Chelsea Ekstrand

The paper examines how perceived stress affects neural synchrony during naturalistic processing using fMRI data from the Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database.

This study examines how psychological well-being modulates neural synchrony during naturalistic fMRI, identifying specific brain regions associated with different levels of well-being.

This study shows that reticulospinal tract activity scales with handgrip force in humans, unlike contralateral motor cortex.

This study finds that females show smaller brain activation volumes and lower inter-subject variability during motor tasks compared to males, using fMRI data.

This study shows that higher baseline somatic arousal levels are linked to increased neural synchrony during naturalistic fMRI tasks.

This study uses fMRI to examine dynamic narrative processing during a full-length audiovisual narrative, identifying two core networks involved in early construction and long-term integration of narrative representations.

This paper introduces a 4D fMRI clustering technique to analyze dynamic neural activity during face processing in naturalistic stimuli, revealing spatiotemporal patterns without modeling hemodynamic responses.

The paper investigates how brain structural connectivity, measured by DTI-derived centrality, relates to functional complexity in fMRI signals, finding that degree centrality best predicts the Hurst exponent.