Neuroimaging studies often report regional GABA+/Glx levels as a proxy for I/E balance in the brain - altered by plasticity, sleep, and neurodivergence. But are regional GABA+/Glx levels in fact balanced in a large, healthy, adult population (N=220)? Yes! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

How is it acceptable for a child to wait for a diagnosis for up to 3 years? In any other area of medicine this would be considered unethical, yet this has become normalised in the area of autism. & it’s not just children. Adults too often wait equally long theguardian.com/society/2020/j…

Important to hear often over-looked voices in autism research. Young black women incl. one of our PhD students Mary A. What it’s like to be a Black autism researcher spectrumnews.org/features/multi… Newsletters via Spectrum (Autism Research News)

With so much research being published, it is hard to remember all that we read. Can we use established memory techniques to help? The 'memory palace' is often used to help us remember arbitrary lists, but it can help memory for scholarly articles too! ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/91404…

Got the new issue ToC from Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics today with my own article listed! “Visual features influence thought content in the absence of overt semantic information” with Environmental Neuroscience Lab PI Marc Berman and alum Omid Kardan. Springer Psychology Psychonomic Society

We still need autistic and non-autistic individuals to take this healthcare experiences survey: bit.ly/2O0gJTx. Only 1/3 of our current respondents are male. Help us understand if autistic and non-autistic people have the same experience in getting access to healthcare

check out our new preprint! Hybrid Hyperalignment: A single high-dimensional model of shared information embedded in cortical patterns of response and functional connectivity.

Really amazing review paper on poverty <--> mental health causal linkages out in Science today science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65… @raogautam @FrankSchilbach Matthew Ridley Vikram Patel.

A new study used national registries in Finland to identify 4,695 autistic people and 18,450 controls. They found autistic people are more than six times as likely to die prematurely from natural causes and are more likely to self-harm or die by suicide spectrumnews.org/news/co-occurr…

Interested in a deep-dive into representational similarity analysis? Check out my introductory workshop, in the form of a Colaboratory notebook, which covers everything from the basics through advanced topics such as asymmetric similarity: colab.research.google.com/drive/1UEtFr-o…

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

Can neighborhoods🏘️ influence how children think about foreign culture - like foreign foods🍲? Racial & ling diversity in the neighborhood AND trust in neighbors are related to how children think about foreign foods More at #SRCD2021 poster Thu, April 8, 10:15am EDT!

I'm thrilled to share that I am joining UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz as an asst prof in psych in July 2022! I am also humbled to receive a K99/R00 award from @NICHD_NIH to study how neighborhood and social network diversity relate to social group development starting in infancy. 1/

Anticipation is critical for adaptive behavior. We show that the brain generates hierarchical anticipatory signals: progressively more anterior regions anticipate events that are further in the future. So proud of this work w/ Chris Baldassano & Caroline Lee!

Happy to share that I will be a Lead TA in Neuromatch Deep Learning! I transitioned from a wet-lab biology researcher to a computational neuroscience researcher. Can't wait to meet the students looking for such transitions, and share my experiences with them!

Excited that this pandemic project conceived on here has been accepted for publication NeuroImage. Congratulations to first author Steve Hui and thank you to everyone that worked on the project. Collaboration beats lockdown.

What determines the relative arrangement of receptive field mosaics? Short answer: Scene statistics and noise! Our paper is now up on PNAS! 🙌pnas.org/content/118/39… Loved working with @jmxpearson and @GregDField on this! The thread below has a quick summary of the paper 👇

How are social and sensory traits related in autism? New paper out today in International Society for Autism Research, INSAR, with co-authors Jeff Mentch , Tommy Botch , Brenda Garcia, Allie Burrows, & Caroline Robertson Link: tinyurl.com/y2f8kxzk 🧵below!

Beyond excited to share my first baby fMRI paper, out today at PNAS! We ask: how do babies experience the world? (Or: how do they meaningfully segment the blooming🌻 buzzing🐝 confusion of continuous sensory input?) 1/9 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Does classic visual search predict our ability to search in real-world settings? New paper out in Scientific Reports with co-authors Brenda Garcia, YB Choi, Nicholas Feffer & Caroline Robertson Link: tinyurl.com/3xy9vx9b 🧵below!