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David Watson
@dmwatson.bsky.social
· Feb 13
Functional Connectivity of the Scene Processing Network at Rest Does Not Reliably Predict Human Behavior on Scene Processing Tasks
The perception of scenes is associated with processing in a network of scene-selective regions in the human brain. Prior research has identified a posterior–anterior bias within this network. Posterio...
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New paper out in eNeuro - Functional Connectivity of the Scene Processing Network at Rest Does Not Reliably Predict Human Behavior on Scene Processing Tasks
www.eneuro.org/content/12/2...
With Tim Andrews & @yorkpsychology.bsky.social
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With Tim Andrews & @yorkpsychology.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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#JNeurosci: Lu et al. show that two brain regions—retrosplenial complex and superior parietal lobe—represent facing direction when people perform a naturalistic navigation task in a virtual-reality city. @russellepstein.bsky.social @gkaguirre.com @zhenganglu.bsky.social
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November 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#JNeurosci: Lu et al. show that two brain regions—retrosplenial complex and superior parietal lobe—represent facing direction when people perform a naturalistic navigation task in a virtual-reality city. @russellepstein.bsky.social @gkaguirre.com @zhenganglu.bsky.social
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Kirsten L. Peterson, Michael W. Cole, et al:
Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
September 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Kirsten L. Peterson, Michael W. Cole, et al:
Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Excited to share a new article from @icevislab.bsky.social! In a sample of over 60 people, we found distinct neural differences underlying object and face recognition in dyslexia. These findings highlight crucial domain-general visual processes that may contribute to word reading challenges.
Distinct neural processing underlying visual face and object perception in dyslexia
Developmental dyslexia is a disorder marked by difficulties in reading, spelling, and connecting sounds to written language. The high-level visual dys…
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September 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Excited to share a new article from @icevislab.bsky.social! In a sample of over 60 people, we found distinct neural differences underlying object and face recognition in dyslexia. These findings highlight crucial domain-general visual processes that may contribute to word reading challenges.
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In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research
The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…
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September 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility
“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…
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September 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Our target discussion article out in Cognitive Neuroscience! It will be followed by peer commentary and our responses. If you would like to write a commentary, please reach out to the journal! 1/18 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @cibaker.bsky.social @susanwardle.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Our target discussion article out in Cognitive Neuroscience! It will be followed by peer commentary and our responses. If you would like to write a commentary, please reach out to the journal! 1/18 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @cibaker.bsky.social @susanwardle.bsky.social
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📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
Jobs - The University of York
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July 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Everyone is talking about this MIT research on how using ChatGPT academically affects the brain.
It's striking how much ongoing impact there is from overreliance on Gen AI.
It goes beyond spoon-feeding; LLMs appear to be dismantling the apparatus we need to use a spoon ourselves in future.
It's striking how much ongoing impact there is from overreliance on Gen AI.
It goes beyond spoon-feeding; LLMs appear to be dismantling the apparatus we need to use a spoon ourselves in future.
June 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Everyone is talking about this MIT research on how using ChatGPT academically affects the brain.
It's striking how much ongoing impact there is from overreliance on Gen AI.
It goes beyond spoon-feeding; LLMs appear to be dismantling the apparatus we need to use a spoon ourselves in future.
It's striking how much ongoing impact there is from overreliance on Gen AI.
It goes beyond spoon-feeding; LLMs appear to be dismantling the apparatus we need to use a spoon ourselves in future.
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Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]
GitHub - spm/spm-python: The Python interface to SPM
The Python interface to SPM. Contribute to spm/spm-python development by creating an account on GitHub.
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June 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]
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In these tumultuous times, still happy to report a scientific achievement: our preprint on affordance perception was just published in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):
Representation of locomotive action affordances in human behavior, brains, and deep neural networks | PNAS
To decide how to move around the world, we must determine which locomotive actions
(e.g., walking, swimming, or climbing) are afforded by the immed...
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June 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
In these tumultuous times, still happy to report a scientific achievement: our preprint on affordance perception was just published in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):
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Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
June 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
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I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
May 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
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✊ Dundee Uni backs down from plans to cut 700 jobs after pressure from unions and the community.
Now they must take compulsory redundancies off the table.
Solidarity works.
Now they must take compulsory redundancies off the table.
Solidarity works.
It’s a relief to see Dundee University backtrack on 700 job cuts. We now need the employer to take compulsory redundancies off the table #StopTheCuts @ducuuo.bsky.social
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1399...
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1399...
UCU comment on University of Dundee alternative recovery plan
www.ucu.org.uk
April 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
✊ Dundee Uni backs down from plans to cut 700 jobs after pressure from unions and the community.
Now they must take compulsory redundancies off the table.
Solidarity works.
Now they must take compulsory redundancies off the table.
Solidarity works.
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Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision
Opinion by H. Steven Scholte & Edward de Haan
Open Access: tinyurl.com/4b5myz68
Opinion by H. Steven Scholte & Edward de Haan
Open Access: tinyurl.com/4b5myz68
April 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision
Opinion by H. Steven Scholte & Edward de Haan
Open Access: tinyurl.com/4b5myz68
Opinion by H. Steven Scholte & Edward de Haan
Open Access: tinyurl.com/4b5myz68
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I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago.
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago.
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The portals are now open!
EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025.
A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS).
Portals for this meeting opened at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th for a minimum of 24 hours.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025.
A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS).
Portals for this meeting opened at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th for a minimum of 24 hours.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025. This will be a joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), and will include the 53rd B…
eps.ac.uk
April 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The portals are now open!
EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025.
A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS).
Portals for this meeting opened at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th for a minimum of 24 hours.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025.
A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS).
Portals for this meeting opened at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th for a minimum of 24 hours.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Xiaoli Chen, Ziwei Wei, and Thomas Wolbers:
Representational similarity analysis reveals cue-independent spatial representations for landmarks and self-motion cues in human retrosplenial cortex
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Representational similarity analysis reveals cue-independent spatial representations for landmarks and self-motion cues in human retrosplenial cortex
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
March 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Xiaoli Chen, Ziwei Wei, and Thomas Wolbers:
Representational similarity analysis reveals cue-independent spatial representations for landmarks and self-motion cues in human retrosplenial cortex
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Representational similarity analysis reveals cue-independent spatial representations for landmarks and self-motion cues in human retrosplenial cortex
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The Kafkaesque investigation into our university looks like political scapegoating
The Office for Students' so-called investigation into the University I represent was flawed and politically motivated. The implications for the hig...
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March 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Catriona L. Scrivener and Edward H. Silson:
Opponent visuospatial coding structures responses during memory recall and visual perception in medial parietal cortex
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Opponent visuospatial coding structures responses during memory recall and visual perception in medial parietal cortex
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
March 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Catriona L. Scrivener and Edward H. Silson:
Opponent visuospatial coding structures responses during memory recall and visual perception in medial parietal cortex
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Opponent visuospatial coding structures responses during memory recall and visual perception in medial parietal cortex
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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🚨New publication alert!🚨 Our latest paper explores socioeconomic biases in AI—but this time, it's not about people directly. It's about homes. Consider these images: it's clear to us that they're all bathrooms. 1/
March 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🚨New publication alert!🚨 Our latest paper explores socioeconomic biases in AI—but this time, it's not about people directly. It's about homes. Consider these images: it's clear to us that they're all bathrooms. 1/
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The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ
White matter connections of human ventral temporal cortex are organized by cytoarchitecture, eccentricity and category-selectivity from birth
Nature Human Behaviour - Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category and eccentricity from birth, and also...
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March 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nicholas M. Blauch, Marlene Behrmann, et al:
Individual variation in the functional lateralization of human ventral temporal cortex: Local competition and long-range coupling
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Individual variation in the functional lateralization of human ventral temporal cortex: Local competition and long-range coupling
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
March 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nicholas M. Blauch, Marlene Behrmann, et al:
Individual variation in the functional lateralization of human ventral temporal cortex: Local competition and long-range coupling
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Individual variation in the functional lateralization of human ventral temporal cortex: Local competition and long-range coupling
doi.org/10.1162/imag...