Alessandro Zanini
az15.bsky.social
Alessandro Zanini
@az15.bsky.social
🐒➡️🧑 The marmoset emerges as a powerful primate model for studying functional brain organization at the network level, especially in naturalistic settings.

Check it here: rdcu.be/eXIhw
Mapping functional homologies between human and marmoset brain networks using movie-driven ultra-high field fMRI
Communications Biology - Movie-driven fMRI revealed shared sensory but distinct higher-order brain networks in humans and marmosets, highlighting both conserved and species-specific functional...
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January 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Key result: sensory and multisensory networks show strong cross-species correspondence, while higher-order networks reveal both shared structure and species-specific organization.
January 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM
🧠 We applied tensor ICA to extract large-scale functional networks driven by the movie, separately in humans and marmosets.

🔍 We then asked:
Which networks show similar temporal profiles across species?
Which ones cluster together?
Where do they diverge?
January 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM
🎬 Instead of classic tasks, we showed the same naturalistic movie to both species.

Movies evoke rich, time-locked brain responses that are surprisingly comparable across brains of very different sizes.
January 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM