Mark Lescroart
@neuroMDL
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Computational cognitive neuroscientist at @unevadareno. Dad. Nerd since before it was cool. I like pretty science pictures & puns. He/Him.
Reno, NV
Joined January 2014
Take a look at your timeline and consider whether you actually want to be on here right now. Get over the inertia - what a great time to leave this wreck to a site and join us on the better, bluer place
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Elon Musk has spent $119 million on a super PAC supporting Donald Trump and held events on his behalf. But his ownership of X is especially valuable.
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Very strong agree with this thread: don’t use AI for a single search answer!
As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>
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So proud of this preprint! @HedgerResearch has analysed over 700 hours of 7T fMRI data from HCP (retinotopy, movie, rest) and NSD to discover a sequence of novel, vicariously activated somatotopic maps tiling visual cortex.
🧵New preprint with @cvnlab, @tnaselar & @tknapen: How does the brain connect vision and touch representations to infuse vision with body-related meaning? TLDR: We found high-level visual cortex is tiled with maps 'multiplexing' vision and touch. https://t.co/DqSwHMQkjc 1/n
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Hey #sfn24 attendees - if you're still around for the last session, check out @arnabiswas's poster for some great work from our lab. Come hear about how tasks focusing on different shape properties affect brain responses in lateral and parietal regions! poster # PSTR462.08/G32
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I’m excited to be at @apanhearing and @SfNtweets #SfN2024 next week! My lab and I will present work on speech representations in the developing brain and speech vs music representations. I’m also looking for #postdocs, so if you’d like to meet me and discuss please reach out!
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This is EXACTLY why I never did this, despite my curiosity
15 million people trusted 23&me with their DNA. Now the company is almost bankrupt, the stock about to be delisted, and almost the entire board has resigned. Who will they decide to sell your info to? 1/
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I'm teaching a coding class this semester, and reluctantly realizing that I need to teach the students about AI coding assistants or I am doing them a disservice. I've only dabbled with ChatGPT a bit. Recs? Are any other options particularly good for explaining code to beginners?
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Congrats, Eline! York is lucky to have you!
I’m so excited to share that in the fall of 2025, I’ll be starting as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Neuroscience in @YorkUPsyc at @YorkUniversity in Toronto, Canada! 🤩 I’m looking forward to working with my amazing new colleagues and students!
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Very grateful for this honor and opportunity from @NSF. Check out this brief writeup to hear about some future directions for research in my lab!
Mark Lescroart, an assistant professor at the @unevadareno, was recognized with a prestigious CAREER Award from the @NSF. Lescroart works in the Department of Psychology in @UNRScience. He has been a part of the Cognitive & Brain Sciences group since 2018.
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I’m looking for a postdoc to work with my group on understanding speech and language in the brain using pediatric intracranial recordings. Looking for folks with strong computational skills and electrophysiology experience. Email me your CV if interested! Job post forthcoming.
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Delighted to see this in press after a long road to publication, a great project led by @GhaffarSamy
I am very excited that our study using Voxelwise Modeling to explore how the brain represents emotional natural scenes is out in Nature Communications.
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I'm soon going to be looking for a senior postdoc to join my lab who is interested in transitioning to independence and in building their own group, with a strong background in vision science, cognitive computational neuroscience or visual neuroscience. Please RT 1/3
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Clear, succinct, import, and with a generalizable lesson for other domains:
This article argues in part that racism and sexism are essentially non-existent because their effects on stuff like income disappear if you control for all relevant variables like education, work history and so on. This is a common argument so let me explain why it's wrong. 👇
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Has anyone else been followed by what seem to be a bunch of bots or other suspicious individuals with no posts recently?
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The SAT isn’t perfect but I’ll take it over whatever this is
Elite educational consultants are charging parents upwards of $120,000 a year to coach their kids into Ivy League schools by curating their extracurriculars, helping them land internships, craft essays and more https://t.co/pMVgKMH4td
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Neat!
Faces elicit a particular pattern of eye movements from humans and monkeys. Here, we examine the role of face-selective cortex in this remarkable behavior. https://t.co/BSfGResbnO I’m so thankful I had the opportunity to work with this team! @RezaAzadi_ @AfrazArash and others
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Whoa dude.
It's only been 1 day of CES 2024, and the tech developments have been incredible. The 10 most impressive reveals of CES 2024 so far: 1. The world's first transparent MICROLED screen by Samsung
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