Kicking off the Future of Scientific Publishing Special Issue, former ComCom Chairs highlight the importance of effective science communication: https://t.co/NRF18zx67h @krsitek @AlfieWearn @emdupre_ @OHBM

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Our lab is hosting a mini-symposium titled "Speech processing in challenging listening environments: Towards a multi-dimensional framework" on August 25th at @NorthwesternU. Join us!

my head hurts

I haven't been around here much lately, and I think I'll continue that trend. Twitter not letting me share a link to my account at the other site just confirms that decision. You can find me over there: @sitek@fediscience.org. Come say hi!

Me, sitting in my lab at Pitt in my London Transport Museum t-shirt, reading this tweet: choo choo 🚉 (and also whatever sound a bus makes 🚍)

ICYMI: The dates for #OHBM2023 in Montreal, Canada were recently moved to July 22-26, 2023. Read the blog post from @krsitek in the tweet below for insights into why the change was made and much more 👇👇

This was awesome to attend in-person at #OHBM2022—highly recommend watching or listening to the podcast for a great discussion on what IS possible with well-designed, focused MRI studies.

Our very own Research Scientist @krsitek just presented his latest work on the role of dorsal striatum in speech sound categorization at #SNL2022

Grateful for #SNL2022 for creating opportunities for great science AND reunions with friends. Fun to be reunited with @gabrieli_john lab members past (@krsitek @tmcentanni @qzhever @NeuroTyler) and present (@Amanda_M_OBrien @HalieOlson).

Pittsburgh contingent of the @SoundBrainLab is on the way to #SNL2022! Get ready for some speech-in-noise and subcortical auditory chatter over the next few days. But for now, trains 🚂 🚞 🚆

For more details and analyses (including replication with HCP data), check out the preprint, and let us know what you think! (7/7) https://t.co/4swlvZu3ut

These results nicely fit with the classic non-human primate tracer literature, where primary auditory cortex preferentially connects to caudal dorsal striatum, and caudate head receives most of its inputs from anterior superior temporal cortex: (6/7)

Zooming in on just auditory core and belt regions, connections mainly reach caudoventral putamen: (5/7)

What did we find? Much greater connectivity between auditory cortices and putamen vs. caudate, with only anterior superior temporal cortex showing strong connectivity with caudate. Here are the endpoints of corticostriatal streamlines, color-coded by cortical region: (4/7)

So we used @FuyixueWang's incredible 760 µm diffusion MRI dataset (shared in DSI Studio format by @FangChengYeh) to estimate connections between superior temporal cortex and dorsal striatum. (dMRI data link: https://t.co/24c17TrQhU) (3/n)

Dorsal striatum plays a critical role in language and audition. But despite the importance of dorsal striatum in human communication, the structural pathways between dorsal striatal subregions and auditory cortex have not been mapped comprehensively in the human brain. (2/7)

New preprint! Together with @HelouLab and @bchandra_pitt/@SoundBrainLab, we mapped auditory corticostriatal connections in the human brain using diffusion MRI tractography https://t.co/4swlvZu3ut (1/7)

Loved flipping the page on my BRAIN Initiative calendar and seeing @BramshQ’s beautiful #sciart! Makes it a little less painful that it’s already August 🥲

We're looking for new voices to join our blog, podcast, and science outreach efforts! No #scicomm experience necessary—just an interest in sharing new research and ideas within (and beyond!) the human brain mapping community 🧠🗺️ Come join us!