Lisa S. Scott 🧠

Automated detection of mouth opening in newborn infants - Behavior Research Methods Automated behavioral measurement using machine learning is gaining ground in psychological research. Automated approaches have the potential to reduce the labor and time associated with manual behavio...

First human newborn paper from my NSF CAREER Award! Automated detection of mouth opening in newborn infants - with our amazing @umiamipsych.bsky.social team: Guangyu Zung, Yeojin Amy Ahn, @tiffany6390.bsky.social, @semaylott.bsky.social, Arushi Malik, @dmessinger.bsky.social doi.org/10.3758/s134...

The findings suggest that the brain's ability to prioritize and streamline learned objects develops with experience during the first year of life and that competitive neural interactions support early attention, perception, and learning.

We showed that competitive neural interactions increased with age. While 6-month-old infants showed no competition, by 9 and 12 months, visuocortical responses favored the trained objects at the expense of untrained objects. And the type of label in the storybook didn’t seem to matter.

Competitive Cortical Prioritization Emerges for Trained Objects across the First Year of Life Learning to detect and recognize a broad range of visual objects is a crucial developmental task during the first year of life. However, many of the neurophysiological changes underlying the emergence...

Im very excited about this work out from our recent infant ssVEP study! Led by postdoc Maeve Boylan! After infants learn about objects while reading a book with a parent, their brains prioritize the processing of familiarity. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Distinct alpha networks modulate different aspects of perceptual decision-making Fluctuations in alpha-band neural oscillations influence whether we perceive faint stimuli, but how these oscillations relate to different perceptual processes is not clear. This study shows that alph...

Check out our latest work led by @joeyzhou.bsky.social on alpha oscillatory networks in PLOS Biology!
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Do ongoing alpha activity fluctuations influence perceptual sensitivity or criterion?

Developmental alterations in brain network asymmetry in 3- to 9-month infants with congenital sensorineural hearing loss Early sensorineural hearing loss disrupts lateralization development of the brain network.

Expecting experience, not getting it, the brain adapts
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Paid parental leave would be great too :) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Yup

I don’t even know what an ai wrapper is 😬

That’s what I’m going to try to do in a grant writing class. Give them time in class to work and provided guided direction: e.g., this is how to write an abstract now write the first part and post in your google doc. Also partner work decreases AI use I think???

I guess we need to find ways to encourage active learning. Maybe more frequent testing or in class reading workshops- where students read/work in class without AI. Or tasks that involve AI but encourage active learning. At this point I think it all needs to change.

Yes, maybe. But try putting a pdf of a paper in and hit the create video button. I’ve found the videos do a better job of explaining complex papers than I can. I’ve used it to explain things to me I don’t understand.

Learning about notebooklm this past week was a defining moment/realization for me. Students don’t need me to lecture. The classroom is for human connection.

It’s The End Of College As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) The radical changes that AI is bringing to higher education includes a paradigm shift that is unprecedented. Only institutions with agility will survive.

“faculty & staff will become a more critical component of the college experience, providing increased individualized & group human interactions. Instead of spending 3 hours a week in a lecture hall, students have more direct engagement w/ a professor...” www.forbes.com/sites/nichol...

Our new paper explains the #polarization of public health

Identifying with a social group can shape people’s beliefs and values, leading them to act in ways that have consequences for their health

From vaccine hesitancy to smoking cessation, identity plays a critical role:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Ok @uf forcing everyone back to work is making traffic horrible & parking impossible. Also everyone is angry because- traffic for an hour & 30 mins trying to park. Not a good plan: paying people to drive around angry on campus, when they could be peacefully & productively working at home.

Deleting data or stopping its collection will erase years of valuable brain research An explosion in open-neuroscience datasets has created a new generation of researchers with expertise in data science. But new federal restrictions in the United States put their research programs in…

www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

Me: coach posted a powerpoint presentation about volleyball rotations for you to look at.
12year old: what’s a powerpoint presentation?

😬is this good or bad parenting?

"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

Over 2,000 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine write to Congress:

A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996) The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of an attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation of…

C👀L! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What screen time really does to children's brains Screen time has become synonymous with bad news - but the science may not be as straightforward as it seems

I like this take on screen time and cutting NSF and NIH funding wont get us any closer to understanding the complexities. www.bbc.com/news/article... What screen time really does to children's brains - BBC News

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

thrilled to share this project over a decade in the making out now in @pnas.org! We show that precocious GABA boosting in neonates by early sevoflurane/propofol anesthetic exposure accelerates visual cortical maturation in human infants
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons.

Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social

📍 Join us at the WISE Luncheon at #2025SPR! We'll cover negotiating contracts, navigating unsupportive lab environments, applying for awards, and managing impostor syndrome.
Thurs 10/15 | 12:00–1:30 PM

About a third of pregnant women in the US lack sufficient vitamin D to support healthy pregnancies − new research Vitamin D has long been known to play essential roles in boosting immune health and protecting the nervous system. New research now points to its critical importance in fetal development as well.

Vitamin D supplements may be a promising, low-cost strategy to support brain development while reducing racial disparities, according to a professor of nutrition science. theconversation.com/about-a-thir... By Melissa Melough @udelaware.bsky.social

5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet AI is more than just chatbots! Learn about how AI can be used to protect biodiversity, fight climate change, and just better understand our planet through 5-minute explainers covering academic papers ...

For the past 3 years, I've taught a course on Machine Learning for Climate Change to undergrads. At times, people have asked if the course lectures could be made available online. While I can't offer that, I have decided to start making "5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet" videos. Hope its useful!

Great trip to Ameila Island! Lots of fun finding and identifying fossils and getting up for the sunrise!