Bryan Medina

Words and sentences that are highly dissimilar from anything we’ve seen before are more likely to be remembered accurately, according to research from @ev_fedorenko @GretaTuckute @bj_mdn @thomashikaru @LanguageMIT. mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/10/01/mit… @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT

Why are some words and sentences easier to remember than others? Two of our papers covered by @MIT News today: we found that unambiguous words with few or no synonyms ("Pineapple") and sentences with distinctive meanings (“Every cloud has a blue lining”) are most memorable!

Our GPN students are mingling at the BU-MIT-Harvard neuro social

As we're heading into PhD application season, I wrote a post with advice for applying to grad school, drawing from my experience on admissions committees. Please share with any aspiring PhD students that you know! brains-explained.com/advice-for-app…

This work from NeurIPS 2019 was the start of a much larger project that is now out in Nature Neuroscience! Check it out here: nature.com/articles/s4159…

I’m excited to share the first paper of my PhD! arxiv.org/abs/2306.10168 1/

I won the NSF GRFP! Nice. This could not be possible with out my mentors here at IU. @richardfbetzel and @anne_krendl were amazing and gave incredible feed back through out the process. I'm very lucky and happy and WILL be celebrating 🥊🥊🔥🔥

New opening for a full-time lab tech in the Kanwisher Lab: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie… This job is a great stepping stone to graduate programs in cognitive neuroscience. Demonstrated serious interest in cog neuro and good coding skills required. Machine learning skills a plus.

👉The authors developed a novel #StatisticalMethod for identifying coordinated propagation of activity across populations of spiking neurons, with high temporal accuracy. 🖱ow.ly/8IU450Lte5a #ArticlesInPress #MultipleSpikeTrains #Neuropixels #PointProcess @bj_mdn

Population Burst Propagation Across Interacting Areas of the Brain - new Innovative Methodology article in @JNeurophysiol ow.ly/nLwP50LtbQw #Neuropixels #articlesinpress

♥️"Decoding the Brain" @MITMuseum yesterday. Thank you to neuroscientists @fernanda_dltr @HopeKean @m_the_cohen @bj_mdn @madisonrleone @apurvaratan @meenakshik93 @ryan_kast @hilarydorton, MIT museum's @2JohnDurant @Csquaredurbano for hosting and @mcgovernmit for sponsorship

Hooray ⁦@MBTA⁩ for never giving up fixing the escalators ⁦⁦#PorterSquare . Maybe in time for thanksgiving? In the mean time a little exercise won’t hurt anyone (?)

⏰⏰🔥🔥New opportunity🔥🔥⏰⏰ Do you have a burning passion for open science? Are you interested in: - Revolutionizing scientific publishing? - Going from journals as gatekeepers to post-publication review? [1/2]

🚨🔔 Calling all parents with children 4-6 years old! Participate in a fun study and find the odd one out 😎: lookit.mit.edu/studies/b4fa5d…

🚨Calling all parents with children 4-6 years old! I just launched my first study on Lookit that investigates whether children make predictions about causes and effects. lookit.mit.edu/studies/fe0bdd…

a weekend nor’easter = enjoying the snow like a child 😌

@KKajderowicz @will_barrcode @mitbrainandcog @thomashikaru instead we should do the whole retina

@will_barrcode @bj_mdn @mitbrainandcog @thomashikaru Ok hear me out, imagine if we made a protein family on the lawn?

fellow @mitbrainandcog students having fun in the snow!!!

@nidhi_s91 @mitbrainandcog @thomashikaru i wish i could take credit for it because it's so great!

@bj_mdn @mitbrainandcog @thomashikaru gotta love the no-face