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Ahmad Samara

@ahmadsamara.bsky.social

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Neuroscience PhD candidate @UBC | Neuroimaging | Movie-fMRI | Brain Organization

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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Controversial? Classic? What if rest is not best? 🤔 Congrats to @halleeshearer.bsky.social for this thoughtful commentary, and thanks to @ninetlab.bsky.social for the 🎬 movie x rTMS 🧲 collaboration. doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Considering brain state for individualized functional connectivity-based rTMS

Abstract. Recent endeavors to optimize the efficacy of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) treatment have focused on locating individualized stimulation targets using functional connec...

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

How do different languages converge on a shared neural substrate for conceptual meaning? Happy to share a new preprint led by Zaid Zada that specifically addresses this question:

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Really excited to share our new preprint led by @ahmadsamara.bsky.social with Zaid Zada, @vanderlab.bsky.social, and Uri Hasson titled "Cortical language areas are coupled via a soft hierarchy of model-based linguistic features" doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

New preprint from the Hasson Lab🪄Delineates coupling b/w regions within the language network AND shows the elements of language that connect them. Led by @ahmadsamara.bsky.social; thanks @samnastase.bsky.social Zaid Zada & Uri Hasson. 💥 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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