Why is everyone talking about brain state?

AS Greene, C Horien, D Barson, D Scheinost… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
The rapid and coordinated propagation of neural activity across the brain provides the
foundation for complex behavior and cognition. Technical advances across neuroscience …

Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the 'real world'

M Stangl, SL Maoz, N Suthana - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Cognitive neuroscience studies in humans have enabled decades of impactful discoveries
but have primarily been limited to recording the brain activity of immobile participants in a …

Contextual inference in learning and memory

JB Heald, M Lengyel, DM Wolpert - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Context is widely regarded as a major determinant of learning and memory across
numerous domains, including classical and instrumental conditioning, episodic memory …

Multiple routes to enhanced memory for emotionally relevant events

N Rouhani, Y Niv, MJ Frank, L Schwabe - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Events associated with aversive or rewarding outcomes are prioritized in memory. This
memory boost is commonly attributed to the elicited affective response, closely linked to …

Movie viewing elicits rich and reliable brain state dynamics

JN Meer, M Breakspear, LJ Chang, S Sonkusare… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Adaptive brain function requires that sensory impressions of the social and natural milieu
are dynamically incorporated into intrinsic brain activity. While dynamic switches between …

Collective events and individual affect shape autobiographical memory

N Rouhani, D Stanley… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
How do collective events shape how we remember our lives? We leveraged advances in
natural language processing as well as a rich, longitudinal assessment of 1,000 Americans …

Predictions transform memories: How expected versus unexpected events are integrated or separated in memory

O Bein, C Gasser, T Amer, A Maril, L Davachi - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Our brains constantly generate predictions about the environment based on prior
knowledge. Many of the events we experience are consistent with these predictions, while …

The default network dominates neural responses to evolving movie stories

E Yang, F Milisav, J Kopal, AJ Holmes… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Neuroscientific studies exploring real-world dynamic perception often overlook the influence
of continuous changes in narrative content. In our research, we utilize machine learning …

Signed and unsigned reward prediction errors dynamically enhance learning and memory

N Rouhani, Y Niv - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Memory helps guide behavior, but which experiences from the past are prioritized? Classic
models of learning posit that events associated with unpredictable outcomes as well as …

[HTML][HTML] The hippocampus constructs narrative memories across distant events

BI Cohn-Sheehy, AI Delarazan, ZM Reagh… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Life's events are scattered throughout time, yet we often recall different events in the context
of an integrated narrative. Prior research suggests that the hippocampus, which supports …