Erez Simony

The Movie After-Effect: widespread adaptation of human cortex following naturalistic sensory experience

The paper shows that watching movies causes widespread adaptation in human cortex, with neurons adjusting their activity levels during rest periods after viewing.

A cortical gradient of distance to criticality governs large-scale resting-state fMRI dynamics

The paper shows that cortical resting-state fMRI dynamics are organized along a gradient of distance to criticality, with consistent patterns across subjects.

A shared linguistic space for transmitting our thoughts from brain to brain in natural conversations

The paper shows that linguistic embedding spaces can capture neural alignment during conversations, revealing shared meaning between speakers and listeners.

Retrospective behavioral sampling (RBS): a method to effectively track the cognitive fluctuations driven by naturalistic stimulation

This paper introduces RBS to track cognitive fluctuations during naturalistic stimulation and finds consistent, replicable patterns across individuals.

The Surprising Role of the Default Mode Network

The paper identifies the cognitive state of surprise as selectively correlated with DMN fMRI coactivation during movie viewing, suggesting the DMN's role in prediction-error representations.

Narratives: fMRI data for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension

The paper introduces a benchmark dataset of fMRI data from human subjects listening to naturalistic stories for evaluating language and narrative comprehension models.

Propagation of information along the cortical hierarchy as a function of attention while reading and listening to stories

This study uses fMRI and inter-subject correlation analysis to show how attention routes information through the brain's hierarchy during story listening and reading.

Altered topology of neural circuits in congenital prosopagnosia

This study uses fMRI to compare neural circuit topology for face processing in congenital prosopagnosia and controls, finding altered connectivity patterns and severity-dependent differences.

Measuring speaker-listener neural coupling with functional near infrared spectroscopy

This study measures brain-to-brain coupling during verbal communication using fNIRS and finds it correlates with fMRI in speech comprehension areas, suggesting fNIRS as a reliable and portable tool for studying communication.