@yaldamohsenzadeh
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Brain and Mind Institute at Western University; Faculty member at Vector Institute for AI; cognitive computational neuroscience; perception and memory; computer vision and AI
If you are interested in Neuro AI, cognitive neuroscience, machine learning or AI for health please send your CV and a short research statement to me! We will discuss fit and support nominations through our institution!
Exciting news! With the launch of the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards, a major new initiative to attract global research talent, we are looking to recruit PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to join our group: nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
#WesternU welcomes The Canada Impact + Chairs program launched by Minister Joly yesterday.
This program will help attract the best and brightest to support innovation, knowledge translation and new discoveries that drive social and economic growth. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
If you are an AI researcher (in academia or industry) outside of Canada and willing to move to Canada, there is a great opportunity: www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl... please get in touch! We would love to hear from people who apply AI in health and neuroscience too!
Thrilled to receive Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA)! Grateful to the Ontario Government for this support, which will help us grow our team, train next generation of researchers, and push the boundaries of AI + neuroscience: news.westernu.ca/2025/08/earl...
Very much looking forward to #CCN2025! Would love to see you at our lab's talks and posters, and meet me at the panel discussion in the Algonauts session on Wednesday!
Excited to share that our lab has three presentations at #CCN2025! Please check out our posters:
Willow Han is presenting her talk @vssmtg.bsky.social this morning at 9:00 AM in Talk room 2:
Brandon (Yu) Hu is presenting his poster @vssmtg.bsky.social Banyan Breezway #310 this morning! Please check it out!
Our lab is present at #VSS2025, so let me highlight some of the things we have been up to with a talk and three posters. Would love to see you around! 🧵
If you are @vssmtg.bsky.social, please check out our lab’s presentations:
I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year!
I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday
Three WIN Trainees Awarded 2024 CAN-CIHR-INMHA Brain Star Awards🧠🌟 from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience! Congratulations to Caroline Nettekoven, Diego Piza, and Hayley Shanks!! Read the news release on our website!! shorturl.at/wzJYu
Welcoming Yalda Mohsenzadeh to our Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience board! 🧠 @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social brings expertise in perception & visual memory, neuroimaging methods and deep & machine learning. We look forward to working with you!
Many congratulations to our very own @culhamari-lab.bsky.social, so well-deserved! 🎉
Our research has been covered by Western News; check it out here:
A screenshot of an X post by Jon Cryer (@mrjoncryer .bsky.social) dated March 7, 2025, commenting on the deteriorating relationship between the U.S. and Canada, blaming a "criminal president" after six weeks. The post includes a poll from Polling Canada (@canadianpolling ...) conducted by Pollara on Feb 23, 2025, with 1,506 online respondents. The poll shows support for: removing U.S. alcohol from stores (77%), retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products (75%), punishing Elon Musk by tariffing his companies/cancelling his contracts (74%), and cancelling contracts with American companies (65%).
Do you know how hard it is to anger Canadians?!?
In happier news, here a new motor learning paradigm and paper by Ali Ghavampour, @mnlmrc.bsky.social, @andpru.bsky.social, @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social, @jjodx.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Neural processing of naturalistic audiovisual events in space and time www.nature.com/articles/s42... by @yaldamohsenzadeh.bsky.social et al., showing auditory information represented in both early visual and auditory regions, but visual information only identified in visual cortices; #neuroscience
6/By fusing EEG (temporal precision) with fMRI (spatial precision), this study offers a spatiotemporally resolved map of how audiovisual stimuli unfold across the brain.
5/ A two-branch deep neural network (DNN) model trained on audiovisual data couldn't replicate early cross-modal integration seen in the brain, emphasizing the need for early fusion in models
4/ High-level semantic & categorical info only appears later in high level auditory, visual, and multisensory areas.
3/ visual & auditory features were processed with similar onsets, but different temporal dynamics. Auditory info takes longer to peak than visual, likely due to the temporal nature of sounds.
2/ Using EEG and fMRI, we discovered early asymmetrical cross-modal interactions, with acoustic information represented in both early visual and auditory regions, while visual information only identified in visual cortices.
1/ The human brain seamlessly integrates distinct sensory information to create a coherent percept. This paper dives deep into where and when different types of audiovisual information are processed in the brain using naturalistic stimuli.
Excited to share our paper published in Nature Communications Biology, led by my brilliant PhD student, Yu Hu: go.nature.com/3Wuqj4G
Checkout our paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience:
Diana will present her talk at @CogCompNeuro on Thursday at 9:30 AM! Don't miss it: 2024.ccneuro.org/contributed-...
If you are at #CCN2024, please visit Mohsenzadeh Lab presentations, we have 4 posters and 1 talk: