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Lab News and Events

Awards

2021 - 2023:

Our lab organized a "Next Frontiers in Consciousness" Workshop at the NIH Bethesda campus in June, 2023. The workshop was co-funded by an NSF conference grant and the Blueprint for Neuroscience Research and the BRAIN Initiative at the NIH. A meeting report was published in Neuron.
Giulia Gennari received an NYU Leon Levy Fellowship in Neuroscience
Nick Ankuta received an NYU Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund grant
Our collaborative project with the OLAB, titled "Bridging Neural and Computational Perception", was funded by a Medical Research Grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation.
Biyu received the 2023 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science.
We received a Templeton World Charity Foundation grant to investigate the impact of stimulus ambiguity on the neural mechanisms of conscious perception.
We received a Feldstein Medical Foundation grant to study visual hallucinations in Lewy body diseases.
We received an R01 grant from NEI to study the role of spontaneous brain activity in perception.
Dillan Spector received an NYU Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund grant

2016 - 2020:

A multi-lab consortium led by Biyu received funding from Templeton World Charity Foundation to test competing theories of consciousness.
Biyu received an Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientist Award
We received an NSF award to study the influence of prior knowledge on visual perception
Leana King received a Marian Diamond Fellowship from the Berkeley Neuroscience Graduate Program
Biyu received a Society for Neuroscience Janett Trubatch Career Development Award
Thomas Baumgarten received a Marie Curie Global Fellowship
Biyu received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award
Ella Podvalny received the Best Poster Award at Montréal AI & Neuroscience Meeting
Mike Zhu was awarded an NYU Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund grant
Mike Zhu was awarded an NYU Training Program for Computational Neuroscience grant
Biyu was named a Klingenstein-Simons Fellow
Biyu was named a Leon Levy Fellow in Neuroscience

Presentations

Talk Videos

Biyu's talk at Monteal AI & Neuroscience (MAIN) conference, virtual Nov 2021, can be viewed here.
Biyu's talk at Brain Connectivity Workshop, virtual May 2021, can be viewed here.
Biyu's keynote lecture at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) annual meeting, virtual June 2020. Her keynote interview with OHBM can be found here.

Upcoming Lab Presentations

Yuan-hao Wu, Ella Podvalny, Max Levinson, Biyu J. He. Network mechanisms of ongoing brain activity’s influence on conscious visual perception. VSS, May 2024, St. Pete Beach, Florida, Poster Presentation.

Past Lab Presentations

Lua Koenig, Haley G. Frey, Vasili Marshev, Emily R. Thomas, Ned Block, David Chalmers, Megan A. K. Peters, Rachel N. Denison, Richard Brown, Victor A. F. Lamme, Jan W. Brascamp, Biyu J. He. Adjudicating between first-order and higher-order theories of consciousness: the role of prefrontal cortex. ASSC, June 2023, New York City, Oral Presentation.
Jonathan Shor, Thomas J. Baumgarten, Daniel Hasegan, Sasha Devore, Daniel Friedman, Patricia Dugan, Ignacio Saez, Fedor Panov, Werner K. Doyle, Orrin Devinsky, Eric K. Oermann, Biyu J. He. Identifying the neural network dynamics underlying one-shot perceptual learning with intracranial EEG. ASSC, June 2023, New York City, Oral Presentation.
Yuan-Hao Wu, Ella Podvalny, Biyu J. He. Distinct sources of spontaneous activity influencing perceptual sensitivity and criterion. ASSC, June 2023, New York City, Oral Presentation.
Brandon Chen and Biyu J. He. Dissociating the effects of attention and expectation on threshold-level object perception. ASSC, June 2023, New York City, Poster Presentation.
Ayaka Hachisuka, Jonathan Shor, Emily R. Thomas, Xujin “Chris” Liu, Eric Oermann, Biyu J. He. Mapping the invariance properties of perceptual priors in one-shot perceptual learning. VSS, May 2023, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, Oral Presentation.
Shira Baror, Thomas J. Baumgarten, Biyu J. He. Neural mechanisms determining the duration of task-free, self-paced visual perception. VSS, May 2023, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, Poster Presentation.
Yuan-hao Wu, Ella Podvalny, Biyu J. He. Resolving the spatiotemporal neural dynamics of object recognition under uncertainty in humans. SfN, Nov 2022, San Diego, Oral Presentation.
Jonathan Shor, Thomas J. Baumgarten, Sasha Devore, Daniel Friedman, Patricia Dugan, Werner K. Doyle, Orrin Devinsky, Biyu J. He. Identifying the neural network dynamics underlying one-shot perceptual learning with intracranial EEG. SfN, Nov 2022, San Diego, Oral Presentation.
Thomas J. Baumgarten, Richard Hardstone, Adeen Flinker, Sasha Devore, Daniel Friedman, Patricia Dugan, Werner K. Doyle, Orrin Devinsky, Biyu J. He. Localizing neural activity underlying sensory predictions of naturalistic tone series with intracranial EEG. SfN, Nov 2022, San Diego, Poster Presentation.
Max Levinson*, Ella Podvalny*, Steven H. Baete, Biyu J. He. Neural activity in extensive cortical and subcortical networks supports visual object recognition. OHBM, June 2020, Montreal, Canada.
Max Levinson*, Ella Podvalny*, Steven H. Baete, Biyu J. He. Successful object recognition correlates with activity in category-specific and extensive category-invariant brain networks. Object Perception, Attention, & Memory conference, Nov 2019, Montreal, Canada. Oral Presentation.
Ella Podvalny, Matthew W Flounders, Leana E King, Tom Holroyd, Biyu J He. A dual role of spontaneous neural activity in object recognition. VSS 2019, oral presentation
Thomas Baumgarten. How the past shapes the present: Effects of prestimulus sensory input and neural activity on conscious perception. Conscious and Unconscious Limits on Perception, 2018, NYU Abu Dhabi.
Thomas Baumgarten, Jennifer Lee, Brian Maniscalco, Matthew W. Flounders, Thomas Baumgarten, Biyu J. He. Neural time windows of auditory integration scale flexibly based on rate of information. SfN 2018, nanosymposium
Richard Hardstone, Matthew W. Flounders, Michael Zhu, Biyu J. He. Neural signatures of perceptual content and memory trace during bistable perception. SfN 2018, poster
E. Podvalny, M.W. Flounders, T. Holroyd, B.J. He. Spontaneous neural patterns bias conscious object recognition. Montreal Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2017, Montreal, Canada.
M.W. Flounders, C. Gonzalez-Garcia, R. Hardstone, and B.J. He. Neural dynamics of visual ambiguity resolution by perceptual prior. Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting, 2017, Vancouver, Canada.