Choong-Wan (Wani) Woo
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choongwanwoo.bsky.social
Choong-Wan (Wani) Woo
@choongwanwoo.bsky.social
Study pain and emotions using fMRI and AI; PI of the Cocoan lab, SKKU & IBS Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR)
Lab: https://cocoanlab.github.io/
Lab instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cocoanlab/
Our new paper is out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences; a perspective paper on the DMN, titled "Embodying the default mode network: self-related processing from an embodied perspective"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Embodying the default mode network: self-related processing from an embodied perspective
Self-related processes in the default mode network (DMN) have been viewed predominantly through a cognitive lens, often overlooking the embodied dimen…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology
Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature
Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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🚨 New Preprint 🚨

Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects

By Cyr et al.

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Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?

A: Yes!

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August 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The final version (after proof) is now finally out. It provides a detailed spatio-temporal profile of brain mediation of the cue-stimulus integration in the pain context. We interpreted the results in terms of cortical hierarchy. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Spatiotemporal integration of contextual and sensory information within the cortical hierarchy in human pain experience
When we experience pain, the sensory input is modulated by contextual information. This neuroimaging study shows how expectation and sensory input are integrated in the human brain during pain percept...
journals.plos.org
November 28, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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Hi, I’m very pleased to share the preprint of my first project with my PI @choongwanwoo.bsky.social and amazing collaborators Seok-Jun Hong and E.A.R. Losin.

Here we examined the behavioral and neural dynamics of pain as a continuous integration process (1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Temporal Dynamics of Brain Mediation in Predictive Cue-induced Pain Modulation
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
January 26, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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Many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and deep learning seem to assume that inference in the brain is hierarchical. 

Our new Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper questions this assumption and proposes the shallow brain hypothesis.

#neuroskyence #brain

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 27, 2023 at 2:17 PM
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For years we have tended to discount activation signals in the white matter as artifact. It's becoming clear now that this was a mistake - white matter shows stimulus-driven activation similar (though much smaller) to gray matter. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37824529/
October 26, 2023 at 6:30 PM
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This is very important new study from @danlikesbrains.bsky.social and colleagues. While many have hypothesized a key link between breath-brain coupling and noradrenaline, Dan illuminates this link with pupillometry.
October 8, 2023 at 5:29 AM
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Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.

Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
October 3, 2023 at 8:20 AM
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This is a neat work! —a must/highly-recommend read before picking a method for exploring pair-wise interactions from multivariate time series.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#compneurosky #complex #neuroskyence #stats 🧪
September 26, 2023 at 4:41 PM
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Special issue of journal Affective Science on its "future."

Lead editorial by my amazing co-author of Emotion & Motivation (OUP) Lani Shiota

Lots of "futuristic" articles but also some great overviews of state-of-the-art knowledge on more trad topics #PsySciSky

link.springer.com/journal/4276...
Affective Science | Volume 4, issue 3
Volume 4, issue 3 articles listing for Affective Science
link.springer.com
September 22, 2023 at 9:48 PM