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Moataz Assem
@moatazassem.bsky.social
Neuroscientist - Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow (Assistant Research Professor) at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/member/mimma2/
The special issue covers an amazing breadth of topics
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Daniel Mitchell ran an analysis to predict the brain activations based on John Duncan's abstracts. Very familiar maps I'd say!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The special issue celebrating John Duncan's retirement is now out! Check out all the gem articles here:
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10QN6R7VQSM

and the editorial (see next figure in the thread for an entertaining analysis)
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We found place-biases to also be visually biased. But face biases to be sandwiched between visual and auditory biased patches (data from individual subjs that did both category and sensory tasks). Adds to the complex interdigitations in the frontal lobe.
May 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The results were robust, replicating across different cognitive tasks, experimental designs (block and event-related) and at the single subject level.
January 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
New preprint!

Category-biased patches encircle domain-general brain regions in the human lateral prefrontal cortex

t.co/Zx56W6wobj

#neuroscience #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
January 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Read John Duncan's latest thoughts on

Construction and use of mental models: Organizing principles for the science of brain and mind

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

#neuroscience #psychology #neuroskyence
December 18, 2024 at 8:47 PM
New paper on task and stimulus coding. Both were discriminated across the cortex. Tasks were most discriminated in MD areas; stimuli in visual and MD adjacent areas. Unlike monkey neurons, human fMRI showed mostly linear task and stimulus combinations.

doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
July 21, 2024 at 5:50 PM
New paper! We propose a novel hypothesis on the diversity of human executive functions. We used cutting-edge multimodal fMRI approaches to unveil an intricate dance between domain-general and domain-specific circuits.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

Data: balsa.wustl.edu/study/0qk6K
January 22, 2024 at 7:12 PM