Arielle Keller
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience | UConn Psych Sci | attention, cognition, mental health, development, environment, personalized neuroscience
@acornlab.bsky.social
arielleskeller.wixsite.com/attention
appliedcognitionlab.psychology.uconn.edu
- Reposted by Arielle KellerI want to start by saying thank you, truly, to my friends, family, and so many good people who have reached out to check on me during this hard moment in Minnesota. I love you all. I am okay. See thread....
- Wow, this is just so cool!! 🤩🧠
- The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal! Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵(1/6)
- Finding it tough to get back in the swing of things after vacation? You're not alone! Our study found that U.S. adults show lowest performance on cognitive tasks like executive functioning after winter break Thanks @uconn.bsky.social for this highlight! tinyurl.com/4dmssj5m #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
- A bit of happy personal news to kick off 2026 - take that student loans! 😊 Adding another ✨ huge plug ✨ for the totally life-changing NIH Loan Repayment Program (LRP). Check to see if you're eligible! So grateful for this privilege/support. #academicsky #neuroskyence grants.nih.gov/funding/fund...
- Congratulations @joelleba.bsky.social! This is really outstanding work! 🎉
- Ever wondered how white matter tracts actually map onto the cortical hierarchy and cognition—beyond the usual “projection vs association” labels? Our new preprint tackles exactly that! 🧠✨ doi.org/10.64898/202... Thread below 🧵
- Reposted by Arielle KellerThis is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
- Reposted by Arielle KellerVery happy to share our paper on the "summer slide" in kid's cognitive test scores is out now in @pnas.org! We find a replicable dip in performance across multiple domains of cognition in >23,000 kids across 4 datasets! Check out the 🧵 from @ariellekeller.bsky.social below! 👇
- Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇
- Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇
- ☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci Thread /1
- Amazing collab w/@bart-larsen.bsky.social & team! A. Shetty, R. Barzilay, M.E. Calkins, Y.-S. Chong, N. Dave, @drdamienfair.bsky.social, P. Gluckman, R.E. Gur, R.C. Gur, @apmackey.bsky.social, M.J. Meaney, L.A. Moore, T.M. Moore, @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social, A.P. Tan, @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social
- Loved getting to think deeply about the intersection of meditation research and cognitive neuroscience studies of attention with @matthewsacchet.bsky.social t.bsky.social, @sebastianehmann.bsky.social and team! 🎉🎉 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #neuroimaging #CogSci
- So grateful for our amazing ACORN Lab team!! Can’t believe it’s already been a whole year! 😊🐿️🧠 #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cogdev #devsci #neuroimaging
- Introducing the Applied Cognition and peRsonalized Neuroscience (ACORN) Lab at UConn, led by Dr. Arielle Keller! Since launching in 2024, we’ve grown into a thriving team exploring cognitive, clinical, and developmental neuroscience using personalized approaches. #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
- Reposted by Arielle KellerBiopsychosocial and Demographic Predictors of Functional Brain Network Specialization and Segregation Across the Adult Lifespan | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Arielle KellerMultivariate environmental exposures are reflected in whole-brain functional connectivity and cognition in youth | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in! tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition *can this be a thing??
- Our environments consist of many co-occurring features: physical/chemical exposures, psychosocial experiences, socioeconomic resources, and sociocultural context. All these features collectively (the “exposome”) may shape child brain development and cognition – but how? /1 tinyurl.com/exposomeReview
- Our previous work showed that the exposome is reflected in the spatial organization of functionally-interconnected brain networks and variation in cognition. But how does variation in the functional connections themselves may reflect the external environment? /2 tinyurl.com/exposomeTopography
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View full threadHuge thank you to our amazing team of co-authors: Yihe Weng, @heatherarobinson.bsky.social, @lester-rodriguez.bsky.social, Marzieh Babaeianjelodar, Joliza Maynard, Menessa Metayer, Suhani Suneja, @coreyhorien.bsky.social, Abigail S. Greene, @toddc.bsky.social, Tyler M. Moore and Ran Barzilay /10
- Reposted by Arielle KellerHappy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵
- Reposted by Arielle KellerAfter years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:
- Reposted by Arielle KellerWhy do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization? @rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print): go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky 🧵👇
- Reposted by Arielle KellerVery excited to share a new paper led by my amazing former honors student, @pach-selina.bsky.social, with Silvia Bunge. Selina asked: for kids living in poverty who are high-performers in school, are there downstream mental health risks? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Arielle Keller🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging. 👇🧵 nature.com/articles/s41... #Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging
- Reposted by Arielle KellerThis piece includes a critical perspective we all need to be paying more attention to!
- Timing and plasticity are critical to progress in research on stress and neurodevelopment @ariellekeller.bsky.social @jamapediatrics.com @utdallas.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
- Reposted by Arielle KellerOne of the papers I've been most excited about since starting the lab! We adopt a network neuroscience approach to understand how arousal reconfigures large-scale functional network organization to support memory of complex narratives!
- Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw
- Reposted by Arielle KellerNew lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Arielle Keller📣 New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣 The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning? Thread 🧵 ⬇️
- Your brain is unique! 🧠 If you're curious to see more individual-level fMRI at #CNS2026, please consider voting for our symposium "Not Your Average Brain" by end of day today! 🍁 #neuroskyence #cogpsyc #cogsci #PsychSciSky #neuroimaging @cogneuronews.bsky.social
- Are you a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member? Consider voting for our symposium at #CNS2026: Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience Led by @jingnandu.bsky.social & A Zamani w/ C Lynch Vote: www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/ By: 11:59pm Oct. 1
- Reposted by Arielle KellerThrilled to team up with @caterinagratton.bsky.social @ariellekeller.bsky.social and Chuck Lynch for a symposium at CNS 2026! Please consider voting for our session!
- Are you a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member? Consider voting for our symposium at #CNS2026: Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience Led by @jingnandu.bsky.social & A Zamani w/ C Lynch Vote: www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/ By: 11:59pm Oct. 1
- Reposted by Arielle KellerAre you a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member? Consider voting for our symposium at #CNS2026: Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience Led by @jingnandu.bsky.social & A Zamani w/ C Lynch Vote: www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/ By: 11:59pm Oct. 1
- Reposted by Arielle KellerSuper proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology
- Reposted by Arielle KellerNew paper from @annierhcheng.bsky.social using data from IMAGEN and ABCD she identifies distinct signatures of impulsivity and negative affect in youth that uniquely overlap with a neuromarker of risky alcohol use #development #equifinality #abcd #connectome www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Arielle KellerExcited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io
- (1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Amazing first day at #Flux2025 featuring an all-star team discussing the last 10 years (and future 10 years!) of ABCD & an inspiring conversation about bridging the lab and real life 🧠🤩 @lucinauddin.bsky.social @dbarch.bsky.social @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social @fluxsociety.bsky.social
- If you're headed to #Flux2025 in Dublin, swing by Poster S63 on Saturday to chat with rockstar @heatherarobinson.bsky.social about this work! 🧠 🇮🇪 👩🔬 (and of course, catch me all conference long kvelling to any/everyone about how totally amazing my students are 🥰) #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky
- Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev
- ✨ New paper ✨ in JAMA Pediatrics! We discuss how understanding the timing ⏰ of stressful events relative to neurodevelopment can help us better identify risk factors (looking backward) and predict future psychopathology (looking forward) at the individual level #neuroskyence #devpsych #PsychSciSky
- Timing and plasticity are critical to progress in research on stress and neurodevelopment @ariellekeller.bsky.social @jamapediatrics.com @utdallas.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
- Reposted by Arielle Keller🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Arielle Keller#ThisWeekInNPP This 🔃Review 🔃 discusses how 'exposomics' may advance our understanding of developmental 🧠 health & cognitive outcomes by investigating unique sets of physical/chemical exposures, psychosocial experiences, & sociocultural contexts / @ariellekeller.bsky.social
- Reposted by Arielle KellerDon’t miss the Flux 2025 Diversity Inclusion & Belonging symposium “Supporting Science in Challenging Times”: Fri 3:15 Hyde Suite 1&2! We’ll provide historical context + future guidance on navigating authoritarian trends undermining science, safeguarding scientific credibility + supporting trainees.
