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Lénia Amaral

Georgetown University Medical CenterORCID 0000-0002-0631-7944Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 4 Assay:imaging· 4 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 1

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Tool-use brain representations are independent of the acting body part and motor experience

Florencia Martinez Addiego, Yuqi Liu, Kyungji Moon, Elizabeth Shytle, Lénia Amaral, Caroline O’Brien, Sriparna Sen, Maximilian Riesenhuber, Jody C. Culham, Ella Striem-Amit

The paper shows that tool-use brain representations in motor association areas are independent of the acting body part and motor experience.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Aug 19, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Unraveling the impact of congenital deafness on individual brain organization

Lénia Amaral, Xiaosha Wang, Yanchao Bi, Ella Striem-Amit

This study investigates individual differences in brain reorganization due to congenital deafness, finding greater functional connectivity variability in deaf individuals compared to hearing individuals, influenced by language experience.

eLife · Mar 12, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Longitudinal stability of individual brain plasticity patterns in blindness

Lénia Amaral, Peyton Thomas, Amir Amedi, Ella Striem-Amit

The paper shows that individual patterns of visual cortex reorganization in blindness are stable over two years and can be used to decode participant identity.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Jul 30, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Disentangling hand and tool processing: distal effects of neuromodulation

Lénia Amaral, Rita Donato, Daniela Valério, Egas M. Caparelli-Dáquer, Jorge Almeida, Fredrik Bergström

The paper uses tDCS and training tasks to dissociate neural processing of hands and tools in the pMTG, showing category-specific effects and distal network influences.

Cortex · Oct 4, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience