Yalda Mohsenzadeh
@yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Brain and Mind Institute at Western University; Faculty member at Vector Institute for AI; cognitive computational neuroscience; perception and memory; computer vision and AI
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Early Researcher Awards recognize Western faculty - Western News
Early Researcher Awards from Ontario government fund four Western faculty projects tackling youth impaired driving, plant resilience, dementia and memory
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Thrilled to receive Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA)! Grateful to the Ontario Government for this support, which will help us grow our team, train next generation of researchers, and push the boundaries of AI + neuroscience: news.westernu.ca/2025/08/earl...
Thrilled to receive Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA)! Grateful to the Ontario Government for this support, which will help us grow our team, train next generation of researchers, and push the boundaries of AI + neuroscience: news.westernu.ca/2025/08/earl...
Early Researcher Awards recognize Western faculty - Western News
Early Researcher Awards from Ontario government fund four Western faculty projects tackling youth impaired driving, plant resilience, dementia and memory
news.westernu.ca
August 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Thrilled to receive Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA)! Grateful to the Ontario Government for this support, which will help us grow our team, train next generation of researchers, and push the boundaries of AI + neuroscience: news.westernu.ca/2025/08/earl...
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Very much looking forward to #CCN2025! Would love to see you at our lab's talks and posters, and meet me at the panel discussion in the Algonauts session on Wednesday!
August 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Very much looking forward to #CCN2025! Would love to see you at our lab's talks and posters, and meet me at the panel discussion in the Algonauts session on Wednesday!
Willow Han is presenting her talk @vssmtg.bsky.social this morning at 9:00 AM in Talk room 2:
If you are @vssmtg.bsky.social, please check out our lab’s presentations:
May 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Willow Han is presenting her talk @vssmtg.bsky.social this morning at 9:00 AM in Talk room 2:
Brandon (Yu) Hu is presenting his poster @vssmtg.bsky.social Banyan Breezway #310 this morning! Please check it out!
If you are @vssmtg.bsky.social, please check out our lab’s presentations:
May 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Brandon (Yu) Hu is presenting his poster @vssmtg.bsky.social Banyan Breezway #310 this morning! Please check it out!
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Our lab is present at #VSS2025, so let me highlight some of the things we have been up to with a talk and three posters. Would love to see you around! 🧵
May 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Our lab is present at #VSS2025, so let me highlight some of the things we have been up to with a talk and three posters. Would love to see you around! 🧵
If you are @vssmtg.bsky.social, please check out our lab’s presentations:
May 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
If you are @vssmtg.bsky.social, please check out our lab’s presentations:
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I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year!
I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday
I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday
May 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year!
I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday
I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday
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Three WIN Trainees Awarded 2024 CAN-CIHR-INMHA Brain Star Awards🧠🌟 from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience! Congratulations to Caroline Nettekoven, Diego Piza, and Hayley Shanks!! Read the news release on our website!! shorturl.at/wzJYu
May 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Three WIN Trainees Awarded 2024 CAN-CIHR-INMHA Brain Star Awards🧠🌟 from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience! Congratulations to Caroline Nettekoven, Diego Piza, and Hayley Shanks!! Read the news release on our website!! shorturl.at/wzJYu
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Welcoming Yalda Mohsenzadeh to our Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience board! 🧠 @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social brings expertise in perception & visual memory, neuroimaging methods and deep & machine learning. We look forward to working with you!
April 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Welcoming Yalda Mohsenzadeh to our Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience board! 🧠 @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social brings expertise in perception & visual memory, neuroimaging methods and deep & machine learning. We look forward to working with you!
Many congratulations to our very own @culhamari-lab.bsky.social, so well-deserved! 🎉
Congratulations to #WIN member @culhamari-lab.bsky.social! The winner of the Vision Sciences Society 2025 Davida Teller Award!! www.visionsciences.org/2025-davida-...
VSS 2025 Davida Teller Award – Jody Culham2025 Davida Teller Award – Jody Culham – Vision Sciences Society
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March 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Many congratulations to our very own @culhamari-lab.bsky.social, so well-deserved! 🎉
Our research has been covered by Western News; check it out here:
Read about the groundbreaking research by #WIN member @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social - Brain imaging technique discovered by Western researchers drives AI audiovisual analysis news.westernu.ca/2025/03/audi... via @westernu.bsky.social
Brain imaging techniques allow AI models to analyze audiovisual events
A new 4D imaging technique devised by PhD student Yu (Brandon) Hu and computer science professor Yalda Mohsenzadeh shows how the brain processes multi-sensory audiovisual information.
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March 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Our research has been covered by Western News; check it out here:
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Do you know how hard it is to anger Canadians?!?
March 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Do you know how hard it is to anger Canadians?!?
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In happier news, here a new motor learning paradigm and paper by Ali Ghavampour, @mnlmrc.bsky.social, @andpru.bsky.social, @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social, @jjodx.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A paradigm to study the learning of muscle activity patterns outside of the natural repertoire
The acquisition of novel muscle activity patterns is a key aspect of motor skill learning which can be seen at play, for example, when beginner musicians learn new guitar or piano chords. To study thi...
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February 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In happier news, here a new motor learning paradigm and paper by Ali Ghavampour, @mnlmrc.bsky.social, @andpru.bsky.social, @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social, @jjodx.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Neural processing of naturalistic audiovisual events in space and time www.nature.com/articles/s42... by @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social et al., showing auditory information represented in both early visual and auditory regions, but visual information only identified in visual cortices; #neuroscience
Neural processing of naturalistic audiovisual events in space and time - Communications Biology
This study investigated audiovisual perception using naturalistic audio-video stimuli with fMRI and EEG, and revealed how different levels of stimuli information are represented in the brain and acros...
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January 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Neural processing of naturalistic audiovisual events in space and time www.nature.com/articles/s42... by @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social et al., showing auditory information represented in both early visual and auditory regions, but visual information only identified in visual cortices; #neuroscience
Excited to share our paper published in Nature Communications Biology, led by my brilliant PhD student, Yu Hu: go.nature.com/3Wuqj4G
Neural processing of naturalistic audiovisual events in space and time - Communications Biology
This study investigated audiovisual perception using naturalistic audio-video stimuli with fMRI and EEG, and revealed how different levels of stimuli information are represented in the brain and acros...
go.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Excited to share our paper published in Nature Communications Biology, led by my brilliant PhD student, Yu Hu: go.nature.com/3Wuqj4G
Checkout our paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience:
New 📄by #WIN members @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social and @drmarcj.bsky.social - Multivariate Pattern Analysis of EEG Reveals Neural Mechanism of Naturalistic Target Processing in Attentional Blink www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Multivariate Pattern Analysis of EEG Reveals Neural Mechanism of Naturalistic Target Processing in Attentional Blink
The human brain has inherent limitations in consciously processing visual information. When individuals monitor a rapid sequence of images for detecting two targets, they often miss the second target ...
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January 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Checkout our paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience:
Diana will present her talk at @CogCompNeuro on Thursday at 9:30 AM! Don't miss it: 2024.ccneuro.org/contributed-...
Contributed Talk Session
2024.ccneuro.org
August 8, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Diana will present her talk at @CogCompNeuro on Thursday at 9:30 AM! Don't miss it: 2024.ccneuro.org/contributed-...
Check out our new paper published in Neuropsychologia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Shared representations of human actions across vision and language
Humans can recognize and communicate about many actions performed by others. How are actions organized in the mind, and is this organization shared ac…
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July 25, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Check out our new paper published in Neuropsychologia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Heading to Seattle for ARVO 2024 to present a talk at the mini symposium entitled “Modelling vision at multiple scales: In search of a virtual visual system (VI)”. If you are attending ARVO and would like to meet up, DM me!
May 5, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Heading to Seattle for ARVO 2024 to present a talk at the mini symposium entitled “Modelling vision at multiple scales: In search of a virtual visual system (VI)”. If you are attending ARVO and would like to meet up, DM me!
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Just out! Language and reading in ADHD, Developmental Language Disorder, and combined ADHD-DLD: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
w/Kaitlyn Parks and Janis Oram
w/Kaitlyn Parks and Janis Oram
Language and reading in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder and comorbid attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder + developmental language disorder
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April 18, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Just out! Language and reading in ADHD, Developmental Language Disorder, and combined ADHD-DLD: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
w/Kaitlyn Parks and Janis Oram
w/Kaitlyn Parks and Janis Oram
Come see our poster presentations in Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2024, Toronto; Brandon (Yu) Hu will present on Monday at 8 to 10 AM; Diana Dima’s presentation is on Tuesday at 8 to 10 AM. #CNS2024
April 11, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Come see our poster presentations in Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2024, Toronto; Brandon (Yu) Hu will present on Monday at 8 to 10 AM; Diana Dima’s presentation is on Tuesday at 8 to 10 AM. #CNS2024
Ever wonder how our brains handle images that stick in our minds versus those that fade away? We show that only images with high memorability scores undergo extended processing late in time throughout the ventral visual stream, including early Visual Cortex #PLOSBiology plos.io/4cDqn8u
April 2, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Ever wonder how our brains handle images that stick in our minds versus those that fade away? We show that only images with high memorability scores undergo extended processing late in time throughout the ventral visual stream, including early Visual Cortex #PLOSBiology plos.io/4cDqn8u