Rebecca Todd

@BecketTodd

University of British Columbia. Tweets about neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, psychology and sometimes bears.

Joined June 2012

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    Jan 29

    Wondering how to get Research Assistant positions? 🧪 🥼 Come find out at PSA’s event on How to Get into Research Labs at GEOG 212 from 5PM-6:30PM! Make sure to get your questions so they can be answered! The event is free for everyone so hope to see you there!

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    16 hours ago

    Informative and entertaining read on how counter-intuitive high dimensional space is, on the improbable effectiveness of and the concept of The easy answer to the unreasonable effectiveness, though? overfitting

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    Jan 30

    “Why Buddhism is True”, turns out to mean “why some core ideas, and takeaways from modern, American, naturalistic Buddhist thought can be made consistent with Evolutionary Psychology” ( Evan Thompson ‘Why I am not a Buddhist’ p. 62)

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    Feb 1

    I’m handling a special issue on language and emotion at Affective Science. Submissions welcome from interdisciplinary research areas focused on the interplay between language and emotion. DM me with questions

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    Jan 31
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    Jan 31

    Nice interviews with ⁦⁩ and ⁦⁩ — Dopamine fasting is Silicon Valley's latest trend, but experts aren't buying it | CTV News

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    Jan 31

    The brain as seen from a precessing proton. →At 7T, protons rotate so incredibly fast! It takes longer for radio waves to travel through the brain (speed of light) than one full proton rotation. →Swirly pattern comes from the right-hand-rule of the Larmor equation.

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    Jan 30

    The hippocampus “holds in mind” future possibilities on alternating cycles of the theta rhythm— a potential mechanism of deliberation. Honored to have been a small part of this work, and stoked for the world to see Kenny’s elegant findings!

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    Jan 30

    Strong endorsement👇🏻 Ziva is one of the best human experimental cannabis researchers in the world, this would be a great opportunity to train and learn in an awesome environment.

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  10. Jan 30

    Follow thread if interested in package for calculating signal detection theory measures.

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  11. Jan 29

    Congrats and also Jim Enns and Janet Werker for being among the top 1.5% most cited researchers in the whole wide world.

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    Jan 28

    How to display a ? Here’s an animated version thanks to

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    Jan 28

    Congratulations, Evan. And a strong recommendation for this book to everyone else. I’ve had a chance to read an advance copy, and it’s fascinating!

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    Jan 28

    From and with editor -- today is the official publication date!

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    Jan 28

    Thanks to for timing this perfectly with the pub date of Why I’m Not a Buddhist via

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    Jan 26

    More trees near slated to be chopped down for what appears to be no good reason. This time in the endowment lands.

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    Jan 24

    Mapping internal brainstem structures using MP2RAGE derived T1 weighted and T1 relaxation images at 3 and 7 T

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    Jan 24

    In a few months, my MIT Essential Knowledge book, "FMRI" will be coming out. I wrote a bit about the process and the book itself in my latest blog post.

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    Jan 21

    New paper reflecting our experiences meeting MPs and Senators at the Parliament, and how to build relationships between scientists and policymakers

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    Jan 22

    "Our results reveal how a volitionally controlled change in respiratory behavior could systematically modulate cortical activity."

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