How many subjects do you actually need for reliable task fMRI studies? Much larger samples are often recommended—but that depends on how you analyze the data. New preprint with @neuranna.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Scaling laws for group-constrained, subject-specific task fMRI analyses

Functional MRI provides a powerful way to characterize the architecture of the human brain. Yet individual brains often vary in the exact anatomic locations of functionally specific regions; as a resu...

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🚨New position piece! “Deception-Enabling Cognitive Capabilities in AI Systems” 🧠🤖 w/ @dobyrahnev.bsky.social @apurvaratan.bsky.social @neuranna.bsky.social To better identify and mitigate deceptive AI behaviors, we need a deeper understanding of their complex and multifaceted nature...🧵👇

Now out in Imaging Neuroscience! The language network responds robustly to sentences across tasks doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Ruimin Gao 高睿敏@ruimingao.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A left frontal-temporal network selectively supports language comprehension and production. Are computations in this language network driven primarily by bottom-up input, or by top-down task demands? 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited! Check this out

Anna (Anya) Ivanova@neuranna.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The last chapter of my PhD (expanded) is finally out as a preprint! “Semantic reasoning takes place largely outside the language network” 🧠🧐 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... What is semantic reasoning? Read on! 🧵👇

A left frontal-temporal network selectively supports language comprehension and production. Are computations in this language network driven primarily by bottom-up input, or by top-down task demands? 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The language network responds robustly to sentences across diverse tasks

A network of left frontal and temporal brain areas supports language comprehension and production, implementing computations related to word retrieval and combinatorial linguistic processing. Here, we...

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Try this out!

neurotaha@neurotaha.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 Paper alert: To appear in the DBM Neurips Workshop LITcoder: A General-Purpose Library for Building and Comparing Encoding Models 📄 arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2509.091... 🔗 project: litcoder-brain.github.io

Many thanks to the volunteer organizers and the flash talk presenters for making the CCN watch party at Georgia Tech a success! And thanks all attendees for coming and engaging in discussions!

Anna (Anya) Ivanova@neuranna.bsky.social · last yr.

Atlanta community: we are organizing a CCN @cogcompneuro.bsky.social watch party! Watch the talks, engage in structured discussions, and (optionally) present your own work. Register: forms.gle/AWxVPbrgxkdd... Schedule: tinyurl.com/ccn2025atlanta

Looking forward to #CogSci2025 ! Find us throughout the conference

Excited to introduce funROI: A Python package for functional ROI analyses of fMRI data! funroi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ #fMRI #Neuroimaging #Python #OpenScience Work w @neuranna.bsky.social 🧵👇