Osher Lab

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.

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!)!

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".

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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...

‼️ 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!

📅 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!

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!

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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...

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

PCDL @ OSU

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

Check out the awesome science coming to you this week at FLUX from the @zlab.bsky.social !!!

🧠 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!

Happy start of the semester Buckeyes!!! We can't wait to have our whole lab back together in person!

PhD candidate in the house!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Huge congratulations to Yuxuan, who passed her candidacy exam today! We are so proud!!

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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

Our area hosted a picnic... the great outdoors AND community!

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!

osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

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.

Five people stand together, posing for the camera, on a beach with palm trees and lights. The sunset and hanging lights cast a warm glow.

Eight people stand together on a beach, posing for the camera, while a ninth person sits in front of the row of people holding a "Happy birthday!" balloon. Two palm trees and a sunset complete the beach background.

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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