Meghan L. Meyer

The paper examines how time spent in mealtime conversations affects default network function using mobile sensing and fMRI data.

The paper identifies a neural signature in the default network that predicts self-focus and links it to maladaptive self-focus in internalizing disorders.

The paper shows that negative affect homogenizes and positive affect diversifies social memory consolidation during post-encoding rest.

The paper investigates how people perceive their past and future selves, finding that they become less distinguishable with temporal distance, supported by behavioral and neural evidence.

The paper investigates how the brain represents social connections by analyzing neural responses to self and others, finding that social categories and closeness are reflected in brain activity, with loneliness affecting self-other representation.

The paper investigates how the brain manages multiple mental states in working memory and links this ability to social integration through neural activity in the dorsomedial default network.