Nico Dosenbach
@ndosenbach.bsky.social
David M. & Tracy S. Holtzman Professor, Neurology @ WashU School of Medicine; precision neuroimaging, network plasticity, BWAS ≠ fMRI, action mode; #neuroscience #neurology #openscience #science
dosenbachlab.wustl.edu
dosenbachlab.wustl.edu
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For more context, see also the @nature.com News & Views article about this work, where I unpack what it means when genetic risk for psychiatric disorders overlaps with normal-range traits, including some positive associations with education-related outcomes: rdcu.be/eT4U7
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
For more context, see also the @nature.com News & Views article about this work, where I unpack what it means when genetic risk for psychiatric disorders overlaps with normal-range traits, including some positive associations with education-related outcomes: rdcu.be/eT4U7
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1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature
Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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All AI models are constrained by the quality of their data. A recent @nature.com paper introduces the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE), a diverse dataset implementing best practices for consent, privacy, compensation, safety and utility. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fair human-centric image dataset for ethical AI benchmarking - Nature
The Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE, pronounced ‘Feebee’)—an image dataset that implements best practices for consent, privacy, compensation, safety, diversity and utility—can be used respon...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
All AI models are constrained by the quality of their data. A recent @nature.com paper introduces the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE), a diverse dataset implementing best practices for consent, privacy, compensation, safety and utility. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Do glitches on video calls annoy you? A new study in @nature.com shows that they reduce trust in telehealth, lowered job-interview ratings, weakened social connection, and decreased likelihood for parole, likely due, in part, to the sense of uncanniness they trigger 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes - Nature
Glitches in video calls can have a negative effect on the judgement of the people involved and correspond to worse outcomes in major areas of life such as job interviews and parole hearings.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Do glitches on video calls annoy you? A new study in @nature.com shows that they reduce trust in telehealth, lowered job-interview ratings, weakened social connection, and decreased likelihood for parole, likely due, in part, to the sense of uncanniness they trigger 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How does the brain integrate visual and somatosensory representations? A recent @nature.com paper presents a model that, when applied to ongoing co-activations during rest, results in detailed maps of body-part tuning that aligns with visual tuning 🧪 Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature
A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
How does the brain integrate visual and somatosensory representations? A recent @nature.com paper presents a model that, when applied to ongoing co-activations during rest, results in detailed maps of body-part tuning that aligns with visual tuning 🧪 Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Publication alert: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain. 🧠
Read the full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulation @tknapen.bsky.social and all researchers involved!
Read the full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulation @tknapen.bsky.social and all researchers involved!
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 4:23 PM
Publication alert: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain. 🧠
Read the full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulation @tknapen.bsky.social and all researchers involved!
Read the full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulation @tknapen.bsky.social and all researchers involved!
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Nature research paper: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain
go.nature.com/4839zaL
go.nature.com/4839zaL
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature
A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic processing.
go.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Nature research paper: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain
go.nature.com/4839zaL
go.nature.com/4839zaL
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Nature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces
go.nature.com/4ocRj3n
go.nature.com/4ocRj3n
Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - Nature
The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Nature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces
go.nature.com/4ocRj3n
go.nature.com/4ocRj3n
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Reposted by Nico Dosenbach
Amazing work and must-read paper by @nickhedger.bsky.social and @tknapen.bsky.social et al.! Fun fact: this was my favorite talk at #SfN2023, now finally out! Congrats Tomas and team!
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain. @nature.com
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain. @nature.com
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 7:29 PM
Amazing work and must-read paper by @nickhedger.bsky.social and @tknapen.bsky.social et al.! Fun fact: this was my favorite talk at #SfN2023, now finally out! Congrats Tomas and team!
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain. @nature.com
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain. @nature.com
Reposted by Nico Dosenbach
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.
Reposted by Nico Dosenbach
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Reposted by Nico Dosenbach
Task learning is compositional, so would behavior be!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - Nature
The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Task learning is compositional, so would behavior be!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The brain’s flexibility stems from its ability to reuse and recombine cognitive building blocks, enabling rapid adaptation to new tasks—a strategy that current AI systems lack.
'Cognitive Legos' help the brain build complex behaviors
Artificial intelligence may write award-winning essays and diagnose disease with remarkable accuracy, but biological brains still hold the upper hand in at least one crucial domain: flexibility.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The brain’s flexibility stems from its ability to reuse and recombine cognitive building blocks, enabling rapid adaptation to new tasks—a strategy that current AI systems lack.
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What aspects of language are universal, and which are due to familiarity? A @nature.com paper finds that while STG shows shared responses to basic speech sounds, only native language boosts encoding of word boundaries + sound-sequence stats 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shared and language-specific phonological processing in the human temporal lobe - Nature
The human superior temporal gyrus processes acoustic–phonetic properties of speech regardless of whether the language is familiar to the listener, but only encodes word boundaries and language-sp...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What aspects of language are universal, and which are due to familiarity? A @nature.com paper finds that while STG shows shared responses to basic speech sounds, only native language boosts encoding of word boundaries + sound-sequence stats 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Do you have a background in applied #AI and an interest in joining @nature.com's editorial team? If so, consider applying! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biological, Clinical, and Social Sciences - New York City, New York (US) job with Springer Nature Ltd | 12848260
Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biological, Clinical, and Social Sciences Organization: Nature Portfolio Locations: New York, Jersey City...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Do you have a background in applied #AI and an interest in joining @nature.com's editorial team? If so, consider applying! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Did you know that AI can figure out its own way to learn, and that its way is better than one designed by humans? Read more in a @nature.com N&V (and the original paper is in the comment) 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI discovers learning algorithm that outperforms those designed by humans
An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Did you know that AI can figure out its own way to learn, and that its way is better than one designed by humans? Read more in a @nature.com N&V (and the original paper is in the comment) 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Thank you @caterinagratton.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to this! Fascinating to dive into the causes and consequences of individual differences in brain organization.
Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization?
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
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@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
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Dense Phenotyping of Human Brain Network Organization Using Precision fMRI
The advent of noninvasive imaging methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) transformed cognitive neuroscience, providing insights into large-scale brain networks and their link to cog...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Thank you @caterinagratton.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to this! Fascinating to dive into the causes and consequences of individual differences in brain organization.
Reposted by Nico Dosenbach
Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization?
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
🧵👇
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
🧵👇
Dense Phenotyping of Human Brain Network Organization Using Precision fMRI
The advent of noninvasive imaging methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) transformed cognitive neuroscience, providing insights into large-scale brain networks and their link to cog...
go.illinois.edu
October 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization?
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
🧵👇
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
🧵👇
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Important consideration to better model neuroimaging data
Is resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC), cortical thickness (CT), or cortical volume more effective at capturing sex and gender differences in the brains of preadolescents?
Check out our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...) now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Check out our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...) now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
October 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Important consideration to better model neuroimaging data
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Check out some compelling and timely work by @nasiametoki.bsky.social on sex vs gender differences in the developing adolescent brain!
Is resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC), cortical thickness (CT), or cortical volume more effective at capturing sex and gender differences in the brains of preadolescents?
Check out our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...) now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Check out our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...) now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
October 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Check out some compelling and timely work by @nasiametoki.bsky.social on sex vs gender differences in the developing adolescent brain!
Reposted by Nico Dosenbach
Is resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC), cortical thickness (CT), or cortical volume more effective at capturing sex and gender differences in the brains of preadolescents?
Check out our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...) now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Check out our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...) now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
October 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Is resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC), cortical thickness (CT), or cortical volume more effective at capturing sex and gender differences in the brains of preadolescents?
Check out our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...) now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Check out our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...) now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
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That's going to be very useful !!
Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
September 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
That's going to be very useful !!
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This is such a fantastic resource and paper! @benjaminkay.bsky.social has unrivaled tenacity for seeing this awesome project through!
Check this out and give him a follow for some of the most thoughtful, statistically rigorous, and well-executed clinical neuroimaging around.
Check this out and give him a follow for some of the most thoughtful, statistically rigorous, and well-executed clinical neuroimaging around.
Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
September 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is such a fantastic resource and paper! @benjaminkay.bsky.social has unrivaled tenacity for seeing this awesome project through!
Check this out and give him a follow for some of the most thoughtful, statistically rigorous, and well-executed clinical neuroimaging around.
Check this out and give him a follow for some of the most thoughtful, statistically rigorous, and well-executed clinical neuroimaging around.
Reposted by Nico Dosenbach
Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
September 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...