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Sam O’Connell

@thesamuraisci.bsky.social

Music neuroscientist turned scientific consultant that moonlights as a violinist and educator samantharoconnell.com

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It’s the final day of live demos at #Neuroscience2025!

Don’t miss your last chance to see NIRx & Artinis in action — exploring the latest innovations in fNIRS, EEG, and multimodal neuroimaging.

Come by, ask questions, and discover what’s next in neurotechnology!

#SfN2025 #Neuroscience

19.11.2025 18:04 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Miss us Day 1? We missed you, too!

Come see us Day 2 at @sfn.org where we’ll zap some brains while reading minds using #TMS and #fNIRS with @brainbox-neuro.bsky.social at 11am! Come say hi!

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17.11.2025 19:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Come by Booth 1616 at @sfn.org to learn about #fNIRS from @nirx-nirs.bsky.social - we’d love to meet you and chat about research!

16.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cheers to a successful CI #fNIRS workshop! Thank you to our speakers Heather Bortfeld, René Gifford, @jpeelle.bsky.social, Yi Yuan, Yingying Wang, Yunjie Tong, Ben Richardson, Eric Rodriguez, and Abbie Mollison. A very special thanks to @maureenshader.bsky.social and Michael Heinz for hosting us!

14.11.2025 19:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What does stress do to working memory? 😰😵‍💫

Geissler et al. (2025) show that while task performance stayed stable, prefrontal activation dropped after acute stress, hinting at subtle cortisol-linked neural changes not visible in behavior.

📖 doi.org/10.1080/1025...

27.08.2025 09:06 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thrilled to be organizing this event with @paulinemaes.bsky.social and @htagerf.bsky.social at @bostonu.bsky.social. If you're interested in learning more about how to use #fNIRS in #ASD #Autism populations, please register and come hang out with us! September 19-20th, 2025

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21.08.2025 19:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

📢 New paper alert! 📜

journals.lww.com/ear-hearing/...

2/3 articles from my time as a postdoc at the Bionic Ear Lab at Keck School of Medicine of USC where I studied music appreciation after cochlear implantation 🎶🔉🎷🎹

20.05.2025 22:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We love seeing #fNIRS friends come visit the @nirx-nirs.bsky.social booth! Thanks to stopping by, @elliektaylor.bsky.social and @gavkhar-a.bsky.social! We love seeing the @umdleadlab.bsky.social representing at @srcdorg.bsky.social

01.05.2025 22:55 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for having me and the @nirx-nirs.bsky.social team at SANS this year! It was so inspiring to see how fNIRS and other neuroimaging is used to study how we communicate and feel. Looking forward to the next one!

29.04.2025 19:26 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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