We've posted a new group-based lexical-semantic brain viewer! You can now inspect cortical conceptual maps at the group level (24 participants), vertex-by-vertex. Check it out! gallantlab.org/viewer-stori...

🎊New Lab Alert! I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come. thesonglab.github.io I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.

Our postdoc Dr. Tianjiao Zhang has released "Its Complicated", a great software library that provides infrastructure to implement naturalistic, complex, interactive experiments in game engines. The toolbox supports peripherals and coding game logic for later analysis. gallantlab.org/Its-Complica...

We've posted a new fMRI study of semantic relations (has-part, is-a, made-of, etc.), a key aspect of language. We find that relations are represented in the same brain regions as are other semantic concepts, though voxels tend to be selective for only one relation or another. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Voxelwise Encoding Models do some things differently from other GLM-related methods because the roots of VEM are in neurophysiology, not psychology. This 2006 paper describes system identification for neurophysiology. Change "neurons" to "voxels" and it all still applies. tinyurl.com/wu-etal-2006

Put this new preprint by T. Zhang on your reading list! People drove a car to navigate in VR. Voxelwise encoding models were fit using 38 feature spaces (28,134 features!). We show the cortical navigation network comprises 11 regions arranged in functional gradients. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

(1/4) 👀📖 Our new paper published in Nature Communications presents Motion-Corrected #EyeTracking (MoCET), a method that corrects gaze inaccuracies caused by head movements during #fMRI. Read the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‪Voxelwise Encoding Models (VEMs) are a great framework for modeling fMRI data, but it can be difficult to implement. We've made VEM accessible by providing software, tutorials and reviews that guide its use an implementation. Get it here: gallantlab.org/blog/2025-12... #neuroscience, #neuroimaging

A map of the cortical functional network mediating naturalistic navigation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.694742v1

🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9l

Finally,😃 the first project during the Ph.D. program is published in PLOS Biology. We examined the spatiotemporal brain dynamics of context and sensory information integration in pain. Thanks to my advisor @choongwanwoo.bsky.social and co-authors Seok-Jun Hong and Elizabeth Losin. plos.io/4fsaanu

Hi, I’m very pleased to share my social memory project with my PI Won Mok Shim and amazing collaborators @myoo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... How does the hippocampus integrate multiple cognitive processes for memory encoding and retrieval?🧠 Here’s what we found⬇️:

🧠📖 New paper out! How does the brain make sense of a story? Combining behavioral data, #fMRI, and #LLMs, our study explores how distinct hippocampal-cortical systems support the #encoding and #sequencing of #narrative events during ongoing comprehension. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New preprint out! 🚀 Our latest work on Motion-Corrected Eye Tracking (MoCET) is now available on bioRxiv! We introduce a method to improve gaze accuracy in fMRI experiments using head motion correction. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #EyeTracking #fMRI

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 ⭐

Happy to share our new preprint on cognitive maps and human spatial memory! Led by @lauranett.bsky.social, together with @timaguth.bsky.social and @philippbuchel.bsky.social Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Task for easy re-use: github.com/BonnSpatialM... Code: github.com/BonnSpatialM...

Proud of my first contribution to memory research: “Brain and eye movement dynamics track the transition from learning to memory-guided action” out in @currentbiology.bsky.social, great team effort together with Janina Klingspohr, Marcel Kehl & Bernhard Staresina. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Just finished a draft of my Models of Memory (grad) course that I'm teaching this spring! Please share/borrow/re-use/follow along as desired, and if you have feedback or suggestions I'd really love to hear (especially while I can still change it)! All materials are here: github.com/ContextLab/m...