Emily Finn
Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Dartmouth. PI of the Functional Imaging & Naturalistic Neuroscience (FINN) Lab.
thefinnlab.github.io
- Reposted by Emily FinnWe're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
- Reposted by Emily FinnIs it time to put rest to rest? A great article by @esfinn.bsky.social , which cleverly lays out some unfound assumptions in the field of and an integrated way forward: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... It should be required reading for anyone using #resting-state or task-based #fMRI!
- Having severe FOMO for missing #OHBM2025, but please reach out if you are interested in postdoc opportunities in our lab! Enjoy the science and sunshine!!
- Reposted by Emily FinnNot long after I started my lab, a prominent scientist told me it was “impossible” to be a successful PI and a mother Don’t ever let the naysayers tell you it can’t be done - of course it can! #HappyMothersDay this weekend to all the amazing scientist mamas raising their wonderful kids 🥰
- Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
- Alternative title: "LLMs don't have ears (or eyes)" What do humans and machines miss out on when processing language as purely written text, without all the embodied audiovisual richness that scaffolds language in daily human contexts? Very proud of this elegant work from @tommybotch.bsky.social
- New preprint! Thrilled to share my latest work with @esfinn.bsky.social -- "Sensory context as a universal principle of language in humans and LLMs" osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Emily FinnWe're excited to hear this year's Young Investigator Award recipients @esfinn.bsky.social @andrebastosof.bsky.social talk about their award-winning research! And exciting to see them with some past winners @freekvanede.bsky.social @striemamit.bsky.social Join us in the Grand Ballroom! #CNS2025
- Two posters from our lab at #CNS2025 this morning! First, Kay Liang @kay-qiliang.bsky.social shows differences in how we perceive social interactions when we’re actually involved in them (first person) versus passively watching them (third person) at poster D99
- Second, Clara Sava-Segal @csavasegal.bsky.social looks at how we remember different subjective interpretations for the same information based on whether they are self- or other-generated at poster D110
- This afternoon (Sun 1:30-3:30p) at #CNS2025, Zach Reagh @zreagh.bsky.social, Janice Chen, James Antony @jameswardantony.bsky.social, and I will be speaking in Symposium 1: Creating the structure of ongoing experience. Come by for a dose of narratives, events, causality etc @cogneuronews.bsky.social
- *So* honored to be a co-recipient of the CNS Young Investigator Award (along with André Bastos)! This was a fun interview. Really looking forward to the conference!
- "...how can the same sensory information evoke such wildly different interpretations across people, or even within the same person across time?" Learn how @esfinn.bsky.social, a #CNS2025 Young Investigator Award co-recipient, is working to answer that in a new Q&A: #scicomm
- Reposted by Emily FinnSuppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can! Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Emily FinnFor the Dartmouth PBS graduate student visiting day this year, we introduced a new format based on the "Hot Ones" talk show: faculty and current graduate students ate nuggets with a series of increasing spicy hot sauces as they answered questions from prospective grad students! 🌶️🔥🥵
- Reposted by Emily FinnAs co-director of AI at the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative, I want women in data science to flourish. We thus launch the #WiDSDatathon 2025 Global challenge - open to all levels - now on Kaggle! Entrants will predict ADHD via fMRI, with sex differences in mind. youtu.be/ESbiTbnlbdM
- This paper sets up a bit of a straw man in that I don't think most people who use movies and stories as fMRI stimuli assume that all movies will (or should) evoke the same response. In a naturalistic neuroimaging expt, the movie *is* the task...
- ...so just as we don't expect all possible trait- or state effects to emerge in all tasks, we don't expect to see them in all movies. That said, I do think pushing ourselves to quantify *what it is* about a "naturalistic" stimulus that pulls out effects of interest will help us make progress...
- Clare Grall and I argued this in our recent review/perspective piece (excerpt below) and gave some practical recommendations for how to do this. Full paper here: academic.oup.com/scan/article...
- Reposted by Emily Finnnow out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece, "Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience" #neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
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- Reposted by Emily FinnNew starter pack: people doing science with narratives, naturalistic memory, natural conversations, and using language models for psych/cog sci 📖💻📚 (Reply with 🙋 if you'd like to be added!) go.bsky.app/LGRYMvQat://did:plc:o5rl7hzswzpq3g7ysuqd7ced/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laz263qdh32o
- Hi new followers! My lab studies when/how/why the same input can provoke different interpretations in different people (or in the same person across time). But we also do fun stuff with human-AI alignment and conversation. Hoping we can make bsky like the old days of science Twitter; miss that!
- Reposted by Emily Finn🚨 Steven Frankland and I are recruiting jointly-advised graduate students to work on high-level cognition! They will be part of the Cognitive Science Program at Dartmouth and earn their Ph.D. in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Deadline: Dec 1: pbs.dartmouth.edu/graduate-pro...
- Reposted by Emily FinnThe Dartmouth College Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences are now on Bluesky! Follow this account for research, learning resources, events, news, and job postings.
- Our lab (thefinnlab.github.io) is excited to review PhD applications this cycle! Check us out if you wanna do interesting stuff with brains and behavior in the woods 🌲🧠🌲Apply to Dartmouth Psych&Brain Sciences via Guarini School of Grad Studies (graduate.dartmouth.edu/admissions-f...) by Dec 1!
- Very excited for this search -- please apply!!
- Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences is searching for a new full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor studying social interaction! We're open to a wide variety of methods and perspectives. Review of applications starts Oct 15. Details here: apply.interfolio.com/151749
- Reposted by Emily Finn📢 Exciting news! My first first-author paper on brain decoding of spontaneous thought is now available on PNAS. Check it out! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... ✅ Summary: We developed fMRI-based predictive models of spontaneous thought using personal stories as stimuli. (1/4)
- Our lab is hiring a lab manager/RA to start in summer 2024! Learn cutting-edge behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging tools applied to big Qs in cog&social psych. Send qs my way, and apply through the official posting here: searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/727...
- Note the posting says 12 months, but we prefer a 2-year commitment. We're looking forward to reviewing applications!
- This was a really fun conversation! Thanks for having me
- New episode! I talked to @esfinn.bsky.social about neural fingerprinting, naturalistic stimuli, how she got into science, her year in Peru, uncertainties about doing a PhD, how to write good papers, and much more. Thanks Emily for being a guest! 1/4
- Reposted by Emily FinnMy group is looking for a post doc who is passionate about high field layer fMRI methods, time series analysis, or functional contrast mechanisms. fim.nimh.nih.gov/positions-av...
- Just got reviews back on a grant. It's still in funding limbo, but one reviewer wrote such beautifully supportive comments of me and my work that I'm tearing up at my desk. I don't know who this reviewer is, but if you're reading this: thank you, this type of encouragement means so much.
- Reposted by Emily Finn🚨I need your help, academic BlueSky! For those who navigated parental leaves as faculty, what worked or didn't work for you/your labs navigating that experience? Please repost widely to help us gather ideas & I'll compile them for our Resources Website to share with all!
- Hey @sansmeeting.bsky.social, I'm having trouble creating a user account on the Conference Manager site (stuck in an endless "Pending User email loop). I reached out to the contact # on the SANS site, but am wondering if this is a known issue? Midnight abstract deadline fast approaching 😬 thanks!
- @lisik.bsky.social reports she is experiencing the same thing
- Reposted by Emily Finn
New paper demonstrating the hidden cost of receiving favors led by Xiaoxue Gao with @eshjolly.bsky.social, Hongbo Yu, Huiying Liu, & Xiaolin Zhou. We demonstrate that brain patterns of emotional states can be integrated with economic utility models to predict reciprocity behavior bit.ly/41Pm7O2. - Reposted by Emily FinnApplications for NIH Independent Scholars Program due March 1. For scholars who have a commitment to building a diverse Intramural Research Program at NIH. <4 years post PhD. Independent positions & funding with mentorship from existing faculty.
- Nice write-up of our recent paper using fMRI data from the movie 500 Days of Summer, where we found evidence that the brain does on-the-fly unscrambling of temporal information to put a nonlinear narrative back in chronological order: nautil.us/your-brain-w...
- Original paper: doi.org/10.1093/cerc... Huge thanks + credit to @thelablab.bsky.social for the data, provided via the fabulous Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database!
- ...and welcome to Bluesky to the piece's author, @ajdinahalilovic.bsky.social!
