Ella Striem-Amit (@striemamit.bsky.social)
@StriemAmit
Cognitive+systems neuroscientist, studying brains/abilities in blindness, deafness or handlessness to probe brain plasticity & development. Opinions are my own.
In a time with so much uncertainty and depressing news, I'm looking forward to #CNS2025 to share some research with a community of colleagues and friends. If you’re interested in talking science (or otherwise) there, ping me!
🚀 Ready for #BRNet7? 🚀 Join us in vibrant Utrecht to explore how the #brain represents the #body using #computational approaches! 🧠💡 🔗 Submit your abstract by March 1st! bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/general-… Don't miss out on shaping the future of body representation research! 🌍✨
New preprint! 🧵 Are perception and memory fundamentally independent processes, or are they overlapping and impossible to disentangle? We turn to the well studied face system to ask this question, using a new task and 4 datasets with 800+ participants. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Lénia Amaral presented her work at the International Multisensory Research Forum! Her talk, “Stable, but unique: individualized connectivity in the blind V1 over time”, reflects her postdoc work with @StriemAmit at the SAMP Lab, @Georgetown. @durham_uni #IMRF2025 @AmaralLenia
Happy to share my latest work with @Scott_Glover_RH. @RHULPsychology @SurreyPsych We show that motor imagery is functionally distinct from physical action, supporting the #Motor #Cognitive model of motor #imagery. Read the theoretical implications 👇psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-33…
20 years and 14 BrainGate participants - our latest preprint delivers the first systematic look at Utah array longevity, stability & decoding accuracy in people! 1/7 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Congratulations @AmaralLenia! Well deserved!
Congratulations to @AmaralLenia on receiving an Honorable Mention for the APP Young Researcher Award in Psychology! 👏 The award was given by the Portuguese Psychological Association at the 12th National Symposium on Psychological Research.
Curious about action observation, it's generalization, and it's link to action execution? Come hear Kyungji Moon's talk about tool-use generalization across the hand and foot tomorrow morning at #VSS2025 (8:15am)
Application deadline extended!! Neuroscience Unleashed in Jerusalem July 20–24 2025 An international graduate school on consciousness, NeuroAI, brain-machine interfaces, psychedelics & organoids. Graduate students & postdocs: Apply by May 3 2025 iias.huji.ac.il/29LifeSci
An essential read about the importance of learning sign language early in life for kids with deafness. Implants can help deaf kids hear—but many still struggle with spoken language | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…
Help get the word out about importance of NIH, NSF, and IES and the role that these agencies serve to support health, improve education, and advance the economy in their states. @FABBS is hosting advocacy office hours for 3 key states, WV, LA, ME, if CNS members want to sign up:
New preprint exploring the role of alpha oscillations in integrating self-related sensory information and distinguishing the bodily self from external events. See link and thread below. Led by @DAngeloMariano
In a new preprint we demonstrated that the frequency of alpha oscillations plays a crucial role in binding self-related sensory information into a coherent perceptual experience of one’s body and distinguishing this bodily self from external sensory events biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
If you’re an individual who is blind or has low vision facing #accessibility challenges in your daily life, the ACB Accessibility and Training Services program is here to help! Email us at [email protected] or visit acb.org/accessibilityto get in touch.
Researchers make molecular connection between blindness, dementia: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/artic…
#standupforscience2025 ・ #sciencenotsilence ・ #scienceforall
The time for action is now—stand up for science on 3/7/25. standupforscience2025.org I’ll see you in D.C.
@AlonHafri and I wrote a thing! We touch base with research on scene perception and outline the advances and open questions raised by the perspective that processing relations (between objects) is a central function of visual perception. osf.io/preprints/psya… @CNRS @UDelaware
Our language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)