Simon Kwon

[Aly Lab Logo: schematic of brain in shades of blue with two cut-out seahorses facing each other]. Postdoctoral Position in the Aly Lab at UC Berkeley. We are recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to work on NSF-funded research examining competition and cooperation in memory-guided attention. The position will be supervised by Dr. Mariam Aly (https://www.alylab.org/) in the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley. Candidates should have a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, or a related field, and expertise in studies of behavior as well as neuroimaging and/or eye tracking. This is a two-year position with a flexible start date. More details here: https://tinyurl.com/alylabpostdoc

I can't quite believe it – I got a new NSF grant! 😲🤯

I'm incredibly grateful to the program officers & reviewers for their dedication and efforts to keep science going 🌟👏🏼

So, I'll be hiring! Looking for a postdoc to study competition in memory-guided attention. See flyer for details! 🎉

22.08.2025 18:04 — 👍 321    🔁 52    💬 16    📌 0

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

15.04.2025 03:52 — 👍 90192    🔁 18368    💬 1592    📌 750

Debunking the Myth of Excitatory and Inhibitory Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience Research AbstractRepetitive TMS (rTMS) is a powerful neuroscientific tool with the potential to noninvasively identify brain–behavior relationships in humans. Early work suggested that certain rTMS protocols (e.g., continuous theta-burst stimulation, intermittent theta-burst stimulation, high-frequency rTMS, low-frequency rTMS) predictably alter the probability that cortical neurons will fire action potentials (i.e., change cortical excitability). However, despite significant methodological, conceptual, and technical advances in rTMS research over the past few decades, overgeneralization of early rTMS findings has led to a stubbornly persistent assumption that rTMS protocols by their nature induce behavioral and/or physiological inhibition or facilitation, even when they are applied to nonmotor cortical sites or under untested circumstances. In this Perspectives article, we offer a “public service announcement” that summarizes the origins of this problematic assumption, highlighting limitations of seminal studies that inspired them and results of contemporary studies that violate them. Next, we discuss problems associated with holding this assumption, including making brain–behavior inferences without confirming the locality and directionality of neurophysiological changes. Finally, we provide recommendations for researchers to eliminate this misguided assumption when designing and interpreting their own work, emphasizing results of recent studies showing that the effects of rTMS on neurophysiological metrics and their associated behaviors can be caused by mechanisms other than binary changes in excitability of the stimulated brain region or network. Collectively, we contend that no rTMS protocol is by its nature either excitatory or inhibitory, and that researchers must use caution with these terms when forming experimental hypotheses and testing brain–behavior relationships.

08.04.2025 03:32 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...

🚨 New lab paper!🚨

A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social

We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

10.03.2025 16:52 — 👍 270    🔁 81    💬 10    📌 11

Biomedical Informatics Research Data Scientist I- - Boston Childrens Hospital - Job Details Job Details: Our mission is to identify the brain circuits responsible for symptoms common in autism and other neurodevelop

The Cohen Lab of Translational Neuroimaging is looking to hire a bioinformatics and research data scientist to help accelerate our research and develop new analysis tools! @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @braincircuits.bsky.social

Please consider applying or sharing!
jobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

04.03.2025 15:28 — 👍 7    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

We are looking for new external examiners for our Master's-level programmes in Psychology at the University of Plymouth. Please RT and alert those who might be interested. They can message me, or email me matt.roser@plymouth.ac.uk. Thank you. #EduSky #AcademicSky #neuroskyence #CogPsych

29.01.2025 13:17 — 👍 13    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

The Dawson Professorship of Young People's Mental Health - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge The Dawson Professorship of Young People's Mental Health in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.

Announcing a new endowed Chair in Young People's Mental Health at @campsydept.bsky.social. An exciting opportunity to shape mental health strategy and conduct world-leading research in one of the most intellectually vibrant places in the world. Please share!

21.01.2025 17:14 — 👍 16    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 2

I keep updating the DBS starter pack – and super happy we have already 109 folks on here!

Am I missing somebody?

go.bsky.app/B9A9Cho

19.12.2024 14:43 — 👍 27    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 1

Hi Aiden, it's very useful. Could you add me as well?

17.12.2024 19:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵

15.11.2024 08:13 — 👍 295    🔁 61    💬 17    📌 6

More fabulous work by @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social and colleagues. Link between brain mechanisms of reality monitoring and experienced vividness consistent with @simonkwon.bsky.social's findings that experiential quality may inform reality monitoring judgments pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35015889

15.11.2024 09:33 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0