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Thrilled to announce the founding members of the Functional Imaging & Naturalistic Neuroscience (FINN) Lab! Thread ⬇️

Our newest work! Fans of naturalistic paradigms should enjoy this one:

The title speaks for itself. Naturalistic stimuli are more effective in drawing out individual differences than "resting state."

I tentatively plan to recruit 1-2 new PhD students this cycle FINN Lab @Dartmouth - check out Mark's thread below for recent and ongoing efforts to make our department as welcoming and inclusive as possible!

Warm welcome to our new postdoc Rekha Varrier! Rekha has a strong background in vision science, and she'll be tackling some exciting projects on how low-level physical properties affect complex social percepts. Happy science-ing and hiking in the Upper Valley, Rekha Varrier (she/her)!

So, so proud and happy for FINN Lab grad student Clara Sava-Segal, who was awarded an NSF Grad Research Fellowship!!! She's one to watch, folks. Congrats to everyone who submitted an application in this crazy year.

Congratulations to my fearless mentor Emily Finn on being named a Association for Psychological Science Rising Star! I'm so grateful to work with her and the incredible team she's put together. ✨What a 🔥🔥 week for FINN Lab ✨

Welcome @katieoneuro!!! Looking forward to doing some kick-ass science (and outdoor adventures) with you!!!

**Beyond** excited that Tommy Botch has chosen to keep his talents in Hanover and join both FINN Lab and the Caroline Robertson lab as a jointly mentored student for his PhD!!! Welcome, Tommy!!! We're so happy to have you!!!

We are so thrilled that Tommy Botch is joining us for grad school in joint mentorship with FINN Lab at Dartmouth! Woohoo!!!

Now published in NeuroImage: Movie-watching outperforms rest for functional connectivity-based prediction of behavior sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very proud of the FINN Lab posters at #OHBM2021! Check them out ⬇️ All are in the Emotion, Motivation and Social Neuroscience sessions – each has a 3min video overview, but please stop by and say hi if you can!

✨🚨Preprint w/Emily Finn! With naturalistic stimuli, we're overlooking something: Media like film & TV *are not natural* & THATs what makes them useful! Here, we bring a media perspective to the psych/neuro table to answer “how do I use media for science?” psyarxiv.com/c8z9t

The Dartmouth 🌲 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences invites applications for a Faculty Fellow: a postdoc appointment that will *automatically* convert to a regular full-time tenure track assistant professorship after 2 years! Details: apply.interfolio.com/91998

We FINN Lab Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences are hiring a postdoc to study individual differences in social perception! Creativity, enthusiasm, + experience in computational visual and/or social neuroscience highly desirable. More info below. Informal inquiries welcome. Please RT!

FINN Lab First up: a stimulus with 💡is clearly visual, a stimulus with 🔊 is clearly auditory. But what makes a stimulus "social"? What makes a stimulus social for some people but not others? Rekha Varrier (she/her) used data from the HCP News social cognition task to tackle this question 1/8

Next up: we live our day-to-day lives chronologically. But when we learn about other people, we often hear bits and pieces from different times in their life. What's more, storytellers often manipulate the order in which they relay events for dramatic effect 1/7

Now out! Using the same individuals across four short movies, we show that we can reliably and automatically capture individual differences in the location of event boundaries! Link here: academic.oup.com/cercor/advance…

Why do people process language differently from each other? In a new paper, Emily Finn and I show that the “concreteness” of word meanings plays a central role in shaping our unique experiences of natural language. Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thread below! 1/9