Shilpa Dang

The paper characterizes the microstructural organization of functionally converging cortical regions using MRI data from healthy adults, revealing gradients related to cortical hierarchy and target-specific differentiation.

The paper investigates how motivation and working memory jointly affect perceptual sensitivity using behavioral experiments, computational modeling, and pupillometry, finding independent additive contributions rather than motivational amplification.

The paper shows pupil responses reflect distinct computational stages in decision making, with value updating and strategy related to dopamine and norepinephrine, respectively.

The paper shows that task-evoked communication relies on higher-order intrinsic routes within a stable network architecture, improving prediction of global activity.

The paper uses functional MRI and statistical modeling to show how subcortical regions receive convergence from specific cortical areas, revealing a topographic organization and the importance of subcortical contributions to brain dynamics.

The paper investigates how the brain encodes value for different sensory modalities using fMRI, finding modality-specific and general value representations in specific brain regions.

This study investigates how reward-associated visual and auditory stimuli modulate visual cortex using fMRI, finding distinct neural pathways for each modality.