rats. ...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 06/06/2025
An Analysis of 200 pairwise statistics for functional brain connectivity in tasks such as hub mapping, distance relationships, structure-function coupling and behavior prediction highlights their effectiveness for neurophysiological applications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain - Nature Methods
In this Analysis, Liu et al. benchmark more than 200 pairwise statistics for functional brain connectivity in tasks such as hub mapping, distance relationships, structure–function coupling and behavio...
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
@giuliaabaracc.bsky.social @franklandlab.bsky.social @sjo09.bsky.social @richardfbetzel.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social @vborghesani.bsky.social @cherylkeller.bsky.social @toddc.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social so many #Scientistswhorun
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
That's a wrap on #OHBM2025! I taught in an educational course on hippocampal neuroanatomy and gave a symposium talk on the role of medial temporal lobe subregions in associative inference
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This is your quarterly reminder that the hippocampus is a cortical (not subcortical) structure! Nicola Palomero-Gallagher underscored this point during our #OHBM2025 educational course!
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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
"It takes a village to raise a child." Thanks to all the members of the SP-SIG and everyone who has helped behind the scenes with the upcoming events at #OHBM2025
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Enjoying a day at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary before #OHBM2025 🐨🦘
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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
🎉🎉#OHBM2025 is just around the corner! Remember to visit the SP-SIG stall next to the registration desk and add stickers to your badge describing your research interests!
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Joel Voss @vosstacular.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread! cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/
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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Are you attending #OHBM2025 in Brisbane? I will be presenting in an educational session organized by Hiromasa Takemura and Nicola Palomero-Gallagher. Tuesday, Jun 24, 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM, Room M4 For details of our course please visit the following URL: ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Even...
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