Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Early Researcher Awards recognize Western faculty - Western News Early Researcher Awards from Ontario government fund four Western faculty projects tackling youth impaired driving, plant resilience, dementia and memory

Thrilled to receive Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA)! Grateful to the Ontario Government for this support, which will help us grow our team, train next generation of researchers, and push the boundaries of AI + neuroscience: news.westernu.ca/2025/08/earl...

Very much looking forward to #CCN2025! Would love to see you at our lab's talks and posters, and meet me at the panel discussion in the Algonauts session on Wednesday!

Excited to share that our lab has three presentations at #CCN2025! Please check out our posters:

Willow Han is presenting her talk @vssmtg.bsky.social this morning at 9:00 AM in Talk room 2:

Brandon (Yu) Hu is presenting his poster @vssmtg.bsky.social Banyan Breezway #310 this morning! Please check it out!

Our lab is present at #VSS2025, so let me highlight some of the things we have been up to with a talk and three posters. Would love to see you around! 🧵

If you are @vssmtg.bsky.social, please check out our lab’s presentations:

I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year!

I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday

Three WIN Trainees Awarded 2024 CAN-CIHR-INMHA Brain Star Awards🧠🌟 from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience! Congratulations to Caroline Nettekoven, Diego Piza, and Hayley Shanks!! Read the news release on our website!! shorturl.at/wzJYu

Welcoming Yalda Mohsenzadeh to our Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience board! 🧠 @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social brings expertise in perception & visual memory, neuroimaging methods and deep & machine learning. We look forward to working with you!

Many congratulations to our very own @culhamari-lab.bsky.social, so well-deserved! 🎉

Our research has been covered by Western News; check it out here:

A screenshot of an X post by Jon Cryer (@mrjoncryer .bsky.social) dated March 7, 2025, commenting on the deteriorating relationship between the U.S. and Canada, blaming a "criminal president" after six weeks. The post includes a poll from Polling Canada (@canadianpolling ...) conducted by Pollara on Feb 23, 2025, with 1,506 online respondents. The poll shows support for: removing U.S. alcohol from stores (77%), retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products (75%), punishing Elon Musk by tariffing his companies/cancelling his contracts (74%), and cancelling contracts with American companies (65%).

Do you know how hard it is to anger Canadians?!?

A paradigm to study the learning of muscle activity patterns outside of the natural repertoire The acquisition of novel muscle activity patterns is a key aspect of motor skill learning which can be seen at play, for example, when beginner musicians learn new guitar or piano chords. To study thi...

In happier news, here a new motor learning paradigm and paper by Ali Ghavampour, @mnlmrc.bsky.social, @andpru.bsky.social, @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social, @jjodx.bsky.social.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Neural processing of naturalistic audiovisual events in space and time - Communications Biology This study investigated audiovisual perception using naturalistic audio-video stimuli with fMRI and EEG, and revealed how different levels of stimuli information are represented in the brain and acros...

Neural processing of naturalistic audiovisual events in space and time www.nature.com/articles/s42... by @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social et al., showing auditory information represented in both early visual and auditory regions, but visual information only identified in visual cortices; #neuroscience

6/By fusing EEG (temporal precision) with fMRI (spatial precision), this study offers a spatiotemporally resolved map of how audiovisual stimuli unfold across the brain.

5/ A two-branch deep neural network (DNN) model trained on audiovisual data couldn't replicate early cross-modal integration seen in the brain, emphasizing the need for early fusion in models

4/ High-level semantic & categorical info only appears later in high level auditory, visual, and multisensory areas.

3/ visual & auditory features were processed with similar onsets, but different temporal dynamics. Auditory info takes longer to peak than visual, likely due to the temporal nature of sounds.

2/ Using EEG and fMRI, we discovered early asymmetrical cross-modal interactions, with acoustic information represented in both early visual and auditory regions, while visual information only identified in visual cortices.

1/ The human brain seamlessly integrates distinct sensory information to create a coherent percept. This paper dives deep into where and when different types of audiovisual information are processed in the brain using naturalistic stimuli.

Neural processing of naturalistic audiovisual events in space and time - Communications Biology This study investigated audiovisual perception using naturalistic audio-video stimuli with fMRI and EEG, and revealed how different levels of stimuli information are represented in the brain and acros...

Excited to share our paper published in Nature Communications Biology, led by my brilliant PhD student, Yu Hu: go.nature.com/3Wuqj4G

Checkout our paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience:

Diana will present her talk at @CogCompNeuro on Thursday at 9:30 AM! Don't miss it: 2024.ccneuro.org/contributed-...

If you are at #CCN2024, please visit Mohsenzadeh Lab presentations, we have 4 posters and 1 talk:

Shared representations of human actions across vision and language Humans can recognize and communicate about many actions performed by others. How are actions organized in the mind, and is this organization shared ac…

Check out our new paper published in Neuropsychologia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Getting ready for #VSS2024, here is the list of presentations from Mohsenzadeh Lab; looking forward to seeing you in St. Pete beach soon!

Heading to Seattle for ARVO 2024 to present a talk at the mini symposium entitled “Modelling vision at multiple scales: In search of a virtual visual system (VI)”. If you are attending ARVO and would like to meet up, DM me!

Just out! Language and reading in ADHD, Developmental Language Disorder, and combined ADHD-DLD: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
w/Kaitlyn Parks and Janis Oram

Come see our poster presentations in Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2024, Toronto; Brandon (Yu) Hu will present on Monday at 8 to 10 AM; Diana Dima’s presentation is on Tuesday at 8 to 10 AM. #CNS2024