Brainmass: Advancing brain network analysis for diagnosis with large-scale self-supervised learning

Y Yang, C Ye, G Su, Z Zhang, Z Chang… - … on Medical Imaging, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Foundation models pretrained on large-scale datasets via self-supervised learning
demonstrate exceptional versatility across various tasks. Due to the heterogeneity and hard …

Resting-state functional connectivity of the amygdala in autism: a preregistered large-scale study

D Kliemann, P Galdi, AL Van De Water… - American Journal of …, 2024‏ - psychiatryonline.org
Objective: Three leading neurobiological hypotheses about autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
propose underconnectivity between brain regions, atypical function of the amygdala, and …

Advancing Social intelligence in AI agents: technical challenges and open questions

L Mathur, PP Liang, LP Morency - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.11023, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Building socially-intelligent AI agents (Social-AI) is a multidisciplinary, multimodal research
goal that involves creating agents that can sense, perceive, reason about, learn from, and …

Individual differences in autism-like traits are associated with reduced goal emulation in a computational model of observational learning

Q Wu, S Oh, R Tadayonnejad, JD Feusner… - Nature Mental …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The ability to infer the goals and intentions of others is crucial for social interactions, and
such social capabilities are broadly distributed across individuals. Autism-like traits (that is …

[HTML][HTML] Depth-electrode stimulation and concurrent functional MRI in humans: Factors influencing heating with body coil transmission

H Oya, R Adolphs, MA Howard, JM Tyszka - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Electrical-stimulation fMRI (es-fMRI) combines direct stimulation of the brain via implanted
electrodes with simultaneous rapid functional magnetic resonance imaging of the evoked …

Preliminary evidence for altered brain-heart coherence during anxiogenic movies

PA Kirk, OJ Robinson - Imaging Neuroscience, 2024‏ - direct.mit.edu
During states of anxiety, fundamental threat circuitry in the brain can increase heart rate via
alterations in autonomic balance (increased sympathetic activity and parasympathetic …

A neurocomputational account of the link between social perception and social action

LM Bas, ID Roberts, CA Hutcherson, A Tusche - bioRxiv, 2023‏ - biorxiv.org
People selectively help others based on perceptions of their merit or need. Here, we
develop a neurocomputational account of how these social perceptions translate into social …

Functional recruitment and connectivity of the cerebellum supports the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood

A Manoli, F Van Overwalle, C Grosse Wiesmann… - bioRxiv, 2024‏ - biorxiv.org
There is accumulating evidence that the human cerebellum is heavily implicated in adult
social cognition. Yet, its involvement in the development of Theory of Mind (ToM), a hallmark …

Anxiety symptomatology and subjective-cardiac responding to a suspenseful movie clip

PA Kirk, P Foret-Bruno, M Lowther, S Garfinkel… - 2023‏ - osf.io
There are known associations between the presence of experimentally-presented threats
and peripheral physiological responses, such as a heart rate, which holds implications for …

Testing the Vogt-Bailey Index using task-based fMRI across pulse sequence protocols

K Galea, AA Escudero, NA Montalto, N Vella, RE Smith… - bioRxiv, 2025‏ - biorxiv.org
Local connectivity analyses in fMRI such as the Vogt-Bailey Index, investigate the
prevalence of co-fluctuations in the time-series of adjacent voxels. While there have been in …