Reza Azadi

staff scientist @ NIH
neuroscientist 🧠
hiker & backpacker ⛰️🏕

[Jessica Taubert @jesstaubert]

Faces elicit a particular pattern of eye movements from humans and monkeys. Here, we examine the role of face-selective cortex in this remarkable behavior.

https://t.co/BSfGResbnO

I’m so thankful I had the opportunity to work with this team! @RezaAzadi_ @AfrazArash and others

[Arash Afraz @AfrazArash]

If you are at the SFN this year, come see these presentations from my group.

@SfNtweets #sfn2023
@RezaAzadi_ @EliaShahbazi @RozFranklin51

[Reza Azadi @RezaAzadi_]

@HistedLab @AlessandroSzeni @APalmigiano Looks like there are two papers that I need to present in our lab's journal club!!

[Reza Azadi @RezaAzadi_]

Fantastic paper by @HistedLab using calcium imaging and optogenetics. The results emphasize the pivotal role of recurrent connectivity in the visual cortex for processing sensory information. This, once again, challenges conventional feedforward models of the visual system.

[Mark Histed @HistedLab]

🧠🚨: Our latest paper is out today in @NeuroCellPress! Led by @JonORawe, we show salt-and-pepper excitation& suppression in mouse V1 arises from purely exc opto input.

That means the excit-excit recurrent connections in cortex change how neurons respond to input. 1/3

[Reza Azadi @RezaAzadi_]

@HistedLab @NeuroCellPress @JonORawe Congratulations! Awesome work!!

[Bevil Conway @BevilConway]

We have another open postdoc position! Come join a collaborative community at the Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, NIH. I welcome informal inquiries.

[Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam @mvazirip]

My lab @UDelaware is recruiting graduate students in cognitive neuroscience. Contact me if you are interested and please share the word. Here is more info about the MVP Lab: https://t.co/i7s7DIvuUh
and the program: https://t.co/2gyl8WQOFE

[Saloni Sharma @amrahS_inolaS]

Excited to share our new work “The whole is in the parts: non-holistic object parts predominate face-cell responses to illusory faces” with @kaspervinken and Marge Livingstone! https://t.co/zh1SiGaUqW

[Reza Azadi @RezaAzadi_]

An amazing study sheds light on why faces are particularly salient stimuli for primates: SC neurons have a stronger response to faces compared to other objects, which is notably faster than what we had anticipated for feedbacks from visual cortex.Great job! @gongchen_yu @Leorkatz

[Leor Katz @Leorkatz]

New preprint!

We identified a mechanism for face processing that's centered on primate SC.

It's freaky fast (faster than cortical face patches), depends on inputs from visual cortex (as opposed to retina), and explains some puzzles in the literature. #tweeprint below. 1/n

[Gabriel Kreiman @gkreiman]

Decoding of human identity by computer vision and neuronal vision. https://t.co/NGewSdIVso

[Arash Afraz @AfrazArash]

Pandemics hexalogy: Following is a series of work done by my wonderful group members during the pandemics. When I read them, I cannot not think of the days of masked faces and 2D meetings.
@RezaAzadi_
@RozFranklin51
@EliaShahbazi
@sbohn8
@neuro_emily
@TimothyMaSci
@jesstaubert

[Reza Azadi @RezaAzadi_]

5/5: This research opens up exciting avenues for further exploration and deepens our understanding of the intricate relationship between neural encoding of faces and our gaze behavior.

[Reza Azadi @RezaAzadi_]

1/5: Thrilled to share our new study on how face-selective neurons in inferior temporal (IT) cortex shape our eye movements.
https://t.co/wSUWLAlHX1

#Neuroscience #EyeMovement #FacePerception
@AfrazArash @jesstaubert

[Reza Azadi @RezaAzadi_]

4/5: Our study provides compelling causal evidence for the role of face-selective neurons in guiding eye movements during face perception. It adds a crucial piece to the puzzle of how our oculomotor system uses high level visual information.

[Jessica Taubert @jesstaubert]

Here we examine the recognisable emotional information in a large set of “wild” facial behaviours.
Very proud of Houqiu Long and @nataliepeluso for leading this project. And thankful for the opportunity to work with @ShrutiJapee @Chris_I_Baker

https://t.co/TZUGE6oG58

[Reza Azadi @RezaAzadi_]

Our paper details the surgical procedure for virus injection and implantation of the Opto-Array. It also contains many useful details for nonhuman primate surgeries beyond optogenetics. If you have any questions or feedback, we'd love to hear from you!
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[Reza Azadi @RezaAzadi_]

Looking for guidelines & protocols for nonhuman primate brain surgery? Interested in new #optogenetic tools & techniques? Check out our latest paper!

Surgical Procedure for Implantation of Opto‐Array in Nonhuman Primates https://t.co/7QjzcNsk3O
@Curr_Protocols
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[Reza Azadi @RezaAzadi_]

Opto-Array (@BlackrockNeuro_ ) is an array of μLEDs, used to deliver light to extended regions of the cortex surface for high-throughput behavioral optogenetics in large primate brains. This is a step towards using optogenetics to treat blindness.
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