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Arielle Keller
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Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience | UConn Psych Sciences | attention, cognition, mental health, development, environment, personalized neuroscience
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appliedcognitionlab.psychology.uconn.edu
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Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1

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The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes
Neuropsychopharmacology - The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes
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Multivariate environmental exposures are reflected in whole-brain functional connectivity and cognition in youth | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in!
tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity

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*can this be a thing??
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:
Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications
The landmark ongoing HEALthy Brain and Cognitive Development (HBCD) study will longitudinally chart brain development in a large sample (projected n=7,200) of infants through age 10 years with multimo...
www.biorxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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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-...

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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 3:00 PM
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Very excited to share a new paper led by my amazing former honors student, @pach-selina.bsky.social, with Silvia Bunge.

Selina asked: for kids living in poverty who are high-performers in school, are there downstream mental health risks?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Academic success and mental health: The paradox of Frontoparietal‐Default Mode Network coupling among children facing poverty
Childhood family income is a powerful predictor of academic achievement and mental health. Here, we ask whether children living in poverty who succeed…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging.
👇🧵

nature.com/articles/s41...
#Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging
Psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonism alters neurovascular coupling and differentially affects neuronal and hemodynamic measures of brain function
Nature Neuroscience - Padawer-Curry et al. show that the hallucinogenic 5-HT2A receptor agonist DOI alters neurovascular coupling in mice, with implications for the interpretation of human fMRI...
nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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This piece includes a critical perspective we all need to be paying more attention to!
September 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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One of the papers I've been most excited about since starting the lab!

We adopt a network neuroscience approach to understand how arousal reconfigures large-scale functional network organization to support memory of complex narratives!
Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw
October 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Understanding barriers to adolescent participation in developmental neuroscience research
Increasing representation of youth in developmental neuroscience research is essential to elucidating neurobiological mechanisms of cognition, behavio…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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📣 New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣

The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network

Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results

Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning?

Thread 🧵 ⬇️
October 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Your brain is unique! 🧠 If you're curious to see more individual-level fMRI at #CNS2026, please consider voting for our symposium "Not Your Average Brain" by end of day today! 🍁

#neuroskyence #cogpsyc #cogsci #PsychSciSky #neuroimaging @cogneuronews.bsky.social
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Consider voting for our symposium at #CNS2026:
Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience
Led by @jingnandu.bsky.social & A Zamani w/ C Lynch
Vote: www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/
By: 11:59pm Oct. 1
CNS Account Login - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster Latest from Twitter
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October 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Thrilled to team up with @caterinagratton.bsky.social @ariellekeller.bsky.social and Chuck Lynch for a symposium at CNS 2026! Please consider voting for our session!
Are you a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member?
Consider voting for our symposium at #CNS2026:
Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience
Led by @jingnandu.bsky.social & A Zamani w/ C Lynch
Vote: www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/
By: 11:59pm Oct. 1
CNS Account Login - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster Latest from Twitter
www.cogneurosociety.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Are you a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member?
Consider voting for our symposium at #CNS2026:
Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience
Led by @jingnandu.bsky.social & A Zamani w/ C Lynch
Vote: www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/
By: 11:59pm Oct. 1
CNS Account Login - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster Latest from Twitter
www.cogneurosociety.org
September 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology
Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature
Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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New paper from @annierhcheng.bsky.social

using data from IMAGEN and ABCD she identifies distinct signatures of impulsivity and negative affect in youth that uniquely overlap with a neuromarker of risky alcohol use

#development #equifinality #abcd #connectome

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Impulsivity and neuroticism share distinct functional connectivity signatures with alcohol-use risk in youth - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Impulsivity and neuroticism share distinct functional connectivity signatures with alcohol-use risk in youth
www.nature.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io
September 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Amazing first day at #Flux2025 featuring an all-star team discussing the last 10 years (and future 10 years!) of ABCD & an inspiring conversation about bridging the lab and real life 🧠🤩

@lucinauddin.bsky.social @dbarch.bsky.social @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social @fluxsociety.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
If you're headed to #Flux2025 in Dublin, swing by Poster S63 on Saturday to chat with rockstar @heatherarobinson.bsky.social about this work! 🧠 🇮🇪 👩‍🔬

(and of course, catch me all conference long kvelling to any/everyone about how totally amazing my students are 🥰)

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky
Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev
The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes
Neuropsychopharmacology - The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes
rdcu.be
August 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
✨ New paper ✨ in JAMA Pediatrics! We discuss how understanding the timing ⏰ of stressful events relative to neurodevelopment can help us better identify risk factors (looking backward) and predict future psychopathology (looking forward) at the individual level
#neuroskyence #devpsych #PsychSciSky
August 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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#ThisWeekInNPP

This 🔃Review 🔃 discusses how 'exposomics' may advance our understanding of developmental 🧠 health & cognitive outcomes by investigating unique sets of physical/chemical exposures, psychosocial experiences, & sociocultural contexts / @ariellekeller.bsky.social
The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes
www.nature.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Don’t miss the Flux 2025 Diversity Inclusion & Belonging symposium “Supporting Science in Challenging Times”: Fri 3:15 Hyde Suite 1&2! We’ll provide historical context + future guidance on navigating authoritarian trends undermining science, safeguarding scientific credibility + supporting trainees.
August 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev
The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes
Neuropsychopharmacology - The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes
rdcu.be
August 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️
August 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM