Jody Culham's Lab

Thrilled that @evadeligiannis.bsky.social was able to represent the lab at #SAW2025 by presenting her fMRI study showing responses to 3D distance in face-selective pSTS

Great video for teaching. It would be cool to see this for spiral sequences too.

Congrats to @evadeligiannis.bsky.social for the publication of her first paper, showing that binocular disparity enhances fMRI activation in depth areas but not face areas. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx.... Presenting 3D stims with accurate real-world geometry was a tech feat by the whole team!

Great news release too!
medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release...

And now with a hyperlink to @striemamit.bsky.social

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...

Congratulations to Flo Martinez-Addiego and ‪@striemamit.bsky.social‬ for the publication of a cool new paper in PNAS showing that high-level actions like tool use generalize between hand and foot, even in individuals born without hands. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'm so excited to have @emij.bsky.social join the lab and take us in exciting new directions! 🥳

Kudos Jonathan! Well deserved.

Very thought provoking perspective!

Please send recommendations for great papers that bring cognitive neuroscience closer the real world. It’s for an undergrad seminar course on “Cognitive Neuroscience for the Real World” and a review article. Empirical, theoretical, or review; broad or specific to subfields of cogneuro. Thanks!

Congratulations Caroline! How nice to see your elegant work recognized.

Caroline Nettekoven @carobellum.bsky.social is also a Brain Star winner from Western! can-acn.org/brain-star-a...

Wow! Cool. No issues with movement artifacts?

i just did the same. It's a relief.

Tool-use brain representations are independent of the acting body part and motor experience The sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically. However, an action-type organization has also been found: a division based on action-type independent of acting body parts has been shown ...

Excited to share a new preprint from the lab (led by Flo Martinez Addiego and Yuqi Liu, in collab with @culhamari-lab.bsky.social)

We tested what drives the (re?)organization of motor tool-use areas in people born without hands, who use tools with their feet instead
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sofia Varon's new paper shows that participants are better at intercepting moving targets in VR when the shape of the trajectory is consistent with gravity. The results raise interesting questions about how motion perception incorporates trajectory shape. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Oops sorry, I gave you the wrong paper. Here's the replication. academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Weighing brain activity with the balance: Angelo Mosso's original manuscripts come to light - PubMed Neuroimaging techniques, such as positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging are essential tools for the analysis of organized neural systems in working and resting states, ...

Indeed. See pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23687118/