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Nathan M Petro

@nathanpetro.bsky.social
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Staff Scientist, DICoN Lab, Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital. PhD from U of Florida. Many broad interests in human neuroscience. Mostly emotional processing.

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Nathan M Petro @nathanpetro.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Happy to share a new publication. We use frequency tagging to show competition between *simultaneous* and *spatially overlapping* emotional faces and a task-relevant (and otherwise boring and non-emotional) Gabor patch in the calcarine fissure and PFC. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Affective face biases in visual and prefrontal cortex measured with visual entrainment
Abstract. Facial expressions are ubiquitous and reliable social cues. Research has shown that affective faces attract attention at the cost of competing visual information, with functional neuroimagin...
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Nathan M Petro @nathanpetro.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Happy to share a new publication showing stronger theta, alpha, and gamma responses to negative vs positive images. Alpha effects were in several primary and extended visual regions, while gamma effects were in parietal and pre-SMA cortex. See all results -> www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Nathan M Petro @nathanpetro.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NEW paper looking at oscillatory responses to affective faces. some main findings: Stronger beta for affective faces across visual regions. Stronger gamma to angry faces in presupp motor cortex. academic.oup.com/scan/article...
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Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing
Abstract. Facial expressions are ubiquitous and highly reliable social cues. Decades of research has shown that affective faces undergo facilitated process
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Institute for Human Neuroscience @boystown-ihn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Undergrad Posters for #IHN Summer Symposium! Nomination Deadline 4/25/25 Complete the form👉 forms.office.com/r/m9yTYEEWJW #Neuroscience #PhD #GraduateSchool #Faculty #Mentorship #STEM #HigherEd #neuroimaging
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Nathan M Petro @nathanpetro.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Come by my poster (D15) at #CNS2025!
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Nathan M Petro @nathanpetro.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Happy to share a new paper where we show, in later pubertal stages, using social media to make social comparisons relates to 1) weaker extended visual alpha, prefrontal beta power and 2) more symptoms of anxiety and attention problems. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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