News
All news and announcements from the Gallant Lab
September 15, 2025
We have created a new brain viewer that provides a way to inspect cortical visual-semantic conceptual maps at the group level, vertex-by-vertex. The data for this viewer were generated by pooling visual semantic maps from 15 separate participants who viewed several hours of short movie clips.
We have created a new brain viewer that provides a way to inspect cortical visual-semantic conceptual maps at the group level, vertex-by-vertex. The data for this viewer were generated by pooling visual semantic maps from 15 separate participants who viewed several hours of short movie clips.
September 05, 2025
We've created a new brain viewer that provides a way to inspect cortical lexical-semantic conceptual maps at the group level, vertex-by-vertex. The data for this viewer were generated by pooling lexical semantic maps from 24 separate participants who listened to several hours of natural narrative stories. Based on the results that we reported in another recent paper, this viewer should account for about 80% of the variance in lexical semantic conceptual maps in any individual.
We've created a new brain viewer that provides a way to inspect cortical lexical-semantic conceptual maps at the group level, vertex-by-vertex. The data for this viewer were generated by pooling lexical semantic maps from 24 separate participants who listened to several hours of natural narrative stories. Based on the results that we reported in another recent paper, this viewer should account for about 80% of the variance in lexical semantic conceptual maps in any individual.
August 23, 2025
Here is an amazing new paper on individual differences from Visconti di Oleggio Castello et al. This paper solves a longstanding problem in fMRI that has profound implications for precision medicine. The paper is currently posted on bioRxiv and it is in review.
Here is an amazing new paper on individual differences from Visconti di Oleggio Castello et al. This paper solves a longstanding problem in fMRI that has profound implications for precision medicine. The paper is currently posted on bioRxiv and it is in review.
May 15, 2025
Emily Meschke has received her PhD! Congratulations Dr. Meschke! Emily will be moving to Columbia University in a few months to begin a postdoc.
Emily Meschke has received her PhD! Congratulations Dr. Meschke! Emily will be moving to Columbia University in a few months to begin a postdoc.
May 09, 2025
We've published a new tutorial paper from Dupré la Tour et al. on the Voxelwise Encoding Model framework, published in Imaging Neuroscience.
We've published a new tutorial paper from Dupré la Tour et al. on the Voxelwise Encoding Model framework, published in Imaging Neuroscience.
November 01, 2024
Dr. Evi Hendrikx has joined our lab as our newest postdoc! It's great to have you on board Evi!
Dr. Evi Hendrikx has joined our lab as our newest postdoc! It's great to have you on board Evi!
July 01, 2024
New paper from Gong et al. on phonemic segmentation of narrative speech in human cerebral cortex, published in Nature Communications.
New paper from Gong et al. on phonemic segmentation of narrative speech in human cerebral cortex, published in Nature Communications.
May 15, 2024
Catherine Chen has received her PhD! Congratulations Dr. Chen! Catherine will be moving to Princeton University to do a short postdoc, and then she will join the technology industry.
Catherine Chen has received her PhD! Congratulations Dr. Chen! Catherine will be moving to Princeton University to do a short postdoc, and then she will join the technology industry.
April 01, 2024
Fatma Deniz has accepted a full Professor position at Technical University of Berlin as of April 1, 2023. Congratulations to Fatma on this exciting new chapter!
Fatma Deniz has accepted a full Professor position at Technical University of Berlin as of April 1, 2023. Congratulations to Fatma on this exciting new chapter!
June 01, 2023
New preprint from Meschke et al. comparing functional connectivity and model connectivity methods, titled "Model connectivity: leveraging the power of encoding models".
New preprint from Meschke et al. comparing functional connectivity and model connectivity methods, titled "Model connectivity: leveraging the power of encoding models".
August 01, 2022
New paper from Dupré la Tour et al. on feature-space selection with banded ridge regression, published in Neuroimage. The work introduces the open-source Python package Himalaya.
New paper from Dupré la Tour et al. on feature-space selection with banded ridge regression, published in Neuroimage. The work introduces the open-source Python package Himalaya.
May 01, 2022
Christine Tseng has completed her PhD! Her dissertation focused on functional mapping of the self, others, and social relationships. Congratulations Dr. Tseng!
Christine Tseng has completed her PhD! Her dissertation focused on functional mapping of the self, others, and social relationships. Congratulations Dr. Tseng!
November 20, 2021
New paper from Sara Popham and colleagues on semantic representations in the human brain, published in Nature Neuroscience.
New paper from Sara Popham and colleagues on semantic representations in the human brain, published in Nature Neuroscience.