Veronica Diveica
@veronicadiveica.bsky.social
Postdoc at @theneuro.bsky.social | semantic knowledge, socialness & cognitive control 🧠 💭🫂 | OHBM Open Science SIG Treasurer | McGill Postdoc Assoc. Chair
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Had a fantastic time presenting our work on the shared neural substrate of autobiographical, semantic, and social cognition at #OHBM2025 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 🧠🫂 Check out the poster below 📈
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We just published a paper in PNAS, showing microstructural changes to the hippocampus in aging and presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease - in humans, in vivo.
We continue to show the value of structural MRI beyond simply measuring large-scale atrophy!
Read here: ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX
We continue to show the value of structural MRI beyond simply measuring large-scale atrophy!
Read here: ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We just published a paper in PNAS, showing microstructural changes to the hippocampus in aging and presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease - in humans, in vivo.
We continue to show the value of structural MRI beyond simply measuring large-scale atrophy!
Read here: ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX
We continue to show the value of structural MRI beyond simply measuring large-scale atrophy!
Read here: ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
Very excited to share @landrybulls.bsky.social's 1st lead-author preprint in my lab! Using datasets from MySocialBrain.org we measured people's beliefs about how mental states change in intensity over time, the dimensional structure of those beliefs, and their correlates: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇
September 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Very excited to share @landrybulls.bsky.social's 1st lead-author preprint in my lab! Using datasets from MySocialBrain.org we measured people's beliefs about how mental states change in intensity over time, the dimensional structure of those beliefs, and their correlates: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇
🧠 Interested in how the brain constructs and uses meaning?
In my Journal Club piece for @natrevpsychol.nature.com, I summarize the Controlled Semantic Cognition Framework by Lambon Ralph et al. — a leading model of how the brain represents and flexibly applies semantic knowledge.
👉🏼 rdcu.be/eE31i
In my Journal Club piece for @natrevpsychol.nature.com, I summarize the Controlled Semantic Cognition Framework by Lambon Ralph et al. — a leading model of how the brain represents and flexibly applies semantic knowledge.
👉🏼 rdcu.be/eE31i
September 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🧠 Interested in how the brain constructs and uses meaning?
In my Journal Club piece for @natrevpsychol.nature.com, I summarize the Controlled Semantic Cognition Framework by Lambon Ralph et al. — a leading model of how the brain represents and flexibly applies semantic knowledge.
👉🏼 rdcu.be/eE31i
In my Journal Club piece for @natrevpsychol.nature.com, I summarize the Controlled Semantic Cognition Framework by Lambon Ralph et al. — a leading model of how the brain represents and flexibly applies semantic knowledge.
👉🏼 rdcu.be/eE31i
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
Some scientists haven't yet internalized the "why" behind science writing for the public - not just as a service, but for themselves. (I didn't always get it). In this piece for @natrevneuro.nature.com, I draw on the neuroscience of curiosity & decision making to unpack its value.
rdcu.be/eCGr7
rdcu.be/eCGr7
The unexpected value of communicating science to the public
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - As a group, our scientific community has a responsibility to unpack the ‘what’ and ‘why’ behind our work for the public, not least because much...
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August 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Some scientists haven't yet internalized the "why" behind science writing for the public - not just as a service, but for themselves. (I didn't always get it). In this piece for @natrevneuro.nature.com, I draw on the neuroscience of curiosity & decision making to unpack its value.
rdcu.be/eCGr7
rdcu.be/eCGr7
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This was a fun paper to write, and one that fits nicely with some recent work I've been doing on the role of counterfactual simulation in memory encoding. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Episodic details are better remembered in plausible relative to implausible counterfactual simulations - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
People often engage in episodic counterfactual thinking, or mentally simulating how the experienced past might have been different from how it was. A commonly held view is that mentally simulating alt...
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August 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This was a fun paper to write, and one that fits nicely with some recent work I've been doing on the role of counterfactual simulation in memory encoding. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
The OHBM Open Science SIG is looking for new leadership! Self-nominations are now open! If you're passionate about open science in neuroimaging, get involved.
Multiple roles are available, with nominations reviewed in rolling rounds through October. ossig.netlify.app/elections/
Multiple roles are available, with nominations reviewed in rolling rounds through October. ossig.netlify.app/elections/
August 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The OHBM Open Science SIG is looking for new leadership! Self-nominations are now open! If you're passionate about open science in neuroimaging, get involved.
Multiple roles are available, with nominations reviewed in rolling rounds through October. ossig.netlify.app/elections/
Multiple roles are available, with nominations reviewed in rolling rounds through October. ossig.netlify.app/elections/
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
✨️Excited to share my first paper is out in Behavior Research Methods with @rjbinney.bsky.social and @pennypexman.bsky.social! We quantified the association of a word's meaning with reward, showing that it is a dimension relevant to semantic processing.
📄🔗Link: rdcu.be/eyqvn
📄🔗Link: rdcu.be/eyqvn
Reward as a facet of word meaning: Ratings of motivation for 8,601 English words
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July 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
✨️Excited to share my first paper is out in Behavior Research Methods with @rjbinney.bsky.social and @pennypexman.bsky.social! We quantified the association of a word's meaning with reward, showing that it is a dimension relevant to semantic processing.
📄🔗Link: rdcu.be/eyqvn
📄🔗Link: rdcu.be/eyqvn
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
Finally published:
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations
Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...
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July 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Finally published:
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
🧠 Just out with @pennypexman.bsky.social “Simulation in the ‘Blind’ Mind”.
We found that even without conscious imagery (aphantasia), people still simulate sensorimotor info when processing language. 💭🔤
We found that even without conscious imagery (aphantasia), people still simulate sensorimotor info when processing language. 💭🔤
July 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🧠 Just out with @pennypexman.bsky.social “Simulation in the ‘Blind’ Mind”.
We found that even without conscious imagery (aphantasia), people still simulate sensorimotor info when processing language. 💭🔤
We found that even without conscious imagery (aphantasia), people still simulate sensorimotor info when processing language. 💭🔤
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
Tired of mismatched brain maps? 🧠
The Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) brings consistency to neuroimaging by aligning findings across atlases. A big leap toward reproducible brain science! @lucinauddin.bsky.social
www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...
#OHBM2025 #BrainBites #neuroscience
The Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) brings consistency to neuroimaging by aligning findings across atlases. A big leap toward reproducible brain science! @lucinauddin.bsky.social
www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...
#OHBM2025 #BrainBites #neuroscience
Keynote series Dr. Lucina Uddin - Mapping the Brain: Why Standardization Matters — OHBM Communications
The Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) helps neuroscientists compare brain imaging data across different atlases, addressing inconsistencies in how brain networks are labeled. Developed by Dr. Lucin...
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July 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Tired of mismatched brain maps? 🧠
The Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) brings consistency to neuroimaging by aligning findings across atlases. A big leap toward reproducible brain science! @lucinauddin.bsky.social
www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...
#OHBM2025 #BrainBites #neuroscience
The Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) brings consistency to neuroimaging by aligning findings across atlases. A big leap toward reproducible brain science! @lucinauddin.bsky.social
www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...
#OHBM2025 #BrainBites #neuroscience
Proud to be an alumnus of the Bangor Imaging Unit 🎓 The knowledge and skills I gained over four years there shaped my career and how I approach 🧠 research.
Amazing to see the work the team has been doing since I graduated in 2023—still raising the bar for neuroimaging in Wales and beyond! 🚀
Amazing to see the work the team has been doing since I graduated in 2023—still raising the bar for neuroimaging in Wales and beyond! 🚀
July 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Proud to be an alumnus of the Bangor Imaging Unit 🎓 The knowledge and skills I gained over four years there shaped my career and how I approach 🧠 research.
Amazing to see the work the team has been doing since I graduated in 2023—still raising the bar for neuroimaging in Wales and beyond! 🚀
Amazing to see the work the team has been doing since I graduated in 2023—still raising the bar for neuroimaging in Wales and beyond! 🚀
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
🚨 Apply NOW for the 2025 Neuro–Irv & Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes!
Rewarding #OpenScience in neuroscience - the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute
💡 $80K Main Prize
🎓 $10K Intl. Trainee Prize
🍁 $5K Canadian Trainee Prize
🔗 www.mcgill.ca/neuro/open-s...)
🗓️ Aug 15
Rewarding #OpenScience in neuroscience - the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute
💡 $80K Main Prize
🎓 $10K Intl. Trainee Prize
🍁 $5K Canadian Trainee Prize
🔗 www.mcgill.ca/neuro/open-s...)
🗓️ Aug 15
July 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
🚨 Apply NOW for the 2025 Neuro–Irv & Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes!
Rewarding #OpenScience in neuroscience - the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute
💡 $80K Main Prize
🎓 $10K Intl. Trainee Prize
🍁 $5K Canadian Trainee Prize
🔗 www.mcgill.ca/neuro/open-s...)
🗓️ Aug 15
Rewarding #OpenScience in neuroscience - the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute
💡 $80K Main Prize
🎓 $10K Intl. Trainee Prize
🍁 $5K Canadian Trainee Prize
🔗 www.mcgill.ca/neuro/open-s...)
🗓️ Aug 15
Had a fantastic time presenting our work on the shared neural substrate of autobiographical, semantic, and social cognition at #OHBM2025 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 🧠🫂 Check out the poster below 📈
June 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Had a fantastic time presenting our work on the shared neural substrate of autobiographical, semantic, and social cognition at #OHBM2025 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 🧠🫂 Check out the poster below 📈
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
🚨📄 New paper!
Abstract words are hard to acquire: Does social relevance help?
We tested if social experience helps children learn words—analyzing >4,000 words by socialness, valence, and concreteness.
👬 More social words were learned earlier
💭 Socialness particularly helped abstract words, but…
Abstract words are hard to acquire: Does social relevance help?
We tested if social experience helps children learn words—analyzing >4,000 words by socialness, valence, and concreteness.
👬 More social words were learned earlier
💭 Socialness particularly helped abstract words, but…
June 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🚨📄 New paper!
Abstract words are hard to acquire: Does social relevance help?
We tested if social experience helps children learn words—analyzing >4,000 words by socialness, valence, and concreteness.
👬 More social words were learned earlier
💭 Socialness particularly helped abstract words, but…
Abstract words are hard to acquire: Does social relevance help?
We tested if social experience helps children learn words—analyzing >4,000 words by socialness, valence, and concreteness.
👬 More social words were learned earlier
💭 Socialness particularly helped abstract words, but…
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
Excited to announce a call for papers for a new virtual special issue in Cortex on Concept Knowledge.
Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
June 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Excited to announce a call for papers for a new virtual special issue in Cortex on Concept Knowledge.
Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
OHBM Lunch with Mentors will be happening in Brisbane! Fill out the registration form below to enter a lottery draw. Registration closes May 25th 12pm AEST.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1vuF...
Information on this year's Mentors is available here: www.ohbmtrainees.com/lunch-with-m...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1vuF...
Information on this year's Mentors is available here: www.ohbmtrainees.com/lunch-with-m...
Lunch with Mentors - Expression of Interest
Dear OHBM trainees,
On behalf of the OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group (SIG), we are pleased to announce the in-person Lunch With Mentors event for the OHBM 2025 Annual Meeting.
This ev...
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May 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
OHBM Lunch with Mentors will be happening in Brisbane! Fill out the registration form below to enter a lottery draw. Registration closes May 25th 12pm AEST.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1vuF...
Information on this year's Mentors is available here: www.ohbmtrainees.com/lunch-with-m...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1vuF...
Information on this year's Mentors is available here: www.ohbmtrainees.com/lunch-with-m...
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
Sign up now for one of *two in-person science communication competitions* at the #OHBM2025 annual meeting: 📊 A Best Figure Competition 🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition ⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions: https://forms.gle/iDHGmWzgN5rPBY2R8
June 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Sign up now for one of *two in-person science communication competitions* at the #OHBM2025 annual meeting: 📊 A Best Figure Competition 🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition ⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions: https://forms.gle/iDHGmWzgN5rPBY2R8
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
🧠 Join us at Brainhack 2025 in Brisbane!
We’re running a Neurodesk workshop on reproducible, portable neuroimaging workflows.
📅 21 June
🌐 Learn, hack, and contribute! 💻🌏
🔗 ohbm.github.io/hackathon202...
#Neurodesk #Brainhack2025 #Neuroimaging #OpenScience
We’re running a Neurodesk workshop on reproducible, portable neuroimaging workflows.
📅 21 June
🌐 Learn, hack, and contribute! 💻🌏
🔗 ohbm.github.io/hackathon202...
#Neurodesk #Brainhack2025 #Neuroimaging #OpenScience
June 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
🧠 Join us at Brainhack 2025 in Brisbane!
We’re running a Neurodesk workshop on reproducible, portable neuroimaging workflows.
📅 21 June
🌐 Learn, hack, and contribute! 💻🌏
🔗 ohbm.github.io/hackathon202...
#Neurodesk #Brainhack2025 #Neuroimaging #OpenScience
We’re running a Neurodesk workshop on reproducible, portable neuroimaging workflows.
📅 21 June
🌐 Learn, hack, and contribute! 💻🌏
🔗 ohbm.github.io/hackathon202...
#Neurodesk #Brainhack2025 #Neuroimaging #OpenScience
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
Here's a 🧵 on a new pre-print with @amyqixx.bsky.social giving fMRI evidence that retrieving a concept leaves a unique neural fingerprint:
Semantic memories carry a trace of how they were last accessed, detectable during later recognition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Semantic memories carry a trace of how they were last accessed, detectable during later recognition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Semantic Memory Traces Reflect How They Were Last Retrieved
Episodic memories are known to change with each act of retrieval. We hypothesize that semantic memories are altered in a similar way when retrieval draws on a core dimension of conceptual knowledge: s...
www.biorxiv.org
June 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Here's a 🧵 on a new pre-print with @amyqixx.bsky.social giving fMRI evidence that retrieving a concept leaves a unique neural fingerprint:
Semantic memories carry a trace of how they were last accessed, detectable during later recognition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Semantic memories carry a trace of how they were last accessed, detectable during later recognition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature
This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
I’m extremely excited that this work of 3 years is finally published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social. Using condition-and-perturb TMS with e-field-based optimized targeting and dosing, we provide causal evidence for hybrid theories of semantic cognition: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Left inferior parietal lobe and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval
PDF | Background Conceptual knowledge is central to human cognition. Neuroimaging studies suggest that conceptual processing relies on the joint... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...
www.researchgate.net
May 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I’m extremely excited that this work of 3 years is finally published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social. Using condition-and-perturb TMS with e-field-based optimized targeting and dosing, we provide causal evidence for hybrid theories of semantic cognition: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
The first of many papers from the Memory and Forgiveness project is now out at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Led by the indefatigable Gabriela Fernández Miranda, and with Matt Stanley, Sam Murray, and Leonard Faul, we systematically explored differences (1/n)
May 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The first of many papers from the Memory and Forgiveness project is now out at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Led by the indefatigable Gabriela Fernández Miranda, and with Matt Stanley, Sam Murray, and Leonard Faul, we systematically explored differences (1/n)
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
I’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com!
In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory.
Some key take-aways:
In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory.
Some key take-aways:
A learning and memory account of impression formation and updating - Nature Reviews Psychology
Impression formation occurs when a perceiver infers another person’s traits, goals and preferences and forms an attitude towards that person. In this Perspective, Amodio describes the unique and inter...
www.nature.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com!
In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory.
Some key take-aways:
In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory.
Some key take-aways:
Reposted by Veronica Diveica
Going to #OHBM2025 in Brisbane?
We're accepting entries for *two in-person science communication competitions* at the annual meeting:
📊 A Best Figure Competition
🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition
⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions:
forms.gle/1X9ccz2vpsRQ...
We're accepting entries for *two in-person science communication competitions* at the annual meeting:
📊 A Best Figure Competition
🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition
⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions:
forms.gle/1X9ccz2vpsRQ...
forms.gle
May 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Going to #OHBM2025 in Brisbane?
We're accepting entries for *two in-person science communication competitions* at the annual meeting:
📊 A Best Figure Competition
🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition
⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions:
forms.gle/1X9ccz2vpsRQ...
We're accepting entries for *two in-person science communication competitions* at the annual meeting:
📊 A Best Figure Competition
🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition
⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions:
forms.gle/1X9ccz2vpsRQ...