Reduced social brain coupling to others’ face threats in narcissism academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Reduced social brain coupling to others’ face threats in narcissism
Abstract. Although several studies have linked narcissism to reduced empathy, the neural mechanisms underlying narcissistic behavior in socially complex, n
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October 27, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Reduced social brain coupling to others’ face threats in narcissism academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
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Highly technical article. (I skimmed most of it.) The Abstract and Introduction make interesting reading.
Basically, high-level narcissists don't give a shit about others' distress. Sound familiar?
Highly technical article. (I skimmed most of it.) The Abstract and Introduction make interesting reading.
Basically, high-level narcissists don't give a shit about others' distress. Sound familiar?
Reduced social brain coupling to others’ face threats in narcissism
Abstract. Although several studies have linked narcissism to reduced empathy, the neural mechanisms underlying narcissistic behavior in socially complex, n
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October 27, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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Highly technical article. (I skimmed most of it.) The Abstract and Introduction make interesting reading.
Basically, high-level narcissists don't give a shit about others' distress. Sound familiar?
Highly technical article. (I skimmed most of it.) The Abstract and Introduction make interesting reading.
Basically, high-level narcissists don't give a shit about others' distress. Sound familiar?
My latest publication- and likely my last bench science paper- is up now at Cerebral Cortex. We looked at the activation of neurons in both medial and lateral entorhinal cortices during behavior, and found the latter to be susceptible to age-related changes.
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Age-related differences in behavior-driven activity in LEC but not MEC
Abstract. The hippocampus integrates spatial information from medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) with non-spatial sensory information from lateral entorhinal c
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October 21, 2026 at 10:34 PM
My latest publication- and likely my last bench science paper- is up now at Cerebral Cortex. We looked at the activation of neurons in both medial and lateral entorhinal cortices during behavior, and found the latter to be susceptible to age-related changes.
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
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Neural signatures of serial order access in verbal working memory academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... HT @hugospiers.bsky.social on LinkedIn.
Neural signatures of serial order access in verbal working memory
Abstract. Serial order working memory allows information to be maintained as structured sequences, yet the neural formats supporting access to serial posit
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October 14, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Neural signatures of serial order access in verbal working memory academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... HT @hugospiers.bsky.social on LinkedIn.
Cortico-striatal network architecture shapes rhythmic biases in music. New paper by Massimo Lumaca & al. with @andrearavignani.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhag091
doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhag091
Cortico-striatal network architecture shapes rhythmic biases in music
Abstract. Why is human music rhythmically structured the way it is? One hypothesis is that the human brain is intrinsically wired to favor specific rhythmi
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October 12, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Cortico-striatal network architecture shapes rhythmic biases in music. New paper by Massimo Lumaca & al. with @andrearavignani.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhag091
doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhag091
Examines aging and complex decision-making. At high cognitive demands, additional activation in task-irrelevant brain regions was associated with poorer performance.
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab382
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab382
October 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Examines aging and complex decision-making. At high cognitive demands, additional activation in task-irrelevant brain regions was associated with poorer performance.
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab382
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab382
Rhythmic stimulation elicits multiple, concurrent neural responses academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... by @katduecker.bsky.social @lauradugue.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social et al.; "responses are differentially shaped by endogenous oscillatory dynamics that vary across participants."
September 28, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Rhythmic stimulation elicits multiple, concurrent neural responses academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... by @katduecker.bsky.social @lauradugue.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social et al.; "responses are differentially shaped by endogenous oscillatory dynamics that vary across participants."
Rhythmic stimulation elicits multiple, concurrent neural responses https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/36/9/bhag152/8828956 "responses are differentially shaped by endogenous oscillatory dynamics that vary across participants."
September 28, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Rhythmic stimulation elicits multiple, concurrent neural responses https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/36/9/bhag152/8828956 "responses are differentially shaped by endogenous oscillatory dynamics that vary across participants."
A relevant neuro stats paper I ran into on this topic was.
“Spontaneous activity in cortical neurons is stereotyped and non-Poisson”
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“Spontaneous activity in cortical neurons is stereotyped and non-Poisson”
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Spontaneous activity in cortical neurons is stereotyped and non-Poisson
Abstract. Neurons fire even in the absence of sensory stimulation or task demands. Numerous theoretical studies have modeled this spontaneous activity as a
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September 27, 2026 at 2:17 AM
A relevant neuro stats paper I ran into on this topic was.
“Spontaneous activity in cortical neurons is stereotyped and non-Poisson”
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
“Spontaneous activity in cortical neurons is stereotyped and non-Poisson”
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🧠 We've got a new paper out in Cerebral Cortex!
"Rhythmic stimulation elicits multiple, concurrent neural responses"
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A 🧵 on why flicker doesn't just do one thing to the brain 👇
"Rhythmic stimulation elicits multiple, concurrent neural responses"
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A 🧵 on why flicker doesn't just do one thing to the brain 👇
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September 24, 2026 at 12:42 PM
🧠 We've got a new paper out in Cerebral Cortex!
"Rhythmic stimulation elicits multiple, concurrent neural responses"
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
A 🧵 on why flicker doesn't just do one thing to the brain 👇
"Rhythmic stimulation elicits multiple, concurrent neural responses"
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
A 🧵 on why flicker doesn't just do one thing to the brain 👇
Together with work from @tknapen.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...) and our prior work (www.nature.com/articles/s41..., www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...), this suggests visuospatial coding may coordinate the interplay between internal and external attention in the human brain.
September 23, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Together with work from @tknapen.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...) and our prior work (www.nature.com/articles/s41..., www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...), this suggests visuospatial coding may coordinate the interplay between internal and external attention in the human brain.
Check out our latest paper!
Project lead by the amazing Izel Sari, in collaboration with Antoni Valero-Cabré group.
We show that modulating motor cortex excitability with rTMS has an impact on adult visual homeostatic plasticity.
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Project lead by the amazing Izel Sari, in collaboration with Antoni Valero-Cabré group.
We show that modulating motor cortex excitability with rTMS has an impact on adult visual homeostatic plasticity.
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Motor cortex rTMS modulates adult ocular dominance plasticity
Abstract. Well-established evidence supports cross-modal interactions of sensory brain plasticity. Here, we extend cross-modality beyond the boundaries of
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September 22, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Check out our latest paper!
Project lead by the amazing Izel Sari, in collaboration with Antoni Valero-Cabré group.
We show that modulating motor cortex excitability with rTMS has an impact on adult visual homeostatic plasticity.
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Project lead by the amazing Izel Sari, in collaboration with Antoni Valero-Cabré group.
We show that modulating motor cortex excitability with rTMS has an impact on adult visual homeostatic plasticity.
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Jiménez S., Moreno-Cerdá A., Moreno-Bravo J.-A., Moreno N. y García-Moreno F. (2026). Divergent structural trajectories for pallial regionalization within reptiles reveal conserved evolutionary blueprints. Cerebral Cortex 36(9): bhag131 🫶🏻 👉🏽
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https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhag131
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September 18, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Jiménez S., Moreno-Cerdá A., Moreno-Bravo J.-A., Moreno N. y García-Moreno F. (2026). Divergent structural trajectories for pallial regionalization within reptiles reveal conserved evolutionary blueprints. Cerebral Cortex 36(9): bhag131 🫶🏻 👉🏽
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FANTASTIC WORK led from beginning to end by social-netowrkless Dr. Sara Jiménez! And with our lovely collaborators in Madrid and Alicante: Ana Moreno-Cerdá, Juan Antonio Moreno-Bravo and Nerea Moreno. 🫶🏻 👉🏽
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Divergent structural trajectories for pallial regionalization within reptiles reveal conserved evolutionary blueprints
Abstract. The pallium is the evolutionary precursor of the neocortex and a central brain region underlying learning or social behavior, yet its histogeneti
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September 18, 2026 at 8:32 AM
FANTASTIC WORK led from beginning to end by social-netowrkless Dr. Sara Jiménez! And with our lovely collaborators in Madrid and Alicante: Ana Moreno-Cerdá, Juan Antonio Moreno-Bravo and Nerea Moreno. 🫶🏻 👉🏽
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New on CRAN: FCtools (2.3.1). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=FCtools
FCtools: Functional Connectivity Tools
Analyzing and visualizing brain connectivity data, including network-based statistics (NBS) for linear and linear mixed models, both at edge level and functional network level (Yeo's 7-networks (Schaefer et al. (2017) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fcercor%2Fbhx179" target="_top">doi:10.1093/cercor/bhx179</a>>)). Plots include edge-wise connectograms, chord diagrams, network connectograms, heatmaps, and 3D glass brain connectivity plots. 'FCtools' works with vectors of edges (derived from connectivity/adjacency matrices) from the 'Brainnetome' (Fan et al. (2016) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fcercor%2Fbhw157" target="_top">doi:10.1093/cercor/bhw157</a>>), 'Schaefer' (100 or 200, each with 19 'ASeg' subcortices) (Schaefer et al. (2017) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fcercor%2Fbhx179" target="_top">doi:10.1093/cercor/bhx179</a>>, Fischl et al. (2002) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0896-6273%2802%2900569-X" target="_top">doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00569-X</a>>), and 'Automated Anatomical Labeling' (AAL) atlases (Tzourio-Mazoyer et al. (2002) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1006%2Fnimg.2001.0978" target="_top">doi:10.1006/nimg.2001.0978</a>>).
CRAN.R-project.org
September 15, 2026 at 8:02 PM
New on CRAN: FCtools (2.3.1). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=FCtools
New CRAN package FCtools with initial version 2.3.1
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=FCtools
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=FCtools
CRAN: Package FCtools
Analyzing and visualizing brain connectivity data, including network-based statistics (NBS) for linear and linear mixed models, both at edge level and functional network level (Yeo's 7-networks (Schaefer et al. (2017) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fcercor%2Fbhx179" target="_top">doi:10.1093/cercor/bhx179</a>>)). Plots include edge-wise connectograms, chord diagrams, network connectograms, heatmaps, and 3D glass brain connectivity plots. 'FCtools' works with vectors of edges (derived from connectivity/adjacency matrices) from the 'Brainnetome' (Fan et al. (2016) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fcercor%2Fbhw157" target="_top">doi:10.1093/cercor/bhw157</a>>), 'Schaefer' (100 or 200, each with 19 'ASeg' subcortices) (Schaefer et al. (2017) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fcercor%2Fbhx179" target="_top">doi:10.1093/cercor/bhx179</a>>, Fischl et al. (2002) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0896-6273%2802%2900569-X" target="_top">doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00569-X</a>>), and 'Automated Anatomical Labeling' (AAL) atlases (Tzourio-Mazoyer et al. (2002) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1006%2Fnimg.2001.0978" target="_top">doi:10.1006/nimg.2001.0978</a>>).
cran.r-project.org
September 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
New CRAN package FCtools with initial version 2.3.1
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=FCtools
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=FCtools
Excited to share that my first postdoc paper is out now in Cerebral Cortex! 🧠
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Using fixel-based analysis, we investigated within-tract patterns of white matter development in a sample of young children aged 4-8 years.
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Using fixel-based analysis, we investigated within-tract patterns of white matter development in a sample of young children aged 4-8 years.
Spatiotemporal white-matter development across early childhood
Abstract. Early childhood development is scaffolded by rapid maturation of brain white matter structure, believed to support the emergence of cognitive and
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September 9, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Excited to share that my first postdoc paper is out now in Cerebral Cortex! 🧠
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Using fixel-based analysis, we investigated within-tract patterns of white matter development in a sample of young children aged 4-8 years.
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Using fixel-based analysis, we investigated within-tract patterns of white matter development in a sample of young children aged 4-8 years.
Volume Electron Microscopy Study of the Relationship Between Synapses and Astrocytes in the Developing Rat Somatosensory Cortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
September 7, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Volume Electron Microscopy Study of the Relationship Between Synapses and Astrocytes in the Developing Rat Somatosensory Cortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Excited to share our new paper in Cerebral Cortex (w/ Ellen Lau)! In this MEG study on visual working memory (VWM), we showed that uni- and multi-variate signals complementarily track different aspects of VWM representations across different regions.
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Complementary univariate and multivariate signals in the parietal cortex for visual working memory pointers and features
Abstract. An emerging body of work in visual working memory (VWM) has embraced the theoretical construct of pointers: an object is mentally represented by
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September 3, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Excited to share our new paper in Cerebral Cortex (w/ Ellen Lau)! In this MEG study on visual working memory (VWM), we showed that uni- and multi-variate signals complementarily track different aspects of VWM representations across different regions.
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
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The brain isn’t hardwired to read – here’s how we pull it off and why some are better at it than others | The Conversation theconversation.com/the-brain-is...
Heritable and experience-dependent cortical traits of reading ability | Cerebral Cortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
#openaccess
Heritable and experience-dependent cortical traits of reading ability | Cerebral Cortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
#openaccess
September 1, 2026 at 7:07 PM
The brain isn’t hardwired to read – here’s how we pull it off and why some are better at it than others | The Conversation theconversation.com/the-brain-is...
Heritable and experience-dependent cortical traits of reading ability | Cerebral Cortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
#openaccess
Heritable and experience-dependent cortical traits of reading ability | Cerebral Cortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
#openaccess
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It is my opinion that this study is fundamentally flawed in that pronunciation is used as a measure of reading ability.
This fails to take into account speech challenges, impediments & differences, which have nothing to do with literacy rate or ability.
It is my opinion that this study is fundamentally flawed in that pronunciation is used as a measure of reading ability.
This fails to take into account speech challenges, impediments & differences, which have nothing to do with literacy rate or ability.
Heritable and experience-dependent cortical traits of reading ability
Abstract. Reading ability emerges from interacting phonological and semantic skills. However, the cortical microstructure supporting these traits remains u
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August 29, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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It is my opinion that this study is fundamentally flawed in that pronunciation is used as a measure of reading ability.
This fails to take into account speech challenges, impediments & differences, which have nothing to do with literacy rate or ability.
It is my opinion that this study is fundamentally flawed in that pronunciation is used as a measure of reading ability.
This fails to take into account speech challenges, impediments & differences, which have nothing to do with literacy rate or ability.
The first two papers produced by my lab, the Brain Lesion and Neuromodulation Laboratory (BLNL), are finally published! The first, "Cognition Disconnected," is available now via open access in Cerebral Cortex: academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
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August 20, 2026 at 5:14 PM
The first two papers produced by my lab, the Brain Lesion and Neuromodulation Laboratory (BLNL), are finally published! The first, "Cognition Disconnected," is available now via open access in Cerebral Cortex: academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...