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clionaod.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Cusack Lab at Trinity College Dublin | Passionate about Neuroscience and AI, infant and machine learning 💡
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Excited for CCN this year! The lineup is full of super interesting developmental work👶🏻🧠🤖 Looking forward to presenting my results as a contributed talk as well!

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What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

There are 2 PhD positions in my lab in Amsterdam (collaboration with Sander Bohte, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and Ingmar Visser) on NeuroAI of developmental vision. academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-w...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking about brain development is hard ... but modern computational models can hint towards potential learning mechanisms! Of course, these need to be contextualised within the findings from developmental psychology. Check out the discussion out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Please help: Do you know a baby, less than 12 months old, who can walk? We are trying to complete a project, 7 years in the works. And all we need are 3 infants who are less than a year old and can walk, to do a short online looking-time study. 🆘

submitted 42 days ago • 8 comments

Fascinating talk by @rhodricusack.bsky.social showing his & @clionaod.bsky.social’s work on 2 and 9-month olds with 130 (!) infants & 20 min (!) data showing a largely similar representation of medial ventral vision but a largely absent response in LO, dovetailing with myelin development. #CAOS2025

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

"How infants learn and explore: From behavior to computations" 👶⚙️ This review outlines my take on early development, mostly driven by frustration that infancy research focuses on what infants can do, not how. Still a Preprint! Missing-literature suggestions welcome :) osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 98 days ago • 23 comments

A brave (and patient) group of neuroscientists have figured out how to do task-based fMRI in babies and toddlers. They aim to uncover how the infant mind takes shape—and the method has already provided new insight into infantile amnesia. My latest www.thetransmitter.org/cognitive-ne... #neuroskyence

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

The Saxe Lab @ MIT is hiring! We seek one lab manager to start in summer 2025. Research in our lab focuses on social cognition (learn more on saxelab.mit.edu). Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993). Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025. Sharing appreciated. Thank you!

submitted 115 days ago • 2 comments

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Plus PhD positions for April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky We had to re-start the process after our preferred candidate withdrew. Info 👇.

submitted 154 days ago • 3 comments

If you are a member of the FIT'NG society then please consider voting for me! To vote, check for the email, and here is a link describing the candidates... fitng.org/elections/ I can't believe this is my first ever election!! @fitngin.bsky.social

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

🥁 FIT'NG is thrilled to announce our 2025 destination is 🌎 Dublin, Ireland. Join us next fall September 7 - 8, 2025! 🌐 Learn more about this beautiful and historic city by visiting: fitng.org/destination/ #FITNG2025 #RSNA2024 #BrainDevelopment

submitted 204 days ago • 0 comments

It's been so rewarding discussing our results throughout the year, and I can't wait for the community to continue to hear what we have been working on! 👶🏻🧠👩🏻‍💻 @rhodricusack.bsky.social

submitted 204 days ago • 0 comments

It's done! 👩🏻‍🎓 I'm so happy to share that last Friday I successfully defended my PhD. After a crazy four years of ambitious awake infant neuroimaging, NeuroAI and everything in between ... somehow, I'm even more excited now to see where this research takes me next 💡 #PhDone

submitted 234 days ago • 2 comments

A great new piece on infant neuroscience, from two of the best: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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