We are located at New York University Langone Health campus in Manhattan.  Our laboratory is part of the Neuroscience Institute, and affiliated with Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience and Physiology, and Radiology. Below is a list of our representative publications by topic. 

Highlighted articles by topic

Perceptual Awareness

• Spatiotemporal neural dynamics of object recognition under uncertainty in humans. eLife 2023
• Frequency-specific neural signatures of perceptual content and perceptual stability, eLife 2022
• Long-term priors influence visual perception through recruitment of long-range feedback, Nature Communications 2021
• Cortical and subcortical signatures of conscious object recognition, Nature Communications 2021
• A dual role of prestimulus spontaneous neural activity in visual object recognition, Nature Communications 2019
• Initial-state-dependent, robust, transient neural dynamics encode conscious visual perception, PLoS Computational Biology 2017
• Modulating Conscious Movement Intention by Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and the Underlying Neural Mechanisms, Journal of Neuroscience 2015
• Spatiotemporal Dissociation of Brain Activity underlying Subjective Awareness, Objective Performance and Confidence, Journal of Neuroscience 2014
• Brain mechanisms for simple perception and bistable perception, PNAS 2013

Priors in Perception / One-shot Perceptual Learning

• Long-term priors influence visual perception through recruitment of long-range feedback, Nature Communications 2021
• One-trial perceptual learning in the absence of conscious remembering and independent of the medial temporal lobe, PNAS 2021
• A Gradient of Sharpening Effects by Perceptual Prior across the Human Cortical Hierarchy, Journal of Neuroscience 2021
• Neural dynamics of visual ambiguity resolution by perceptual prior, eLife 2019
• Content-specific activity in frontoparietal and default-mode networks during prior-guided visual perception, eLife 2018
• Unconsciously Elicited Perceptual Prior, Neuroscience of Consciousness 2016

1/f Aperiodic Brain Activity and its Functional Roles

• Neural integration underlying naturalistic prediction flexibly adapts to varying sensory input rate, Nature Communications 2021
• Neural Integration of Stimulus History Underlies Prediction for Naturalistically Evolving Sequences, Journal of Neuroscience 2018
• Random Recurrent Networks Near Criticality Capture the Broadband Power Distribution of Human ECoG Dynamics, Cerebral Cortex 2017
• Scale-Free Neural and Physiological Dynamics in Naturalistic Stimuli Processing, eNeuro 2016
• Scale-Free Properties of the Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Signal during Rest and Task, Journal of Neuroscience 2011
• The temporal structures and functional significance of scale-free brain activity, Neuron 2010

How Spontaneous Activity Influences Task Processing

• Spectral signature and behavioral consequence of spontaneous shifts of pupil-linked arousal in human, eLife 2021
• Average is Optimal: An Inverted-U Relationship between Trial-to-Trial Brain Activity and Behavioral Performance, PLoS Computational Biology 2013
• Spontaneous and Task-Evoked Brain Activity Negatively Interact, Journal of Neuroscience 2013

Reviews

• Next frontiers in consciousness research. Neuron 2023
• Towards a pluralistic neurobiological understanding of consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2023
• Spontaneous Perception: a framework for task-free, self-paced perception. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2021
• Neuromodulation of brain state and behavior. Annual Reviews of Neuroscience 2020
• Beyond trial-based paradigms: Continuous behavior, ongoing neural activity, and natural stimuli, Journal of Neuroscience 2018
• Robust, transient neural dynamics during conscious perception, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2018
• Volition and action in the human brain: processes, pathologies, and reasons, Journal of Neuroscience 2017
• Scale-free brain activity: past, present and future, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2014
• The fMRI signal, slow cortical potential and consciousness, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2009