I'm going to present our latest memory model that learns causal inference during narrative comprehension! Stop by the poster on Monday to chat about causality, memory, brain🧠, and AI🤖! #sfn2025 #sfn25

Interested in how the brain prepares for upcoming tasks? We trained a monkey on “6” different cognitive tasks and recorded prefrontal cortical activity. We examined the neural geometry and dynamics during task preparation. Come check out our poster on SUNDAY(Nov 16) from 1-5 PM!

Hidden Markov Models Speaking of HMMs, really enjoyed this paper on dynamics underlying resting state and other conditions. The idea of a baseline state from which excursions lead to more integrated states is really interesting. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #neuroskyence

1/ To reduce distraction and boost focus, nothing works better than linking performance to rewards 💰 But what about focusing to avoid penalties? Turns out — it works too… just not as much as combining both! Check out our new preprint 👇 w/ Ed Vogel and @monicarosenb.bsky.social

🏆 #CNS2026 Young Investigator Award Winners 🏆 Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉 We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨ @cogneuronews.bsky.social

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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.

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.

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 &👇

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

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!

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...

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...

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.

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/

A Temporal Hierarchy of Sustained Attention Dynamics journals.sagepub.com/share/YUQSMC...

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

Now out in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN)! academic.oup.com/scan/advance...

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...

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.

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 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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!

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

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!

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 ⭐

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...

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

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

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

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...

New followers: Consider submitting to an Imaging Neuroscience Special Issue on Optical & Acoustic Neuroimaging or Imaging Genetics! It's a great way to share your impactful science & support this community-led, non-profit, open-access outlet direct.mit.edu/imag @imagingneurosci.bsky.social

New review with @hayoungsong.bsky.social & JeongJun Park!

Reminder that @imagingneurosci.bsky.social is accepting submissions to TWO special issues through early 2025: Imaging Genetics (direct.mit.edu/imag/pages/c...) & Optical & Acoustic Neuroimaging (direct.mit.edu/imag/pages/s...). Consider submitting & sharing!

Hey @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social, my lab statmindlab.com is recruiting for a postdoc and a neuroimaging data analyst / software developer. Message or email [email protected] if you're interested in meeting up during #OHBM2024!

The NIMH FMRI Summer Course kicked off this week. Checkout the schedule and talks in near real-time online here: fmrif.nimh.nih.gov/index.php/Su...

Functional brain networks predicting sustained attention are not specific to perceptual modality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.15.594382v1

It’s been incredible to see the focus on effects of sleep & the environment on youth neurocognition & mental health at the ABCD Insights & Innovations Meeting. These effects are big and imo too often overlooked. Look out for thought-provoking work from many groups in this space.

Come be my colleague at UChicago! The dept of neurology has an open-rank position in network neuroscience with a focus on cognition & brain injury apply.interfolio.com/140407

Congratulations to the 2024 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recipients! @sachaepskamp.bsky.social @amit-goldenberg.bsky.social @kunstjonas.bsky.social Peggy Liu @monicarosenb.bsky.social Leah Richmond-Rakerd Jackson Lu www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2024-fe...

Excited to share a new preprint with Alfred Chao, @mdebettencourt.bsky.social & @monicarosenb.bsky.social showing that memory for relevant and irrelevant images fluctuates with attentional state! osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/5

I was on OHBM's Neurosalience podcast with @fmri-today.bsky.social! Hear what the lab is up to & why 🧠🔦💡🚁🏀🎬🎤📈😴 covers it at bit.ly/3vEcO7F / www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vOK...

Interested in applying to Ph.D. programs in psychology? Learn more at our Jan 22 webinar, Preparing for Graduate School in Psychology. Register at apply-ssd.uchicago.edu/register/?id... Colleagues, students, & I will present & answer your questions!

Interested in edge dynamics, surprise, generalizable predictive models, helicopters, and/or basketball? Our new preprint has it all 🧠 😲 🚁 🏀

New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We’re surprised in many situations, like surprise parties, lab tasks, & suspenseful basketball games. Despite being in completely different situations, does our brain process unexpectedness similarly? 1/9

UChicago is hiring Instructional Professors in the MA program in Computational Social Science! macss.uchicago.edu trains students to apply cutting-edge computational techniques to social scientific questions. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/135034

Excited to share this new preprint in collaboration with Hayoung Song, Zihan Bai, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @ycleong.bsky.social: Dynamic functional connectivity encodes generalizable representations of emotional arousal but not valence (1/10) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

At SFN? Check out Ziwei Zhang's poster VV49 on edge-based predictors of surprise from 1-5p today! abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10892...

(1/X) First post here as I slowly transition from "the other place" Hostile attribution bias shapes neural synchrony in the left ventromedial prefrontal cortex during ambiguous social narratives www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It appears that I'm late but I'm here! Excited to share the CAB Lab's work and discover others'.