Jeremy I Skipper

Brain-thought states during movie-watching reflect shared sensory anchors and film- and person- specific processes in association cortex

This study examines brain-thought relationships during movie-watching, finding that sensory-related neural signatures are consistent across films, while memory-related processes vary with context and modeling approaches.

Language-associated brain representations covary with disruption of selfhood under psilocybin

The paper uses fMRI to show that psilocybin increases similarity in language-associated brain activity, correlating with ego dissolution.

Psychedelics restructure information in the human brain

This study uses multivariate information decomposition to analyze how five psychedelics alter information processing in the human brain, revealing new insights into neural reorganization.

What is it like to be a blob? A distributed, decentred and context-sensitive neurobiology of consciousness

The paper analyzes neuroimaging studies of consciousness to challenge the idea of an invariant core, showing distributed and context-sensitive brain activity patterns.

An adolescent neuroimaging database combining movie-watching, eye-tracking and cognitive tasks

This paper presents a multimodal neuroimaging dataset of adolescents combining fMRI, eye-tracking, and cognitive tasks to study brain development and mental health.

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis

The paper investigates how inner speech abnormalities may contribute to psychotic symptoms by analyzing brain activity patterns in neurotypical individuals and psychosis-spectrum participants.

A neuroimaging database combining movie-watching, eye-tracking, sensorimotor mapping, and cognitive tasks

The paper introduces a multimodal neuroimaging database combining movie-watching, eye-tracking, and sensory mapping tasks with high-quality fMRI data.

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age

This study finds that older adults report fewer complex visual hallucinations than younger adults in an experimental setting, suggesting reduced hallucination proneness with age.

Situation Models in the Brain are Used to Resolve Word References

The paper uses fMRI and a 3D branched CNN to show that situation models in distributed sensorimotor and association cortices resolve pronoun references in language comprehension.

Speech markers of psychedelic-induced psychological change

This study analyzes speech and vocal features before and after 5-MeO-DMT to identify markers of psychological change and predict outcomes.

Individual differences in wellbeing are supported by separable sets of co-active self- and visual-attention-related brain networks

The paper identifies seven co-activated brain networks associated with individual differences in wellbeing during a film-watching task, including self- and visual-attention-related networks.

When Abstract Becomes Concrete: Naturalistic Encoding of Concepts in the Brain

The paper investigates how concrete and abstract concepts are encoded in the brain during movie watching, showing context-dependent changes in neural activation patterns.

Complex slow waves radically reorganise human brain dynamics under 5-MeO-DMT

This study examines how 5-MeO-DMT alters human brain dynamics by reorganizing low-frequency neural activity patterns observed through EEG.

Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching

The paper develops a method to map thought patterns onto brain activity during movie-watching and finds sensory and association cortex play key roles in engagement and distraction.

Where the present gets remembered: Sensory regions communicate with the brain over the longest timescales.

The paper examines brain connectivity delays during movie watching, finding sensory regions have the longest delays and reveal new spatial organisation patterns.

The entire brain, more or less, is at work: 'Language regions' are artefacts of averaging

The paper shows that 'language regions' identified in neuroimaging are artefacts of averaging, as linguistic representations are distributed across the whole brain and coordinated by dynamic connectivity hubs.

Flicker and Ganzfeld induced visual hallucinations differ in frequency and content

This study compares flicker and Ganzfeld techniques to determine if they share a common mechanism for inducing visual hallucinations, finding similar patterns in frequency and complexity.

Reorganization of the neurobiology of language after sentence overlearning

The paper shows that overlearning sentences reorganizes brain networks for speech perception, shifting activity to sensorimotor regions and reducing reliance on traditional language regions.

Speech perception under the tent: A domain-general predictive role for the cerebellum

The paper investigates the cerebellum's role in speech perception, finding it supports domain-general predictive mechanisms through distinct connectivity patterns and reduced cortical activation when active.

A 'Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database' for understanding the brain using ecological stimuli

The paper introduces a Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database (NNDb) with movie-watching fMRI data to study brain function under ecological conditions.

More than words: Word predictability, prosody, gesture and mouth movements in natural language comprehension

The paper investigates how multimodal cues like prosody, gestures, and mouth movements affect brain responses during language comprehension, showing their integral role beyond speech alone.

Measuring narrative engagement: The heart tells the story

This study compares conscious and subconscious engagement with stories presented as audio or video, finding stronger physiological responses to auditory stories.

A core speech circuit between primary motor, somatosensory, and auditory cortex: Evidence from connectivity and genetic descriptions

The paper identifies a core speech circuit connecting motor, somatosensory, and auditory cortex through structural and functional connectivity and genetic mediation.

Brain reorganization in anticipation of predictable words

The paper shows that brain regions become active before predictable words, reducing auditory cortex activity when those words are heard, indicating context-driven speech comprehension.