It's out! The Hippocampal Subfield Group, led by Anika Wuestefeld and Hannah Baumeister, published a paper describing cytoarchitectonic definitions of medial temporal lobe cortex subregions, including regions involved in Alzheimer's Disease. #neuroskyence#PsychSciSkydoi.org/10.1002/hipo...

How are the relationships between items represented in visual cortex? Activity in visual areas is modulated by the relationship between items (e.g., facing each other vs. not) in a category-selective way. Some areas generalize relational coding across categories. #neuroskyence#PsychSciSky

Category-Selective Representation of Relationships in the Visual Cortex

Understanding social interaction requires processing social agents and their relationships. The latest results show that much of this process is visually solved: visual areas can represent multiple pe...

Attention FMRI Methods folks & those looking for a long-term non-PI position in affective neuroscience and pain: Our lab has a new Staff Scientist 1 position! Applications accepted through March. See job posting below - please spread the word! www.nccih.nih.gov/about/jobs/s...

Job opening: Staff Scientist 1, Section on Affective Neuroscience and Pain

NCCIH invites applications for a staff scientist focused on neuroimaging methods and analysis, with a particular focus on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The successful candidate will wo...

A Multimodal Characterization of Low-Dimensional Thalamocortical Structural Connectivity Patterns www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.01.578366v1

A Multimodal Characterization of Low-Dimensional Thalamocortical Structural Connectivity Patterns https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.01.578366v1

The human thalamus is a bilateral and heterogeneous grey matter structure that plays a crucial role

Excited to share a preprint on sleep + memory transformation with co-first author Stephanie Simpson & @brianlevine.bsky.socialwww.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Sleep selectively and durably enhances real-world sequence memory

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I am still learning how to use Bluesky. Adding hashtags to promote visibility...I think... #neuroskyence#PsychSciSky

Thanks, Asaf!

These results come from a larger study that also collects MRI data, so stay tuned for more information about the patterns of brain volume that are related to these visual discrimination impairments in older adults at risk for MCI/dementia!

We showed that older adults who are currently healthy but fail the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test also show impaired visual discrimination, especially for complex objects ("Greebles")