Emily Finn
@esfinn.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Dartmouth. PI of the Functional Imaging & Naturalistic Neuroscience (FINN) Lab.
https://thefinnlab.github.io/
https://thefinnlab.github.io/
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Emily Finn
@esfinn.bsky.social
· May 9
Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
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We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
Cognitive Science Graduate Admissions – Information about graduate admissions from the cognitive science faculty
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October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
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Is it time to put rest to rest? A great article by @esfinn.bsky.social , which cleverly lays out some unfound assumptions in the field of and an integrated way forward: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
It should be required reading for anyone using #resting-state or task-based #fMRI!
It should be required reading for anyone using #resting-state or task-based #fMRI!
September 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Is it time to put rest to rest? A great article by @esfinn.bsky.social , which cleverly lays out some unfound assumptions in the field of and an integrated way forward: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
It should be required reading for anyone using #resting-state or task-based #fMRI!
It should be required reading for anyone using #resting-state or task-based #fMRI!
Having severe FOMO for missing #OHBM2025, but please reach out if you are interested in postdoc opportunities in our lab! Enjoy the science and sunshine!!
Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
June 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Having severe FOMO for missing #OHBM2025, but please reach out if you are interested in postdoc opportunities in our lab! Enjoy the science and sunshine!!
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Not long after I started my lab, a prominent scientist told me it was “impossible” to be a successful PI and a mother
Don’t ever let the naysayers tell you it can’t be done - of course it can!
#HappyMothersDay this weekend to all the amazing scientist mamas raising their wonderful kids 🥰
Don’t ever let the naysayers tell you it can’t be done - of course it can!
#HappyMothersDay this weekend to all the amazing scientist mamas raising their wonderful kids 🥰
May 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Not long after I started my lab, a prominent scientist told me it was “impossible” to be a successful PI and a mother
Don’t ever let the naysayers tell you it can’t be done - of course it can!
#HappyMothersDay this weekend to all the amazing scientist mamas raising their wonderful kids 🥰
Don’t ever let the naysayers tell you it can’t be done - of course it can!
#HappyMothersDay this weekend to all the amazing scientist mamas raising their wonderful kids 🥰
Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
May 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
Alternative title: "LLMs don't have ears (or eyes)"
What do humans and machines miss out on when processing language as purely written text, without all the embodied audiovisual richness that scaffolds language in daily human contexts?
Very proud of this elegant work from @tommybotch.bsky.social
What do humans and machines miss out on when processing language as purely written text, without all the embodied audiovisual richness that scaffolds language in daily human contexts?
Very proud of this elegant work from @tommybotch.bsky.social
New preprint! Thrilled to share my latest work with @esfinn.bsky.social -- "Sensory context as a universal principle of language in humans and LLMs"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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May 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Alternative title: "LLMs don't have ears (or eyes)"
What do humans and machines miss out on when processing language as purely written text, without all the embodied audiovisual richness that scaffolds language in daily human contexts?
Very proud of this elegant work from @tommybotch.bsky.social
What do humans and machines miss out on when processing language as purely written text, without all the embodied audiovisual richness that scaffolds language in daily human contexts?
Very proud of this elegant work from @tommybotch.bsky.social
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We're excited to hear this year's Young Investigator Award recipients @esfinn.bsky.social @andrebastosof.bsky.social talk about their award-winning research! And exciting to see them with some past winners @freekvanede.bsky.social @striemamit.bsky.social
Join us in the Grand Ballroom!
#CNS2025
Join us in the Grand Ballroom!
#CNS2025
March 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We're excited to hear this year's Young Investigator Award recipients @esfinn.bsky.social @andrebastosof.bsky.social talk about their award-winning research! And exciting to see them with some past winners @freekvanede.bsky.social @striemamit.bsky.social
Join us in the Grand Ballroom!
#CNS2025
Join us in the Grand Ballroom!
#CNS2025
Two posters from our lab at #CNS2025 this morning! First, Kay Liang @kay-qiliang.bsky.social shows differences in how we perceive social interactions when we’re actually involved in them (first person) versus passively watching them (third person) at poster D99
March 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Two posters from our lab at #CNS2025 this morning! First, Kay Liang @kay-qiliang.bsky.social shows differences in how we perceive social interactions when we’re actually involved in them (first person) versus passively watching them (third person) at poster D99
This afternoon (Sun 1:30-3:30p) at #CNS2025, Zach Reagh @zreagh.bsky.social, Janice Chen, James Antony @jameswardantony.bsky.social, and I will be speaking in Symposium 1: Creating the structure of ongoing experience. Come by for a dose of narratives, events, causality etc @cogneuronews.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This afternoon (Sun 1:30-3:30p) at #CNS2025, Zach Reagh @zreagh.bsky.social, Janice Chen, James Antony @jameswardantony.bsky.social, and I will be speaking in Symposium 1: Creating the structure of ongoing experience. Come by for a dose of narratives, events, causality etc @cogneuronews.bsky.social
*So* honored to be a co-recipient of the CNS Young Investigator Award (along with André Bastos)! This was a fun interview. Really looking forward to the conference!
"...how can the same sensory information evoke such wildly different interpretations across people, or even within the same person across time?"
Learn how @esfinn.bsky.social, a #CNS2025 Young Investigator Award co-recipient, is working to answer that in a new Q&A:
#scicomm
Learn how @esfinn.bsky.social, a #CNS2025 Young Investigator Award co-recipient, is working to answer that in a new Q&A:
#scicomm
Viewing Different Views of the World Through a Scientific Lens
Researchers like Emily Finn are working to understand differing views of the world through behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational tools.
www.cogneurosociety.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
*So* honored to be a co-recipient of the CNS Young Investigator Award (along with André Bastos)! This was a fun interview. Really looking forward to the conference!
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Suppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can!
Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...
Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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February 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Suppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can!
Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...
Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...
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For the Dartmouth PBS graduate student visiting day this year, we introduced a new format based on the "Hot Ones" talk show: faculty and current graduate students ate nuggets with a series of increasing spicy hot sauces as they answered questions from prospective grad students! 🌶️🔥🥵
January 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
For the Dartmouth PBS graduate student visiting day this year, we introduced a new format based on the "Hot Ones" talk show: faculty and current graduate students ate nuggets with a series of increasing spicy hot sauces as they answered questions from prospective grad students! 🌶️🔥🥵
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As co-director of AI at the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative, I want women in data science to flourish. We thus launch the #WiDSDatathon 2025 Global challenge - open to all levels - now on Kaggle! Entrants will predict ADHD via fMRI, with sex differences in mind. youtu.be/ESbiTbnlbdM
WiDS Datathon 2025: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Female Brain
YouTube video by Women in Data Science Worldwide
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January 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
As co-director of AI at the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative, I want women in data science to flourish. We thus launch the #WiDSDatathon 2025 Global challenge - open to all levels - now on Kaggle! Entrants will predict ADHD via fMRI, with sex differences in mind. youtu.be/ESbiTbnlbdM
This paper sets up a bit of a straw man in that I don't think most people who use movies and stories as fMRI stimuli assume that all movies will (or should) evoke the same response. In a naturalistic neuroimaging expt, the movie *is* the task...
Between-movie variability severely limits generalizability of “naturalistic” neuroimaging
“Naturalistic imaging” paradigms, where participants watch movies during fMRI, have gained popularity over the past two decades. Many movie-watching studies measure inter-subject correlation (ISC), wh...
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2024 at 3:30 PM
This paper sets up a bit of a straw man in that I don't think most people who use movies and stories as fMRI stimuli assume that all movies will (or should) evoke the same response. In a naturalistic neuroimaging expt, the movie *is* the task...
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now out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece,
"Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience"
#neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
"Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience"
#neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience
Abstract. Studying subjective experience is hard. We believe that pain is not identical to nociception, nor pleasure a computational reward signal, nor fea
academic.oup.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:49 PM
now out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece,
"Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience"
#neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
"Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience"
#neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
Reposted by Emily Finn
Reposted by Emily Finn
New starter pack: people doing science with narratives, naturalistic memory, natural conversations, and using language models for psych/cog sci 📖💻📚
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November 15, 2024 at 6:53 PM
New starter pack: people doing science with narratives, naturalistic memory, natural conversations, and using language models for psych/cog sci 📖💻📚
(Reply with 🙋 if you'd like to be added!)
go.bsky.app/LGRYMvQ
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Hi new followers! My lab studies when/how/why the same input can provoke different interpretations in different people (or in the same person across time). But we also do fun stuff with human-AI alignment and conversation. Hoping we can make bsky like the old days of science Twitter; miss that!
November 14, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Hi new followers! My lab studies when/how/why the same input can provoke different interpretations in different people (or in the same person across time). But we also do fun stuff with human-AI alignment and conversation. Hoping we can make bsky like the old days of science Twitter; miss that!
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🚨 Steven Frankland and I are recruiting jointly-advised graduate students to work on high-level cognition! They will be part of the Cognitive Science Program at Dartmouth and earn their Ph.D. in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Deadline: Dec 1: pbs.dartmouth.edu/graduate-pro...
Graduate Program in Psychological and Brain Sciences
pbs.dartmouth.edu
November 13, 2024 at 2:56 PM
🚨 Steven Frankland and I are recruiting jointly-advised graduate students to work on high-level cognition! They will be part of the Cognitive Science Program at Dartmouth and earn their Ph.D. in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Deadline: Dec 1: pbs.dartmouth.edu/graduate-pro...
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The Dartmouth College Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences are now on Bluesky! Follow this account for research, learning resources, events, news, and job postings.
November 13, 2024 at 9:41 PM
The Dartmouth College Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences are now on Bluesky! Follow this account for research, learning resources, events, news, and job postings.
Our lab (thefinnlab.github.io) is excited to review PhD applications this cycle! Check us out if you wanna do interesting stuff with brains and behavior in the woods 🌲🧠🌲Apply to Dartmouth Psych&Brain Sciences via Guarini School of Grad Studies (graduate.dartmouth.edu/admissions-f...) by Dec 1!
Functional Imaging and Naturalistic Neuroscience Lab
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November 10, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Our lab (thefinnlab.github.io) is excited to review PhD applications this cycle! Check us out if you wanna do interesting stuff with brains and behavior in the woods 🌲🧠🌲Apply to Dartmouth Psych&Brain Sciences via Guarini School of Grad Studies (graduate.dartmouth.edu/admissions-f...) by Dec 1!
Very excited for this search -- please apply!!
Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences is searching for a new full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor studying social interaction! We're open to a wide variety of methods and perspectives. Review of applications starts Oct 15. Details here: apply.interfolio.com/151749
August 20, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Very excited for this search -- please apply!!
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📢 Exciting news! My first first-author paper on brain decoding of spontaneous thought is now available on PNAS. Check it out! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
✅ Summary: We developed fMRI-based predictive models of spontaneous thought using personal stories as stimuli. (1/4)
✅ Summary: We developed fMRI-based predictive models of spontaneous thought using personal stories as stimuli. (1/4)
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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March 30, 2024 at 5:45 AM
📢 Exciting news! My first first-author paper on brain decoding of spontaneous thought is now available on PNAS. Check it out! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
✅ Summary: We developed fMRI-based predictive models of spontaneous thought using personal stories as stimuli. (1/4)
✅ Summary: We developed fMRI-based predictive models of spontaneous thought using personal stories as stimuli. (1/4)
Our lab is hiring a lab manager/RA to start in summer 2024! Learn cutting-edge behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging tools applied to big Qs in cog&social psych. Send qs my way, and apply through the official posting here: searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/727...
March 6, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Our lab is hiring a lab manager/RA to start in summer 2024! Learn cutting-edge behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging tools applied to big Qs in cog&social psych. Send qs my way, and apply through the official posting here: searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/727...
This was a really fun conversation! Thanks for having me
New episode!
I talked to @esfinn.bsky.social about neural fingerprinting, naturalistic stimuli, how she got into science, her year in Peru, uncertainties about doing a PhD, how to write good papers, and much more.
Thanks Emily for being a guest!
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I talked to @esfinn.bsky.social about neural fingerprinting, naturalistic stimuli, how she got into science, her year in Peru, uncertainties about doing a PhD, how to write good papers, and much more.
Thanks Emily for being a guest!
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March 4, 2024 at 3:59 PM
This was a really fun conversation! Thanks for having me