Zizhuang Miao
zizhuangmiao.bsky.social
Zizhuang Miao
@zizhuangmiao.bsky.social
PhD candidate @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social
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🎓Recruiting Ph.D. students for Fall 2026!🎓
The Feilong Lab @sc.edu studies commonalities & differences across brains, and how they relate to cognition, language, & disorders.
We develop brain templates, improve hyperalignment, and compare human brains with monkey brains & DNNs.
feilonglab.github.io
Feilong Lab @ UofSC — Feilong Lab
feilonglab.github.io
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
At #SANS2025? Welcome to my Blitz talk at around 1:20pm on Saturday! Plus poster P3-C-40 following that. I will present an fMRI study on social cognition in narratives, focusing on theory of mind and understanding social interactions. Hope to see you there!
April 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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🗓️ Want to see what’s coming up at #SANS2025?
Check out the Program-at-a-Glance to plan your sessions, spot your favorite speakers, and find those can't-miss talks! 👀

📍 socialaffectiveneuro.org/program/

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April 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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If you are curious about the brain🧠 on causal inference, insight💡, memory retrieval, and narrative comprehension🎬, this will be the one.

work by dream team @jinke.bsky.social Rhea Madhogarhia @ycleong.bsky.social @monicarosenb.bsky.social
Cortical reinstatement of causally related events sparks narrative insights by updating neural representation patterns https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.642853v1
March 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Now out in Plos Computational Biology! We identified a generalizable neural signature of emotional arousal across contexts and individuals during movie watching.

work with the best team: @hayoungsong.bsky.social @Zihan Bai @monicarosenb.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social

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Dynamic brain connectivity predicts emotional arousal during naturalistic movie-watching
Author summary This study explores how the brain represents two key dimensions of emotional experience: valence (how positive or negative an experience feels) and arousal (the level of emotional activ...
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April 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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It’s out! Our article in Nature Human Behavior led by Yin Wang on the conceptual structure of human relationships across cultures and time. This work is breathtaking nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
The conceptual structure of human relationships across modern and historical cultures - Nature Human Behaviour
Cheng et al. explore the universality and cultural variability in how people understand human relationships, revealing a five-dimensional framework for relationship concepts across both modern and anc...
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March 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM