Heather L Kosakowski
@kosakowski.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ USC
Pinned
My lab at USC is recruiting!
1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829
2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829
2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
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I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
October 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
My lab at USC is recruiting!
1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829
2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829
2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
September 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
My lab at USC is recruiting!
1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829
2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829
2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
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October office hours now posted for 10/10 1-3 pm EDT. Theme=applications (for lab manager jobs, grad school, post-docs, fac jobs, whatever you're applying for) but feel free to bring unrelated questions too! Sign up here: calendly.com/lah2201/open....
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky
September 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
October office hours now posted for 10/10 1-3 pm EDT. Theme=applications (for lab manager jobs, grad school, post-docs, fac jobs, whatever you're applying for) but feel free to bring unrelated questions too! Sign up here: calendly.com/lah2201/open....
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky
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In the latest #UndertheCortex episode, cognitive scientists @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social of @mit.edu and @kosakowski.bsky.social of @harvard.edu discuss their groundbreaking findings about the development of the brain’s face-processing network.
How Our Brains Grasp Faces
Podcast: In this episode, cognitive scientists Rebecca Saxe of MIT and Heather Kosakowski join host Scott Sleek to discuss their groundbreaking findings about the development of the brain’s face-proce...
www.psychologicalscience.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
In the latest #UndertheCortex episode, cognitive scientists @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social of @mit.edu and @kosakowski.bsky.social of @harvard.edu discuss their groundbreaking findings about the development of the brain’s face-processing network.
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We were blown away by the public response to our findings that the infant brain can store memories. Many people wrote to share with us their first memories. To help us capture these reports, we created a short, anonymous survey. We hope you might also consider taking it. Please share with others! 🧠🧪
April 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
We were blown away by the public response to our findings that the infant brain can store memories. Many people wrote to share with us their first memories. To help us capture these reports, we created a short, anonymous survey. We hope you might also consider taking it. Please share with others! 🧠🧪
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The question we ask: when do face responses arise in human infant cortex?
Neuroscientists and developmental psychologists (my two disciplines) have different intuitions.
Neuroscientists and developmental psychologists (my two disciplines) have different intuitions.
April 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The question we ask: when do face responses arise in human infant cortex?
Neuroscientists and developmental psychologists (my two disciplines) have different intuitions.
Neuroscientists and developmental psychologists (my two disciplines) have different intuitions.
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Very excited to share this new paper, out this week.
An attempt to express an idea I have been working on for more than a decade.
Responses, questions, critiques, suggestions encouraged!
An attempt to express an idea I have been working on for more than a decade.
Responses, questions, critiques, suggestions encouraged!
In our recent review, @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social & I bring together fMRI & fNIRS findings from the last decade to argue that babies not only perceive faces but they also attribute meaning to those faces. It’s a short read and we’d love to hear your thoughts. (4/5) doi.org/10.1177/0963...
April 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Very excited to share this new paper, out this week.
An attempt to express an idea I have been working on for more than a decade.
Responses, questions, critiques, suggestions encouraged!
An attempt to express an idea I have been working on for more than a decade.
Responses, questions, critiques, suggestions encouraged!
When you see this image, does it make you wonder what that baby is thinking. Do you think the baby is merely perceiving a set of shapes or do you think that the baby is also inferring meaning from the face they are looking at? (1/5)
April 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
When you see this image, does it make you wonder what that baby is thinking. Do you think the baby is merely perceiving a set of shapes or do you think that the baby is also inferring meaning from the face they are looking at? (1/5)
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This month’s “Liftoff” features @jocelynbreton.bsky.social discussing the importance of patience when opening a lab. And @vivianpaulun.bsky.social shares how she'll use a traditional German custom in her lab to foster a supportive and uplifting culture.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4hFNosx
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4hFNosx
Liftoff: New lab alerts
Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This month’s “Liftoff” features @jocelynbreton.bsky.social discussing the importance of patience when opening a lab. And @vivianpaulun.bsky.social shares how she'll use a traditional German custom in her lab to foster a supportive and uplifting culture.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4hFNosx
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4hFNosx
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Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs:
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
Are we paying too much for biomedical research?
Trump's attack on NIH
dickaslin.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs:
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
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1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.
February 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.
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As if there wasn’t enough to worry about…
It turns out the Salience (SAL) and Parietal Memory Networks (PMN) are the same thing!
😩😩😩
🧵
It turns out the Salience (SAL) and Parietal Memory Networks (PMN) are the same thing!
😩😩😩
🧵
February 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
As if there wasn’t enough to worry about…
It turns out the Salience (SAL) and Parietal Memory Networks (PMN) are the same thing!
😩😩😩
🧵
It turns out the Salience (SAL) and Parietal Memory Networks (PMN) are the same thing!
😩😩😩
🧵
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In rough periwinkle snails, embryos form and mature inside the brood pouch at different rates. When it’s time to hatch, youngsters may have to crawl out of mom’s body and into the world on their own.
These snails give live birth, and it’s the babies that may do the labor
Protecting eggs in mom’s body may have given rough periwinkle snails an advantage over egg-laying cousins, letting them spread to far more coastline.
bit.ly
January 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In rough periwinkle snails, embryos form and mature inside the brood pouch at different rates. When it’s time to hatch, youngsters may have to crawl out of mom’s body and into the world on their own.
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The official website for the #DSPAN F99/K00 transition award is down, together with the official #NINDSDiversity social media account and webpage.
This is beyond terrifying.
neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/archived/tra...
This is beyond terrifying.
neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/archived/tra...
January 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The official website for the #DSPAN F99/K00 transition award is down, together with the official #NINDSDiversity social media account and webpage.
This is beyond terrifying.
neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/archived/tra...
This is beyond terrifying.
neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/archived/tra...
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Keep in touch with NINDS #DSPANscholars here 🧠 Reply or DM to be added! go.bsky.app/TQdWJr3
NINDS DSPAN Scholars
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
January 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Keep in touch with NINDS #DSPANscholars here 🧠 Reply or DM to be added! go.bsky.app/TQdWJr3
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So excited to receive the Troland Award!! Huge congrats to the other winner—Nick Turk-Browne! And TY, as always, to my mentors&nominators, to my amazing labbies past&present, and to all the wonderful and supportive colleagues in our broader scientific community. <3 www.nasonline.org/award/trolan...
Troland Research Award – NAS
Two Troland Research Awards of $75,000 are given annually to recognize unusual achievement by early-career researchers (preferably 45 years of age or younger) and to further empirical research within ...
www.nasonline.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
So excited to receive the Troland Award!! Huge congrats to the other winner—Nick Turk-Browne! And TY, as always, to my mentors&nominators, to my amazing labbies past&present, and to all the wonderful and supportive colleagues in our broader scientific community. <3 www.nasonline.org/award/trolan...
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✨ Do you know anyone who is making a real impact in area of increasing environmental sustainability in neuroimaging research? 🌎 🍃
🏆 Nominate them for an OHBM Sustainability Award today!
The recipient will receive $2500 USD! See below for award terms 👇
www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/in...
🏆 Nominate them for an OHBM Sustainability Award today!
The recipient will receive $2500 USD! See below for award terms 👇
www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/in...
January 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
✨ Do you know anyone who is making a real impact in area of increasing environmental sustainability in neuroimaging research? 🌎 🍃
🏆 Nominate them for an OHBM Sustainability Award today!
The recipient will receive $2500 USD! See below for award terms 👇
www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/in...
🏆 Nominate them for an OHBM Sustainability Award today!
The recipient will receive $2500 USD! See below for award terms 👇
www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/in...
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😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 and then submit your abstract so you can be there too!
More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com
More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com
January 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 and then submit your abstract so you can be there too!
More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com
More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com
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so excited about this one, out now in American Psychologist,
"The Detection of Automatic Behavior in Other People"
(with Ilona Bass & me)
link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...
"The Detection of Automatic Behavior in Other People"
(with Ilona Bass & me)
link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...
December 24, 2024 at 2:30 PM
so excited about this one, out now in American Psychologist,
"The Detection of Automatic Behavior in Other People"
(with Ilona Bass & me)
link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...
"The Detection of Automatic Behavior in Other People"
(with Ilona Bass & me)
link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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"The Illusion-Illusion: Vision Language Models See
Illusions Where There are None"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
(this is a more systematic examination of the thing I was looking at a few days ago)
Illusions Where There are None"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
(this is a more systematic examination of the thing I was looking at a few days ago)
December 19, 2024 at 1:40 PM
"The Illusion-Illusion: Vision Language Models See
Illusions Where There are None"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
(this is a more systematic examination of the thing I was looking at a few days ago)
Illusions Where There are None"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
(this is a more systematic examination of the thing I was looking at a few days ago)
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New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing - Nature Communications
Ears encode sound with precisely timed spikes, but the perceptual role of this temporal coding remains uncertain. Here, the authors report that high-fidelity temporal coding is necessary for neural ne...
www.nature.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:13 PM
New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵
bsky.app/profile/laur...
bsky.app/profile/laur...
The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"
Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study
Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵
bsky.app/profile/laur...
bsky.app/profile/laur...
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We are now up to 78 accounts on our Black In Neuro starter pack! Be sure to check back and make sure you have everyone added 🤗
Please let us know if we missed you!
#BlackInSTEM #Neuroskyence #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪
go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe
Please let us know if we missed you!
#BlackInSTEM #Neuroskyence #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪
go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe
December 4, 2024 at 12:20 PM
We are now up to 78 accounts on our Black In Neuro starter pack! Be sure to check back and make sure you have everyone added 🤗
Please let us know if we missed you!
#BlackInSTEM #Neuroskyence #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪
go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe
Please let us know if we missed you!
#BlackInSTEM #Neuroskyence #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪
go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe
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The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"
Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study
Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:48 AM
The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"
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I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 25, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...