Exploring the science of mind, brain, & behavior at the University of Rochester @urochester.bsky.social | Research in #BrainScience #CognitiveScience, #Neuroscience, #Psychology, & #AI | #AcademicBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mjzkvgzzhh2vNew publication from @dorabiro.bsky.social Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons, published in Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-39898-2 #URochesterResearch21 Apr 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzkvgzzhh2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mjmyjd4b5u2qBCS grad student Oviya Mohan has won the 2026 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student. Congratulations Oviya! 🥳 https://www.rochester.edu/provost/honors-awards/teaching-awards/edward-peck-curtis-awards-for-excellence-in-undergraduate-teaching/ https://www.rochester.edu/provost/honors-awards/teaching-awards/edward-peck-curtis-awards-for-excellence-in-undergraduate-teaching/#:~:text=This%20award%20recognizes%20a%20record,teaching%20assistants%20master%20their%20craft16 Apr 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmyjd4b5u2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mjhxlwvquh2yNew publication from Ralf Haefner in Neuron: Statistics of natural scenes shape contextual modulation in the visual cortex. #URochesterResearch https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2026.02.022 @cvsuor.bsky.social14 Apr 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhxlwvquh2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mj3fd7dxfn2sCongrats to Oviya Mohan & Yue Guzhang, who were selected as winners in the 2026 Open Scholarship Awards! These awards celebrate students with "exemplary efforts in making their research open and accessible to the wider community”. Read more: https://osc-rochester.org/open-scholarship-awards09 Apr 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3fd7dxfn2shttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3miweezva352tNEW from Cell Reports Methods: Projection-specific intersectional optogenetics for precise excitation and inhibition in the marmoset brain, co-authored by Jude Mitchell. #URochesterResearch https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2026.101368 @urneuroscience.bsky.social  @cvsuor.bsky.social07 Apr 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3miweezva352thttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mijrzancss2qOUT NOW from Ashley Clark, Krish Prahalad, & Martina Poletti: Distinct eccentricity-driven dynamics in foveal and extrafoveal visual crowding. #URochesterResearch https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.115168 @aplabur.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social02 Apr 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijrzancss2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mi2p6o42uh2o🎉 Congrats to former BCS member Ilker Yildirim, recipient of the 2026 Elsevier/VSS Young Investigator Award. Dr. Yildirim received his PhD in 2014 and was advised by Robert Jacobs. www.visionsciences.org/2026-yia/ @cvsuor.bsky.social https://www.visionsciences.org/2026-yia/27 Mar 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2p6o42uh2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mhy6taww242m1of2) OUT NOW from Chigusa Kurumada: Researchers created a zip code–based measure of language diversity using U.S. Census data... https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02768-526 Mar 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhy6taww242mhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mht5tbdxat2tFor cognitive biologist @dorabiro.bsky.social the question of animal thought extends beyond pets. She studies how individual minds come together in coordinated groups, from pigeons navigating home in flocks to primates negotiating social life. https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-animal-cognition-collective-intelligence-behavior-694752/ #URochesterResearch24 Mar 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mht5tbdxat2thttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mhgqk3v6i22v1of3) NEW study from Krystel Huxlin & Duje Tadin suggests that adults with occipital stroke can exhibit greater variability in lane positioning when steering compared to those with intact vision... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35805-x19 Mar 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgqk3v6i22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mguybaev5i27NEXT Tuesday, Mar 17: BCS is co-sponsoring Boynton Colloquium speaker Anna Roe. 3:00 pm, URMC G-9425, Class of '62 Auditorium & Zoom Discovery of a new cortical area for central vision more info: https://www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index.html @cvsuor.bsky.social12 Mar 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mguybaev5i27https://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mgpxcy6k2s2gA new study challenges a long-standing theory in neuroscience and could reshape how scientists think about perception, learning disorders, and artificial intelligence. https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/learning-makes-brain-cells-work-together-not-apart-694722/ @urneuroscience.bsky.social  @cvsuor.bsky.social10 Mar 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpxcy6k2s2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mg6hhboxwr2q1of2) New research shows that stroke damage causing cortical blindness is associated with minute gaze shifts toward the blind side during passive fixation, but not when subjects are engaged in a foveal visual task, showing that the brain adapts fixational control after visual cortex injury... https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.26.2.503 Mar 2026 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6hhboxwr2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mfui7jghzu2dApplications are OPEN for the Meliora Fellowships and the Wiesman Scholarship. Learn more about undergraduate summer research opportunities in BCS: https://www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/undergraduate/independent.html27 Feb 2026 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfui7jghzu2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mfmu7rpqrc2cNEW from Adam Snyder in Frontiers in Psychology: Resonant hierarchies: a multiscale framework for oscillatory dynamics in the brain. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1704370 #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social  @cvsuor.bsky.social24 Feb 2026 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfmu7rpqrc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mejaahm2jl2wTODAY from 4-6PM: Join us for this celebration of first-year undergraduate students on the River Campus in honor of completing their first semester as a member of the URochester family! More: https://events.rochester.edu/event/first-year-student-celebration10 Feb 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mejaahm2jl2whttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3me53bcpl2x2vNEW research from the DeAngelis lab shows that contrary to long-standing beliefs, motion from eye movements helps the brain perceive depth—a finding that could enhance virtual reality. https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/brain-uses-eye-movements-to-see-in-3d-693352/ #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social05 Feb 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3me53bcpl2x2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mdgh5pjbli2wNew publication from Dora Biro in Physiology & Behavior: Associations of genetic polymorphisms with boldness, stress response, and route efficiency in homing pigeons (Columba livia). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2025.115211 #URochesterResearch27 Jan 2026 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdgh5pjbli2whttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mcutuu4sws2wOUT NOW from @aplabur.bsky.social Chromatic induction and retinal image motion, published in Perception. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066251409616 #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social20 Jan 2026 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcutuu4sws2whttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mcdaja6pts2vNew paper from Karl Rosengren in Frontiers in Developmental Psychology: Why Santa but not witches?”: Parents' reasoning behind encouraging and discouraging fantasy beliefs in children. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdpys.2025.1703073 #URochesterResearch13 Jan 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcdaja6pts2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3mbwo6ajcc425New research from @elisepiazza.bsky.social published in Psychological Science, suggests that nonmusicians have a surprisingly sophisticated ear when it comes to music. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976251400331 #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social08 Jan 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbwo6ajcc425https://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3maeetilcpi2m🎉 Congrats to BCS grad student Oviya Mohan, runner-up in the Three Minute Thesis competition, which challenges doctoral students to describe their research to a global audience—within three minutes. @dorabiro.bsky.social19 Dec 2025 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3maeetilcpi2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3m7qb7333d52eNew publication from the @aplabur.bsky.social in Current Biology: Non-uniform signal pooling across the foveola. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.007 #URochesterResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social11 Dec 2025 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7qb7333d52ehttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3m7klyvcsjw2aCome out & support Oviya TODAY at 4 PM in Hoyt Auditorium (followed by a reception after) BCS grad student Oviya Mohan has made it to the final of UR’s 3-minute thesis: an annual University competition among grad students to explain their thesis in an accessible way in just 3 minutes.09 Dec 2025 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7klyvcsjw2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3m4t7wseohs2tFor decades, scientists assumed only humans experienced dementia. Now, new field observations suggest that wild chimpanzees—our closest primate relatives—may also show signs of cognitive decline with age. #URochesterResearch @dorabiro.bsky.social https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/aging-wild-chimpanzees-tool-use-cognitive-decline-674942/04 Nov 2025 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4t7wseohs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/uor-braincogsci.bsky.social/post/3m4bjgoru2a2bOUT NOW from Florian Jaeger @hlplab.bsky.social in Linguistics Vanguard: Reintroducing and testing the Probabilistic Sliding Template Model of vowel perception https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0239 #URochesterResearch28 Oct 2025 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:df3x5zp5mna7ea4g7oyui6jd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4bjgoru2a2b