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Matthieu Chidharom @matthieu-mx.bsky.social · 10d

1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

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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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Monica Rosenberg @monicarosenb.bsky.social · Aug 20

Resting-state fMRI data predicts what people are thinking and how they're thinking it ⬇️

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).
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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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Yuan Chang Leong @ycleong.bsky.social · Aug 20

what happens during "resting state"? @jinke.bsky.social asked this question by (literally) asking what participants what they were thinking during rest, finding that ongoing thoughts are reflected in FC patterns and predict behavior/traits!

excited to be part of this project!

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).
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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...

www.biorxiv.org

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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).
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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...

www.biorxiv.org

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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!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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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Nia B. @niaberrian.bsky.social · Jun 27

My first time presenting this line of work, linking environmental exposures, attention problems, and attention-related brain networks in the ABCD Study at the MSTP retreat! Thank you to my collaborators for your [email protected] @ariellekeller.bsky.social and others not on bluesky.

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Joel Voss @vosstacular.bsky.social · Jun 22

Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread!
cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/

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Monica Rosenberg @monicarosenb.bsky.social · Jun 16

A Temporal Hierarchy of Sustained Attention Dynamics
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Monica Rosenberg @monicarosenb.bsky.social · May 22

Pharmacological manipulations offer unique, powerful & imo underutilized ways to test the sensitivity & specificity of brain-based biomarkers of behavior. New from an amazing team led by @lyulouisa.bsky.social & @annacorriveau.bsky.social

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · May 21

Methamphetamine modulates functional connectivity signatures of sustained attention and arousal https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.655181v1

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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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Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · Apr 24

To learn more about this dataset and the neural dynamics of narrative insight, check out our recent work (preprint below) led by the amazing @hayoungsong.bsky.social and chat with her on Saturday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM! Poster ID: P3-B-30.

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

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Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · Apr 24

Curious how the human brain updates social impression in a naturalistic setting? We scanned participants watching This Is Us, and found that sudden neural pattern shifts at insight moments of comprehension reflect impression updating. Come and chat Friday 4:15–5:15pm at #SANS2025, Poster P2-G-69.

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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 · Mar 31

We’re recruiting for a new study! Please consider participating in @jadynpark.bsky.social’s research if you’re in the Chicago area, and help us spread the word!

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_...

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Chong Zhao @zhaochong.bsky.social · Mar 14

Attention here! We found ind. diff. & fMRI evidence that sustained attention is more closely related to long term memory than to attentional control. With the best team @monicarosenb.bsky.social @edvogel.bsky.social @annacorriveau.bsky.social @jinke.bsky.social

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Mar 14

Sustained attention is more closely related to long-term memory than to attentional control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.13.643171v1

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Yuan Chang Leong @ycleong.bsky.social · Mar 13

Excited to be part of this work led by @hayoungsong.bsky.social! We used scrambled narratives, fMRI, and free-form verbal responses to study how the brain arrives at insights!

Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · Mar 13

If you are curious about the brain🧠 on causal inference, insight💡, memory retrieval, and narrative comprehension🎬, this will be the one.

work by dream team @jinke.bsky.social Rhea Madhogarhia @ycleong.bsky.social @monicarosenb.bsky.social ⭐

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Mar 13

Cortical reinstatement of causally related events sparks narrative insights by updating neural representation patterns https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.642853v1

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Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · Mar 13

If you are curious about the brain🧠 on causal inference, insight💡, memory retrieval, and narrative comprehension🎬, this will be the one.

work by dream team @jinke.bsky.social Rhea Madhogarhia @ycleong.bsky.social @monicarosenb.bsky.social ⭐

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Mar 13

Cortical reinstatement of causally related events sparks narrative insights by updating neural representation patterns https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.642853v1

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JeongJun Park @jeongjunpark.bsky.social · Feb 26

Hi Bluesky!

Happy to share my PhD work:

Spatial information was consistently represented across tasks in a low-dimensional subspace of PFC activity, while task identity was encoded in an orthogonal subspace, providing a stable and independent representation of context.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social · Feb 9

Wonderful explainer on indirect costs by Dick Aslin open.substack.com/pub/dickasli...

Are we paying too much for biomedical research?

Trump's attack on NIH

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Monica Rosenberg @monicarosenb.bsky.social · Jan 6

Question for infant MRI researchers! Has anyone used pediatric respiratory bands/monitors to measure in-scanner breathing? I'm curious to hear how people do this & what works. Please RT

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Ziwei Zhang @zz112.bsky.social · Dec 23

Out now in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social: We developed a generalizable brain network model predicting moment-to-moment surprise. This edge-fluctuation-based predictive model (EFPM) of surprise works across tasks, from adaptive learning to watching basketball games or cartoons! rdcu.be/d4y3g

Brain network dynamics predict moments of surprise across contexts

Nature Human Behaviour - Zhang and Rosenberg built a model that predicts surprise from brain network dynamics measured with fMRI revealing similarities across distinct contexts (task learning,...

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Monica Rosenberg @monicarosenb.bsky.social · Dec 24

Thank you for the kind words & some of the tools to make it possible!! Big congrats to @zz112.bsky.social for great work

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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · Dec 24

This is awesome! Great work and happy to see this in press - had been waiting to see out for awhile now @monicarosenb.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brain network dynamics predict moments of surprise across contexts - Nature Human Behaviour

Zhang and Rosenberg built a model that predicts surprise from brain network dynamics measured with fMRI revealing similarities across distinct contexts (task learning, basketball watching and cartoon ...

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