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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'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.

Here is an amazing new paper on individual differences from Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello. 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.

Emily Meschke has received her PhD! Congratulations Dr. Meschke! Emily will be moving to Columbia University in a few months to begin a postdoc.

We've published a new tutorial paper from Tom Dupré la Tour on the Voxelwise Encoding Model framework, published in Imaging Neuroscience.

Dr. Evi Hendrikx has joined our lab as our newest postdoc! It's great to have you on board Evi!

New paper from Gong et al. on phonemic segmentation of narrative speech in human cerebral cortex, published in Nature Communications.

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.

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!

New preprint from Meschke et al. comparing functional connectivity and model connectivity methods, titled "Model connectivity: leveraging the power of encoding models".

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.

Christine Tseng has completed her PhD! Her dissertation focused on functional mapping of the self, others, and social relationships. Congratulations Dr. Tseng!

New paper from Sara Popham and colleagues on semantic representations in the human brain, published in Nature Neuroscience.