Tamara Vanderwal

Cross-state stability and maturational similarity of the social brain connectome in children and adolescents

The paper examines cross-state stability and maturational similarity of the social brain connectome in children and adolescents, finding stronger coupling in the social brain and sex-specific age-related effects.

Individualized network topography in pre-adolescent children and adults using naturalistic precision fMRI

This study uses individualized network mapping in fMRI data from children and adults to show reduced network assignment confidence and weaker within-network connectivity in children, with individualized approaches improving sensitivity to age effects.

Using fingerprinting as a testbed for strategies to improve reproducibility of functional connectivity

The paper tests functional connectome fingerprinting to improve reproducibility of functional connectivity analysis pipelines by optimizing pre- and post-processing parameters.

Early sensory deprivation drives local reorganization of sensory integration within a conserved global hierarchy

This study shows early sensory deprivation causes localized reorganization near deprived primary sensory areas while preserving the overall cortical hierarchy.

Pregistered movie-fMRI analyses reveal altered visual feature encoding in autism in pSTS

The paper uses preregistered movie-fMRI analyses to show reduced high-level visual representations and a shift toward low-level encoding in autism, particularly in the pSTS and social brain regions.

Patterns of intersubject correlations parallel organizational gradients during naturalistic viewing

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

State dependent shifts in large scale functional topographies

The paper examines how cognitive states like resting and movie watching affect large-scale brain functional connectivity using fMRI data from the HCP and PNI datasets.

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

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

How much is 'enough'? Considerations for functional connectivity reliability in pediatric naturalistic fMRI

This study investigates FC reliability in pediatric fMRI, finding children need longer scan times than adults to achieve comparable reliability due to motion and spatially non-uniform effects.

Temporal Complexity of the BOLD-Signal In Preterm Versus Term Infants

The paper calculates the Hurst exponent from fMRI data to assess temporal complexity of the BOLD signal in preterm and term infants, finding age-related increases and differences between groups.

Increasing the representation of minoritized youth for inclusive and reproducible brain-behavior associations

The paper tests motion-ordering and motion-ordering+resampling methods to retain minoritized youth in fMRI data analysis, improving representation and reproducibility of brain-behavior associations.

Data rescue in high-motion youth cohorts for robust and reproducible brain-behavior relationships

The paper tests two techniques to reduce motion artifacts in functional connectivity data, enabling retention of high-motion participants while maintaining data quality and statistical power.

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.

Cortical gradients during naturalistic processing are hierarchical and modality-specific

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

Exploring patterns of ongoing thought under naturalistic and task-based conditions

The paper examines how ongoing thought patterns vary across tasks and individual affective styles, identifying four patterns and their contextual and personal influences.

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.

Stability and similarity of the pediatric connectome as developmental outcomes

This study examines the stability and similarity of the pediatric connectome across different states and tasks, finding correlations with social skills but not age.

The functional brain organization of an individual predicts measures of social abilities in autism spectrum disorder

This study uses connectome-based predictive modeling on fMRI data to identify functional brain networks that predict social ability measures in autism spectrum disorder.

Age and sex modulate the variability of neural responses to naturalistic videos

The paper investigates how age and sex affect neural response variability to naturalistic videos in a large developmental sample, finding increased variability with age and sex differences in young participants.

Shared understanding is correlated with shared neural responses in the default mode network

The paper shows that shared interpretations of abstract narratives correlate with similar neural responses in the default mode network across different modalities.

Individual differences in functional connectivity during naturalistic viewing conditions

This paper compares functional connectivity variability during movies and rest, finding movies enhance individual differences detection.

The Healthy Brain Network Serial Scanning Initiative: A resource for evaluating inter-individual differences and their reliabilities across scan conditions and sessions.

The paper provides a resource to evaluate test-retest reliability of functional connectivity across different scan conditions and sessions in a healthy brain network.