tor wager
@torwager
Neuroscientist, psychologist, occasional poet, father. Studying how thoughts and feelings are constructed in the brain, esp. with fMRI.
#fMRI Analysis courses with @fMRIstats free on @coursera, now rolling enrollment! coursera.org/learn/function… coursera.org/learn/function…
A thoughtful article about the substance of human being. “I’d say if your intrinsic commitment to the craft isn’t dominant, by say 70-30, you’re…” nytimes.com/2025/07/24/opi…
A whole lot of bills were just released by the House in the last 24 hours, and I've updated the dashboard with all of them. More details to come as the report language gets released after the markups, but there's already a lot to process: aaas.org/news/fy-2026-r…
This dashboard on U.S. research spending is one to watch for researchers applying for #NIH, #NSF, #DOD grants and other research grants. Thanks to @alesszimm and @AAAS_GR. aaas.org/news/fy-2026-r…
A whole lot of bills were just released by the House in the last 24 hours, and I've updated the dashboard with all of them. More details to come as the report language gets released after the markups, but there's already a lot to process: aaas.org/news/fy-2026-r…
I've just released a new report that expands on the data that was featured in a certain NYT article last week. On top of how basic, applied, and developmental science fares in the PBR, it looks at agency R&D capacity and historical trends aaas.org/news/fy-2026-r…
Online #fMRI course coming up August 6-8! 3-day intensive with lectures and hands-on analysis for all skill levels. #SPM, #ICA, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love teaching this course and meeting students from all areas! Info+Reg here:…
Interesting idea!! Lapses of sustained attention occur not due to cognitive control failures, but when goals compete. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?a…
Provocative and interesting findings on empathic accuracy and social perception by @MarianneReddan and @zakijam , @stanford Narratives dataset nature.com/articles/s4146…
Your Brain Registers Others’ Feelings Even When You Don't A groundbreaking study uncovers how the brain encodes social understanding at two levels: what others intend to express and how we perceive it. Using fMRI scans of observers rating emotional stories, researchers trained…
A new fMRI study reveals that our brains encode both what others intend to express emotionally and how we consciously infer their feelings—two distinct processes. Researchers trained machine-learning models on brain activity to separately predict the speaker’s self-reported…
Your Brain Registers Others’ Feelings Even When You Don't A groundbreaking study uncovers how the brain encodes social understanding at two levels: what others intend to express and how we perceive it. Using fMRI scans of observers rating emotional stories, researchers trained…
This is a beautiful poem. It makes me think of my dad and the times I’ve felt him with me since he passed away. facebook.com/share/v/19G12S…
1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @Leon_Oo1 @csabaorban @ZShaoshi doi.org/10.1038/s41586… It is well-known that AI performance scales with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan, McCandlish 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements...
PRF was always my favorite site to keep up with the flood of amazing pain science… So so happy to see it back in original form!
Check it out! The new interactive website for pain researchers around the globe is live! Webinars, podcasts, interviews and the fan favorite: Papers of the Week! You'll also find lively discussions, jobs, meetings, funding opportunities and more! painresearchforum.org
New paper on the energetic stress marker GDF15 GDF15 is remarkably high in people whose mitochondria cannot flow energy properly - patients with mitochondrial diseases we see in the clinic have 2-10x higher GDF15 levels We report that GDF15 can be measured in human saliva 🧵
Predictive processing models posit top-down influences of internal models on brain processing at multiple levels, including sensory processing. But they don't specify the details. How deep does predictive information penetrate into perception? What are the limits? New paper on…
What gives us the capacity to grow, recover, and heal? We build on first principles and recent discoveries on biological system dynamics to develop the concept of intrinsic health, a field-like state emerging from the dynamic interplay of energy, communication, and structure🧵
Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. I'm a medical doctor and I actually read the paper. Here's my perspective on why this is both impressive AND misleading ... 🧵
Our lab's funding was terminated—here’s how that compares to the amount of all terminated research at @harvardmed nytimes.com/interactive/20…
1/ Delighted to officially launch the 2025 BrainModes Conference 🔗 brainmodes2025.org 📅 October 8-10 📍 @FieldsInstitute , @UofT, Toronto Registration now open! All you need to know in the 🧵below👇: @BrainModes @OHBM @thevirtualbrain @CAMH_KCNI @CAMHResearch @SickKidsNews