Diego Mendoza-Halliday
@MendozaHalliday
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience @ University of Pittsburgh. Lab Principal Investigator studying the neuronal mechanisms of mental representation
University of Pittsburgh
Joined January 2021
A big crowd gethered at Schenley Plaza in Pittsburgh today as part of the "Stand Up for Science" national rally in response to devastating budget cuts to scientific funding proposed by the Trump administration.
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Chatting about attention, working memory, brain oscillations, cortical layers and other fun stuff at an interview I was invited to by Mark Mattson for the Brain Ponderings Podcast:.
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RT @aaronbatista: We're working hard every single day so we can help people like Michelle live their fullest lives.
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RT @BastosLabNeuro: Awesome to be visiting @MendozaHalliday and seeing his cool new lab. One interesting thought is to test whether primary….
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Proud of the community here at the University of Pittsburgh! Protesting peacefully against the US-supported Israeli government’s ongoing massacre in Gaza.
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RT @hakwanlau: i plan to move to Korea later this year, & will soon hire at all levels (students, postdocs, staff scientists, junior PIs) -….
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hi friends, i (hakwan lau) plan to move to Korea this coming Sept (2024), to co-direct this center, which hosts some of the best neuroimaging facilities in the world (7T MRI for humans & NHPs, 15.2T...
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Insightful Preview article by John Duncan about our recent attention and working memory study published in Neuron:
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Our Lab is hiring! 1 POSTDOC & 2 RESEARCH TECHNICIAN positions available. We use high-count multi-area neuronal recordings & optogenetics to investigate how neurons generate & manipulate mental representations. Check the JOIN US section @ Spread the word!
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Exciting announcement: the Mendoza-Halliday Lab website (and logo) is finally out! Check it out at
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News story about our new study published in Neuron:.
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The world assaults our senses, exposing us to more noise and color and scents and sensations than we can fully comprehend. Our brains keep us tuned in to what’s important, letting less relevant...
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New paper out in Neuron! Using electrophysiology and optogenetics, we show that the neuronal substrates of feature attention & working memory are dissociable in the primate brain. Work with Bob Desimone & @nilxu.
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RT @NatureNeuro: A motif of local field potentials that maps onto the anatomical cortical layers across cortical areas, and may represent a….
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Nature Neuroscience - This study reports a motif of local field potentials that maps onto the anatomical layers of the cortex, is preserved across macaque cortical areas and across primates and may...
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Our new Nature Neuroscience article is featured in MIT News today:. MIT News story: Video:
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The six anatomical layers of the mammalian brain cortex show distinct patterns of electrical activity which are consistent throughout the entire cortex and across several animal species, including...
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Our new paper is out in Nature Neuroscience We show a preserved laminar motif of LFP oscillations across cortical areas & mammals, suggesting a canonical mechanism for cortical computations. Work from DesimoneLab, @MillerLabMIT, @BastosLabNeuro, etc!.
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Nature Neuroscience - This study reports a motif of local field potentials that maps onto the anatomical layers of the cortex, is preserved across macaque cortical areas and across primates and may...
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Excited to share that I finally started my dream job: I am now officially Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, & started a lab as principal investigator to study how neurons generate and transform internal mental representations.
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RT @angelica_atb: 📢📢Hoy abren las inscripciones para el “1er Encuentro de Neurocientíficos Colombianos en el Exterior”, el cual se realizar….
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RT @djfreedman: FreedmanLab results alert! Turns out area MST is much more cognitive than its traditionally recognized role in visual motio….
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