Derek Evan Nee
derekevannee.bsky.social
Derek Evan Nee
@derekevannee.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Florida State University
Cognitive Neuroscience
fMRI . TMS . Cognitive Control . Working Memory
Hey #SfN25 #SfN2025, come by DD10 this afternoon to see Jongmin Lee's poster showing that iTBS to DLPFC and FPl dissociably affect cognitive flexibility, neural efficiency, and conjunctive coding in the PFC!
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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👇Happening this afternoon at #SfN25 #SfN2025 as part of a nano poster group on finescale organization of the PFC, including work from @rodbraga.bsky.social @derekevannee.bsky.social @abbynoyce.bsky.social @visscherlab.bsky.social @neurojacob.bsky.social and more!
Come see them all 👀👀👀
1) @zachladwig.bsky.social will be available on SATURDAY PM at poster CC14

He’ll show his work using precision fMRI to identify new common network motifs in the PFC and investigate how network borders support executive function.
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied.

👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
August 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social

AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements...

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
July 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Excited to share my first preprint investigating the feasibility and reliability of using precision RSFC in people with Parkinson’s disease! 🧠👇
📄: go.illinois.edu/PDfeasibility

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July 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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🚨 We’re hiring! The Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Virginia Tech is looking for a postdoc to join our team studying the neural + computational mechanisms of structure learning and flexible cognition: ccnvt.github.io#positions
CCN Lab
ccnvt.github.io
July 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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In this Article, Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe. @jankaminski.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unattended working memory items are coded by persistent activity in human medial temporal lobe neurons - Nature Human Behaviour
Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe.
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods.

If you know anybody, please tell them to email me.

Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org
Wessel Cognitive Neurology Lab | The University of Iowa
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June 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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New modeling paper, spearheaded by Raphael Geddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, now out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: "Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility".
Free read link: rdcu.be/epatc
June 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Check out my newest preprint to see the TCP dataset in action! 🤘🧠

Brain network dynamics reflect psychiatric illness status and transdiagnostic symptom profiles across health and disease: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Excited to announce that our paper (led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Derek Smith) is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com
go.illinois.edu/Lee2025_NHB
We use 36 days of testing in 4 inhibitory control tasks to examine the precision of inhibitory control measures in *individuals* and how they vary
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Precise individual measures of inhibitory control
Nature Human Behaviour - Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on four inhibitory control tasks, Gratton et al. show that more than 1,000 trials per participant are necessary to reduce...
go.illinois.edu
May 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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In @elife.bsky.social: Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening
doi.org
April 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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New paper alert! Have you ever looked at single-trial fMRI activation maps? If so, you know that they are super variable. Here we show that the variability is not just noise. In fact, the same task can consistently elicit different activation patterns. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Multiple brain activation patterns for the same perceptual decision-making task - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show the brain uses multiple activation patterns to perform the same task. Even the default mode network, which is often inactive during focus, plays a role.
www.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula...

The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵
January 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience program at FSU is recruiting PhD students and we would love to chat with you at #SfN24!

psychology.fsu.edu/graduate/pro...
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | Department of Psychology
FSU, designated a preeminent university in the state of Florida, is one of the most respected research and learning institutions in the country.
psychology.fsu.edu
October 5, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Ever wonder how people's brains differ from one another? ▶️Individual differences in 🧠 organization commonly come in 2 forms: shifts in borders & 'ectopic intrusions' far from expected locations
Now out in Nature Neuro & led by Ally Dworetsky
rdcu.be/dGeIp
#neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
🧵 soon!
Two common and distinct forms of variation in human functional brain networks
Nature Neuroscience - The layout of cortical systems varies across people, which is assumed to be largely due to border shifts between nearby systems. Dworetsky et al. reveal a qualitatively...
rdcu.be
April 30, 2024 at 1:10 PM
The one reviewer that completed the review has my eternal gratitude. Really wish there were more of you out there...
February 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Hi neuroSky, thanks to Lynn Nadel & Sarah Aronowitz I wrote a book chapter on multiscale predictive representations that connect the past to the future, memory to prediction & planning.
There's still time to edit it & I'd love to read your comments!
Am I missing citations?

arxiv.org/abs/2401.09491
January 19, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Open rank position in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience at FSU! Review begins 2/1/24: jobs.omni.fsu.edu/psc/sprdhr_e...
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December 19, 2023 at 9:19 PM