Evolution is a blind fitting process by which organisms become adapted to their environment.
Does the brain use similar brute-force fitting processes to learn how to perceive and act …

Information that is shared across brains is encoded in idiosyncratic fine-scale functional
topographies. Hyperalignment captures shared information by projecting pattern vectors for …

People organize and convey their thoughts according to narratives. However, neuroscientists
are often reluctant to incorporate narrative stimuli into their experiments. We argue that …

Departing from traditional linguistic models, advances in deep learning have resulted in a
new type of predictive (autoregressive) deep language models (DLMs). Using a self-…

Our capacity to jointly represent information about the world underpins our social experience.
By leveraging one individual’s brain activity to model another’s, we can measure shared …

Naturalistic experimental paradigms in neuroimaging arose from a pressure to test the validity
of models we derive from highly-controlled experiments in real-world contexts. In many …

The “Narratives” collection aggregates a variety of functional MRI datasets collected while
human subjects listened to naturalistic spoken stories. The current release includes 345 …

Humans prioritize different semantic qualities of a complex stimulus depending on their
behavioral goals. These semantic features are encoded in distributed neural populations, yet it is …

Piecing together the meaning of a narrative requires understanding not only the individual
words but also the intricate relationships between them. How does the brain construct this …

When listening to spoken narratives, we must integrate information over multiple, concurrent
timescales, building up from words to sentences to paragraphs to a coherent narrative. …