Zhāng Pàn 章盼
@panzhang.bsky.social
PhD researcher in cog neurosci @ bcbl
speech & perceptual inference 🧠🎧
speech & perceptual inference 🧠🎧
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New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵
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rdcu.be/eVZ1A
Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization
Nature Neuroscience - Parcellation of the cortex into functionally modular brain areas is foundational to neuroscience. Here, Hayden, Heilbronner and Yoo question the central status of brain areas...
rdcu.be
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵
rdcu.be/eVZ1A
rdcu.be/eVZ1A
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📆 updated for 2026!
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
docs.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📆 updated for 2026!
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science or neuroscience? Starting a substack (infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/why-isnt-m...) by writing down my thoughts on that question: as part of a first series of posts giving my current thoughts on the relation between these fields. 1/3
Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science?
First post in a series on cognitive science and AI
infinitefaculty.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science or neuroscience? Starting a substack (infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/why-isnt-m...) by writing down my thoughts on that question: as part of a first series of posts giving my current thoughts on the relation between these fields. 1/3
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Many studies of naturalistic comprehension report that surprisal (often LLM derived) explains more of the variance in data than other predictors. Why is this? And why can it be problematic for our conclusions?
A 🧵 of takeaways from our paper doi.org/10.1007/s421... with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social
A 🧵 of takeaways from our paper doi.org/10.1007/s421... with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social
What’s Surprising About Surprisal - Computational Brain & Behavior
In the computational and experimental psycholinguistic literature, the mechanisms behind syntactic structure building (e.g., combining words into phrases and sentences) are the subject of considerable...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Many studies of naturalistic comprehension report that surprisal (often LLM derived) explains more of the variance in data than other predictors. Why is this? And why can it be problematic for our conclusions?
A 🧵 of takeaways from our paper doi.org/10.1007/s421... with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social
A 🧵 of takeaways from our paper doi.org/10.1007/s421... with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social
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📣 We are hiring! 📣
At #BCBL we have a Research Assistant position available to work on the project “Neural implementation of predictive sharpening in the auditory pathway”.
📅: 12/10/2025
+info👇
https://www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-nosotros/ofertas-trabajo/ra-candidate-position-neural-implementation
At #BCBL we have a Research Assistant position available to work on the project “Neural implementation of predictive sharpening in the auditory pathway”.
📅: 12/10/2025
+info👇
https://www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-nosotros/ofertas-trabajo/ra-candidate-position-neural-implementation
September 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📣 We are hiring! 📣
At #BCBL we have a Research Assistant position available to work on the project “Neural implementation of predictive sharpening in the auditory pathway”.
📅: 12/10/2025
+info👇
https://www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-nosotros/ofertas-trabajo/ra-candidate-position-neural-implementation
At #BCBL we have a Research Assistant position available to work on the project “Neural implementation of predictive sharpening in the auditory pathway”.
📅: 12/10/2025
+info👇
https://www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-nosotros/ofertas-trabajo/ra-candidate-position-neural-implementation