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Ahmad Samara

University of British ColumbiaORCID 0000-0002-4040-0338Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 3 Assay:imaging· 3 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 2 Research Focus:spatial domain detection· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1

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Patterns of intersubject correlations parallel organizational gradients during naturalistic viewing

Meaghan Smith, Ahmad Samara, Donna Gift Cabalo, Alexander Ngo, Hallee Shearer, Tamara Vanderwal, Boris C. Bernhardt

This study examines intersubject correlations during naturalistic movie watching and finds they align with functional gradients across different brain networks and spatial scales.

bioRxiv · Oct 19, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Cortical language areas are coupled via a soft hierarchy of model-based linguistic features

Ahmad Samara, Zaid Zada, Tamara Vanderwal, Uri Hasson, Samuel A. Nastase

This study shows that cortical language areas are connected through a hierarchy of linguistic features, with higher-order regions using more abstract language features.

bioRxiv · Jun 2, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Cortical gradients during naturalistic processing are hierarchical and modality-specific

Ahmad Samara, Jeffrey A. Eilbott, Daniel S. Margulies, Ting Xu, Tamara Vanderwal

This study uses movie-fMRI to show that cortical gradients during naturalistic processing are hierarchical and modality-specific, with distinct perception-to-cognition hierarchies.

NeuroImage · Mar 13, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience