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A new theory that may help explain the purpose of the brain’s “dark energy”

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Getting to a new level of understanding in neuroscience and cognitive science

Gaining fundamental understanding of cognition by modeling connectivity-constrained neural generative processes

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Automated inference as a scalable engine of discovery

How brain flows take advantage of our environment’s compositionality

Metrics will inevitably bias science, so let’s switch to metrics that reflect what science should be biased by

A perspective shift to enhance both activity-focused (e.g., manifold, representations) and connectivity-focused (e.g., connectome) neuroscience

A newsletter inspired by the book Brain Flows

A pioneering theory of how brain network flows compose the neural symphonies that make us who we are

A pioneering theory of how brain network flows compose the neural symphonies that make us who we are

Learning shifts multi-task representations from compositional to conjunctive formats. Cortical conjunctions uniquely associate with effects of practice, and index switch costs. Subcortex is critical f...

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Nature Communications - People often discard incoming information when it contradicts their pre-existing beliefs about the world. Here, the authors show that this discarded information is precisely...

The network organization of the human brain dynamically reconfigures in response to changing environmental demands, an adaptive process that may be disrupted in a symptom-relevant manner across psychi...

This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...

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National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.