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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Scientists just discovered a key brain network affected by Parkinson’s disease. The finding could change how doctors understand symptoms and lead to better treatments. 🧠 bit.ly/4qdpLMf
February 4, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Scientists just discovered a key brain network affected by Parkinson’s disease. The finding could change how doctors understand symptoms and lead to better treatments. 🧠 bit.ly/4qdpLMf
Registration and poster abstract submission now open for the @yorku-cian.bsky.social symposium on 'Cognition & Action', June 4,5 following CSBBCS, with a mix of speaker topics on philosophy, behaviour, neuroimaging, and neurophysiology.
See: www.yorku.ca/research/cia...
See: www.yorku.ca/research/cia...
February 3, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Registration and poster abstract submission now open for the @yorku-cian.bsky.social symposium on 'Cognition & Action', June 4,5 following CSBBCS, with a mix of speaker topics on philosophy, behaviour, neuroimaging, and neurophysiology.
See: www.yorku.ca/research/cia...
See: www.yorku.ca/research/cia...
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Congratulations to Dr. Gunnar Blohm and team! Their paper in the Neuroscience Journal proposes a model for multisensory integration across reference frames, overcoming the curse of dimensionality. Groundbreaking work on how the brain integrates sensory information. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Beyond Divisive Normalization: Scalable Feedforward Networks for Multisensory Integration Across Reference Frames
The integration of multiple sensory inputs is essential for human perception and action in uncertain environments. This process includes reference frame transformations as different sensory signals ar...
www.jneurosci.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Gunnar Blohm and team! Their paper in the Neuroscience Journal proposes a model for multisensory integration across reference frames, overcoming the curse of dimensionality. Groundbreaking work on how the brain integrates sensory information. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
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Celebrating our latest Seed Grant recipient! Dr. Achala Rodrigo's project uses accessible ML integrating behavioral and brain data to improve mental health risk identification for post-secondary students, centering equity and collaboration. Read more about this project: www.yorku.ca/research/con...
January 27, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Celebrating our latest Seed Grant recipient! Dr. Achala Rodrigo's project uses accessible ML integrating behavioral and brain data to improve mental health risk identification for post-secondary students, centering equity and collaboration. Read more about this project: www.yorku.ca/research/con...
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Celebrating Dr. Erez Freud's Seed Grant! His team uses markerless motion tracking and AI to study natural movement patterns for earlier, more accessible autism identification. Co-created with clinicians and neurodivergent communities, inclusive tech that reflects lived experience!
January 27, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Celebrating Dr. Erez Freud's Seed Grant! His team uses markerless motion tracking and AI to study natural movement patterns for earlier, more accessible autism identification. Co-created with clinicians and neurodivergent communities, inclusive tech that reflects lived experience!
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Congratulations to Dr. Benedict Weobong and co-PIs on new Seed Grant! Their project combines LLM and non-verbal robotics to create emotionally responsive support for young adults. Co-designed with participants, human-centred AI that prioritizes trust and comfort. More detail on this lnkd.in/erfxeazj
January 31, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Benedict Weobong and co-PIs on new Seed Grant! Their project combines LLM and non-verbal robotics to create emotionally responsive support for young adults. Co-designed with participants, human-centred AI that prioritizes trust and comfort. More detail on this lnkd.in/erfxeazj
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New Seed Grant! Dr. Hossein Kassiri and co-PIs are developing Predictive Adaptive Neurostimulation, an intelligent system using personalized digital twins to make brain stimulation safer and more responsive. Starting with epilepsy, this could transform treatment for stroke and chronic pain.
January 28, 2026 at 8:14 PM
New Seed Grant! Dr. Hossein Kassiri and co-PIs are developing Predictive Adaptive Neurostimulation, an intelligent system using personalized digital twins to make brain stimulation safer and more responsive. Starting with epilepsy, this could transform treatment for stroke and chronic pain.
I seem to have misplaced my car. It was here yesterday.
January 26, 2026 at 2:05 PM
I seem to have misplaced my car. It was here yesterday.
Clear analysis of multiple videos from CNN: www.cnn.com/2026/01/25/u...
CNN video analysis sheds new light on killing of Alex Pretti | CNN
CNN analyzed cellphone footage of immigration officers fatally shooting Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Taken together, they appear at odds with the Department of Homeland Security’s claims about the kill...
www.cnn.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Clear analysis of multiple videos from CNN: www.cnn.com/2026/01/25/u...
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Reposted by Doug Crawford
Modular Integration of Auditory Instructions and Visual Cues into the Cortical Reach Network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.20.700205v1
January 21, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Modular Integration of Auditory Instructions and Visual Cues into the Cortical Reach Network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.20.700205v1
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Cortical cognitive processing explains and predicts superior colliculus signals and timing of gaze shifts to multisensory targets. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.20.700579v1
January 23, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Cortical cognitive processing explains and predicts superior colliculus signals and timing of gaze shifts to multisensory targets. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.20.700579v1
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Learn about Dr. Erez Freud and master’s student Emily Fewster’s research on hand use and motor strategies in autism.
Full article in Autism Research:
doi.org/10.1002/aur....
York's YFile:
yorku.ca/news/2026/01...
#Neuroscience
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
@erezfreud.bsky.social
Full article in Autism Research:
doi.org/10.1002/aur....
York's YFile:
yorku.ca/news/2026/01...
#Neuroscience
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
@erezfreud.bsky.social
Reduced Hand Specialization and Idiosyncratic Visuomotor Strategies in Autism During Naturalistic Object Manipulation
Autistic individuals exhibit altered perceptual and visuomotor behaviors, potentially due to reduced cortical specialization. The current study focuses on handedness, a robust marker of cerebral spec....
doi.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Learn about Dr. Erez Freud and master’s student Emily Fewster’s research on hand use and motor strategies in autism.
Full article in Autism Research:
doi.org/10.1002/aur....
York's YFile:
yorku.ca/news/2026/01...
#Neuroscience
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
@erezfreud.bsky.social
Full article in Autism Research:
doi.org/10.1002/aur....
York's YFile:
yorku.ca/news/2026/01...
#Neuroscience
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
@erezfreud.bsky.social
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Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
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we're hiring!
looking for a systems neuroscientist with extracellular ephys experience
please share!
link below, feel free to DM with questions
looking for a systems neuroscientist with extracellular ephys experience
please share!
link below, feel free to DM with questions
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
we're hiring!
looking for a systems neuroscientist with extracellular ephys experience
please share!
link below, feel free to DM with questions
looking for a systems neuroscientist with extracellular ephys experience
please share!
link below, feel free to DM with questions
Belated lab holiday lunch!
January 16, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Belated lab holiday lunch!
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🌍 Applications are open! The IBRO Exchange Fellowships give early career #neuroscientists to conduct lab visits with several expenses covered during the exchange.
🗓 Apply by 15 Apr: https://ibro.org/grant/exchange-fellowships/
#grant #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm
🗓 Apply by 15 Apr: https://ibro.org/grant/exchange-fellowships/
#grant #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm
January 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
🌍 Applications are open! The IBRO Exchange Fellowships give early career #neuroscientists to conduct lab visits with several expenses covered during the exchange.
🗓 Apply by 15 Apr: https://ibro.org/grant/exchange-fellowships/
#grant #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm
🗓 Apply by 15 Apr: https://ibro.org/grant/exchange-fellowships/
#grant #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm
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An announcement from Noah Wyle and the CDC:
January 14, 2026 at 7:49 PM
An announcement from Noah Wyle and the CDC:
And now for something completely different: can modern bladesmiths replicate a medieval sword like this famous 12th century 'Cawood Sword' using traditional techniques?
January 13, 2026 at 8:07 PM
And now for something completely different: can modern bladesmiths replicate a medieval sword like this famous 12th century 'Cawood Sword' using traditional techniques?
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CIAN had the honour of hosting Dr. Takashi Sato last Friday.
#Neuroscience
@jonathanamichaels.bsky.social
@bjorges.bsky.social
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
#Neuroscience
@jonathanamichaels.bsky.social
@bjorges.bsky.social
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
CIAN had the honour of hosting Dr. Takashi Sato last Friday.
#Neuroscience
@jonathanamichaels.bsky.social
@bjorges.bsky.social
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
#Neuroscience
@jonathanamichaels.bsky.social
@bjorges.bsky.social
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
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Now you recall it, now you don’t: Working memory performance fluctuates with a theta rhythm
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience
Now you recall it, now you don’t: Working memory performance fluctuates with a theta rhythm
In this issue of Neuron, Han et al. leverage a change-identification working memory
task coupled with electrophysiological recordings in the macaque frontal eye field
to show that information retrieva...
www.cell.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Now you recall it, now you don’t: Working memory performance fluctuates with a theta rhythm
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience
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I have been asked several times how we draw the 3D Figures for of our papers, so I wrote a blog post on it. This does not replace a Blender tutorial, just a couple specifics for scientific papers:
- import images as planes
- render edges
- transparent BG
chriswolfvision.medium.com/creating-3d-...
- import images as planes
- render edges
- transparent BG
chriswolfvision.medium.com/creating-3d-...
January 6, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I have been asked several times how we draw the 3D Figures for of our papers, so I wrote a blog post on it. This does not replace a Blender tutorial, just a couple specifics for scientific papers:
- import images as planes
- render edges
- transparent BG
chriswolfvision.medium.com/creating-3d-...
- import images as planes
- render edges
- transparent BG
chriswolfvision.medium.com/creating-3d-...
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At Connected Minds, we celebrate Dr. Judy Illes, Chair of our External Advisory Board, promoted to Officer of the Order of Canada. This honour recognizes her leadership in biomedical ethics, neuroscience, and centering Indigenous perspectives in medicine. We're incredibly proud!
January 5, 2026 at 11:39 PM
At Connected Minds, we celebrate Dr. Judy Illes, Chair of our External Advisory Board, promoted to Officer of the Order of Canada. This honour recognizes her leadership in biomedical ethics, neuroscience, and centering Indigenous perspectives in medicine. We're incredibly proud!
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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.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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 ...
www.cell.com
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.