Brad Postle

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It appears that they didn’t include “About the cover”? How do we identify faces as different from other objects? How do we recognize familiar faces? How do we infer, from facial expression, what someone else is thinking? (Feat. recent work from Hebart/Baker, Tsao, & Braga)

I know… there is a rent-for-the-semester option

Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects Abstract. Visual working memory is a core cognitive function that allows active storage of task-relevant visual information. Contrary to the common assumption that the capacity of this system is fixed...

New paper with @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in JoCN! "Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects" doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...

It’s out!

@jocnforum.bsky.social ?

Saving....for reasons

High-dimensional structure underlying individual differences in naturalistic visual experience Han and Bonner reveal that individual visual experience arises from high-dimensional neural geometry distributed across multiple representational scales. By characterizing the full dimensional spectru...

Human visual cortex representations may be much higher-dimensional than earlier work suggested, but are these higher dimensions of cortical activity actually relevant to behavior? Our new paper tackles this by studying how different people experience the same movies. 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Extended post-doc offers to two people recently.
Both had their visas denied, so now those positions remain unfilled.

This is good for America somehow.

I want to start by saying thank you, truly, to my friends, family, and so many good people who have reached out to check on me during this hard moment in Minnesota. I love you all. I am okay. See thread....

Jobs | City University of New York

I'm very excited to announce that the Psychology Department at Brooklyn College of CUNY is hiring a tenure-track line in Cognitive Neuroscience. Applications are being accepted now, and review will begin on or after February 23rd, please repost!

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

cuny.jobs/brooklyn-ny/...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Is the Brain Mostly a Modular System or Do We Need Distributed Processing Frameworks?

Here’s a recent discussion: Pessoa, L. (2024). Is the Brain Mostly a Modular System or Do We Need Distributed Processing Frameworks? JoCN Forum. doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

U r just saying that bc your work is featured in Chapt 12 ;-)

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂

looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.

science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

Dynamical System Theory-based analysis of psychedelics: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
covert vs. overt attention: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Neural Patterns Reflect Shared Emotional History Emotions shape episodic memories, with emotional context—the affective quality or “hue” of an experience—persisting as part of the event in memory, scaffolding connections between events, and guiding ...

neural bases of emotion: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
dynamics of auditory memory: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
value-based decision making: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
emotion, social, CON/AMN: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Individual Pulvinar Neurons Integrate Cortical and Subcortical Signals The pulvinar nucleus (PUL) has long been proposed as an integrative hub for sensory processing, but whether this integration occurs at the level of individual neurons or through parallel pathways rema...

pulvinar integration of signals: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
face processing: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
eye movement-related eardrum oscillations: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
aging and the core language network: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Effects of Novelty and Temporal Distance on Postexperience Spike Patterns of Hippocampal Place Cells Encoding Multiple Environments The hippocampus plays a crucial role in consolidating episodic memories from diverse experiences that encompass spatial, temporal, and novel information. This study analyzed the spike patterns of hipp...

place cell coding: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
RSFC: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
neural dynamics of sleep and anesthesia: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
orientation maps in SC: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
E:I ratio and neural communication:

It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:

going through months of figure edits feels worth it when one ends up on a text book cover! thanks to @bradpostle.bsky.social and @rodbraga.bsky.social

This kind of stuff is why I say that I worry that the tools of neuroscience are not properly vetted

short sighted at best....NHP research has been instrumental in the development of new treatments for human conditions (as well as other animals conditions/diseases as well).

View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Distinct alpha networks modulate different aspects of perceptual decision-making Fluctuations in alpha-band neural oscillations influence whether we perceive faint stimuli, but how these oscillations relate to different perceptual processes is not clear. This study shows that alph...

Check out our latest work led by @joeyzhou.bsky.social on alpha oscillatory networks in PLOS Biology!
➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Do ongoing alpha activity fluctuations influence perceptual sensitivity or criterion?

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

yes, I admit that it's complicated, and I try not to judge colleagues based on their individual choices. (but I may or may not have private opinions ;-) )

but it's not your fault if 'good colleagues' have made a bad choice, right? if they're truly 'good' then at some point they'll see their choice to sign onto the old NeuroImage is problematic and will distance themselves from it.

#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom

CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu

@cnsnews.bsky.social

"Due to financial uncertainty, the Psychology Research Experience Program has suspended operations, and the PREP summer research opportunity program will not be active during the Summer of 2026. Consequently, we are not accepting applications at this time."😠