Maxwell Lichtenfeld

Congrats to Max Lichtenfeld, a postbac from NIH/NINDS, for an outstanding #sfn2024 talk on how prior associative semantic knowledge contributes to visual change detection in the medial temporal lobe — a key issue to address for understanding human natural visual cognition.

How does prior semantic knowledge affect visual memory? Using crowdsourced behavioral data and intracranial EEG, @MaxLichtenfeld finds that prior semantic knowledge interacts with task context, modulating medial temporal lobe activity and change detection in a visual memory task.

Yeah, we did. scientificamerican.com/article/scient… #neuroscience @MIT_Picower @mcgovernmit @mitbrainandcog

Thank you to all co-authors for a wonderful team science collaborative effort. A big congratulations also to the first-author @MaxLichtenfeld who was the first student to join the Bastos Lab as an undergrad back in 2021, and who is now in post-bacc training @NIH! 6/6

Our new results reveal the likely cellular/anatomical substrate for the spectrolaminar motif: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… 2/6

New results from the Bastos Lab! We recently showed (Mendoza-Halliday et al., 2024, Nat. Neuro.) a canonical spectrolaminar motif of oscillations across layers in the primate cortex. We now asked the question: What mechanism supports the spectrolaminar motif?? 1/6