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November 03, 2022

September & October PostDoc News

By Sophia Robert

Happy Halloween! I hope you were able to enjoy some spooky festivities this past weekend. Here's something scary for you: we've already arrived at the end of October! On a less frightening note, please read below to learn about the great progress our postdocs have made since the end of summer through October.

New Publications

  • Ayzenberg, V., & Behrmann, M. (2022). Does the brain’s ventral visual pathway compute object shape? Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Paper Submissions

  • Crinnion, A. M., Luthra, S., Gaston, P., & Magnuson, J. S. (under review). Resolving competing predictions in speech: How qualitatively different cues and cue reliability contribute to phoneme identification. 


Preprints

  • Ayzenberg, V., Simmons, C., & Behrmann, M. (2022). Temporal asymmetries and interactions between dorsal to ventral visual pathways during object recognition. bioRxiv
  • Bond, K., Rasero, J., Madan, R., Bahuguna, J., Rubin, J.,, & Verstynen, V. (2022). Competition between action plans tracks with evidence accumulation during flexible decision-making. bioRxiv
  • Henderson, M. M., Tarr, M.J., & Wehbe, L. (2022). A texture statistics encoding model reveals hierarchical feature selectivity across human visual cortex. bioRxiv.
  • Obasih, C. O., Luthra, S., Dick, F., & Holt, L. L. (2022). Auditory category learning is robust across training regimes. PsyArXiv

Conference Presentations & Talks

  • Luthra, S., Obasih, C. O., Tierney, A. T., Dick, F., & Holt, L. L. Using frequency selectivity to examine category-informative dimension-selective attention. Poster presentation at Society for Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, PA, October 2022.
  • Luthra, S., Tierney, A. T., Dick, F., & Holt, L. L. Neural systems underlying source- and dimension-based auditory selective attention to naturalistic speech. Poster presentation at Society for Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, PA, October 2022.



Other News

Former postdoc Drew Cranford began a position as a Special Faculty Researcher in the department as of this fall. Congrats to Drew on the new position!