PostDoc News - Volume 5

Somehow the second last month of the year is upon us, Happy November! I hope you all had a spooky Halloween yesterday, with more tricks and treats to follow through the weekend! Please take a break from the grading, writing, and candy (or not) and join me in celebrating the latest accomplishments of our postdocs. 

New Publications

• Henderson, M.M., Tarr, M.J., & Wehbe, L. (2023). A texture statistics encoding model reveals hierarchical feature selectivity across human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(22) 4144-4161.
• Sahil Luthra had a solo-author paper accepted at Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: 
Luthra, S. (2023). Why are listeners hindered by talker variability? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Advanced online publication.

New Submissions 

• Maggie Henderson has a new preprint out on bioRxiv:
  Henderson, M.M. , Serences, J.T., & Rungratsameetaweemana, N. (2023). Categorization dynamically alters representations in human visual cortex.

• Sahil Luthra has a new paper under review:
  Luthra, S., Crinnion, A. M., Saltzman, D., & Magnuson, J. S. (Under review). Do they know it’s Christmash? Lexical knowledge directly impacts speech perception.

Conference Presentations & Talks 

• Maggie Henderson is an author on a paper that got accepted to NeurIPS 2023:
  Luo, A.F., Henderson, M.M., Wehbe, L., & Tarr, M.J. (2023). Brain Diffusion for Visual Exploration: Cortical Discovery using Large Scale Generative Models. Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS); to appear as oral presentation.

• Sahil Luthra attended the annual meeting of the Society of Neurobiology of Language in Marseille, France:
  Luthra, S., Razin, R., 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, Marseille, France, October 2023.

Congratulations, postdocs!