Dan Lurie

Spatial Null Models and Transforms for Brain Map Comparison Implements spatial null models and coordinate-space transformations for statistical comparison of brain maps, following the framework described in Markello et al. (2022)…

neuromapr 0.2.1 has been accepted and published on CRAN!

Very excited to get this out to users in the simplest way possible, and hope the #rstats #neuroimaging community finds it useful!

lcbc-uio.github.io/neuromapr/

Part of a special issue of Philosophy and the Mind Sciences @phimisci.bsky.social on Representations in the Neurosciences and AI philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... - with a host of interesting papers!

Exploring the Role of the Rich Club in Network Control of Neurocognitive States Using a network control theoretical framework, we found that the brain's rich club does not optimally control dynamics of the brain. Instead, size-matched sets of random peripheral regions had a sign...

🚨 New paper from @apodschun.bsky.social (with Sebastian Markett, Urs Braun, and myself)

Exploring the Role of the Rich Club in Network Control of Neurocognitive States

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Representational Momentum Transcends Motion Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a commo...

New on the arxiv:

“Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions”

arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937

We clarify central misconceptions in the recent literature on "higher-order networks".

w/ @piratepeel.bsky.social , @manlius.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social

Explainer 🧵: 1/N

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

Interface of an interactive tool to view relationships between components of a plan for revising a paper.

It’s scary impressive how good these tools are now. I’m working on some paper revisions and thought “I wish I could visualize relationships between all these ideas and goals”. Half an hour later Claude had built this:

Absolutely! My use of “neglected” had connotations I didn’t intend. My excitement about these longer timescales is entirely predicated on the foundational faster timescale work, and the studies I want to do in this area are largely about longer timescale fluctuations/modulations of faster stuff.

Do you work or study in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, artificial intelligence, or philosophy?

What does the term 'representation' mean to you?

We invite you to participate in a brief survey on key conceptual questions across fields.

eu.surveymonkey.com/r/VX9GNXM

100%. The plurality of timescales is important. Certain longer behaviorally relevant timescales (tens of seconds, minutes) have historically been neglected relative to faster timescales. I think there is huge opportunity here.

I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*

I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.

One day I shall learn to put thoughts to paper better... but for now. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-nih-s...

Goodale and Esteves et al. outline the Physiopy Community's approach to developing recommended practices for physiological data acquisition, processing, and usage in neuroimaging: doi.org/10.52294/001...

@ohbmossig.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

#OpenDatasets #SpecialIssue

I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred.
Apply here:

jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/po...

Lab website: wessellab.org

Our position paper on the #FIN
The neural basis of our mind’s eye: clinical and neuroimaging evidence converge on a distributed brain network organized around the #Fusiform_Imagery_Node (FIN) in the left fusiform gyrus.
#Neuroscience #Neuroimaging #CognitiveNeurology #MentalImagery #Aphantasia

For those of you who are interested, I just pushed a draft of the final chapter of Better Code, Better Science: bettercodebetterscience.github.io/book/ - now I just have to go back and rewrite the AI coding chapter which is already outdated just five months after writing it!

Mike Yassa on X: "Full page #newyorktimes ad for @USC $50M brain imaging institute. Good job USC for looking forward. I mean backward. http://t.co/kmjUXukZ1F" / X Full page #newyorktimes ad for @USC $50M brain imaging institute. Good job USC for looking forward. I mean backward. http://t.co/kmjUXukZ1F

Reminds me of this (link to the bad place): x.com/mike_yassa/s...

🚨 New preprint: Objective Quality Assessment for Precision fMRI

Precision functional mapping (PFM) enables individual-level brain network studies — but demands more, and better, data.

We introduce an objective framework to determine when a dataset truly supports interpretable, replicable PFM.

Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - Nature The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.

This is cool. Complex behavior is built from subcomponents.
Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience

Illusions of Alignment Between Large Language Models and Brains Emerge From Fragile Methods and Overlooked Confounds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.09.642245v1

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

e.g. One could make the argument that employees are in a coercive environment because they work at-will and rely on income which is dependent on them doing what managers tell them, which may include collecting performance data. How do you balance that?

The privacy angle is so important but didn’t even occur to me. I just assumed it gets tossed aside in the relentless drive for productivity (thanks, capitalism). Is sticking to core ethical principles of human subjects research more difficult in industry?

20 Days until applications are due for the @danafoundation.bsky.social funded SPAN ITRC and Mentorship programs! Visit our website for full details on how to apply!

Do you know if anyone is taking an idiographic approach to evaluating these things? Seems like a perfect opportunity given that lack of densely sampled individual data is one of the key barriers to idiographic analyses, but it sounds like a lot of that data is already collected in engineering.

This looks awesome.

One of my fondest academic memories is of participating in a summer school at @uqam.ca on the evolution and function of consciousness.

Excited to read about the latest science and thinking on this topic.

Purple Rain in the pouring rain. So good.

Really impressive work!

It’s time to rethink Parkinson’s disease. Our work reframes PD as a disorder of the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN), and shows that normalizing SCAN connectivity represents a shared mechanism across diverse effective therapies.
rdcu.be/e2n4t
@ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social