Doug Crawford
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
Distinguished Research Professor in Neuroscience; York Research Chair in Visuomotor Neuroscience; Director, Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience; PI, Connected Minds Program, York University, Toronto 🍁
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New paper in Current Biology from the Hikosaka lab and @nienborglab.bsky.social at the NEI, collaborating with us. First author Xuefei Yu @xuefeiyu.bsky.social applied a host of optogenetic techniques to dissect out the functions of a pathway from frontal cortex to brainstem in behaving primates.
I’m excited to share our new Current Biology paper! We use retrograde optogenetics in non-human primate and revealed a visuomotor convergence mechanism in the FEF-SC pathway.
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Retrograde optogenetics reveals sensorimotor convergence within a corticotectal pathway of non-human primates
Yu et al. demonstrate that diverse frontal eye field signals converge on motor-selective
superior colliculus neurons to generate saccades, revealing visuomotor convergence
and establishing retrograde ...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
New paper in Current Biology from the Hikosaka lab and @nienborglab.bsky.social at the NEI, collaborating with us. First author Xuefei Yu @xuefeiyu.bsky.social applied a host of optogenetic techniques to dissect out the functions of a pathway from frontal cortex to brainstem in behaving primates.
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From sensory to perceptual manifolds: The twist of neural geometry
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From sensory to perceptual manifolds: The twist of neural geometry
The brain uses geometric twists to expand neural dimensionality, thus untangling perception from sensation.
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December 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
From sensory to perceptual manifolds: The twist of neural geometry
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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From @science.org Breakthrough of the Year: Solar Energy
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
From @science.org Breakthrough of the Year: Solar Energy
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The superior colliculus is more complex than we thought.
Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway
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Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway
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Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway
Schwartz and Matsumoto et al. show that visual feature selectivity for luminance and
motion is coupled in the retina but becomes decoupled in the superior colliculus.
This transformation reorganizes t...
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December 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The superior colliculus is more complex than we thought.
Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway
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#neuroscience
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1/n. Cool new human brain atlas... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
1/n. Cool new human brain atlas... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Happy to share this new paper from the lab led by Angus Chapman, now out in PLoS Biology! It presents an integrated spatiotemporal normalization model for continuous vision. @afchapman.bsky.social
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A dynamic spatiotemporal normalization model captures perceptual and neural effects of spatial and temporal context
The effects of spatial and temporal context on sensory systems have mostly been studied independently of each other. This study shows that the modulation of visual perception and neural activity by th...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Happy to share this new paper from the lab led by Angus Chapman, now out in PLoS Biology! It presents an integrated spatiotemporal normalization model for continuous vision. @afchapman.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Great to see this paper on sensory expectations in motor control from @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social and @andpru.bsky.social out in Nature today!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits - Nature
Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the efficiency of move...
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December 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Great to see this paper on sensory expectations in motor control from @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social and @andpru.bsky.social out in Nature today!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience 🧪
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From glowing neurons to newborn memories, here are the most fascinating brain discoveries of 2025
The 10 Most Mind-Blowing Discoveries About the Brain in 2025
From glowing neurons to newborn memories, here are the most fascinating brain discoveries of 2025
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December 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
From glowing neurons to newborn memories, here are the most fascinating brain discoveries of 2025
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Are authors fairly judged by assessing the #journals in which their work is published? @bihutchins.bsky.social &co reveal that most influential papers are published in lower tier journals, and more authors would be better recognized with #ArticleLevelMetrics #ALMs @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oV58Ed
December 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Are authors fairly judged by assessing the #journals in which their work is published? @bihutchins.bsky.social &co reveal that most influential papers are published in lower tier journals, and more authors would be better recognized with #ArticleLevelMetrics #ALMs @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oV58Ed
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If you're interested in research co-creation, I have helped developing a guide for co-creation with @connectedminds.bsky.social and you can find it here:
www.yorku.ca/research/con...
www.yorku.ca/research/con...
Connected Minds Guide on Co-Creation - Connected Minds
Co-creation is a collaborative approach to research wherein researchers work directly with the people, communities, and sectors affected by an issue to jointly define problems, design and test ideas, ...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If you're interested in research co-creation, I have helped developing a guide for co-creation with @connectedminds.bsky.social and you can find it here:
www.yorku.ca/research/con...
www.yorku.ca/research/con...
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From Sam McDougle's love of music has sprung a focus on how people learn and get better at motor skills – an area he sees as sometimes neglected in cognitive neuroscience. Read a new Q&A with him, a preview of his #CNS2026 YIA talk:
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@actlab.bsky.social
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Taking Action Seriously in the Brain: Revealing the Role of Cognition in Motor Skills
Samuel McDougle, a CNS 2026 YIA recipient, studies both how people build motor skills through mental functions like “motor working memory."
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December 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
From Sam McDougle's love of music has sprung a focus on how people learn and get better at motor skills – an area he sees as sometimes neglected in cognitive neuroscience. Read a new Q&A with him, a preview of his #CNS2026 YIA talk:
www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio...
@actlab.bsky.social
www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio...
@actlab.bsky.social
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📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University!
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1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies
2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher
Please share widely and reach out for questions!
healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati...
1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies
2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher
Please share widely and reach out for questions!
Administrative Opportunities
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December 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University!
healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati...
1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies
2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher
Please share widely and reach out for questions!
healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati...
1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies
2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher
Please share widely and reach out for questions!
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Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research.
Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships.
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Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships.
Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
December 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research.
Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships.
Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships.
Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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Now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology:
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Get in touch if you think this tool could help in your science! We will be developing improvements and extensions over the next year.
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Get in touch if you think this tool could help in your science! We will be developing improvements and extensions over the next year.
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology:
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Get in touch if you think this tool could help in your science! We will be developing improvements and extensions over the next year.
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Get in touch if you think this tool could help in your science! We will be developing improvements and extensions over the next year.
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Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
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Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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We tend to think of neurons as either excitatory or inhibitory, but some neurons chemically inhibit their downstream targets while electrically exciting their neighbors. What is gained by having an inhibitory neuron excite its neighbor?
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December 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
We tend to think of neurons as either excitatory or inhibitory, but some neurons chemically inhibit their downstream targets while electrically exciting their neighbors. What is gained by having an inhibitory neuron excite its neighbor?
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Excited to share a new article, led by Barnes Jannuzi. Here we tried to pinpoint something about visual familiarity that isn't reflected in visual cortex via something putatively hippocampal. Nope! Per the theme of this era, the brain is not so simple. /1
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Sharpened visual memory representations are reflected in inferotemporal cortex
Humans and other primates can robustly report whether they've seen specific images before, even when those images are extremely similar to ones they've previously seen. Multiple lines of evidence sugg...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Excited to share a new article, led by Barnes Jannuzi. Here we tried to pinpoint something about visual familiarity that isn't reflected in visual cortex via something putatively hippocampal. Nope! Per the theme of this era, the brain is not so simple. /1
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yaoda Xu, Benjamin Swinchoski, JohnMark Taylor & Marvin Chun:
Interactive shape and color representation in visual working memory for colored objects in the human occipitotemporal cortex
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Interactive shape and color representation in visual working memory for colored objects in the human occipitotemporal cortex
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
December 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yaoda Xu, Benjamin Swinchoski, JohnMark Taylor & Marvin Chun:
Interactive shape and color representation in visual working memory for colored objects in the human occipitotemporal cortex
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Interactive shape and color representation in visual working memory for colored objects in the human occipitotemporal cortex
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Dominic M.D. Tran, Nicolas A. McNair, Alexis E. Whitton, Thomas J. Whitford & Evan J. Livesey:
Prediction-based sensory attenuation is related to prediction-based motor attenuation
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Prediction-based sensory attenuation is related to prediction-based motor attenuation
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Dominic M.D. Tran, Nicolas A. McNair, Alexis E. Whitton, Thomas J. Whitford & Evan J. Livesey:
Prediction-based sensory attenuation is related to prediction-based motor attenuation
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Prediction-based sensory attenuation is related to prediction-based motor attenuation
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Congratulations to my student @renilmathew.bsky.social (Renil Mathew) on receiving the Dr. Tutis Vilis Graduate Award in Neuroscience. As a long time friend and colleague of Tutis, this award really brings a tear to my eye.
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Congratulations to my student @renilmathew.bsky.social (Renil Mathew) on receiving the Dr. Tutis Vilis Graduate Award in Neuroscience. As a long time friend and colleague of Tutis, this award really brings a tear to my eye.
The York University (Toronto) Faculty of Health seeks a Tier 1 Canada Research appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level, in the area of 'Implementation Science'. (Broadly, this means interdisciplinary health research with applications). For details, see: www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The York University (Toronto) Faculty of Health seeks a Tier 1 Canada Research appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level, in the area of 'Implementation Science'. (Broadly, this means interdisciplinary health research with applications). For details, see: www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Rush
Alice in Chains
Stone Temple Pilots
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Rush
Alice in Chains
Stone Temple Pilots
Stevie Wonder
Massive Attack
Erykah Badu
Oumou Sangare
Jacob Collier
Massive Attack
Erykah Badu
Oumou Sangare
Jacob Collier
Cake
Gomez
Dead Kennedy’s
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Gil Scott Heron
Gomez
Dead Kennedy’s
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Gil Scott Heron
December 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Rush
Alice in Chains
Stone Temple Pilots
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Rush
Alice in Chains
Stone Temple Pilots
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What makes visual stimuli memorable? Wilma Bainbridge, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx, and I investigate the role of processing fluency for memorability in a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology. Check it out!
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Memorability of visual stimuli and the role of processing efficiency
Nature Reviews Psychology - Certain items are better remembered than others across individuals, a property known as memorability. In this Review, Bainbridge and colleagues detail memorability...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What makes visual stimuli memorable? Wilma Bainbridge, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx, and I investigate the role of processing fluency for memorability in a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology. Check it out!
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Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology.
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Jobs | Psychological & Brain Sciences
Tenured/Tenure-track position in Cognitive Psychology Open Date Dec 01, 2025 Salary Range or Pay Grade The expected academic base salary range for this position is $110,000- $144,500 (Assistant Profes...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology.
pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/