Zenas C. Chao

This study investigates how spatial constraints on inhibitory connectivity affect the development of criticality in spiking neural networks.

The paper examines if resting galvanic skin response correlates with creativity performance in tasks, finding tonic skin conductance level is associated with better creative outcomes.

This study shows acetylcholine modulates deviance detection in a Hodgkin-Huxley neuronal network by enhancing it at low levels and suppressing it at higher levels.

This study investigates whether memory replay during incubation predicts insight in creative problem-solving and finds that specific replay patterns correlate with successful insight.

This paper identifies dynamical biomarkers of creative cognition using EEG data from problem-solving tasks, showing that creative success is linked to specific patterns of neural state traversal.

This study uses ECoG to examine high-frequency neural activity in humans during auditory sequences, showing that both local and global prediction errors are encoded in high-frequency oscillations.

This study investigates how the brain integrates local and global probability distributions of event timings to make temporal predictions, showing that both contribute to reaction times and EEG reconstruction.

The paper shows that short oxygen pulses improve creative problem-solving by enhancing idea quality and quantity in two tasks.

The paper identifies a neural marker predicting creativity performance across tasks using EEG and automated scoring, revealing intrinsic brain dynamics of creativity potential.

This study examines how high-concentration normobaric oxygen affects fMRI signals over time and across brain regions, identifying distinct patterns and network changes.

The paper identifies brain networks predicting novelty and feasibility of creative solutions using resting-state EEG and behavioral assessments.

The paper identifies omission-responsive neurons in rat auditory cortex that encode negative prediction error and probability, showing an asymmetry in error signaling.

This study investigates crossmodal predictive coding in the human brain using EEG during an audiovisual oddball paradigm, finding that audiovisual integration occurs at both local and global levels.

This study examines predictive coding irregularities in a non-human primate ASD model, finding sensory hypersensitivity and unstable predictions across brain hierarchies with diverse error configurations.

The paper investigates MMN subcomponents by analyzing EEG data from an auditory oddball paradigm, finding two distinct subcomponents linked to local and global sequence regularities.

This study shows that global disinhibition and corticospinal plasticity enable drastic motor recovery after spinal cord injury in macaques through intensive training and cortical electrical stimulation.