Brent Pitchford
Interested in Brains and Cognition. Postdoc in both the Hoplab and the Mathlab (Leuven, Belgium). Passion for Music, History, and Nature.
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- Reposted by Brent Pitchford1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordThe cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUU83BtfH... 1/n 🧵👇
- Reposted by Brent Pitchford📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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- Reposted by Brent PitchfordFull professorship in general psychology open @tudresden.bsky.social We are a lively department with a fantastically equipped neuroimaing center. DM me with questions. @dgps.bsky.social @dgps-fgal.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12517
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordPS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!
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- My heart cannot handle this ballgame
- Pretty much no one in Canada thought there would actually be a trade deal, and the general vibe is to just tune out whatever false hope is coming from the other side. But it's still crazy that a conservative message from a conservative US president is now too much for the US.
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- Reposted by Brent PitchfordAt long last, the pre-print to our MEG study + RIFT study and the final paper from my Ph.D with @olejensen.bsky.social We show that strong pre-search alpha oscillations are associated with faster responses in visual search www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @thechbh.bsky.social #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordManitoba is expanding its degree programs in Ojibwe and Cree. This is an example of the good that can happen when you elect a progressive, indigenous leader to run things.
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordA new paper from the lab, using 7T fMRI and MEG to shed light on how we read, specifically how the visual system encodes strings of letters and moves from retinotopic to ordinal neural codes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Brent PitchfordMy paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social is now out in Science Advances! We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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- Reposted by Brent PitchfordCalling all PhD students & early career researchers! Boost your EEG skills in Nottingham, Dec 16–17. Hands-on training with ANT Neuro, Open Science Tools & @psychopy.org. Register: eventbrite.com/e/1692116779839 #Neurotechnology #BrainResearch #ScienceTraining
- Excited to share a new article from @icevislab.bsky.social! In a sample of over 60 people, we found distinct neural differences underlying object and face recognition in dyslexia. These findings highlight crucial domain-general visual processes that may contribute to word reading challenges.
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- Reposted by Brent PitchfordCommon neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
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- Reposted by Brent PitchfordOur target discussion article out in Cognitive Neuroscience! It will be followed by peer commentary and our responses. If you would like to write a commentary, please reach out to the journal! 1/18 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @cibaker.bsky.social @susanwardle.bsky.social
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordExciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordPostdoc (80%) in the Cognition Lab at University of Zurich, Switzerland We are looking for a postdoc to work with us on the capacity limits of cognition (working memory, attention, long-term memory, ...). Application deadline: 10 September 2025
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordOur oscillations consensus paper is finally out as a preprint 🤩 thanks to everyone involved arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639
- /1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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- I want to get to a stage in my career where I don't feel the need to appease every one of Reviewer 2's requests.
- Reposted by Brent Pitchford1/ New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com, led by @marinv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1038/s420...! Across several past studies, we showed how newborns' degraded vision may benefit human development and inspire more robust deep networks. We have referred to this as Adaptive Initial Degradations (AID).
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordFor everyone out there working at the intersection of vision and language. We are currently accepting submissions for a Journal of Vision Special Issue on the vision-language interface Submission deadline: Dec 31st jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky
- Why can't Microsoft just accept those of us with more than one account? It doesn't have to be this difficult.
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordCIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost. cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordWe have a PhD position for an upcoming project in metacognition research in Potsdam / Berlin. A great opportunity for those interested in cognitive modeling of confidence and EEG. More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025 Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordNEUROCOG 2025 is taking place in Brussels Nov 17–18! The theme: AI and the Human Brain 🤖 🧠 We’re thrilled to welcome 6 amazing invited speakers: @evfedorenko.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @jeffreybowers.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social & @mtoneva.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Brent PitchfordI am delighted to report that SIDIC, the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition, will return in 2025 as a Psychonomics affiliate meeting, & Akira Miyake will deliver the Keynote address. Submissions will open 6/15-8/1; please consider joining us! Info: caliberlab.wixsite.com/sidic2025
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- Really excited to share this work. We know quite a bit about how reward associations influence attention in visual search but little about how they impair or facilitate conflict processing. We hope this study improves our understanding of how reward influences conflict processing and attention.
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordPlease distribute: PhD Position in Visual Perception -- joint opportunity in Iceland and Switzerland #visionscience #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #phd #academia
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- Reposted by Brent Pitchford🚨 Two open faculty positions in Cognitive Psychology (incl. visual perception) at University of Southern Denmark! 🚨 #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence #compneurosky
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- Reposted by Brent PitchfordInterested in curiosity and metacognition in childhood and adolescence? Join us at Cardiff University (UK) for a Postdoc position in an international collaboration with @yanafandakova.bsky.social (Germany) and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social (France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Brent Pitchfordyou don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
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- Can't express enough how much this story makes absolutely no sense. Love telling people over here in Europe about it though. Ripping up bike lanes to reduce traffic congestion...
- Sanity prevails 🇨🇦
- Reposted by Brent PitchfordExcited to share our latest preprint looking at the neuroanatomical basis of impulsivity in youth! 🧠
- Anyone have an all-time favourite book or review paper on the cognitive neuroscience of language?
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- Reposted by Brent PitchfordProud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience" www.nature.com/articles/s44... This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs. #psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence
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