Nicholas Hedger

The paper investigates associations between gut microbiota composition, brain and blood GABA levels, and related features in healthy adults.

The paper maps somatosensory and visual field tuning in the brain, showing aligned somatotopic body maps in the visual cortex during movie watching.

The paper examines hierarchical cortical plasticity in congenital sight impairment by comparing rod-only and typically developed visual systems, finding stability in early stages and compensatory reorganization in higher-order cortex.

The paper uses naturalistic audiovisual data to reveal tonotopic organization in human auditory cortex, showing nonlinear response properties and speech selectivity in remote regions.