Jon Timothy Willie

This study identifies three interacting brain networks involved in music recognition, showing how they dynamically coordinate sensory, memory, and decision processes.

This study investigates how vibrotactile taVNS affects working memory by comparing cortical responses during N-back tasks, finding that it enhances cortical efficiency rather than amplifying responses.

This study uses direct electrical stimulation of the human amygdala to show it enhances object memory but not scene memory, suggesting specificity in memory prioritization.

This study investigates the neural mechanisms of singing and speaking by analyzing intracranial EEG data, revealing distinct sensorimotor dynamics during these behaviors.

The paper investigates neuronal dynamics during mental sound manipulation using intracranial recordings, finding changes in local excitability and inter-areal synchrony.

This study examines how theta burst stimulation of the basolateral amygdala modulates single-neuron activity in humans during a memory task, finding that ~30% of neurons show heterogeneous responses.

The paper investigates how visual, semantic, and memorability features are encoded in the human brain using intracranial EEG and fMRI, showing distributed memorability coding and interactions between attributes.

This study uses computational modeling and multimodal neuroscience to show how perceptual ambiguity affects evidence accumulation in social-affective decisions, revealing a corticolimbic network involved in this process.

The paper shows that some neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus encode face identities based on shared visual features rather than invariant semantic concepts.

This study shows vibrotactile taVNS increases low-frequency coherence in limbic brain regions in humans, with 20 Hz being most effective, but with inter-subject variability.

This study shows that electrical stimulation of different pulvinar subregions in epilepsy patients evokes distinct patterns of brain activity in occipital, parietal, and temporal areas.

The paper investigates the neural circuitry underlying approach-avoidance conflict in humans using intracranial EEG, identifying theta oscillations and high-frequency activity in prefrontal-limbic regions.

The paper identifies three distinct temporal receptive window sizes in neural populations of the language network using intracranial recordings.

This study investigates whether vibrotactile taVNS improves working memory performance and arousal, finding significant improvements in performance and reduced arousal decline during high-cognitive-load tasks.

The paper examines the functional connectivity of the human red nucleus using resting-state fMRI and finds it is involved in goal-directed behavior and cognitive control rather than motor function.

This paper introduces a novel method for detecting neural oscillations with high accuracy and specificity, outperforming traditional techniques in both simulated and real-world data.

The paper reveals that motor cortex contains inter-effector regions connected to the Cingulo-opercular network, alternating with effector-specific areas, suggesting a dual system for motor control and whole-body coordination.

The paper investigates human hippocampal theta oscillations, finding distinct high (8-Hz) and low (3-Hz) frequencies associated with spatial navigation and non-spatial processes respectively.

This study examines how neurons in the human medial-temporal lobe represent spatial targets during navigation, finding that firing rates change based on target position and heading direction.

The paper identifies trace cells in the human entorhinal cortex that remap their spatial fields to represent memory cues during cued recall.