@striemamit.bsky.social
Cognitive+systems neuroscientist, studying brains/abilities in blindness, deafness or handlessness to probe brain plasticity & development. Opinions are my own. samp-lab.facultysite.georgetown.edu
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📌 Curious to know more? Visit my website 👉 lnkd.in/d59v_TpH
📌 Looking for a PhD opportunity? The Spring admissions round at SISSA is now open and I’d be delighted to hear from prospective candidates (deadline: March 20, 1pm CET) 👉 lnkd.in/dvf6RuQd
Congratulations!
04.03.2026 12:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you are in Houston - or want to travel - join us at Rice Thursday March 12-14 for DeLange XIV: Brains in Society: Preparing for Neuroscience’s Impact on our everyday lives. DeLange.rice.edu
04.03.2026 12:17 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Interested?
Please submit the interest form found at forms.gle/WQTKT3GDWMjM...,
email SAMPLab_recruitment@georgetown.edu or call 202- 687- 8329.
To learn more about this study and related projects, visit samp-lab.facultysite.georgetown.edu/research.
Compensation:
- $50 per hour for time spent inside the scanner, and $25 per hour for time outside the scanner
- If you decide to withdraw from the study early, you will be paid for the time you completed to that point
- All transportation costs for each session will be covered by the university.
Eligibility:
- Must be blind from birth or infancy, and live within 50 miles of Washington DC.
Participation:
- One 4-hour behavioral session
- Three 2-hour sessions in an fMRI scanner. fMRI is a non-invasive brain imaging technique
The long-term goal of this research is to understand how to improve sight recovery for people who lost their sight later in life.
20.02.2026 19:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Georgetown University Medical Center is seeking individuals who are blind from birth or infancy to participate in a behavioral and fMRI research study to explore how the brain regions responsible for visual processing are reorganized to support other functions.
20.02.2026 19:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Paid Research Opportunity for Blind Participants!
Have you ever wondered if your blindness has affected your memory, cognitive processing, or other senses?
Research plug: we're currently seeking (bilateraly, congenitally) blind adults & Deaf adults for a *paid* online research study (screen reader compatible) on how individuals experience words across perceptual modalities. Ping bergelsonlab@fas.harvard.edu if interested! Reposts welcome! #Blind #Deaf
20.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 7 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
Deadline coming up!
If you're interested in a postdoc position in fMRI + plasticity, individual differences, and a translational twist, email me and/or apply.
Registration for the workshop closes this Sunday (no extensions)! Come join us in what will be the biggest in-person ISRW to date!
#sleeppeeps #cns2026 @cnsmtg.bsky.social
✨ New 3D pose estimation method from my lab! #FMPose3D allows for monocular (i.e. single camera) 2D➡️3D 🔥
Led by Ti Wang & w/ Xiaohang Yu #FMPose3D is SOTA on human & animal 3D benchmarks, & will be integrated into @deeplabcut.bsky.social ⬇️
📝 arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755
➡️ xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/
Breakthrough @nature.com study showcases new non-invasive treatment for Parkinson’s Disease that targets the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) with personalized neuromodulation, for superior outcomes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
08.02.2026 04:16 — 👍 56 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 1
Congratulations to @lillianbehm.bsky.social, Nick Turk-Browne, and a huge team for putting together this paper (out today) on lessons from a decade of attempts to study awake infants with fMRI:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Beautiful work on visual development - with a large cohort of *awake* 2-month olds!
02.02.2026 22:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This was such a fun section to write! The review provides an on-ramp to further integrating DL within the developmental field. Existing DNN findings & tools, while not without caveats, open new empirical developmental questions. I'm grateful for NSF's support to my lab as we tackle some of them 👶
29.01.2026 00:22 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
w/ Giulio Degano and Uta Noppeney
In this work, we use music to investigate how the brain extracts and integrates multisensory information in real-world environments.
🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence
TL;DR 🧵👇
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06.01.2026 00:10 — 👍 47 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0Still accepting applications!
05.01.2026 23:22 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Preprint alert from our lab!
@zhiqingdeng.bsky.social shows how the sensorimotor system reorganizes in people born without hands.
#neuroscience #motor #somatosensory
Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
11.12.2025 15:32 — 👍 224 🔁 64 💬 7 📌 10Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
12.12.2025 18:18 — 👍 32 🔁 34 💬 0 📌 2
photo of a human hand holding a tiny gold analog clock, two brain pictures showing fMRI results in medial parietal cortex on the inflated cortical surface (one brain map is thresholded, the other is not)
Now out in #JNeurosci -- we found changes in medial parietal cortex after manual exploration of everyday real-world objects
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
with Beth Rispoli, Vinai Roopchansingh & @cibaker.bsky.social
Congratulations!
11.12.2025 17:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
01.12.2025 11:26 — 👍 82 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 1
This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing.
THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.
