PostDoc News - Volume 4

Regular classes are over... final exams, projects, and program milestones are approaching... May is here! Take a short break from the analyses, writing, and grading and join me in celebrating the recent accomplishments of our postdocs.

New Publications

• Luthra, S., Mechtenberg, H., Giorio, C., Theodore, R. M., Magnuson, J. S., & Myers, E. B. (2023). Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing. Brain & Language, 240, 105264.
• Jain, N., Wang, A., Henderson, M. M., Lin, R., Prince, J. S., Tarr, M. J., Wehbe, L. (2023). Selectivity for food in human ventral visual cortex. Communications Biology, 6(175).
• Obasih, C. O., Luthra, S., Dick, F., & Holt, L. L. (in press). Auditory category learning is robust across training regimes. Cognition.
• Henderson, M. M., Tarr, M. J., Wehbe, L. (in press). Low-level tuning biases in higher visual cortex reflect the semantic informativeness of visual features. Journal of Vision. 

Paper Submissions 

• Kersey, A. J., Aulet, L. S., & Cantlon, J. F. (under review). Emergence of counting in the brains of 3- to 5-year-old children. BioRxiv.
• Henderson, M. M., Tarr, M. J., Wehbe, L. (under review). A texture statistics encoding model reveals hierarchical feature selectivity across human visual cortex. Journal of Vision.

Conference Presentations & Talks 

• Aulet, L. S. & Cantlon, J. C. (2023). Examining the neural correlates of number line estimation in 4- to 6-year-old children. Talk presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Salt Lake City, UT.

Congratulations, postdocs! If important postdoc news that you know of has not been given the spotlight it deserves this year, please send it to us.