Todd Woodward

I’m pleased with our findings reported here showing that brain networks involved in “Multiple Demand” and “Re-evaluation” support reappraisal. Let us know your thoughts!
with @evalab.bsky.social @twoodward.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #affectsci #fMRI-CPCA

Anyone interested in task-based fMRI I'd love to meet you at poster #1808 today!

Cognitive Modes Detectable with Task-Based fMRI

Or, just read the book 😀:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#OHBM2025 #fMRI

the preface is here, written in Brisbane

After many (many) years of work with Dr. Chantal Percival we have open-science published an "edited book" Cognitive
Modes Detectable with Task-Based fMRI. Results on a total of 28 tasks are reported.

Percival C. M., & Woodward, T. S. (Eds.) (2025).
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Congratulations!

Were you looking for a number like 10x better? I can say for myself that 20 years ago I wanted to understand task-based fmri but did not at all, and now I am very satisfied with what I understand, thankfully.

And it’s like with kids when parents ignore them they stop talking

JoCN Forum

we aspire to provide that "one place" at jocnf.pubpub.org, which is explicitly set up to host threaded discussions. It's taking rather longer than we had hoped to really catch on, but it's ready when you are!

Western University is seeking applications for Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Please reach out if you are interested in Theme 2: Neuroscience. Western has extraordinary strengths in cognitive, molecular and systems neuroscience across species (rodents, NHPs, humans) uwo.ca/research/cer...

Introducing Our University’s New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure Since the founding of our august institution, we have awarded promotion and tenure based on how many pages of your research we could read before fa...

"These guidelines were written by almost-retired professors who never could have met these standards back in the 1980s, when all you needed for tenure was 1.5 publications and a bottle of scotch in your desk."
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Agreed

Neither do I

Thanks for the support friends. Having only 20 days notice combined with threats of disposal was stressful but thankfully UBC Psychiatry bailed me out. I still have my office and computer lab space though .. this was only the EEG equipment space.

When you get booted out of your lab space .. U-Haul is there for you. They can take away the space but they can't take away the science! Thanks to UBC Psychiatry for accommodating our EEG/tACS neuromod equipment that was downsized(?) out of our hospital site.

Because formulaic manuscripts full of cliched phrasing are how science advances I guess? Time for a shift, friends and colleagues. We can now advance science without the formality of academic journals. I for one cannot wait. Only depends on ourselves actually reading/interacting outside that system

Prediction of Verbal Abilities From Brain Connectivity Data, but they didn’t include the language network?

and here is the evidence for it:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thanks Dawn!

Congratulations Dr. Tupitsa!

Thank to all who are encouraging this series of pre-publication initiative from a fresh perspective. Almost done two modes to go!
www.theurlist.com/woodward-lab...

The evidence consistently supported the FoVF cognitive mode as involving activation when there is focus on the features of the visual display to enhance task performance, and deactivation when attending to certain features may detract from task performance.

Another cognitive mode uploaded! This time, focus on Visual Feature (FoVF). Chantal Percival the lead author. Meet the Stay Puff and Old Blue Eyes pattern. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Don’t hide the good stuff: Scientific advancement in task-based fMRI is slowed by not showing event-related BOLD (erBOLD) changes alongside anatomical patterns

8/11 are completed and the last 3 (DMB, Response, Visual), will be completed soon, and compiled into a free book "Cognitive Modes Detectable by fMRI", complete with anatomical doodles, ***and a way to determine function using task-induced BOLD changes for evidence***
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/wck63qhg...

If you're wondering what I'm on about, check out all the task-based cognitive modes detectable by fMRI, pre-published here:
www.theurlist.com/woodward-lab...

Still can't see it? Try the DMB patterns "Angel Wings", "Tripod", "In Flight", "Temporal Dots - Prominent" and "Snowman Nose".

If you can't tell the difference between DMA and DMB, the DMA patterns "You're in Trouble", "Kitten", "Penguin", "Temporal Dots - Muted", and "Snowman Mouth", will help you :)

Default Mode A vs B! Delighted to pre-publish a detailed anatomical and functional description of DMA in tasks with incoming grad student Solana Redway leading the way. DMA appears to be reciprocally related to the language mode.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

BILLIONS!

Functional Brain Networks Underlying Autobiographical Event Simulation: An Update Abstract. fMRI studies typically explore changes in the BOLD signal underlying discrete cognitive processes that occur over milliseconds to a few seconds. However, autobiographical cognition is a prot...

amazing work! Very much in accordance with our work on brain networks involved in imagining the future/past
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...