Excited to share my first-author paper now out in @natcomms.nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Here, we asked whether verbal narratives about social interactions activate the same brain areas as audiovisual presentations, and whether they overlap with theory of mind (ToM). (1/11)

🎓Recruiting Ph.D. students for Fall 2026!🎓 The Feilong Lab @sc.edu studies commonalities & differences across brains, and how they relate to cognition, language, & disorders. We develop brain templates, improve hyperalignment, and compare human brains with monkey brains & DNNs. feilonglab.github.io

At #SANS2025? Welcome to my Blitz talk at around 1:20pm on Saturday! Plus poster P3-C-40 following that. I will present an fMRI study on social cognition in narratives, focusing on theory of mind and understanding social interactions. Hope to see you there!

🗓️ Want to see what’s coming up at #SANS2025? Check out the Program-at-a-Glance to plan your sessions, spot your favorite speakers, and find those can't-miss talks! 👀 📍 socialaffectiveneuro.org/program/ Image👇

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 ⭐

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...

It’s out! Our article in Nature Human Behavior led by Yin Wang on the conceptual structure of human relationships across cultures and time. This work is breathtaking nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...