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Jadyn Park @jadynpark.bsky.social · 1h

This was a huge team effort, with co-authors @kruthig03.bsky.social , @jinke.bsky.social, @matthiasnau.bsky.social, Ioannis Pappas, and @ycleong.bsky.social. This work would not have been possible without the MRI datasets made publicly available by Drs. Janice Chen, Hongmi Lee, and Emily Finn

Jadyn Park @jadynpark.bsky.social · 1h

Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw

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Emma Scholey @emmavscholey.bsky.social · 6d

Really excited to share a review I contributed to, out now in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. We explore how foraging can offer a framework for studying brain and behaviour in natural contexts. It’s been a pleasure working with colleagues across species and disciplines on this. Check it out! 👇

Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 6d

Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience

The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …

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Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · Sep 5

How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬?

We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!

Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇

A neural network with episodic memory learns causal relationships between narrative events

Humans reflect on past memories to make sense of an ongoing event. Past work has shown that people retrieve causally related past events during comprehension, but the exact process by which this causa...

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · Aug 28

Quantifying memory recall is hard! Luckily, natural language processing (incl. #LLMs) offers new, automated, and scalable ways to do that!

Great new review by Fenerci & @signysheldon.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!
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Studying memory narratives with natural language processing

Cognitive neuroscience research has begun to use natural language processing (NLP) to examine memory narratives with the hopes of gaining a nuanced understanding of the mechanisms underlying differenc...

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · Aug 25

Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory!

We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events - Nature Communications

When people recall a movie, their eye movements and brain activity resemble those observed during the viewing. These behavioral and neural reactivations are linked through a common process, likely ref...

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Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · Aug 20

New preprint! 🧠

Our mind wanders at rest. By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we show these thoughts are reflected in brain network dynamics and contribute to pervasive links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior (1/10).
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Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behavior

Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC)-brain connectivity observed when people rest with no external tasks-predicts individual differences in behavior. Yet, rest is not idle; it involves streams...

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Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · Aug 12

Preprint⭐
Our attention changes over time and differs across contexts—which is reflected in the brain🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we find that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects such changes in attention!
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Geometry of neural dynamics along the cortical attractor landscape reflects changes in attention

The brain is a complex dynamical system whose activity reflects changes in internal states, such as attention. While prior work has shown that large-scale brain activity reflects attention, the mechan...

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Yuan Chang Leong @ycleong.bsky.social · Jul 2

Excited to share our new review on how neuroimaging and computational models can help uncover how people see what they want to see, now out at @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! It was a blast writing this with Haena Kim and @iancballard.bsky.social

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A neurocomputational account of motivated seeing

Do goals, beliefs, and desires affect visual experience? This question has long been controversial in cognitive science. There exists extensive litera…

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Robert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · Jul 10

Seamless Interaction dataset with 4000+ hrs of face-to-face dyadic interactions! 🤯

Seems like it could be a game changer for studying embodied turn-taking & mutual adaptation complementary with CANDOR, etc...

arxiv.org/abs/2506.22554

Seamless Interaction: Dyadic Audiovisual Motion Modeling and Large-Scale Dataset

Human communication involves a complex interplay of verbal and nonverbal signals, essential for conveying meaning and achieving interpersonal goals. To develop socially intelligent AI technologies, it...

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Helen Schmidt @helen-schmidt.bsky.social · Jun 21

🗣️ New paper alert! Ever wonder how strangers navigate the messy world of casual conversation? We analyzed 200+ video calls to uncover the hidden structure behind "idle talk" – and found it's way more systematic than you'd think!

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Grace Miao @graceqmiao.bsky.social · Jun 2

How do we make new connections? Ashley Binnquist, Agnieszka Pluta, Bear Goldstein, Rick Dale, @socialbrain.bsky.social and I just posted a new preprint on the neurocognitive processes that support meaningful social connection. 🧠🧠💬💬 [1/8] 🧵

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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · May 12

Strangers chatted once a week for 6 weeks and as they became closer, their self-reported emotions were *less* aligned after conversations. Fits with recent work (by @sebospeer.bsky.social @dianatamir.bsky.social et al) suggesting friends are free to explore and diverge

Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · May 12

How Emotion Contagion Changes as Strangers Become Acquainted: A Longitudinal Conversation Study. From Shelly Tsang, Stephanie Kaiser, Xin Tong, and @adriennewood.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...

How Emotion Contagion Changes as Strangers Become Acquainted: A Longitudinal Conversation Study

People’s emotional states often become more similar after social interactions, a process known as emotion contagion. Emotion contagion is considered both a by-product of shared goals and a tool for st...

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Shan Gao | 高珊 @shangao.bsky.social · May 7

Now out in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN)! academic.oup.com/scan/advance...

Predicting whole-brain neural dynamics from prefrontal cortex fNIRS signal during movie-watching

Abstract. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) offers a portable, cost-effective alternative to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for n

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Yuan Chang Leong @ycleong.bsky.social · Apr 27

Feeling fortunate that #SANS2025 was in Chicago, and so much of the lab was able to be part of the meeting! It's crazy how much the lab has grown over the past 3y10m, and I'm so proud of the work we are doing together! Happy that we could host the lab, alums (and surprise guests)!
#CASNL@SANS

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Yuan Chang Leong @ycleong.bsky.social · Apr 25

CASNL member Jadyn Park @jadynpark.bsky.social presenting her work on arousal, functional network and memory during narrative perception at #SANS2025

Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · Apr 17

Now out in Plos Computational Biology! We identified a generalizable neural signature of emotional arousal across contexts and individuals during movie watching.

work with the best team: @hayoungsong.bsky.social @Zihan Bai @monicarosenb.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social

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Dynamic brain connectivity predicts emotional arousal during naturalistic movie-watching

Author summary This study explores how the brain represents two key dimensions of emotional experience: valence (how positive or negative an experience feels) and arousal (the level of emotional activ...

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Lydia Emery @lydiaemery.bsky.social · Apr 14

Excited to share a new paper in Current Directions on the theme of merging in close relationships, with @emmamcgorray.bsky.social, @erinhughes.bsky.social , and @abdoe.bsky.social! In the paper, we discuss merging in the domains of selves, goals, processing, and reality. tinyurl.com/ynbedzys (1/4)

Title page of the paper "Merging in Close Relationships"

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Jadyn Park @jadynpark.bsky.social · Mar 31

Calling all couples in the Chicago area! 💕 I'm launching a new study with @ycleong.bsky.social and @lydiaemery.bsky.social to explore brain responses during conversations between couples. If you're interested, please fill out our brief screener! ssd.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...