Zitong Lu

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

Come to see our poster tomorrow morning at R2!

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

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.

Do it!

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~

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

YouTube video by McGovern Institute Things and Stuff: How the brain distinguishes oozing fluids from solid objects

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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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...

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!

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.

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! 🎓

Congrats, Brynn!

🚨 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.

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...

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

Postdoctoral Researcher, Brain & AI Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.

🚨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)

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!

doi.org/10.48550/arx...

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