Aaron L Wong

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(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State.

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Emory Biology is hiring a neuroscientist! We have a great supportive and innovative neuroscience and neural engineering community here!

Mode of locomotion and other determinants of navigation ability post-stroke Maintaining the ability to navigate through one’s environment is an important component of quality of life after cerebrovascular accidents (CVA). Yet, navigation ability is not commonly assessed in...

Interestingly, some studies of human spatial navigation do suggest that people learn worse from VR-type environments where they are stationary as compared to actual walking, e.g., www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Whether that is strictly due to being stationary per se is hard to say, though.

@aaronlwong.bsky.social @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social & @sthibault.bsky.social found that incongruence between tool & hand motions may exacerbate competition between motions of the hand & tool. Resolving this competition is challenging for people with #LimbApraxia.

👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40925673/

Looking forward to it!

Several prior studies have examined behavior in kitchen-like environments to gain insights into cognitive and motor function, e.g., www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

I'm not sure if it is still the same, but the main idea was that you draw everything into a buffer, and then flip the buffer onto the screen to quickly update the display when you want it to change

Something exciting just left the gym -- meet Arnold the first generalist musculoskeletal control policy!

The human body has 600+ muscles, yet we seamlessly coordinate them for everything from whispering a syllable to felling a forrest. How? www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.18066

Borrow code from someone and play with it. Haven't used it in a long time but I remember it being fairly straightforward unless you need to do anything very complicated

Please repost!

We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

A great tutorial by Xiaojin Ma on how to use PsychoPy for programming a cognitive task.

The integrated control of decision and movement vigor Decision-making and motor control are closely interdependent processes. It has been proposed that the vigor of decisions and the vigor of movements ar…

Reading this one today!
The integrated control of decision and movement vigor: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Velocity makes a lot of sense since the main signals contributing to the VOR (i.e., the canal signals and retinal slip) already operate in velocity space

Thank you!

Looking forward to working on this project, and grateful for the people at the NIH who are working hard to help support our trainees!

Now out in @natneuro.nature.com

What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?

Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation

www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7

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Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...

Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )

Be my neighbor! @rwjms.bsky.social Neuroscience is hiring!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

(PDF) The Exit Manual: How to Leave the Free Energy Cult and Still Get Tenure PDF | This manual is not a plea. It is a jailbreak from a cult—the Free Energy Principle, a theoretical metastasis that began in computational... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

This had me laughing to tears. The person sitting next to me on the flight must have thought I was nuts.

A must read for the FEP curious.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

🚨It's published! 🚨Our results support highly-simplified-model "B", if you're wondering. The Somatosensory Cortex and Body Representation: Updating the Motor System during a Visuoproprioceptive Cue Conflict www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...

Mentoring is the most important thing most of us can do. Here is a 🧵about what I've learned as a PI running an academic research lab. I hope some of the advice is helpful to those who are just starting their labs and to folks hitting the academic job market in search of an independent position 🧪 1/n

What do representations tell us about a system? Image of a mouse with a scope showing a vector of activity patterns, and a neural network with a vector of unit activity patterns Common analyses of neural representations: Encoding models (relating activity to task features) drawing of an arrow from a trace saying [on_____on____] to a neuron and spike train. Comparing models via neural predictivity: comparing two neural networks by their R^2 to mouse brain activity. RSA: assessing brain-brain or model-brain correspondence using representational dissimilarity matrices

In neuroscience, we often try to understand systems by analyzing their representations — using tools like regression or RSA. But are these analyses biased towards discovering a subset of what a system represents? If you're interested in this question, check out our new commentary! Thread:

Precision Neurotechnologies Backed by £69m, this programme aims to unlock new methods to interface with the human brain at the cellular level, with unprecedented precision.

🚨 Upcoming postdoc openings 🚨

We will soon be hiring postdocs to work on neural data analysis & modelling in the context of a recently awarded ARIA grant aimed at "precision control" of neural population dynamics (w. collabs. across the UK)

Reach out if interested!

www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-...

Maybe an outlier data point, but I recently got a very competitive score on my renewal application. To your point, though, the proposal could have practically been submitted as a new proposal given how significantly the topic differed from the current grant