Sam Nastase
@samnastase
postdoc in @HassonLab + lecturer @PrincetonNeuro丨he/him丨semiprofessional dungeon master丨🍉
Really excited to share our new preprint led by @ahmadmsamara with @zaidzada_, Tammy Vanderwal, and @HassonLab titled "Cortical language areas are coupled via a soft hierarchy of model-based linguistic features" doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…
Uncritical adoption of AI “undermines our basic pedagogical values and principles of scientific integrity. It prevents us from maintaining our standards of independence & transparency. And most concerning, (…) hinder learning & deskill critical thought.” openletter.earth/open-letter-st…
New preprint! tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵 w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany, @e_mackevicius biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Excited to share our News&Views on @ykamit et al.'s @NatComputSci paper! Their neural code converter enables transformation of brain activity patterns across individuals, and it doesn't need shared stimuli or connectivity information! nature.com/articles/s4358…
Many thanks to @mafeilong and Yuqi Zhang for their thoughtful News & Views commentary on our paper. Appreciate the expert perspective! nature.com/articles/s4358…
Our new study in @NatComputSci, led by Haibao Wang, presents a neural code converter aligning brain activity across individuals & scanners without shared stimuli by minimizing content loss, paving the way for scalable decoding and cross-site data analysis. nature.com/articles/s4358…
Check out our latest work in @NatureComms - we show that others’ feelings and our inferences can both be predicted from our brain activity, and that we are more accurate when these brain patterns align. feat. @zakijam @torwager d. ong, s. mattek, & @IsabellaKahhale
Music is an incredibly powerful retrieval cue. What is the neural basis of music-evoked memory reactivation? And how does this reactivation relate to later memory? In our new study, we used Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to find out. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Finally, we developed a set of interactive tutorials for preprocessing and running encoding models to get you started. Happy to hear any feedback or field any questions about the dataset! hassonlab.github.io/podcast-ecog-t…
We’re excited to share our unique ECoG dataset for natural language comprehension. The paper is now on Scientific Data (nature.com/articles/s4159…) and data is on OpenNeuro (openneuro.org/datasets/ds005…). @zaidzada_ @samnastase
Thrilled to share our latest work in @Nature studying inter-brain neural dynamics in both biological and artificial intelligence systems — amazing work by @xzh_brain, Nguyen Phi, and fantastic collaboration with @JonathanCKao! Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euu5Z
How do different languages converge on a shared neural substrate for conceptual meaning? We’re excited to share our latest preprint that specifically addresses this question, led by @zaidzada_
Ayoo new publication out with the man @samnastase and infamous Michael Graziano! doi.org/10.1162/jocn.a… When we meditate we monitor our own attention. When we interact with others we monitor their attention. What neural mechanisms are shared for the metacognition of attention?