Are you an aspiring or practicing academic who wants to learn R and python for free? Dr. Russ Poldrack Russ Poldrack from Stanford University has a great introductory virtual book with freely accessible code. A🧵 of some of the topics included: PhD Voice - Independently Run Academic Chatter™ OpenAcademics 1/n

Our new paper shows that facial expressivity in dominant macaques is linked to group cohesion, suggesting a social bonding function of facial expression! Jamie Whitehouse European Research Council (ERC) Evolution and Social Interaction Group NTU Psychology | Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Important commentary about the future of nonhuman primate neuroscience jneurosci.org/content/44/37/…

10 tips on how we write papers Matter_CP #PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs #Research #Science

My paper with Spencer Andrews Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam and Chris Baker is out in Cerebral Cortex! TL;DR food-selectivity is not a (new) form of "category-selectivity". Rather, food images recruit neural regions associated with action planning and understanding. academic.oup.com/cercor/article…

Every year the UQ school of psychology challenges students (and staff) to transform their lecture material and research topics into art. Today, we showcased nearly 50 entries at the Psychology As Art Exhibition. UQPsych Congratulations to all the winners!

On the 6th of October at 9:30 at #SfN24 the Symposium "Neural Encoding of Bodies for Primate Social Perception" (MIN08) with Rufin Vogels and Beatrice de Gelder as chairs and presentations from A. Bognar, J. Taubert, M. Poyo Solanas, E. Abassi, L. Isik, and M. Giese takes place.

Chicago O’Hare, the perfect artistic representation of nerve conduction ahead of #SfN24

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Get ready for Summer 2025📢 Applications for the RIKEN CBS Summer Program 2025 are opening soon. With the theme “Neural Circuits: Coding, Computation and Cognition,” an exciting lineup awaits! Follow us on X RIKEN Center for Brain Science and #CBS_Summer for updates! cbs.riken.jp/en/summer/

🎉 Huge congratulations to Zihe Wei on winning a People’s Choice Award at HDR Day @UQpsych! 🏆 Her presentation on the neural coding of faces for social perception captivated the audience and highlighted the exciting research she's been doing! Well done, Zihe! 🌟 #HDRDay

Using non-invasive MRI, we found a pathway in dog brains that predicts receptive vocabulary size. It’s left-lateralized & connects regions that produce and perceive vocal communication. A convergently evolved arcuate fasciculis? Read at Current Biology: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Are we sensitive to pain-related facial expressions? Chris Buckland is interested in what genuine pain looks like and whether its recognition elicits approach or avoidance behaviors from observers. His first paper looks at injury-related expressions: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Super pumped to announce that our new work “Face cells encode objects parts more than facial configuration of illusory faces” with Kasper Vinken, Akshay Jagadeesh and Marge Livingstone is now out in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

In this new perspective piece, we argue for an alternative framework of visual function in occipitotemporal cortex that prioritizes the behavioral relevance of visual properties in real-world environments.

🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with Genevieve Quek Manuel Varlet Dr. Tijl Grootswagers David White to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024 tinyurl.com/SuperRecognise…

Should be a great opportunity and project - excited to be involved!

A happy face advantage for pareidolic faces in children and adults - Krisztina Jakobsen et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp…

Here, Kenji W Koyano et al. show that 🐒 neurons in certain face patches barely react to pareidolia (illusory faces in objects). doi.org/10.1016/j.pneu… To those who have argued that the brain "obviously" processes stimuli that look like faces as faces—it's not that simple.