Minye Zhan
@zhanminye.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscience researcher, specialist in 7T fMRI.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W4JVsUoAAAAJ
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W4JVsUoAAAAJ
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new paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory
A core function of visual working memory (WM) is to sustain mental representations
of recent visual inputs, thereby bridging moments of experience. This is thought to
occur in part by recruiting early...
www.cell.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
new paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
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This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
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I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island.
doi.org/10.1126/sci...
With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others
doi.org/10.1126/sci...
With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others
October 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island.
doi.org/10.1126/sci...
With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others
doi.org/10.1126/sci...
With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others
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A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method
Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
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#Neurologie
🧠 « Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain »
📌 Colloque en anglais organisé par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire #Psychologie cognitive expérimentale.
⏰ 1er → 3 octobre 2025
👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/seeing-the-mind-educating-the-brain
🧠 « Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain »
📌 Colloque en anglais organisé par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire #Psychologie cognitive expérimentale.
⏰ 1er → 3 octobre 2025
👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/seeing-the-mind-educating-the-brain
September 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
#Neurologie
🧠 « Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain »
📌 Colloque en anglais organisé par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire #Psychologie cognitive expérimentale.
⏰ 1er → 3 octobre 2025
👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/seeing-the-mind-educating-the-brain
🧠 « Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain »
📌 Colloque en anglais organisé par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire #Psychologie cognitive expérimentale.
⏰ 1er → 3 octobre 2025
👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/seeing-the-mind-educating-the-brain
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Want some free career advice? #AcademicChatter
September 17, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Want some free career advice? #AcademicChatter
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New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
September 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
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Happy to see this out: our new preprint shows that laminar GE-BOLD fMRI decoding isn’t immune to vascular draining biases. Simulations reveal false positives due to multivariate signal spread across layers, but oversampling + deconvolution can (sometimes) improve specificity.
Vascular draining confounds laminar decoding in fMRI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672278v1
August 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happy to see this out: our new preprint shows that laminar GE-BOLD fMRI decoding isn’t immune to vascular draining biases. Simulations reveal false positives due to multivariate signal spread across layers, but oversampling + deconvolution can (sometimes) improve specificity.
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New layer-fMRI preprint looking at laminar response differences of across (very) early development in newborns.
Exciting new directions in the field.
By Moore et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Exciting new directions in the field.
By Moore et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
August 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
New layer-fMRI preprint looking at laminar response differences of across (very) early development in newborns.
Exciting new directions in the field.
By Moore et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Exciting new directions in the field.
By Moore et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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The Minnesota ultra-high-field meeting will again offer the popular hands-on layer-fMRI analysis pre-workshop on practical aspects.
October 13th-14th 2025.
Registration: sites.google.com/umn.edu/2025...
October 13th-14th 2025.
Registration: sites.google.com/umn.edu/2025...
July 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Minnesota ultra-high-field meeting will again offer the popular hands-on layer-fMRI analysis pre-workshop on practical aspects.
October 13th-14th 2025.
Registration: sites.google.com/umn.edu/2025...
October 13th-14th 2025.
Registration: sites.google.com/umn.edu/2025...
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Next week there is going to be an exciting virtual workshop from the ISMRM brain function group: Studying Brain Function in Fetuses, Newborns and Infants.
Next Wednesday. Zoom link in the QR code
Next Wednesday. Zoom link in the QR code
July 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Next week there is going to be an exciting virtual workshop from the ISMRM brain function group: Studying Brain Function in Fetuses, Newborns and Infants.
Next Wednesday. Zoom link in the QR code
Next Wednesday. Zoom link in the QR code
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If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain
www.unicog.org
July 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
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I've always wanted to explore fMRI time series as a smooth, real-time movie. Now I can with LayNii IDA. Plus, with voxel-wise correlations on the fly.
Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful.
40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social !
@layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social
Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful.
40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social !
@layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I've always wanted to explore fMRI time series as a smooth, real-time movie. Now I can with LayNii IDA. Plus, with voxel-wise correlations on the fly.
Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful.
40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social !
@layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social
Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful.
40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social !
@layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social
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It was an honor to be asked to share my thoughts on this! Here's my entire powerpoint for those interested. docs.google.com/presentation...
July 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It was an honor to be asked to share my thoughts on this! Here's my entire powerpoint for those interested. docs.google.com/presentation...
Reposted by Minye Zhan
Reposted by Minye Zhan
Who doesn't like a good model of the brain? Yet, from simple regression to neural nets, some limitations keep popping up (e.g., overfitting) @mjwolff.bsky.social & I saw some cool but puzzling data, ran a quick analysis & found one such limitation: model mimicry. Now in #naturecommunications &🧵below
Model mimicry limits conclusions about neural tuning and can mistakenly imply unlikely priors
Nature Communications - Model mimicry limits conclusions about neural tuning and can mistakenly imply unlikely priors
rdcu.be
July 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Who doesn't like a good model of the brain? Yet, from simple regression to neural nets, some limitations keep popping up (e.g., overfitting) @mjwolff.bsky.social & I saw some cool but puzzling data, ran a quick analysis & found one such limitation: model mimicry. Now in #naturecommunications &🧵below
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New Layer-fMRI paper.
Heij et al. use line-scanning in V1 and find that the laminar fMRI response is different based on the context of the stimulus.
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
Heij et al. use line-scanning in V1 and find that the laminar fMRI response is different based on the context of the stimulus.
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
June 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
New Layer-fMRI paper.
Heij et al. use line-scanning in V1 and find that the laminar fMRI response is different based on the context of the stimulus.
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
Heij et al. use line-scanning in V1 and find that the laminar fMRI response is different based on the context of the stimulus.
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
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In this blog post I am exploring the strange tension between rigor, reach, and recognition in modern science.
What we gain (and lose) by just publishing the PDFs:
thingsonthings.org/just-publish...
What we gain (and lose) by just publishing the PDFs:
thingsonthings.org/just-publish...
June 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In this blog post I am exploring the strange tension between rigor, reach, and recognition in modern science.
What we gain (and lose) by just publishing the PDFs:
thingsonthings.org/just-publish...
What we gain (and lose) by just publishing the PDFs:
thingsonthings.org/just-publish...
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What are the organizing dimensions of language processing?
We show that voxel responses during comprehension are organized along 2 main axes: processing difficulty & meaning abstractness—revealing an interpretable, topographic representational basis for language processing shared across individuals
We show that voxel responses during comprehension are organized along 2 main axes: processing difficulty & meaning abstractness—revealing an interpretable, topographic representational basis for language processing shared across individuals
May 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What are the organizing dimensions of language processing?
We show that voxel responses during comprehension are organized along 2 main axes: processing difficulty & meaning abstractness—revealing an interpretable, topographic representational basis for language processing shared across individuals
We show that voxel responses during comprehension are organized along 2 main axes: processing difficulty & meaning abstractness—revealing an interpretable, topographic representational basis for language processing shared across individuals
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New in LayNii v2.9.0: Introducing *LayNii IDA*, a high-performance tool for real-time interaction with ultra–high resolution MRI data. Built for speed, designed for discovery. Still early, but a big step toward the next era of 7T fMRI: higher resolution, larger datasets.
github.com/layerfMRI/La...
github.com/layerfMRI/La...
May 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
New in LayNii v2.9.0: Introducing *LayNii IDA*, a high-performance tool for real-time interaction with ultra–high resolution MRI data. Built for speed, designed for discovery. Still early, but a big step toward the next era of 7T fMRI: higher resolution, larger datasets.
github.com/layerfMRI/La...
github.com/layerfMRI/La...
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(1/9)Thrilled to share our new preprint🧠Using 7T fMRI, we report the presence of face-, color- and word-specific patches in the human #orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which form continuous functional gradients with VOTC patches.
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
w/@zhanminye.bsky.social, Paolo, and Laurent.
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
w/@zhanminye.bsky.social, Paolo, and Laurent.
May 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
(1/9)Thrilled to share our new preprint🧠Using 7T fMRI, we report the presence of face-, color- and word-specific patches in the human #orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which form continuous functional gradients with VOTC patches.
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
w/@zhanminye.bsky.social, Paolo, and Laurent.
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
w/@zhanminye.bsky.social, Paolo, and Laurent.
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Taking full advantage of new advances in brain imaging technology will require more collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists, writes @lauradata.bsky.social in the latest for our human neurotechnology series.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...
fMRI can do more than you think
Advances in brain imaging technology provide new and different information about the brain.
www.thetransmitter.org
April 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Taking full advantage of new advances in brain imaging technology will require more collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists, writes @lauradata.bsky.social in the latest for our human neurotechnology series.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...
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New mesoscale manuscript looking at functional connectivity of ocular dominance columns during resting state.
By Schmidt et al.,
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
By Schmidt et al.,
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
April 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
New mesoscale manuscript looking at functional connectivity of ocular dominance columns during resting state.
By Schmidt et al.,
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
By Schmidt et al.,
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Neural correlates of minimal recognizable configurations in the human brain
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#neuroscience
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#neuroscience
Neural correlates of minimal recognizable configurations in the human brain
Casile et al. show that the visual recognition of challenging stimuli relies on the
dynamic interplay of feedback and feedforward processes between the frontal cortex
and ventral visual stream areas. ...
www.cell.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Neural correlates of minimal recognizable configurations in the human brain
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#neuroscience
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#neuroscience