Santani Teng

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(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

New paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’!
Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves!
Demos in thread👇
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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

One project measures the #EEG dynamics of naturalistic braille reading. The other explores artificial ultrasonic #echolocation for blind and low-vision travelers. Every contribution helps the lab develop equipment, recruit participants, and prepare future grants. Visit the project pages for details!

🚨 Help my lab at @skeriresearch.bsky.social advance innovative research on the technology, perception, and neuroscience of accessibility! The Teng Lab has launched a pair of campaigns through @experiment.com.
🧠 experiment.com/braille
🦇 experiment.com/robinecho

Excited to share that our paper "Continuous affect tracking reveals that overestimation during the recollection of affect is idiosyncratic and stable" is out now in @ARVOJOV !

doi.org/10.1167/jov....

A short thread on the findings below 👇🏽📷(1/7)

This is one of the many reasons why we must fund #science.

Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject.

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Variance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why.
@martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org
diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataSci...

My lab at UCLA is hiring 1-2 PhD students this cycle!

Join us to work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI applied to pressing societal challenges like climate change.

More info about me: rachit-dubey.github.io

My lab: ucla-cocopol.github.io

Please help repost/spread the word!

@haydeegl.bsky.social presented blind experts and sighted novices with click trains of varying length, asking them to lateralize the echoes. Psychophysics and EEG tracked evidence accumulation (or lack thereof) successive clicks, independent of low-level acoustics or repetition suppression.

🚨 Very excited to have this manuscript with Haydée García-Lázaro out in the world! With psychophysics and #EEG decoding, we show how echoacoustic evidence accumulates over multiple click-echo presentations. The first temporally resolved account of the brain doing #echolocation in blind humans. 🦇🔊

Steve Furber powerpoint slide showing picture of Ada Lovelace and a quote: "I have my hopes, and very distinct ones too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations--in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of brain. .... I hope to bequeath to the generations a calculus of the nervous system."

incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩

screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder: Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up. Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Is Transcendence on there? Not amazing, but worth including 🧠🤖

Neuro Films Films about neurology and neuroscience.

I started a list about films about neurology and the brain: letterboxd.com/ericleonardi...
Let me know if any others come to mind and I can add them too!

*Please read and share!* My NIH funds at UCLA were suspended last week.
It's hard to find the words to describe the impact of these grant suspensions. I have felt speechless and heartbroken that people in my lab, my friends, colleagues, researchers, trainees, and undergrads 1/9

Person presents her scientific poster on a kalman filter model of human echolocation to a group of three people in a large room filled with other presenters during a poster session. The image is from a top-down angled view.

A gif of a person presenting her scientific poster on a kalman filter model of human echolocation to a few people. The gif contains two altering images of the person with different funny facial expressions as they explain their poster. The images are from behind the listeners, with the backs of their heads, with a direct view of the speaker.

Thank you #imrf2025 for providing the space to share ideas and to all the people who were interested in our Kalman Filter-based echolocators and provided valuable comments. The poster session was a blast!

And thanks @echodislocation.bsky.social for capturing only the best facial expressions!

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Yes, you need bolt cutters for each hair.

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

Black-and-white scientific illustration of the first EEG topoplot by Koiti Motokawa (1944). G = glabella P = protuberantia occipitalis externa, S = central sulcus

this figure from 1944 is cited as the first topoplot, from Koiti Motokawa. in an era where only handful of EEG channels across space were used, he measured the mean alpha amplitude for 90 points across the scalp. ❗

(compiling a presentation about the evolution of topoplots, cool stuff out there 🙂)

Author contribution snippet reading, "The co-first authorship order was determined via the best of three rounds in Super Smas Bros. Both YB and BZ contributed equally and have the right to list their name first in their CV."

There is precedent for claiming your first authorship without taking it away from your late colleague. For example
www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

I'd like to make a list of PhD programs that (1) are in Europe (which does include the UK); (2) offer opportunities in systems neuroscience; and obviously (3) pay a stipend. Please share and/or respond to add your suggestions?

"This Court rules that the challenged directives . . . are arbitrary and capricious."

"They are of no force and effect."

"They are illegal and so are each of the terminations before this Court"

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY

Normal 2025 way of communicating

🦇✨ New paper out!

Novel Stimuli to Benchmark and Train Echolocation Skills
Curious about how echolocation can be made easier to learn?
We evaluated how specific auditory temporal cues might improve spatial perception.
#Echolocation #BlindTech #AssistiveTech #Blindness
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#Echolocation is trainable, but can learning it be optimized? In work presented to CSUN2025 and now published in @csuncod.bsky.social's JTPD vol 13, @haydeegl.bsky.social illustrates the benefits of adjusting synthetic but realistic echolocation sounds to be more perceptible by novice listeners.