Ziwei Zhang

@zz112.bsky.social

Grad student studying cognition and the brain đź§  @ the University of Chicago Psychology Interested in how we pay attention and learn

New preprint! đź§  Our mind wanders at rest. By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we show these thoughts are reflected in brain network dynamics and contribute to pervasive links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior (1/10). doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behavior

Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC)-brain connectivity observed when people rest with no external tasks-predicts individual differences in behavior. Yet, rest is not idle; it involves streams...

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Out now in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social: We developed a generalizable brain network model predicting moment-to-moment surprise. This edge-fluctuation-based predictive model (EFPM) of surprise works across tasks, from adaptive learning to watching basketball games or cartoons! rdcu.be/d4y3g

Brain network dynamics predict moments of surprise across contexts

Nature Human Behaviour - Zhang and Rosenberg built a model that predicts surprise from brain network dynamics measured with fMRI revealing similarities across distinct contexts (task learning,...

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New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We’re surprised in many situations, like surprise parties, lab tasks, & suspenseful basketball games. Despite being in completely different situations, does our brain process unexpectedness similarly? 1/9

Brain network dynamics predict moments of surprise across contexts

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