Jody Culham's Lab
@culhamari-lab.bsky.social
Jody Culham's Action and Real-world Imaging Lab (CulhamARI Lab) at the Centre Brain and Mind, Department of Psychology, and Neuroscience Program, Western University | Cognitive Neuroscience | fMRI | fNIRS | Vision Science | VR | Immersive Neuroscience
Thrilled that @evadeligiannis.bsky.social was able to represent the lab at #SAW2025 by presenting her fMRI study showing responses to 3D distance in face-selective pSTS
A fantastic meeting @ucoimbra.bsky.social for #SAW2025, including lots of opportunity for great extensive discussions. I hope to attend next year too! Big thanks to the organizers, speakers, and other trainees as well as @cogbooster.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Thrilled that @evadeligiannis.bsky.social was able to represent the lab at #SAW2025 by presenting her fMRI study showing responses to 3D distance in face-selective pSTS
Congrats to @evadeligiannis.bsky.social for the publication of her first paper, showing that binocular disparity enhances fMRI activation in depth areas but not face areas. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx.... Presenting 3D stims with accurate real-world geometry was a tech feat by the whole team!
Binocular cues to 3D face structure increase activation in depth-selective visual cortex with negligible effects in face-selective areas | JOV | ARVO Journals
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September 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Congrats to @evadeligiannis.bsky.social for the publication of her first paper, showing that binocular disparity enhances fMRI activation in depth areas but not face areas. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx.... Presenting 3D stims with accurate real-world geometry was a tech feat by the whole team!
Great news release too!
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August 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Great news release too!
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And now with a hyperlink to @striemamit.bsky.social
Congratulations to Flo Martinez-Addiego and @striemamit.bsky.social for the publication of a cool new paper in PNAS showing that high-level actions like tool use generalize between hand and foot, even in individuals born without hands. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS
How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system
is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...
www.pnas.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
And now with a hyperlink to @striemamit.bsky.social
Congratulations to Flo Martinez-Addiego and @striemamit.bsky.social for the publication of a cool new paper in PNAS showing that high-level actions like tool use generalize between hand and foot, even in individuals born without hands. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS
How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system
is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...
www.pnas.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Congratulations to Flo Martinez-Addiego and @striemamit.bsky.social for the publication of a cool new paper in PNAS showing that high-level actions like tool use generalize between hand and foot, even in individuals born without hands. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I'm so excited to have @emij.bsky.social join the lab and take us in exciting new directions! 🥳
Excited to share that I’ve joined the @culhamari-lab.bsky.social Lab at Western University as a postdoctoral researcher ! I will be exploring 💭 mental imagery in 🫳🏼 visually-guided actions, especially in aphantasia. Can’t wait to dig in!
August 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I'm so excited to have @emij.bsky.social join the lab and take us in exciting new directions! 🥳
Very thought provoking perspective!
Psychological richness offers a third path to a good life
Review by Shigehiro Oishi & Erin Westgate
tinyurl.com/2w65k9vd
Review by Shigehiro Oishi & Erin Westgate
tinyurl.com/2w65k9vd
May 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Very thought provoking perspective!
Please send recommendations for great papers that bring cognitive neuroscience closer the real world. It’s for an undergrad seminar course on “Cognitive Neuroscience for the Real World” and a review article. Empirical, theoretical, or review; broad or specific to subfields of cogneuro. Thanks!
May 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Please send recommendations for great papers that bring cognitive neuroscience closer the real world. It’s for an undergrad seminar course on “Cognitive Neuroscience for the Real World” and a review article. Empirical, theoretical, or review; broad or specific to subfields of cogneuro. Thanks!
Reposted by Jody Culham's Lab
Excited to share a new preprint from the lab (led by Flo Martinez Addiego and Yuqi Liu, in collab with @culhamari-lab.bsky.social)
We tested what drives the (re?)organization of motor tool-use areas in people born without hands, who use tools with their feet instead
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We tested what drives the (re?)organization of motor tool-use areas in people born without hands, who use tools with their feet instead
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tool-use brain representations are independent of the acting body part and motor experience
The sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically. However, an action-type organization has also been found: a division based on action-type independent of acting body parts has been shown ...
www.biorxiv.org
January 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Excited to share a new preprint from the lab (led by Flo Martinez Addiego and Yuqi Liu, in collab with @culhamari-lab.bsky.social)
We tested what drives the (re?)organization of motor tool-use areas in people born without hands, who use tools with their feet instead
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We tested what drives the (re?)organization of motor tool-use areas in people born without hands, who use tools with their feet instead
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sofia Varon's new paper shows that participants are better at intercepting moving targets in VR when the shape of the trajectory is consistent with gravity. The results raise interesting questions about how motion perception incorporates trajectory shape. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
Target interception in virtual reality is better for natural versus unnatural trajectory shapes and orientations | JOV | ARVO Journals
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January 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Sofia Varon's new paper shows that participants are better at intercepting moving targets in VR when the shape of the trajectory is consistent with gravity. The results raise interesting questions about how motion perception incorporates trajectory shape. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...