Marco Chia-Ho Lai
@marcochlai.bsky.social
Postdoc at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Marco Chia-Ho Lai
@marcochlai.bsky.social
· Jul 28
Excited to share that our work, "Changes in auditory evoked responses at different levels of linguistic processing in adults and school-age children: An MEG study," is now out in Neuropsychologia!
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The talk I gave in Milan is now on YouTube!
For those who couldn't attend, the recording of Hsieh Cheng-Yu's seminar is now available on our YouTube channel.
Watch the full presentation here: youtu.be/v7DHox_6duE
Watch the full presentation here: youtu.be/v7DHox_6duE
Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading | Cheng-Yu Hsieh | Milan
YouTube video by Mbs Vector Space Lab
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The talk I gave in Milan is now on YouTube!
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A new paper from the lab, using 7T fMRI and MEG to shed light on how we read, specifically how the visual system encodes strings of letters and moves from retinotopic to ordinal neural codes.
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PNAS
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October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A new paper from the lab, using 7T fMRI and MEG to shed light on how we read, specifically how the visual system encodes strings of letters and moves from retinotopic to ordinal neural codes.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Another talk next week!
Join us for our next seminar! We're excited to host Hsieh Cheng-Yu (University of London)
He'll discuss "Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading," exploring how we process ambiguity & meaning consistency
🗓️ 27th Oct ⏰ 2PM (CET)📍UniMiB 💻 meet.google.com/zvk-owhv-tfw
He'll discuss "Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading," exploring how we process ambiguity & meaning consistency
🗓️ 27th Oct ⏰ 2PM (CET)📍UniMiB 💻 meet.google.com/zvk-owhv-tfw
October 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Another talk next week!
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Join us for our next seminar! We're excited to host Hsieh Cheng-Yu (University of London)
He'll discuss "Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading," exploring how we process ambiguity & meaning consistency
🗓️ 27th Oct ⏰ 2PM (CET)📍UniMiB 💻 meet.google.com/zvk-owhv-tfw
He'll discuss "Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading," exploring how we process ambiguity & meaning consistency
🗓️ 27th Oct ⏰ 2PM (CET)📍UniMiB 💻 meet.google.com/zvk-owhv-tfw
October 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Join us for our next seminar! We're excited to host Hsieh Cheng-Yu (University of London)
He'll discuss "Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading," exploring how we process ambiguity & meaning consistency
🗓️ 27th Oct ⏰ 2PM (CET)📍UniMiB 💻 meet.google.com/zvk-owhv-tfw
He'll discuss "Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading," exploring how we process ambiguity & meaning consistency
🗓️ 27th Oct ⏰ 2PM (CET)📍UniMiB 💻 meet.google.com/zvk-owhv-tfw
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thrilled to share our preprint on false memories in naturalistic recollection!
Distinct paths to false memory revealed in hundreds of narrative recalls
paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
w/ phoebehc.bsky.social (co-first) Vy A. Vo @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @toddgureckis.bsky.social
thread below 👇
Distinct paths to false memory revealed in hundreds of narrative recalls
paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
w/ phoebehc.bsky.social (co-first) Vy A. Vo @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @toddgureckis.bsky.social
thread below 👇
October 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
thrilled to share our preprint on false memories in naturalistic recollection!
Distinct paths to false memory revealed in hundreds of narrative recalls
paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
w/ phoebehc.bsky.social (co-first) Vy A. Vo @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @toddgureckis.bsky.social
thread below 👇
Distinct paths to false memory revealed in hundreds of narrative recalls
paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
w/ phoebehc.bsky.social (co-first) Vy A. Vo @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @toddgureckis.bsky.social
thread below 👇
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I’m hiring! We have an opening in my lab at UC Berkeley for a Staff Research Associate 2. This person will collect and analyze data, work with patients and families, act as point of contact btwn collaborators, maintain lab organization, + more. careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I’m hiring! We have an opening in my lab at UC Berkeley for a Staff Research Associate 2. This person will collect and analyze data, work with patients and families, act as point of contact btwn collaborators, maintain lab organization, + more. careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...
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Thanks for the invite. Looking forward to seeing many of you online!
Welcome to join our upcoming Journal Club meetings in Oct & Nov! Happy to have @cyhsieh.bsky.social & Dr. Cosimo Iaia as our guest speakers!
Register to get the Zoom link or sign up as our next guest speaker:
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More exciting talks coming up. Please share & see you there!
Register to get the Zoom link or sign up as our next guest speaker:
forms.gle/TY6Cuxut87Ej...
More exciting talks coming up. Please share & see you there!
October 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Thanks for the invite. Looking forward to seeing many of you online!
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UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨
Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.
Please share widely!
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.
Please share widely!
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
September 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨
Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.
Please share widely!
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.
Please share widely!
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
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🚀Excited to share our project: Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience. @schottdorflab.bsky.social and I propose a novel multivariate method to isolate neural representations aligned with specific cognitive hypotheses 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673485v1
September 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🚀Excited to share our project: Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience. @schottdorflab.bsky.social and I propose a novel multivariate method to isolate neural representations aligned with specific cognitive hypotheses 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673485v1
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That's a wrap for CCN2025 -- and so planning for CCN2026 in New York is starting today! Save travels to all participants and remember to fill out the feedback survey sent via email!
August 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
That's a wrap for CCN2025 -- and so planning for CCN2026 in New York is starting today! Save travels to all participants and remember to fill out the feedback survey sent via email!
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The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
August 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
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New paper out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (open access)!
Using behavioral masked priming and single word reading with concurrent MEG recording, we investigate how our brain spots the tiny pieces of words (a.k.a. morphemes)—even when they’re playing hide-and-seek. 👀
Link ⬇️
Using behavioral masked priming and single word reading with concurrent MEG recording, we investigate how our brain spots the tiny pieces of words (a.k.a. morphemes)—even when they’re playing hide-and-seek. 👀
Link ⬇️
August 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New paper out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (open access)!
Using behavioral masked priming and single word reading with concurrent MEG recording, we investigate how our brain spots the tiny pieces of words (a.k.a. morphemes)—even when they’re playing hide-and-seek. 👀
Link ⬇️
Using behavioral masked priming and single word reading with concurrent MEG recording, we investigate how our brain spots the tiny pieces of words (a.k.a. morphemes)—even when they’re playing hide-and-seek. 👀
Link ⬇️
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I'm thrilled to introduce DR. Brennan Terhune-Cotter who defended his dissertation last week! His work shows that occipital (visual) cortex is recruited during high-level language processing for ASL and that deaf adults who lack early sign access show greater activation in occipital cortex
August 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I'm thrilled to introduce DR. Brennan Terhune-Cotter who defended his dissertation last week! His work shows that occipital (visual) cortex is recruited during high-level language processing for ASL and that deaf adults who lack early sign access show greater activation in occipital cortex
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Fascinating new work by @federicamosti.bsky.social
@debbysilver.bsky.social on
human-specific neurodevelopment, linking ‘Human Accelerated Regions’ to chromatin architecture, cortical cell fate and expansion and folding of brains 🧪🧠🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@debbysilver.bsky.social on
human-specific neurodevelopment, linking ‘Human Accelerated Regions’ to chromatin architecture, cortical cell fate and expansion and folding of brains 🧪🧠🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Species-specific chromatin architecture and neurogenesis mediated by a human enhancer
Genomic modifications underlie the evolution of human features, including a larger neocortex and enhanced cognition. Human Accelerated Regions (HARs) are highly-conserved loci containing human-specifi...
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August 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Fascinating new work by @federicamosti.bsky.social
@debbysilver.bsky.social on
human-specific neurodevelopment, linking ‘Human Accelerated Regions’ to chromatin architecture, cortical cell fate and expansion and folding of brains 🧪🧠🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@debbysilver.bsky.social on
human-specific neurodevelopment, linking ‘Human Accelerated Regions’ to chromatin architecture, cortical cell fate and expansion and folding of brains 🧪🧠🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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tryin' to be in the band, not the band manager. todd.gureckislab.org/2024/09/25/l...
August 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
tryin' to be in the band, not the band manager. todd.gureckislab.org/2024/09/25/l...
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Nice preprint on the neuroscience of cross-modality 🧪🧠
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How are cross-modal projections patterned across the cortex? So excited to share my postdoc work at the Crick - it was a wonderful collaboration with co-first author @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social in the labs of @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social & @petrznam.bsky.social
1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections?
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
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We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Nice preprint on the neuroscience of cross-modality 🧪🧠
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Read all about the neural network for sign language comprehension! New review paper with Brennan Terhune-Cotter! Please email me (or Brennan) for a copy if you can't access the paper compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Read all about the neural network for sign language comprehension! New review paper with Brennan Terhune-Cotter! Please email me (or Brennan) for a copy if you can't access the paper compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Excited to share that our work, "Changes in auditory evoked responses at different levels of linguistic processing in adults and school-age children: An MEG study," is now out in Neuropsychologia!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVCr_fKKp...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVCr_fKKp...
July 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Excited to share that our work, "Changes in auditory evoked responses at different levels of linguistic processing in adults and school-age children: An MEG study," is now out in Neuropsychologia!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVCr_fKKp...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVCr_fKKp...
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This was such a fun collaboration! I am thrilled to see this out today!! Amazing work by Cody Dong comparing memory-augmented LLMs to human episodic memory.
My first, first author paper, comparing the properties of memory-augmented large language models and human episodic memory, out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV174sIRv...
Here’s a quick 🧵(1/n)
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Here’s a quick 🧵(1/n)
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July 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This was such a fun collaboration! I am thrilled to see this out today!! Amazing work by Cody Dong comparing memory-augmented LLMs to human episodic memory.
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We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested!
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
July 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested!
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
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If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain
www.unicog.org
July 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
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Fantastic work by our (now former) lab manager Liv Christiano. We assess the test-retest reliability of OPM and compare it to fMRI and iEEG. 🧠📄🧵
How reliable is OPM-MEG, and how does it compare to other neuroimaging modalities? 🤔
In a new preprint with @s-michelmann.bsky.social, we evaluate the reliability of OPM-MEG within & between individuals, and compare it to fMRI & iEEG during repeated movie viewing. 🧠
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
In a new preprint with @s-michelmann.bsky.social, we evaluate the reliability of OPM-MEG within & between individuals, and compare it to fMRI & iEEG during repeated movie viewing. 🧠
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reliability and signal comparison of OPM-MEG, fMRI & iEEG in a repeated movie viewing paradigm
Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) offer a promising advancement in noninvasive neuroimaging via magnetoencephalography (MEG), but establishing their reliability and comparability to existing metho...
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July 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fantastic work by our (now former) lab manager Liv Christiano. We assess the test-retest reliability of OPM and compare it to fMRI and iEEG. 🧠📄🧵
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Check out our new paper “Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area” in PNAS!
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Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area | PNAS
Visual adaptation reduces bioenergetic expenditure by decreasing sensitivity to repetitive
and similar stimuli. In human adults, visual performance...
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July 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Check out our new paper “Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area” in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Stanford researchers found that bias against non-native speakers persists even when AI tools are used, highlighting the ongoing challenges of language discrimination in academic publishing. hai.stanford.edu/news/how-lan...
How Language Bias Persists in Scientific Publishing Despite AI Tools | Stanford HAI
Stanford researchers highlight the ongoing challenges of language discrimination in academic publishing, revealing that AI tools may not be the solution for non-native speakers.
hai.stanford.edu
June 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Stanford researchers found that bias against non-native speakers persists even when AI tools are used, highlighting the ongoing challenges of language discrimination in academic publishing. hai.stanford.edu/news/how-lan...