hi, i’m sade j. abiodun. welcome to my research page.

i am a former ford fellow with a master’s degree in neuroscience from the princeton neuroscience institute. i worked as a lab manager/research specialist at the duke center for cognitive neuroscience and also earned my B.S in neuroscience (psychology minor) from duke university in 2018. my scientific training has covered a broad range of tools & methodologies, including optogenetics, TMS, fMRI, EEG, and meta-analysis. i’ve worked with brilliant researchers interested topics ranging from addiction to attention, neurobiology to neuroeconomics (and many things in between). my master’s thesis work focused on the study of neurocinematics (the neuroscience of visual media) & exploring dynamic metrics of subjective emotional experience using short films and television.

i have since expanded my research practice to incorporate transdisciplinary methodologies across the fields of experimental media studies, aesthetic theory, somatic practice, & performance studies, an expansion that i document through my experimental archive, AMPERS&ND. in 2025 i officially launched AMPERSAND M. WORX, my creative lab • studio practice • multimedia archive. through an experimental media praxis melding together my scientific & artistic training, i get to explore, encode, & illuminate multidimensional narrative landscapes.

i’m an ardent advocate for equity, diversity, and representation in science, and have written on and spoken about these topics across multiple platforms (see below). i’ve collaborated with various science communication initiatives — such as the scicomm collective, skype-a-scientist, and her royal science — on programming for scientists and media professionals across career stages. i am also a former member of the organizing committee for innovators in cognitive neuroscience, an inter-institutional initiative aimed at highlighting diverse and innovative perspectives in neuroscience. I love using my creative toolkit to do web design, video editing, and media curation for various organizations, institutions, and advocacy groups.

browse some of my work below (more soon to come), check out my general bio, or take a look at some of my other pastimes.

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Abiodun, S.J. & Nickel, L.J. (2024). Art_ificial intelligence: dreams, data, and neuroaesthetics in the age of AI. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. full text.

Frank, C.C., Abiodun, S.J., Seaman, K.L. (2024). Boundary Conditions for the Positive Skew Bias. full text. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Abiodun, S.J., Salerno, J., McAllister, G.A., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Seaman, K.L., (2023). Adult age differences in evoked emotional responses to dynamic facial expressions. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. full text

Seaman, K.L., Abiodun, S.J., Fenn, Z., Samanez-Larkin, G.R., & Mata, R. (2022). Temporal discounting across adulthood: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging. full text

Abiodun S.J. (2019) “Seeing Color,” A Discussion of the Implications and Applications of Race in the Field of Neuroscience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. full text

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