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I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @USC will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
Sam Nastase
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Sam Nastase
@samnastase
- Replying to @Reza_Zadehcan't wait for one of these robots to dance right through my front door and arrest me
- fMRI people be like "I know a spot" and then run 50,000 statistical tests just to show you where it is (I'm sorry)
- How does the brain construct meaning from natural language? New preprint led by @sreejan_kumar @tedsumers with @TakaYamakoshi and @hawkrobe! We ask how the internal computations of a transformer-based language model map onto cortical language processing: doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…
- Excited to (finally!) share our preprint describing the "Narratives" collection—compiling 7 years worth of naturalistic story-listening fMRI datasets from @HassonLab and @ptoncompmemlab at @PrincetonNeuro: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
- Replying to @paulkrugmanpaul krugman has not personally experienced very much anti-muslim sentiment and is willing to misunderstand some data to prove it
- I have never been more excited to tell everyone about a paper! New preprint led by @zaidzada_ with @HassonLab: "A shared linguistic space for transmitting our thoughts from brain to brain in natural conversations" doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…
- In case you missed my talk at #SfN19: We're rolling out the "Narratives" collection with fMRI data for 300+ subjects listening to 20+ naturalistic spoken stories (750+ functional scans from @HassonLab @ptoncompmemlab). Data now available on @OpenNeuroOrg: openneuro.org/datasets/ds002…
- We have a short perspective piece out in the @NeuroImage_EiC special issue on Naturalistic Imaging where we try to articulate what a more "ecological" human neuroscience might look like—with a brief history of the term "ecological validity" doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…
- Happy to share that the "Narratives" data descriptor is now out @ScientificData! Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41597… Data: datasets.datalad.org/?dir=/labs/has… Website: snastase.github.io/datasets/ds002… Wanted to take this opportunity to highlight some projects already taking advantage of Narratives data:
- Devastating to watch colleagues I respect be completely overcome with collective psychosis and tribalism right now. The US government is bankrolling war crimes against the people of Gaza on a world-historic scale, and all you can do is chastise people for speaking up?
- If Elon Musk saying dumb shit about neuroscience pisses you off, wait til you hear about how he accumulates obscene wealth by exploiting the labor of working people.Replying to @elonmuskA prior track record of exceptional achievement in engineering *is* required, but *no* prior experience working on the brain or human physiology is required. We will teach you what’s known about the brain, which is not much tbh.
- Our tutorial review on intersubject correlation (ISC) analyses with @HassonLab, Valeria Gazzola, and Christian Keysers is now up on @biorxivpreprint: doi.org/10.1101/600114. Check out the accompanying Jupyter Notebook tutorial showcasing @UseBrainIAK: github.com/snastase/isc-t…
