Ting Xu

A Tripartite Map of the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex

This paper identifies a tripartite organization of the human ventromedial prefrontal cortex using multimodal analyses and shows its reproducibility and cross-species correspondence.

MacaSurfer: unified surface-volume mapping of the macaque brain across the lifespan

MacaSurfer provides a unified framework for automated surface-volume mapping of the macaque brain across age and sites, showing high consistency and robustness.

The emergent mental operation of the learning brain

The paper tracks five-year longitudinal data of children learning abacus-based mental calculation to show how sustained practice reconfigures whole-brain states and enables complex skill acquisition.

Mapping the spatiotemporal continuum of structural connectivity development across the human connectome in youth

The paper identifies a spatiotemporal continuum of structural connectivity development in youth, showing a shift from sensorimotor to association connectivity around age 15 and its links to cognition and psychopathology.

Statistically valid explainable black-box machine learning: applications in sex classification across species using brain imaging

This paper develops a framework combining Oblique Random Forests and NEOFIT for sex classification in brain imaging across species, achieving high accuracy and interpretable feature importance.

Unique Amygdala Signatures and Shared Prefrontal Deficits in Autism: Mapping Social Heterogeneity via Naturalistic functional MRI

This study uses naturalistic fMRI to explore social brain differences in ASD, finding unique amygdala signatures and shared prefrontal deficits linked to symptom severity.

Regional heterogeneity shapes macroscopic wave dynamics of the human and non-human primate cortex

This paper develops a computational framework to model how regional cortical heterogeneities influence macroscopic wave dynamics in human and non-human primate brains, showing that myelin and excitation-inhibition balance significantly affect wave speed.

Developmental Variations in Recurrent Spatiotemporal Brain Propagations from Childhood to Adulthood

This study examines how spatiotemporal brain activity propagations change from childhood to early adulthood, finding that certain propagation patterns become more prevalent with age and correlate with cognitive performance.

Styx: A multi-language API Generator for Command-Line Tools

Styx and NiWrap provide language-native wrappers for command-line tools, reducing complexity in pipeline development and enhancing portability across programming languages and environments.

Human cortex organizes dynamic co-fluctuations along sensation-association axis

This paper identifies amplitude-dependent co-fluctuation transitions along the sensorimotor-association axis using resting-state fMRI data across developmental stages and external stimuli.

Precon_all: A species-agnostic automated pipeline for non-human cortical surface reconstruction

Precon_all is a pipeline for non-human cortical surface reconstruction that generalizes human methods to multiple species, enabling comparative neuroimaging studies.

Connectional axis of individual functional variability: Patterns, structural correlates, and relevance for development and cognition

The paper identifies a connectional axis of functional connectivity variability across the human connectome, showing its structural correlates, developmental changes, and link to cognitive performance.

Biological subtyping of autism via cross-species fMRI

The paper identifies hypo- and hyperconnectivity subtypes in autism using cross-species fMRI, linking them to distinct biological mechanisms in mice and humans.

Macro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traits

The paper examines macro-scale brain activity patterns during wakeful rest, linking them to personality traits and ongoing thoughts by analyzing interactions between brain networks.

Personality traits vary in their association with brain activity across situations.

The paper shows that personality traits are more strongly associated with brain activity in specific tasks than in others, highlighting the need for context-specific analyses.

Evolutionarily conserved fMRI network dynamics in the mouse, macaque, and human brain

The paper identifies evolutionarily conserved dynamic fMRI network patterns across mouse, macaque, and human brains using frame-wise clustering of time-series data.

Moving Beyond Processing and Analysis-Related Variation in Neuroscience

The paper evaluates the impact of different preprocessing pipelines on functional MRI reproducibility and shows moderate inter-pipeline agreement, affecting brainwide association study consistency.

Fast Connectivity Gradient Approximation: Maintaining spatially fine-grained connectivity gradients while reducing computational costs

This paper introduces a method to estimate spatially fine-grained connectivity gradients efficiently, enhancing brain-behavior predictions without reducing spatial resolution.

Functional Connectivity Development along the Sensorimotor-Association Axis Enhances the Cortical Hierarchy

The paper examines how functional connectivity develops along the sensorimotor-association axis during childhood to adolescence, finding that sensorimotor connectivity increases while association connectivity decreases, reinforcing cortical hierarchy.

A shifting role of thalamocortical connectivity in the emergence of large-scale functional brain organization across early lifespan development

This study examines how thalamocortical connectivity changes with age and contributes to the development of large-scale functional brain networks from infancy to young adulthood.

Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching

The paper develops a method to map thought patterns onto brain activity during movie-watching and finds sensory and association cortex play key roles in engagement and distraction.

Variation in spatial dependencies across the cortical mantle discriminates the functional behaviour of primary and association cortex

The paper uses variograms to show that function changes more rapidly in association cortex than in sensory and motor cortex, linked to intracortical myelin levels.

An open-access dataset of naturalistic viewing using simultaneous EEG-fMRI

The paper introduces an open-access dataset combining EEG and fMRI data from naturalistic viewing tasks to study brain function and preprocessing methods.

Systematic evaluation of anatomical details on transcranial electric stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation induced electric fields in a non-human primate model

This study evaluates how anatomical details affect electric fields in transcranial stimulation simulations using a non-human primate model.

Asymmetry of cortical functional hierarchy in humans and macaques suggests phylogenetic conservation and adaptation

The paper examines asymmetry in cortical functional organization between humans and macaques, finding phylogenetic conservation and species-specific adaptations.

Brain intrinsic connection patterns underlying tool processing in human adults are present in neonates and not in macaques

The paper compares brain networks in human adults, neonates, and macaques to show that tool processing networks exist in humans before experience but not in macaques.

Genetic and phylogenetic uncoupling of structure and function in human transmodal cortex

The paper examines how genetic and phylogenetic factors influence structure-function coupling in the human transmodal cortex and finds reduced genetic control in regions linked to social cognition and memory.

A Guide for Quantifying and Optimizing Measurement Reliability for the Study of Individual Differences

The paper introduces a framework to quantify and optimize measurement reliability for studying individual differences in neuroscience and clinical research.

Individual variability in functional organization of the human and monkey auditory cortex

This study examines individual variability in the functional organization of human and monkey auditory cortex using intrinsic connectivity and task-based fMRI, finding greater variability in non-primary regions, compared to visual areas, and left hemisphere lateralization.

Impact of Concatenating fMRI Data on Reliability for Functional Connectomics

The paper examines how concatenating fMRI data affects the reliability of functional connectomics, finding that concatenating multiple scans under the same state improves reliability compared to a single long scan.