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C.S. Lee, S.S. Cohen, S. Hutchinson, N. Tottenham, C. Baldassano."Past and present caregiving experiences impact prefrontal connectivity and recall for attachment-schema narratives." bioRxiv, 2025.
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J. Huang, A. Manglik, N. Dutra, H. Tarder-Stoll, T. Chamberlain, R. Ajemian, Q. Zhang, K.A. Norman, C. Baldassano."Binding items to contexts through conjunctive neural representations with the Method of Loci." bioRxiv, 2024.
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R. Masís-Obando, K.A. Norman, C. Baldassano."How sturdy is your memory palace? Reliable room representations predict subsequent reinstatement of placed objects." bioRxiv, 2024.
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M. Nau, A. Greene, H. Tarder-Stoll, J.A. Lossio-Ventura, F. Pereira, J. Chen, C. Baldassano, and C.I. Baker."Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events." bioRxiv, 2024.
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S. Shim, F.B. Mugisho, L. Davachi, C. Baldassano."Generating event boundaries in memory without prediction error." PsyArXiv, 2024.
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J. Huang, E. Furness, Y. Liu, M.-J. Kenmoe, R. Elias, H.T. Zeng, C. Baldassano. "Accurate predictions facilitate robust memory encoding independently from stimulus probability." PsyArXiv, 2023.
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M. Silva, X. Wu, M. Sabio, E. Conde-Blanco, P. Roldan, A. Donaire, M. Carreno, N. Axmacher, C. Baldassano, L. Fuentemilla "Neocortico-hippocampal ripple-based coordination during naturalistic encoding." bioRxiv, 2023.
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M.E. Sachs, M.S. Kozak, K.N. Ochsner, C. Baldassano. "Brain state dynamics reflect emotion transitions induced by music." bioRxiv, 2023.
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C. Durkin, M. Apicella, C. Baldassano, E. Kandel, D. Shohamy. "The Beholder’s Share: Bridging art and neuroscience to study individual differences in subjective experience." PNAS, 2025.
[journal link] | [pdf w/ supplementary] |
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H. Tarder-Stoll, C. Baldassano*, M. Aly*. "The brain hierarchically represents the past and future during multistep anticipation." Nature Communications, 2024.
[journal link] | [pdf w/ supplementary] |
A. De Soares, T. Kim, F. Mugisho, E. Zhu, A. Lin, C. Zheng, C. Baldassano. "Top-down attention shifts behavioral and neural event boundaries in narratives with overlapping event scripts." Current Biology, 2024.
[journal link] | [pdf w/ supplementary] GitHub (code and behavioral data) | fMRI data | Audio stimuli |
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H. Tarder-Stoll, C. Baldassano*, M. Aly*. "Consolidation enhances multistep anticipatory judgements but diminishes access to perceptual features." Psychological Science, 2024.
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C. Lee, J. Han, M. Feilong, G. Jiahui, J. Haxby, C. Baldassano. "Hyper-HMM: aligning human brains and semantic features in a common latent event space." NeurIPS, 2023.
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M. Bennett, C. Baldassano. "imgtofmri: a python package for predicting group-level fMRI responses to visual stimuli using deep neural networks." Aperture Neuro, 2023.
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C. Baldassano. "Studying waves of prediction in the brain using narratives." Neuropsychologia, 2023.
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T. Golan*, M. Siegelman*, N. Kriegeskorte, C. Baldassano. "Testing the limits of natural language models for predicting human language judgments." Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023.
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J. Huang, I. Velarde, W.J. Ma, C. Baldassano. "Schema-based predictive eye movements support sequential memory encoding." eLife, 2023.
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T.S. Yates, L.J. Skalaban, C.T. Ellis, A.J. Bracher, C. Baldassano, N.B. Turk-Browne. "Neural event segmentation of continuous experience in human infants." PNAS, 2022.
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S.S. Cohen, N. Tottenham, C. Baldassano. "Developmental changes in story-evoked responses in the neocortex and hippocampus." eLife, 2022.
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R. Masís-Obando, K.A. Norman, C. Baldassano. "Schema representations in distinct brain networks support narrative memory during encoding and retrieval." eLife, 2022.
[journal link] | [pdf] Recall transcripts |
J.A. Williams, E.H. Margulis, S.A. Nastase, J. Chen, U. Hasson, K.A. Norman, C. Baldassano. "High-Order Areas and Auditory Cortex Both Represent the High-Level Event Structure of Music." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2022.
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M. Kumar, M. Anderson, J. Antony, C. Baldassano, P. Brooks, M. Cai, P.-H. Chen, C. Ellis, G. Henselman-Petrusek, D. Huberdeau, J.B. Hutchinson, Y.P. Li, Q. Lu, J. Manning, A.C. Mennen, S. Nastase, H. Richard, A.C. Schapiro, N. Schuck, M. Shvartsman, N. Sundaram, D. Suo, J.S. Turek, V. Vo, G. Wallace, Y. Wang, H. Zhang, X. Zhu, M. Capota, J. Cohen, U. Hasson, K. Li, P.J. Ramadge, N. Turk-Browne, T. Willke, K.A. Norman. "BrainIAK: The Brain Imaging Analysis Kit." Aperture Neuro, 2022.
[journal link] | [pdf] Companion Notebooks |
A. Wu, S.A. Nastase, C. Baldassano, N.B. Turk-Browne, K.A. Norman, B.E. Engelhardt, J.W. Pillow. "Brain kernel: a new spatial covariance function for fMRI data." NeuroImage, 2021.
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S.A. Nastase, Y.-F. Liu, H. Hillman, A. Zadbood, L. Hasenfratz, N. Keshavarzian, J. Chen, C.J. Honey, Y. Yeshurun, M. Regev, M. Nguyen, C.H.C. Chang, C. Baldassano, O. Lositsky, E. Simony, M.A. Chow, Y.C. Leong, P.P. Brooks, E. Micciche, G. Choe, A. Goldstein, T. Vanderwal, Y.O. Halchenko, K.A. Norman, U. Hasson. "Narratives: fMRI data for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension." Scientific Data, 2021.
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H. Tarder-Stoll, C. Gasser, W. Yu, H.R. Dimsdale-Zucker. "Challenges in Understanding the Role of Reactivation in Modifying Hippocampal Representations." Journal Club commentary for the Journal of Neuroscience, 2021.
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C.S. Lee, M. Aly, C. Baldassano. "Anticipation of temporally structured events in the brain." eLife, 2021.
[journal link] | [pdf w/ figure supplements] |
C. Chen, Q. Lu, A. Beukers, C. Baldassano, K. Norman. "Learning to perform role-filler binding with schematic knowledge." PeerJ, 2021.
[journal link] | [pdf] |
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C. Ellis, C. Baldassano, A.C. Schapiro, M.B. Cai, J.D. Cohen. "Facilitating open-science with realistic fMRI simulation: validation and application." PeerJ, 2020.
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M. Siegelman and C. Baldassano. "Remembering together." News & Views, Nature Human Behaviour, 2019.
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M. Silva, C. Baldassano, L. Fuentemilla. "Rapid memory reactivation at movie event boundaries promotes episodic encoding." Journal of Neuroscience, 2019.
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C. Baldassano, U. Hasson, K. Norman. "Representation of real-world event schemas during narrative perception." Journal of Neuroscience, 2018.
[journal link] | [pdf] Stimuli | Code and data capsule Raw data (Main) | Raw data (Control) |
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I.I.A. Groen, M.R. Greene, C. Baldassano, L. Fei-Fei, L., D.M. Beck, C.I. Baker. "Distinct contributions of functional and deep neural network features to representational similarity of scenes in human brain and behavior." eLife, 2018.
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C. Baldassano, J. Chen, A. Zadbood, J.W. Pillow, U. Hasson, K.A. Norman. "Discovering event structure in continuous narrative perception and memory." Neuron, 2017.
[journal link] | [pdf w/ supplementary] Python code | MATLAB code |
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K. Vodrahalli, P.H. Chen, Y. Liang, C. Baldassano, J. Chen, E. Yong, C. Honey, U. Hasson, P. Ramadge, K.A. Norman, S. Arora. "Mapping Between fMRI Responses to Movies and their Natural Language Annotations." NeuroImage, 2017.
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C. Baldassano, A. Esteva, L. Fei-Fei, D.M. Beck. "Two distinct scene processing networks connecting vision and memory." eNeuro, 2016.
[journal link] | [pdf] Two-network atlas |
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C. Baldassano, L. Fei-Fei, D.M. Beck. "Pinpointing the peripheral bias in neural scene-processing networks during natural viewing." Journal of Vision, 2016.
[journal link] | [pdf] | [supplementary pdf] |
C. Baldassano, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Human–Object Interactions Are More than the Sum of Their Parts." Cerebral Cortex, 2016.
[journal link] | [pdf] | [supplementary pdf] Experiment 1 Stimuli | Experiment 2 Stimuli Experiment 2 raw data | ROI data (Matlab) Decoding maps |
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M.R. Greene, C. Baldassano, A. Esteva, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Visual scenes are categorized by function." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2016.
[journal link] | [pdf] | [supplementary pdf] |
C. Baldassano, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Parcellating connectivity in spatial maps." PeerJ, 2015.
[journal link] | [pdf] | [supplementary pdf] MATLAB and python code Surface atlas (CIFTI-2) | Volumetric atlas | Volumetric atlas (PPA only) |
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C. Baldassano, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Differential Connectivity Within the Parahippocampal Place Area." NeuroImage, 2013.
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C. Baldassano, M.C. Iordan, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Discovering Voxel-Level Functional Connectivity Between Cortical Regions." Machine Learning and Interpretation in NeuroImaging Workshop, NIPS 2012.
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C. Baldassano, M.C. Iordan, D.M. Beck, L. Fei-Fei. "Voxel-Level Functional Connectivity using Spatial Regularization." NeuroImage, 2012.
[journal link] | [pdf] | [supplementary pdf] MATLAB code |
H.T. Zeng. "A Novel Board Game Paradigm for Studying the Acquisition of Overlapping Schemas." Undergraduate Senior Thesis. 2024.
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Y. Liu. "The Effect of Agency on Memory Performance in Multi-step Sequential Plan-making Using Turn-based Strategy Video Board Game." Undergraduate Senior Thesis. 2024.
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M. Siegelman. "Generating structured stimuli for investigations of human behavior and brain activity with computational models." PhD Dissertation. 2024.
[Columbia Library] | [pdf] |
H. Tarder-Stoll. "Flexible representations of temporal structure guide multistep prediction." PhD Dissertation. 2023.
[Columbia Library] | [pdf] |
G. Charite. "Relaxing Breaks in Online University Lectures May Improve Learning Outcomes." Undergraduate Senior Thesis. 2023.
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K. Feng. "Rewriting Memory Lane: Investigating the Effect of Script Retraining on Memory Recall." Undergraduate Senior Thesis. 2023.
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S. Hutchinson. "Classifying Online Misinformation with Cognitively-Informed Features from Transformer Language Models." Undergraduate Senior Thesis. 2023.
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M.C. Keller. "How can we effectively reinstate narrative memory?." Undergraduate Senior Thesis. 2022.
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S. Shim. "Event Segmentation from Working Memory Load Manipulation." Undergraduate Senior Thesis. 2021.
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C. Baldassano. "Visual scene perception in the human brain: connections to memory, categorization, and social cognition." PhD Dissertation. 2015.
[Stanford Library] | [pdf] |