Nathan M Petro
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Nathan M Petro
@nathanpetro.bsky.social
Staff Scientist, DICoN Lab, Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital.

PhD from U of Florida.

Many broad interests in human neuroscience. Mostly emotional processing.
Happy to share a new publication showing stronger theta, alpha, and gamma responses to negative vs positive images. Alpha effects were in several primary and extended visual regions, while gamma effects were in parietal and pre-SMA cortex. See all results -> www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
NEW paper looking at oscillatory responses to affective faces.

some main findings:
Stronger beta for affective faces across visual regions.
Stronger gamma to angry faces in presupp motor cortex.

academic.oup.com/scan/article...
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing
Abstract. Facial expressions are ubiquitous and highly reliable social cues. Decades of research has shown that affective faces undergo facilitated process
academic.oup.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Reposted by Nathan M Petro
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April 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Come by my poster (D15) at #CNS2025!
March 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Happy to share a new paper where we show, in later pubertal stages, using social media to make social comparisons relates to 1) weaker extended visual alpha, prefrontal beta power and 2) more symptoms of anxiety and attention problems.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM