Peter J. Molfese

Repetition-related reductions in neural activity support improved behavior through increases in oscillatory power

The paper shows that repetition increases oscillatory power in specific brain regions and correlates with behavioral improvements and neural efficiency.

Subjective, not objective, socialness drives activity in the brain's third visual pathway

The paper compares neural responses to objective and subjective socialness in an fMRI study, finding that subjective ratings better predict activity in visuo-social brain regions.

The impact of second language immersion: Evidence from a bi-directional longitudinal cross-linguistic study

The paper examines longitudinal changes in neural processing of first and second languages, finding stability in print/speech convergence and dynamic changes in L1 and L2 processing.

Different activation signatures in the primary sensorimotor and higher-level regions for haptic three-dimensional curved surface exploration

This study uses fMRI to examine time-dependent brain activity during haptic 3D curve and roughness estimation, finding differential activation patterns in sensorimotor and higher-level regions.

Thalamus is a common locus of reading, arithmetic, and IQ: Analysis of local intrinsic functional properties

The paper examines the neural correlates of reading, arithmetic, and IQ by analyzing resting-state fMRI data, finding the thalamus/pulvinar as a common locus associated with all three measures.

Untangling the Relatedness among Correlations, Part III: Inter-Subject Correlation Analysis through Bayesian Multilevel Modeling for Naturalistic Scanning

This paper introduces a Bayesian multilevel framework for inter-subject correlation analysis in naturalistic scanning data, improving inference efficiency and reproducibility.

Layer-dependent activity in human prefrontal cortex during working memory

The paper uses high-resolution fMRI to show layer-specific activity in human dlPFC during working memory task epochs, with superficial layers active during delay and deeper layers during response.