Naturalistic stimuli in neuroscience: critically acclaimed

S Sonkusare, M Breakspear, C Guo - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Cognitive neuroscience has traditionally focused on simple tasks, presented sparsely and
using abstract stimuli. While this approach has yielded fundamental insights into functional …

Questions and controversies in the study of time-varying functional connectivity in resting fMRI

DJ Lurie, D Kessler, DS Bassett, RF Betzel… - Network …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
The brain is a complex, multiscale dynamical system composed of many interacting regions.
Knowledge of the spatiotemporal organization of these interactions is critical for establishing …

What is the test-retest reliability of common task-functional MRI measures? New empirical evidence and a meta-analysis

ML Elliott, AR Knodt, D Ireland, ML Morris… - Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Identifying brain biomarkers of disease risk is a growing priority in neuroscience. The ability
to identify meaningful biomarkers is limited by measurement reliability; unreliable measures …

Getting aligned on representational alignment

I Sucholutsky, L Muttenthaler, A Weller, A Peng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Biological and artificial information processing systems form representations that they can
use to categorize, reason, plan, navigate, and make decisions. How can we measure the …

Human cognition involves the dynamic integration of neural activity and neuromodulatory systems

JM Shine, M Breakspear, PT Bell… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The human brain integrates diverse cognitive processes into a coherent whole, shifting
fluidly as a function of changing environmental demands. Despite recent progress, the …

Hyperscanning: a valid method to study neural inter-brain underpinnings of social interaction

A Czeszumski, S Eustergerling, A Lang… - Frontiers in Human …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Social interactions are a crucial part of human life. Understanding the neural underpinnings
of social interactions is a challenging task that the hyperscanning method has been trying to …

Toward naturalistic neuroscience: Mechanisms underlying the flattening of brain hierarchy in movie-watching compared to rest and task

ML Kringelbach, YS Perl, E Tagliazucchi, G Deco - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Identifying the functional specialization of the brain has moved from using cognitive tasks
and resting state to using ecological relevant, naturalistic movies. We leveraged a large …

[HTML][HTML] Movie-watching outperforms rest for functional connectivity-based prediction of behavior

ES Finn, PA Bandettini - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
A major goal of human neuroscience is to relate differences in brain function to differences
in behavior across people. Recent work has established that whole-brain functional …

Brain-to-brain synchrony tracks real-world dynamic group interactions in the classroom

S Dikker, L Wan, I Davidesco, L Kaggen, M Oostrik… - Current biology, 2017 - cell.com
The human brain has evolved for group living [1]. Yet we know so little about how it supports
dynamic group interactions that the study of real-world social exchanges has been dubbed …

Measuring shared responses across subjects using intersubject correlation

SA Nastase, V Gazzola, U Hasson… - Social cognitive and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Our capacity to jointly represent information about the world underpins our social
experience. By leveraging one individual's brain activity to model another's, we can measure …