Ella Striem-Amit (@striemamit.bsky.social)
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Cognitive+systems neuroscientist, studying brains/abilities in blindness, deafness or handlessness to probe brain plasticity & development. Opinions are my own.
Washington, DC
Joined July 2017
Excited to share our (@MartinezAddiego ,.@YuqiLiu95703261, @CulhamJody49517) paper, now published in PNAS!..(or an easier read on .
medicine.georgetown.edu
New research from Georgetown University provides insight into how the brain is organized around function versus body part, which has important implications for rehabilitation and a person’s return to...
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RT @AyeletLandau: 📣new and paper alert!📣.Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages?.@maya_inbar….
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Intonation units (IUs) are a hypothesized universal building block of human speech [W. Chafe, Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displ...
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RT @HunterSchone: Now out in @NatureNeuro. What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed? . Scanning patients before and….
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Super thankful to all our collaborators on this project, and to the help of our amazing participants.
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Our daily conscious control of movement is naturally at this higher level - of coding for action types and goals. So, more broadly, these findings suggest using a read-out of these higher-level motor areas for brain-machine interfaces and prostheses.
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Our data shows that these functional roles (differing for primary and association motor areas) drive the brain’s ability to reorganize in people born without hands.In other words: brain reorganization/plasticity is driven and is limited by the brain’s typical organization.
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Our results also support a hierarchical organization of the motor system – with primary motor regions organized by body part, and association regions generalizing across them to support specific actions.
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We showed that the tool-use network is recruited regardless of which body part (effector) uses the tool - a hand or foot, and even in people born without hands. This shows that motor association areas code for the action we perform, not how we perform it.
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Early detection and treatment/support is key!.
Join ACB in advocating for vision services for young children through the Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act and See the Board Act. Send a message to your member of Congress at
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RT @cogbooster_uc: Lénia Amaral presented her work at the International Multisensory Research Forum! . Her talk, “Stable, but unique: indiv….
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RT @Martel_MF: Happy to share my latest work with @Scott_Glover_RH. @RHULPsychology @SurreyPsych .We show that motor imagery is functional….
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Recent work in our lab has shown that motor imagery is highly sensitive to tasks that interfere with executive resources, whereas physical actions are largely immune. This has been taken as support...
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RT @WillettNeuro: 20 years and 14 BrainGate participants - our latest preprint delivers the first systematic look at Utah array longevity,….
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Congratulations @AmaralLenia! Well deserved!.
Congratulations to @AmaralLenia on receiving an Honorable Mention for the APP Young Researcher Award in Psychology! đź‘Ź.The award was given by the Portuguese Psychological Association at the 12th National Symposium on Psychological Research.
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Curious about action observation, it's generalization, and it's link to action execution? . Come hear Kyungji Moon's talk about tool-use generalization across the hand and foot tomorrow morning at #VSS2025 (8:15am).
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RT @mikilon: Application deadline extended!! .Neuroscience Unleashed in Jerusalem July 20–24 2025 An international graduate school on consc….
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In a time with so much uncertainty and depressing news, I'm looking forward to #CNS2025 to share some research with a community of colleagues and friends. If you’re interested in talking science (or otherwise) there, ping me!.
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An essential read about the importance of learning sign language early in life for kids with deafness. Implants can help deaf kids hear—but many still struggle with spoken language | Science | AAAS
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Some researchers worry about risks of devaluing sign language, overreliance on imperfect devices
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