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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If AVMoments-EEG sparks an idea, please reach out to me! Questions & collaborations are very welcome! 🙌

Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Compared with EMD doi.org/10.48550/arX..., AVMoments-EEG has two design features that we think are particularly complementary: (1) We did not constrain participants’ eye movements during video viewing. (2) Our test set includes controlled manipulations of the auditory and visual streams.

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A large dataset of human EEG responses to short naturalistic videos for studying dynamic visual event processing

Vision neuroscience has experienced a surge in the collection and use of large-scale datasets of brain responses to naturalistic images. However, static images lack the temporal dimension essential fo...

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AVMoments-EEG gives us a densely sampled dataset for studying the temporal dynamics of naturalistic audiovisual event processing. We release data across the full processing pipeline - from raw recordings to stimulus-level organized derivatives - together with the preprocessing code.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧠🎬 Our (w/ Dongwei Li) AVMoments-EEG dataset is out! We recorded EEG from 10 participants watching 3-s naturalistic videos (8 EEG sessions and 10,368 trials per partcipant). Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... Dataset: zenodo.org/records/2222... Code: github.com/ShuningTangg...

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

4/ Finally, we scaled Img2EEG to ImageNet, generating ImageNet-SimEEG: simulated EEG responses from 10 human participants for ImageNet images, totaling >10 million EEG epochs. We then explored its potential for both BCI and NeuroAI applications.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

3/ We can also run in silico experiments with Img2EEG. By recreating established experimental manipulations, the model reproduces the classic N170 effect - and then lets us go further by probing the representations that give rise to this neural signature.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

2/ More importantly, Img2EEG is manipulable. By selectively perturbing different feature representations, we can ask when different types of information contribute to the EEG response, allowing us to precisely trace the temporal dynamics of visual processing.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1/ Img2EEG generates both stimulus-specific and participant-specific EEG responses from visual images, capturing not only which image a person sees, but also systematic differences across individuals. This provides the foundation for everything that follows.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our Img2EEG preprint is now on bioRxiv! 🧠⚡️ Excited to share this project from my PhD w/ @juliedgolomb.bsky.social ! We build Img2EEG that generates human EEG responses directly from images - and then use it as a manipulable simulated brain to study visual processing.👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you work on representational similarity analysis (RSA) or classification-based decoding, NeuroRA is designed to be simple and accessible tool for your analyses. Feedback is very welcome! Pypip website: pypi.org/project/neurora GitHub website: github.com/ZitongLu1996/NeuroRA

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

NeuroRA 2.0.1 is now released!🥳 ✅Optimized functional structure ✅Improved statistical analyses ✅Added multi-threading options, w/ 10-100x speedups ✅Added partial correlation RSA functions zitonglu1996.github.io/NeuroRA/

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A Python Toolbox for Multimode Neural Data Representation Analysis - A Representational Analysis Toolbox for Neuroscience, including Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA), & Inter-Subject Correla...

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New preprint! Had this idea of linking cognitive neuroscience and molecular biology years ago. Working with my girlfriend in mito-biology, we combined NSD, MitoMap & AHBA - found diff info representations in human brains may correspond to diff mitochondrial phenotypes. doi.org/10.64898/202...

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novablueskey.bsky.social @novablueskey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Princeton PhD students forced to quit by former advisor, Sabine Kastner, and department leadership after reporting Kastner’s academic misconduct. Multiple former lab members have now formally reported the matter. It involves ongoing NIH grants of over $20m.

Screenshot of the first page of a formal report addressed to Princeton administrators. The document states that the author is reporting alleged retaliation by a former adviser and departmental leadership after raising concerns about research integrity. It says the author was removed from the lab, prevented from obtaining another adviser, and told these actions occurred because he raised concerns anonymously.

Screenshot from a formal report stating that, after leaving the lab, the author spoke with former postdocs and graduate students who reported alleged research misconduct by Professor Sabine Kastner. The document states that multiple former lab members came forward, that some remain anonymous due to fear of retaliation, and that the allegations involve NIH-funded publications in Science, Nature Neuroscience, and Neuron.

Screenshot of the closing section of a formal report. The document states that additional supporting materials are available upon request and asks for protection from further retaliation, reinstatement of the author’s academic status, and an impartial review of both the alleged retaliation and the reported research misconduct.

Screenshot of a Princeton Neuroscience Institute faculty webpage displaying a portrait of Sabine Kastner above her name.

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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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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

If you are new to EEG analysis or interested in transitioning to Python based workflow, you are welcome to attend!!

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Rui Xu @rui-xu.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

New preprint as my first post! "Monosynaptic connections link functionally similar regions in human cortex." We use electrical stimulation + fMRI in epilepsy patients to map whole-brain monosynaptic connectivity at 42 cortical sites. doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/n

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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My paper with @mikearcaro.bsky.social exploring the organization of the visual system in newborn infants is now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social !

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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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Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Our new paper on brain networks engaged during imagining is out now in Neuron! Here is a download link (free for 50 days): authors.elsevier.com/c/1msNE3BtfH... Congratulations to Nate Anderson for leading this work @rementurus.bsky.social 🧵

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Can we use human EEG data to optimize vision models? Yes! Our ReAlnet paper is finally out @commsbio.nature.com w/ Yile Wang & @juliedgolomb.bsky.social !! Our alignment framework makes ANNs more brain-like, enhancing model-human similarity across EEG, fMRI, and behavior. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

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Achieving more human brain-like vision via human EEG representational alignment - Communications Biology

EEG-aligned fine-tuning makes artificial vision models more brain-like, enhancing model-human representational similarity across EEG, fMRI, and behavior.

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Colton Casto @coltoncasto.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUU83BtfH... 1/n 🧵👇

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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I have a PhD opening for my #VIDI BrainShorts project 📽️🧠🤖! Are you or do you know an ambitious, recent (or almost) MSc graduate with a background in NeuroAI and interest in large-scale data collection and video perception? Check out our vacancy! (deadline Feb 15). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Vacancy — PhD Position in NeuroAI for Video Perception in the Human Brain

<p><span>Are you interested in using AI to unravel the mysteries of the brain? Do you want to perform cutting-edge NeuroAI research and leverage deep learning to understand human vision? Then check out the vacancy below and apply for a PhD position in this exciting research direction.</span></p>

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Dirk Bernhardt-Walther @dirkbwalther.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

What determines the perception of orientations in visual cortex, sharp contours or oriented spatial frequencies? It's the contours, the building blocks for shape. Brilliant paper by Seohee Han out in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @uoftpsychology.bsky.social

(a) Mean cross-validated R2 for each model, averaged across participants and shown separately for each visual area (V1–hV4) and across all ROIs combined. Error bars indicate ± 1 SEM. All pairwise differences were significant except between the Contour-Based and Line Drawing–Steerable Pyramid Models in hV4. (b) Mean R2 by population receptive field eccentricity. Eccentricities of voxels are binned up to 4.2 visual angle which was the extent of the image from the central fixation mark. (c) Left: Visual ROI on an inflated surface map in fsaverage space. Right: R2 difference surface map in fsaverage space. R2 from the Photo-Steerable Pyramid Model was subtracted from the Contour Model. Positive values indicate bigger R2 values from Contour compared to Photo-Steerable Pyramid Model.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Wanna to know how the human brain encodes the spatial location in 3D space? Come to my poster at #SfN25 this afternoon!

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Come to see our poster tomorrow morning at R2!

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racheldenison.bsky.social @racheldenison.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

My lab at Boston University has open positions for a postdoc and PhD students. We study visual perception, attention, and decision making with a focus on temporal dynamics. Check out our recent work here sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/ and email me if you're interested in learning more

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

6/n This unique EEG-fMRI dataset is the first large-scale, multimodal neuroimaging dataset for 3D visual perception. We will make this rich and novel resource openly available to support future investigations~

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

5/n Also, check this super cool figure of the timecouse of spatial processing in human brains!

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

4/n In addition to feature- and coordinate-level representations, We further provide novel evidence for 3D geometric distance representations in regions such as the parahippocampal cortex, highlighting its role in encoding higher-order spatial structure.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

3/n We demonstrate that the human brain flexibly encodes spatial information using multiple spatial features in multiple coordinate systems at different points in time and brain space.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

2/n Our findings reveal a spatiotemporal gradient in the encoding of spatial features: early, widespread representations of 2D features, followed by later, more selective depth and 3D feature encoding across distinct cortical regions.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

1/n Here we introduce a multimodal framework combining individualized perceptual depth calibration, large-scale EEG and fMRI recordings (over 66,000 trials in total across 10 participants), and computational approaches to characterize neural encoding of 3D spatial locations.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Excited to share new preprint! This is one of my most important PhD projects w/ @juliedgolomb.bsky.social. We explored the integrated nature of 3D visual perception - how individual spatial features are jointly represented & how they converge into coherent 3D representations in human brain?

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Vivian Paulun @vivianpaulun.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Super excited to share our new article: “Dissociable cortical regions represent things and stuff in the human brain” with @nancykanwisher.bsky.social, @rtpramod.bsky.social and @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social Video abstract: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0XR... Paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lWxv3QW8S...

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Things and Stuff: How the brain distinguishes oozing fluids from solid objects

YouTube video by McGovern Institute

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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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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

PhDone in 4 years! Deeply grateful to have worked in @juliedgolomb.bsky.social 's lab - thank you for all the support and guidance! Also, couldn't be happier to graduate with @yongminchoi.bsky.social - we did it!

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The blue-highlighted projects are the three main studies I’ll cover in my dissertation talk. The red boxes mark the four projects I’m most proud of during my PhD.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

4 years ago, I arrived in the U.S. with everything unknown. During these unforgettable years at OSU, I've worked on 15 papers across experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroAI — all to better understand human visual perception. Tomorrow, I will defend my PhD! 🎓

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Yong Min Choi 👀🧠 @yongminchoi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Ever wonder how we perceive a stable world despite constantly moving our eyes? 👀 We investigated how the brain maintains visual stability across eye movements in natural scenes.

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Zejin Lu @zejinlu.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

See our recent work about nonface configuration triggering holistic processing! Nice collaboration with Osher lab!

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Jean-Rémi King @jeanremiking.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🚨Job alert: Postdoc in our Brain & AI team at Meta, Paris to work on self supervised learning and fMRI. Apply here: www.metacareers.com/jobs/6951286... (And please feel free to RT)

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Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.

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Zitong Lu @zitonglu.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

So excited to share our new paper in JEP:HPP with former undergrad mentee @avaaaaran.bsky.social and @juliedgolomb.bsky.social! Check how we apply a super interesting design to investigate object-location binding of a moving object!

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