Andrew Pruszynski

The UAB Heersink School of Medicine is seeking to recruit up to 16 new research-intensive faculty as part of a major strategic investment in neurosciences. Faculty will be housed in a brand new research facility at the heart of campus, which is scheduled for completion this summer.

A photo showing the Domus Medica building of the University of Oslo. The ground is covered in snow, while the building bathes in warm sunlight.

Last day to apply for a PhD position with me!

Fully-funded, three year position in beautiful Oslo. Voltage imaging, ephys, all the cool stuff!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-02-27-list324.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-02-20-list323.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

This is how I do it too, but the above method would wrap text around the figure which could be quite useful.

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-02-13-list322.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

We can definitely get to the first one and should -- but the second one is just a classical monopolist riff: the currently powerful try write the rules

You don't need to assume anything about their intent, good or other wise, to look at the merits of the case. But the idea that there would be no reason for a company to argue for regulation and this must be well intentioned doesn't make sense.

Fear mongering with respect to national security, for example, is standard fare. Currently, US steel companies are arguing that they need tariffs on Canadian steel ... or else.

There's tons of examples of companies arguing for regulation one way or another because they benefit from it. I don't ascribe this to malevolence per se.

I don't know why you invoke 'evil'. Wouldn't it be the most reasonable assumption that different companies have different paths to optimizing income and thus advocate along those directions?

can't imagine a bigger head turner

Cool study! Congratulations to @apeyrache.bsky.social and team.

Congratulations, Ben!

YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine

Imagination in bonobos!

I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org

We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative

youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

Incredible. Congratulations!

Infants have rich visual categories in ventrotemporal cortex at 2 months of age - Nature Neuroscience Using infant fMRI, the authors show that, by 2 months of age, representations in high-level visual cortex encode visual categories that align with deep neural networks, and lateral object-selective re...

Incredibly hard and heroic work by @rhodricusack.bsky.social, @clionaod.bsky.social and many other just out in Nature Neuroscience: Visual categorization in the ventral stream can is present in 2-month old already.

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

Song of the Cerebellum Is thought just motion in the mind?

Cerebellum!

radiolab.org/podcast/song...

While preparing your #NCMKobe26 abstract, read through the highlights from #NCMPan25! The meeting highlight article is now available for review.

Thank you to some of the scholarship winners from 2025 for putting the article together.

journals.physiology....

we've got an outstanding lineup this year. join us!

Want to come do a postdoc with us?

We’re interested in how sensorimotor function is carried out by the cells and circuits of the spinal cord. We have an awesome team, lots of cool techniques, and we’re open to new ideas/approaches/connections. Get in touch!

Thanks. I am not taking it personally.

Sounds like you have things figured out. Best of luck with your work.

I agree that our data in this paper does not deal with external events and that handling them is critical for real-world actions. Let's hope my grant gets funded so we can work on that.

We have updated this preprint. I think the deeper dive that @mkashefi.bsky.social has done on the 'shift' condition-independent signal is particularly interesting. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint is live! 🎉
We (@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social , @basselarafat.bsky.social, and I) studied how the brain represents syllables during speech, and which cortical representations the cerebellum most closely resemble.

Feedback very welcome:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Reward-driven emergence of auditory pattern encoding in the primate motor system The ability to anticipate rhythmic patterns is fundamental to human experience, enabling music appreciation, speech comprehension, and dancing in sync to music. How the brain learns to use acoustic information to guide motor behavior remains a key question whose neural underpinnings and evolutionary origins are debated, especially in non-human primates. To understand how brain areas involved in motor control naively respond to predictable tone patterns, we recorded large single neuron populations across primary somatosensory (S1), primary motor (M1), dorsal premotor (PMd), supplementary motor (SMA), pre-supplementary motor (preSMA) cortices, globus pallidus interna (GPi), and medial geniculate body (MGB) of a rhesus monkey. During passive listening (Experiment 1) with a reward only at the end of each trial, primarily the MGB, not motor areas, responded to the auditory tone patterns, ruling out the spontaneous entrainment of motor activity to auditory patterns. Almost all areas robustly

While humans spontaneously dance to a beat, the evolutionary origins of this ability remain debated. Behavioral work has shown that primates can move to auditory rhythms after training.

Our question was: How does this association emerge in the brain?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10....

Program - NCM Society

Seeing the NCM program for the year is always a treat. ncm-society.org/program/

Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus - Nature Human Behaviour Liu et al. examine the role of sustained neural activity in the planning and production of speech sequences, revealing a key role for the middle precentral gyrus.

Here is the link to the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...