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Exploring the science of mind, brain, & behavior at the University of Rochester @urochester.bsky.social | Research in #BrainScience #CognitiveScience, #Neuroscience, #Psychology, & #AI | #AcademicBluesky
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For decades, scientists assumed only humans experienced dementia. Now, new field observations suggest that wild chimpanzees—our closest primate relatives—may also show signs of cognitive decline with age. #URochesterResearch @dorabiro.bsky.social
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Wild chimpanzees show human-like cognitive decline with age
Research into changing tool use by wild chimpanzees suggests evolutionary origins of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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OUT NOW from Florian Jaeger @hlplab.bsky.social in Linguistics Vanguard: Reintroducing and testing the Probabilistic Sliding Template Model of vowel perception
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Reintroducing and testing the Probabilistic Sliding Template Model of vowel perception
Normalization of the speech signal onto comparatively invariant phonetic representations is critical to speech perception. Assumptions about this process also play a central role in phonetics and…
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October 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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#cvstoday October 24, 8:30 am-4:45 pm, Feldman Ballroom, Frederick Douglass Commons

CVS Retreat: See full agenda on our website
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October 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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📢❗🚨 CVS Members: don't miss the CVS Retreat TOMORROW at 8:30AM held in the Feldman Ballroom. See agenda and more details: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/cvs_r... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Please share: New postdoc position in human intracranial neuroscience is open in the Castellucci Lab.
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Postdoctoral Research Positions
The Department offers a wealth of opportunities for postdoctoral research in the wide range of scientific disciplines represented in the Brain & Cognitive Scien
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October 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Congratulations to BCS grad student Claire Sun, recipient of a Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA), which recognizes trainees who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research. @cvsuor.bsky.social @coralineiordan.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Prof in Computational Neuroscience/Cognition at
@uor-braincogsci.bsky.social! Join a Simons-supported cluster across Math/Physics/Biology/BCS. Apply by Nov 1, 2025: www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/fac... #ComputationalNeuroscience #Cognition #FacultyJobs
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September 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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NEW from Manuel Gomez-Ramirez & @johnfoxe.bsky.social
Distinct audio and visual accumulators co-activate motor preparation for multisensory detection.
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Distinct audio and visual accumulators co-activate motor preparation for multisensory detection - Nature Human Behaviour
Egan et al. examine multisensory evidence accumulation and show that auditory and visual evidence is accumulated in distinct processes during multisensory detection, and cumulative evidence in the…
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September 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Dr. @elisepiazza.bsky.social of @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social has woven her love of music & science into her lab-aiming to understand how the brain organizes natural sounds and how multiple people’s brains & behaviors align to support interpersonal communication 👉 bit.ly/46oMVYs

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Head and shoulders photo of Dr. Elise Piazza, she has a multi-colored top, brown shoulder-length hair, and is smiling.
September 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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New paper from Manuel Gomez-Ramirez
Distinct audio and visual accumulators co-activate motor preparation for multisensory detection.
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Distinct audio and visual accumulators co-activate motor preparation for multisensory detection - Nature Human Behaviour
Egan et al. examine multisensory evidence accumulation and show that auditory and visual evidence is accumulated in distinct processes during multisensory detection, and cumulative evidence in the…
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September 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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NEW from Martina Poletti in eNeuro: The Speed of Visual Discrimination Differs between Foveola and Perifovea: A Combined EEG and Behavioral Investigation.
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The Speed of Visual Discrimination Differs between Foveola and Perifovea: A Combined EEG and Behavioral Investigation
Despite the vivid experience of homogeneous vision, our visual system is inherently endowed with highly inhomogeneous structures. Although the temporal characteristics of visual responses vary with…
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September 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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OUT NOW from Karl Rosengren: “What happens when you get corona?”: Children’s questions and parental responses about the COVID-19 pandemic doi.org/10.1371/jour... #URochesterResearch
“What happens when you get corona?”: Children’s questions and parental responses about the COVID-19 pandemic
Information discussed between parents and children provide a foundation for children's developing understanding of health and illness. Parents of 3-to-7-year-old children (N = 516, 62% female, 78%…
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September 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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New publication from Jie Wang & Michele Rucci: Spatial and Temporal Factors Influencing Fixational Saccades in J. Neuroscience.
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Spatial and Temporal Factors Influencing Fixational Saccades
Much research has focused on how perceptual, cognitive, and attentional processes modulate microsaccades, the small rapid gaze shifts that humans perform when at tempting to maintain steady gaze on a…
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September 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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New paper from Martina Poletti, "The Speed of Visual Discrimination Differs between Foveola and Perifovea: A Combined EEG and Behavioral Investigation," published in eNeuro.
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The Speed of Visual Discrimination Differs between Foveola and Perifovea: A Combined EEG and Behavioral Investigation
Despite the vivid experience of homogeneous vision, our visual system is inherently endowed with highly inhomogeneous structures. Although the temporal characteristics of visual responses vary with…
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September 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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NEW from Florian Jaeger in Cognition: People quickly get better at understanding new accents, but how this happens isn't fully known. A study found that while listeners might use distributional learning to adapt, their improvement has limits not predicted by current models.
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Learning to understand an unfamiliar talker: Testing distributional learning as a model of rapid adaptive speech perception
Human speech perception is highly adaptive: exposure to an unfamiliar accent quickly reduces the difficulty listeners might initially experience. How …
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August 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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An international team of researchers @spk3lly.bsky.social @johnfoxe.bsky.social et al, discovered when we see & hear simultaneously our senses integrate & send information to the part of the brain that controls movement #URochesterResearch
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August 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Announcing a joint BCS/CVS Research Talk 9/10 at 12PM, Kresge Room: Eli Merriam, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health

Representations in human primary visual cortex drift over time
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August 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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New publication from @dorabiro.bsky.social in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Baboon route repetition in a seasonal environment. #URochesterResearch
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Frontiers | Baboon route repetition in a seasonal environment
IntroductionRoute-based navigation is a common movement strategy for a variety of taxa, wherein animals repeatedly re-use familiar paths during travel. Howev...
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August 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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New article in J. Neuroscience from Sam Jenks & Martina Poletti: Asymmetries in foveal vision.
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Asymmetries in foveal vision
Visual perception is characterized by known asymmetries in the visual field; human’s visual sensitivity is higher along the horizontal than the vertical meridian, and along the lower than the upper…
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July 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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NEW research from Jude Mitchell shows that marmosets are more easily distracted than macaques. Their brain cells have more dopamine receptors, which may make it harder to stay focused when unexpected things happen.
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Higher dopamine D1 receptor expression in prefrontal parvalbumin neurons underlies higher distractibility in marmosets versus macaques - Communications Biology
Integrative anatomical, molecular, behavioral, and modeling evidence suggests that higher dopamine D1 receptor expression in prefrontal cortical parvalbumin neurons in marmosets likely contributes to…
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July 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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OUT NOW from @aplabur.bsky.social The speed of visual discrimination differs between foveola and perifovea: a combined EEG and behavioral investigation, published in eNeuro.
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The speed of visual discrimination differs between foveola and perifovea: a combined EEG and behavioral investigation
Despite the vivid experience of homogeneous vision, our visual system is inherently endowed with highly inhomogeneous structures. Although the temporal characteristics of visual responses vary with…
doi.org
July 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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New article from Greg DeAngelis: When we move our eyes and body, the resulting image motion complicates visual scene analysis. This article reviews how the brain uses these signals to compute the motion and depth of objects while an observer is moving.
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July 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Congrats to the recent UR recipients of the Fulbright US Student program, including 2 BCS/NSC students: Isabelle Miranda (neuroscience) & Daniel Pyskaty. More: www.rochester.edu/college/stud...
July 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Yue Guzhang is a fourth-year student in the @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social at the @urochester.bsky.social in the @aplabur.bsky.social studying how attention and fixational eye movements influence our ability to see fine details in the fovea #URochesterResearch
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Even though the foveal region takes up a large portion of the brain’s visual processing area, it hasn’t been studied as much as other parts of our visual field, mostly because it's technically challenging to precisely track where people are looking.”
June 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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1of2) NEW from Martina Poletti: Distinct modulation of microsaccades in motor planning and covert attention, published in Scientific Reports.

This study found that microsaccades are a reliable indicator of attentional shifts but not of motor intentions...
Distinct modulation of microsaccades in motor planning and covert attention - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Distinct modulation of microsaccades in motor planning and covert attention
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June 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM