Kai Hwang

Great news: The Cognitive Control Collaborative (@IowaControl) is going to be in full effect at #sfn2024 @SfNtweets. Presentation times below. Bad news: As every year, cognitive control is largely relegated to the last day of the conference. Change your travel accordingly 🙂

We are excited to announce an open-area search for a transformational and visionary scientist at the rank of associate or full professor. Human experimental, clinical, theoretical, computational... Click below for more info. #job-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">psychology.uiowa.edu/about/job-open…

@smarek0502 @MJalbrzikowski yup

@MJalbrzikowski Got the same this cycle! Just gotta keep throwing darts at the statistical dartboard 🤓

Hoooo boy do WE have big news from the Cognitive Control Collaborative here at @PsychIowa: We're growing to five (5!) labs. And it just so happens to be another California fugitive. We keep building out here. You keep watching.

Why small mindedness is having big consequences @Brain1878 I live under its shadow. I suspect most of you do too. It is the great mountain of small things. The higher it gets, the bigger the shadow it casts: a malignant darkness that pervades our lives. academic.oup.com/brain/article/…

Excited to share our new paper with Michael Hallquist @kaihwang12 and @bealuna55, bridging working memory and RL accounts of how rewards resolve option competition within parietal maps as one shifts from exploration to exploitation. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Check out some work from the Cognitive Control Collaborative @ SFN! @SfNtweets @IowaControl

The Dept of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa is searching for an assistant prof in computational psych/neuroscience, a full prof in any area, and two lecturers. Follow the link for details. psychology.uiowa.edu/about/job-open…

Just wrote a new piece on @Medium; a very, *very* niche rant about multiband fMRI sequences. May be of interest to one or two of you... @m.b.wall/stop-using-crazy-multiband-sequences-for-fmri-youre-doing-it-wrong-2289b1a5a7b1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@m.b.wall/stop…

My lab is actively extending these lines of research, if interested in joining us please don't hesitate to reach out to me (kaihwang.github.io/about.html).

Recently, in collaboration with my long-time friend and colleague @TheColeLab & @jmshine (elifesciences.org/articles/81282), we showed how the low-dimensional organization of thalamic task activity can predict cortical activity across various cognitive domains.

Anyone here? Recently, my colleagues (@jmshine, @lauradata, @Garrett_Neuro) and I published a perspective review on the human thalamus in @NatRevNeurosci (nature.com/articles/s4158…).

New review paper on the role of the thalamus in shaping whole-brain dynamics and how we can test these ideas with functional neuroimaging. Collaborative effort with @kaihwang12 @lauradata and @Garrett_Neuro. Out now in @NatRevNeurosci. Hope you enjoy!

The impact of the human thalamus on brain-wide information processing — a Perspective by James M. Shine, Laura D. Lewis, Douglas D. Garrett & Kai Hwang nature.com/articles/s4158… @jmacshine @lauradata @Garrett_Neuro @kaihwang12

@kaihwang12 @lauradata @Garrett_Neuro and I are all big fans of the thalamus -- although it's small in size relative to the cortex, it's heavily interconnected with tonnes of other important regions in the brain (more here if you're a neuro geek like me: shine-lab.org/wp-content/upl…)