How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬?

We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!

Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇

Preprint⭐
Our attention changes over time and differs across contexts—which is reflected in the brain🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we find that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects such changes in attention!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Precision Functional Mapping of Imagined and Experienced Pain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.06.668906v1

Alert!!!!

“An Action Networks Model for Pain”

We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.

👉 thread below 🧵

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Big year for our lab at #OHBM2025!

Thrilled to present an exciting mix of posters, talks, and lots of brainy fun 🧠🤓

Come check us out! We’d love to connect!

@cognizelab.bsky.social
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
#OHBM #OHBM2025 #Neuroimaging

Does your favorite song actually relieve pain?
We looked into the brain to find out. 🧠🎶❓
Come check out Poster #0780 (Wed/Thur) at #OHBM2025!
In collaboration with McGill University — Elise Desbarats & Prof. Mathieu Roy.

🧠📖 New paper out! How does the brain make sense of a story?

Combining behavioral data, #fMRI, and #LLMs, our study explores how distinct hippocampal-cortical systems support the #encoding and #sequencing of #narrative events during ongoing comprehension.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Our new @NatureHumBehav paper shows why we need a holistic pain biomarker framework. ML on blood tests, brain/bone imaging & genetics predicts clinical diagnoses but falls short on subjective pain. Adding psychosocial (mood, sleep, stress) boosts both. shorturl.at/vxxeO

Dreaming of a dataset that tracks mood, sleep & activity to better understand affective instability (AI)…AND paired with advanced MRI? 🤯
Check out our new bioRxiv preprint for a 13–23 y/o community sample (n=10 and growing!) with multi-echo fMRI, EMA & actigraphy: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hi, I’m very pleased to share my social memory project with my PI Won Mok Shim and amazing collaborators @myoo.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does the hippocampus integrate multiple cognitive processes for memory encoding and retrieval?🧠

Here’s what we found⬇️:

This paper is magical.

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😄The final version of my first Ph.D. project is published in PLOS Biology. We showed the spatiotemporal profile of how the brain mediates cue-stimulus integration in pain, interpreting the findings in terms of cortical hierarchy from association to sensorimotor systems. plos.io/4fsaanu

Finally,😃 the first project during the Ph.D. program is published in PLOS Biology. We examined the spatiotemporal brain dynamics of context and sensory information integration in pain.
Thanks to my advisor @choongwanwoo.bsky.social and co-authors Seok-Jun Hong and Elizabeth Losin. plos.io/4fsaanu

📢 Exciting news! My first first-author paper on brain decoding of spontaneous thought is now available on PNAS. Check it out! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

✅ Summary: We developed fMRI-based predictive models of spontaneous thought using personal stories as stimuli. (1/4)

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...