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Choong-Wan (Wani) Woo

@choongwanwoo.bsky.social
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Study pain and emotions using fMRI and AI; PI of the Cocoan lab, SKKU & IBS Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) Lab: cocoanlab.github.io Lab instagram: www.instagram.com/cocoanlab

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Choong-Wan (Wani) Woo @choongwanwoo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New in Nat Mach Intell: interoception—monitoring and regulating internal bodily states—may be the missing ingredient for AI agents that stay autonomous and adaptive over long time horizons as environments change. doi.org/10.1038/s422... #AI #Neuroscience with @sungwoo.bsky.social and COMBINE lab
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Life-inspired interoceptive artificial intelligence for autonomous and adaptive agents - Nature Machine Intelligence
Lee, Oh et al. propose interoception as a biologically inspired framework for building more autonomous and adaptive AI agents, learning from living organisms to build autonomous and adaptive intellige...
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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 16/07/2026
A new research Article in the journal by Byeol Kim Lux and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @byeolkimlux.bsky.social @choongwanwoo.bsky.social
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Spontaneous thought dynamics as a signature of positive and negative affectivity - Communications Psychology
Density Map-Based Predictive Modeling (DMPM) quantifies spontaneous thought dynamics in valence–selfrelevance–time space to predict positive and negative affectivity across independent datasets, linki...
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Choong-Wan (Wani) Woo @choongwanwoo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Pain biomarkers can't prove or disprove someone's pain, but that doesn't make them futile. My comment in Nat Neurosci argues for a pluralistic, bio-psycho-social approach: biomarkers as complementary channels, not replacements for patient voice. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Towards a holistic understanding of pain in the biomarker age - Nature Neuroscience
Pain biomarkers cannot prove or disprove another person’s pain, but they need not be rejected as futile or reductionist. When developed within a bio-psycho-social framework and guided by epistemic hum...
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Evan Gordon @gordonneuro.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I am pleased to announce the Embodied Minds Summit, a two-day gathering on interoception, consciousness, and the future of self-understanding in the age of artificial intelligence. May 2–3, 2026 | Los Angeles embodiedminds.ai
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Choong-Wan (Wani) Woo @choongwanwoo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New paper in Nature Neuroscience! We developed personalized fMRI-based predictive models tracking ongoing spontaneous pain in chronic pain patients—trained on 6+ months of densely sampled data. A true team effort. Deeply grateful to our participants! doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02221-3
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Personalized brain decoding of spontaneous pain in individuals with chronic pain - Nature Neuroscience
Lee et al. show that personalized brain-decoding models derived from intensive longitudinal fMRI data can track spontaneous pain in individuals with chronic pain, highlighting the potential of precise...
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Choong-Wan (Wani) Woo @choongwanwoo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Our new paper is out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences; a perspective paper on the DMN, titled "Embodying the default mode network: self-related processing from an embodied perspective" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Embodying the default mode network: self-related processing from an embodied perspective
Self-related processes in the default mode network (DMN) have been viewed predominantly through a cognitive lens, often overlooking the embodied dimen…
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Zach Rosenthal @zachrosenthal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology
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Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature
Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.
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Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects By Cyr et al. *** Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES? A: Yes! 🧵:
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 30/07/2025
I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!
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Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health
Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...
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Choong-Wan (Wani) Woo @choongwanwoo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The final version (after proof) is now finally out. It provides a detailed spatio-temporal profile of brain mediation of the cue-stimulus integration in the pain context. We interpreted the results in terms of cortical hierarchy. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Spatiotemporal integration of contextual and sensory information within the cortical hierarchy in human pain experience
When we experience pain, the sensory input is modulated by contextual information. This neuroimaging study shows how expectation and sensory input are integrated in the human brain during pain percept...
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Suhwan Gim @suhwangim.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Hi, I’m very pleased to share the preprint of my first project with my PI @choongwanwoo.bsky.social and amazing collaborators Seok-Jun Hong and E.A.R. Losin. Here we examined the behavioral and neural dynamics of pain as a continuous integration process (1/8) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Temporal Dynamics of Brain Mediation in Predictive Cue-induced Pain Modulation
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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and deep learning seem to assume that inference in the brain is hierarchical.  Our new Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper questions this assumption and proposes the shallow brain hypothesis. #neuroskyence #brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 26/10/2023
For years we have tended to discount activation signals in the white matter as artifact. It's becoming clear now that this was a mistake - white matter shows stimulus-driven activation similar (though much smaller) to gray matter. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37824529/
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 08/10/2023
This is very important new study from @danlikesbrains.bsky.social and colleagues. While many have hypothesized a key link between breath-brain coupling and noradrenaline, Dan illuminates this link with pupillometry.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve. Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there.

And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important.

Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.”

And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”
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harry h behjat @aitchbi.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
This is a neat work! —a must/highly-recommend read before picking a method for exploring pair-wise interactions from multivariate time series. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #compneurosky #complex #neuroskyence #stats 🧪
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Special issue of journal Affective Science on its "future." Lead editorial by my amazing co-author of Emotion & Motivation (OUP) Lani Shiota Lots of "futuristic" articles but also some great overviews of state-of-the-art knowledge on more trad topics #PsySciSky link.springer.com/journal/4276...
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Affective Science | Volume 4, issue 3
Volume 4, issue 3 articles listing for Affective Science
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