Osher Lab

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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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!

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Super excited to have you here!!

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!

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.

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!

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".

Yuxuan killed it with her third poster investigating configuration and feature processing! Way to go Yuxuan, your work is fantastic!

I spy our very own Isaac in the crowd! Such an awesome satellite event!

Keara explains her research poster, entitled "Memory-Guided Spatiotemporal Attention", to a fellow Vision Sciences Society conference attendee.

Keara explains her research poster, entitled "Memory-Guided Spatiotemporal Attention", to a fellow Vision Sciences Society conference attendee.

Keara's poster session was amazing, thanks everyone for stopping by and asking such engaging questions! We are super proud of @kearaginell.bsky.social's hard work.

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Having fun at dinner with the @zlab.bsky.social! What's better than hanging out with research friends on the beach :)

Come see us at #VSS2025!
Kelly w/ "Developmental Variability in Location and Function of High-Level Visual Areas" and Lauren w/ "Investigating Visual and Auditory Language Responses in the Ventral Temporal Cortex of Pre-Reading Children: A Multivariate Analysis" in the Pavilion on Sunday afternoon!

An infographic with a white background and motherboard wiring-esque elements in each corner. The heading reads "CBCers at VSS 2025", and the body lists off the day, time, location, presenter, and poster title. From top to bottom, the body reads: "Sunday, 8:30-12:30, pavilion, Keara Ginell, Memory-Guided Spatiotemporal Attention. Monday, 8:30-12:30, Banyan Breezeway, Yuxuan Zeng, Rethinking Configurational and Feature-Based Processing in Visual Recognition. Monday, 8:30-12:30, pavilion, Isaac Liao, Distinct Connectivity Fingerprints Reveal Functional Specialization in the Ventral Visual Stream." The Ohio State logo and the CBC lab logo share the final remaining space at the bottom.

We'll be at #VSS2025, presenting on the awesome work that's been happening in the lab all year long. Come check out our posters and say hi!

Thanks for all the organizing, @vssmtg.bsky.social, we see the work you do!

Congratulations to Julie Golomb, The Ohio State University and Chris Baker, National Institute of Mental Health! They have been elected by the VSS membership to serve on the VSS Board of Directors. Their four-year term will begin in May 2025.
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Over the weekend, some of our lab members volunteered their time at the Science Olympiad STEM Expo, sharing our research with students, parents, and educators from all over Ohio! We thank CCBBI and Ohio Science Olympiad for the opportunity, we had a lot of fun!

Congratulations to our graduate student, Kelly Hiersche for winning the Herbert A. Toops Research Award for the most outstanding and creative article published by a Psychology graduate student in 2024!

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Happy last day of classes, it's been a great semester!

Today is also very good day because we are collecting our very first eye tracking data! Huge thank you to our PI, grad students, support staff, and @pupil-labs.bsky.social for their help getting this off the ground!

HUGE congratulations to grad student @kearaginell.bsky.social for being awarded the NSF GRFP!!! We are so proud and excited to see where her work goes!!!

By isolating configural information, we demonstrate its involvement in driving holistic processing, suggesting that holistic processing extends beyond faces and can occur with any stimulus that requires configural processing for recognition, even with just 30 minutes of training time.

We also trained a convolutional neural network with these stimuli, and we observed the same effects as in humans: holistic disruptions occurred specifically for configural, but not featural stimuli.

We found that these holistic disruptions slowed reaction times and decreased accuracy for configural, but not featural stimuli, in all four effects.

In the training phase, we asked participants to sort the stimuli into two pre-determined categories. In the testing phase, we modified the stimuli to reflect four common face effects that disrupt holistic processing: the inversion, part-whole, composite, and misalignment effects.

We created configural stimuli that share identical features but vary in their configurations, and featural stimuli that vary in their features but their configuration is unrelated to the task.

Isolated Configuration: Holistic Processing Beyond the Realm of Faces Holistic processing has traditionally been regarded as unique to faces, attributed to the spatial layout across facial features and their variability across individuals. However, whether such processi...

‼️ Exciting preprint alert ‼️ Yuxuan Zeng and @zitonglu.bsky.social demonstrate that holistic processing, commonly associated with face processing can be induced using configural, nonface stimuli!
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Today we are super excited because we are welcoming potential new grad students to the lab! It's visit day! We will continue to train the next generation of scientists and it's lovely to have them here.

Overhead Costs

⚕️ What are the 'overhead' costs that the NIH wants to cut? ✂️

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#NIHcuts #overheadcosts #academicsky

Sharing in case this is useful for others in a similar role. Today I taught my undergrad Intro Cog Neuro class about indirects and research grant funding. Some details:

Our lab manager got to see some super cool science being done around Ohio State yesterday! So many exciting applications and amazing work. Thank you CTSI for hosting the Annual Scientific Meeting! #CTSIASM25

We had a great time at CCBBI's lunch and speaker series today! A huge thank you to CCBBI and center director @ruchikaprakash.bsky.social for the amazing work they do.