Maggie Henderson

Out now in Nature Communications! We investigated the neural basis of dynamic categorization in human visual cortex. See thread for more: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Excited to announce 🎵Magenta RealTime, the first open weights music generation model capable of real-time audio generation with real-time control. 👋 **Try Magenta RT on Colab TPUs**: colab.research.google.com/github/magenta… 👀 Blog post: g.co/magenta/rt 🧵 below

1/6 🚀 Excited to share that BrainNRDS has been accepted as an oral at #CVPR2025! We decode motion from fMRI activity and use it to generate realistic reconstructions of videos people watched, outperforming strong existing baselines like MindVideo and Stable Video Diffusion.🧠🎥

Apply through the Program in Neural Computation (cmu.edu/ni/academics/p…) or the Psychology Department (cmu.edu/dietrich/psych…). Deadlines for both are December 1st!

We research exciting questions in visual cognitive neuroscience, using techniques ranging from neuroimaging and behavioral studies, to machine learning and neural network models. Learn more at: hendersonneurolab.com

🚨Prospective grad school applicants! My lab at Carnegie Mellon University is recruiting PhD students to start in Fall 2025.

These results give new insight into the neural mechanisms of flexible categorization, providing an important link between our understanding of sensory processing, selective attention, and perceptual categorization. See the full preprint for more: doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Finally, we found that the discriminability of shapes across the relevant category boundary was associated with task performance. This suggests that attentional modulations in early visual cortex may contribute to categorization behavior.

Excited to share our new preprint on the neural mechanisms of flexible shape categorization! With @serences & @nuttidarungrat Link: doi.org/10.1101/2023.0… See 🧵👇

I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for the upcoming school year (Fall 2024). If you are interested in studying the neural bases of attention and working memory, I would love to hear from you! You can submit an application from now through Dec 1, 2023.

Friends, we need your help. An Wu, a postdoc from UCSD is missing post-Cosyne. We're trying to locate her. We're worried she may have been staying at a building that had a bad fire this week. If you have any information about where An was staying or last seen please contact me.

Excited to share SingSong, a system which can generate instrumental accompaniments to pair with input vocals! 📄arxiv.org/abs/2301.12662 🔊g.co/magenta/singso… Work co-led by myself, @antoine_caillon, and @ada_rob as part of @GoogleMagenta and the broader MusicLM project 🧵

Happy announcement: Starting July 2023, I'll be joining Rice University as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychological Sciences. I'm so excited to join the Rice community and to do lots of fun science in Houston! (Image: dalle mini of brains + owls -- Go Owls!)

These results also pave the way for future work that can explore how these mid-level representations contribute to higher-order cognitive processes like object & scene recognition.

Check out the full preprint for more details! Overall, our results represent a step forward in characterizing the fine-grained structure of texture representations throughout all levels of visual cortex.

New preprint out this week (with @TarrLab and Leila Wehbe)! We used a texture statistics model (by Portilla & Simoncelli) to construct voxelwise encoding models fit to fMRI data from the Natural Scenes Dataset. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…