Carolyn Parkinson

Asst. Prof. at @UCLA studying how our brains represent and shape our social worlds.

[Carolyn Parkinson @parkinsoncm]

@HehmanLab Congratulations! So well-deserved!

[Carolyn Parkinson @parkinsoncm]

Very excited to share this new preprint led by the amazing @elisa_baek! 🌟

Popularity is linked to neural coordination: Neural evidence for an Anna Karenina principle in social networks https://t.co/Dk6WFzweoq

w/ @ryanhhyon, Karina López, @esfinn & @masonporter

[Elisa Baek (@elisabaek.bsky.social) @elisa_baek]

Excited to share our **NEW PREPRINT** where we found that popular individuals in their communities process the world in a particularly normative way, as shown by exceptionally similar neural responses to their peers, particularly in the DMN! A short🧵[1/5] https://t.co/ZxW4wRBpIu

[Brent Hughes @profbrencho]

Hiring a postdoc to work in my lab! The person will split time between an NSF funded project on neural biases in race perception and learning (in collab with @tweets_on_camp), and their own projects. Please rt and spread the word to interested candidates! https://t.co/rVlvjVsKXP

[Carolyn Parkinson @parkinsoncm]

@hakwanlau Congrats! We'll miss you and Ka!

[Elisa Baek (@elisabaek.bsky.social) @elisa_baek]

Very much honored to be giving this talk today in ~1 hour! Looking forward to sharing some of my latest work!

[Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience @InnovatorsTalk]

We're SO looking forward to our next talk today by @elisa_baek on how shared understanding promotes social connection! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧠✨

See full abstract and join us by following the Zoom information here: https://t.co/4UOnWZtUR8

[Adam M. Kleinbaum @akleinb]

🚨New research alert! 🚨

[Carolyn Parkinson @parkinsoncm]

Great work led by @_du_meng on how the brain supports our ability to navigate knowledge of social relations!

"Directions" of shifts of attention in social knowledge & in external space are encoded in overlapping but distinct multivoxel response patterns https://t.co/0I7NO6nTJs

[Meng Du @_du_meng]

Check out our new paper (with @parkinsoncm @RubyBasyouni) in @NeuroImage_EiC!

How does the human brain support our ability to navigate knowledge of social relations? (1/8)
https://t.co/yWh7McvKJY

[Carolyn Parkinson @parkinsoncm]

@A_Izquierdo1 @KateWassum Congratulations, Kate!!!

[Carolyn Parkinson @parkinsoncm]

@liushari @JohnsHopkins Congratulations, Shari!!! This was such a great thing to see when logging onto Twitter for the first time in while. Such fantastic news and so well-deserved!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[Elisa Baek (@elisabaek.bsky.social) @elisa_baek]

Looking forward to learning at #SAS2021 @affectScience this week! Come say hi if you're interested in learning about neural responses that characterize lonely individuals (and social connection/disconnection more generally). Tonight 6:45-7:45pm PST & tmrw 10:45am-11:45am PST!

[Mark Thornton @Mark_A_Thornton]

New preprint @PsyArXiv from Miriam Weaverdyck, me, and @DianaTamir! Across three fMRI studies, we find that the brain represents mental states similarly regardless of who is experiencing them (self/close/far/generic other), or how they are presented (text scenarios vs. images).

[Carolyn Parkinson @parkinsoncm]

@JackieMChen @DianaTamir Congratulations, @DianaTamir!

[Carolyn Parkinson @parkinsoncm]

@social_brains @ryanhhyon Thanks, Matt!

[Carolyn Parkinson @parkinsoncm]

@HehmanLab Thanks so much, Eric!

[Carolyn Parkinson @parkinsoncm]

@richardfbetzel @AKrendl @Colleen_H15 Thanks! It was so great to visit IU and meet with you guys back when doing so was possible (hard to believe that was also 2020) — so much relevant and exciting work happening there!

[Carolyn Parkinson @parkinsoncm]

@KateWassum Oh no! So sorry to hear that. Feel better soon!!!

[Carolyn Parkinson @parkinsoncm]

Excited to see this out! Similar patterns of functional connectivity at rest predict proximity in the social network of a rural village.

Excellent work by @ryanhhyon in collaboration with Yoosik Youm, Junsol Kim, Jeanyung Chey, and Seyul Kwak

[Ryan Hyon @ryanhhyon]

New paper out in @PNASNews from the @parkinsoncm lab!

In a sample of people living in a remote South Korean village, we integrate social network analysis and resting-state fMRI to show that friends share similar functional connectomes.

https://t.co/7CYxEL7sGk

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[Adam M. Kleinbaum @akleinb]

Great to see my chapter on the neuroscience of social networks (with @ThaliaWheatley and @parkinsoncm) published in this volume

[Elisa Baek (@elisabaek.bsky.social) @elisa_baek]

Excited to share our new preprint that is written for young audiences! We introduce teens and pre-teens to how researchers study brains and social networks together. We also highlight recent findings in this area of research that we hope our young readers will find interesting!