Funding

European Research Council (ERC) starting grant, 2010-2015.
Topic: How the human brain codes the past to predict the future.

See lab website for more information on research interests, personnel, and complete publication list with download options.

Representative Publications

Regularity, Prediction, and Language organization

Hasson, U. (2016). The neurobiology of uncertainty: implications for statistical learning Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society [B]. in press.

Andric, M., Goldin-Meadow, S., Small, S. L., & Hasson, U. (2016). Repeated movie viewings produce similar local activity patterns but different network configurations. NeuroImage. in press.

Davis, B., & Hasson, U. (2016). Predictability of what or where reduces brain activity, but a bottleneck occurs when both are predictable. NeuroImage. in press.

Tremblay, P., Deschamps, I., Baroni, M., & Hasson, U. (2016). Neural sensitivity to syllable frequency and mutual information in speech perception and production. NeuroImage. in press.

Cashdollar, N., Ruhnau, P., Weisz, N., & Hasson, U. (2016). The role of working memory in the probabilistic inference of future sensory events. Cerebral Cortex. in press.

Hasson, U., Andric, M., Atilgan, H., & Collignon, O. (2016). Congenital blindness is associated with large-scale reorganization of anatomical networks. NeuroImage, 128. 362-372.

Hartzell, J. F., Davis, B., Melcher, D., Miceli, G., Jovicich, J., Nath, T., Singh, N. C., & Hasson, U. (2016). Brains of verbal memory specialists show anatomical differences in language, memory and visual systems. NeuroImage, 131. 181-192.

Andric, M., & Hasson, U. (2015). Global features of functional brain networks change with contextual disorder. NeuroImage, 117. 103-113.

Nastase, S., Iacovella, V., Davis, B., & Hasson, U. (2015). Connectivity in the human brain dissociates entropy and complexity of auditory inputs. NeuroImage, 105. 292-300.

Nastase, S., Iacovella, V., & Hasson, U. (2014). Uncertainty in visual and auditory series is coded by modality-general and modality-specific neural systems. Human Brain Mapping, 35. 1111-1128.

Tobia, M. J., Iacovella, V., Davis, B., & Hasson, U. (2012). Neural systems mediating recognition of changes in statistical regularities. NeuroImage, 63. 1730-1742.

Tobia, M. J., Iacovella, V., & Hasson, U. (2012). Multiple sensitivity profiles to diversity and transition structure in non-stationary input. NeuroImage, 60. 991-1005.

Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Abstract coding of audiovisual speech: Beyond sensory representation. Neuron, 56. 1116-1126.

Hasson, U., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Brain networks subserving the extraction of sentence information and its encoding to memory. Cerebral Cortex, 17. 2899-2913.

Hasson, U., Simmons, J. P., & Todorov, A. (2005). Believe it or not: On the possibility of suspending belief. Psychological Science, 16. 566-571.

Resting-State Processes

Davis, B., Tagliazucchi, E., Jovicich, J., Laufs, H., & Hasson, U. (2016). Progression to deep sleep is characterized by changes to BOLD dynamics in sensory cortices. NeuroImage, 130 , 293-305

Hartzell, J. F., Tobia, M. J., Cashdollar, N. M., Davis, B., & Hasson, U. (2015). Differential lateralization of hippocampal connectivity reflects features of recent context and ongoing demands: An examination of immediate post-task activity. Human Brain Mapping, 36, 519-537.

Davis, B., Jovicich, J., Iacovella, V., & Hasson, U. (2014). Functional and developmental significance of amplitude variance asymmetry in the BOLD resting state signal. Cerebral Cortex, 24. 1332-1350.

Iacovella, V., & Hasson, U. (2011). The relationship between BOLD signal and autonomic nervous system functions: Implications for processing of "physiological noise". Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 29. 1338-1345

Hasson, U., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2009). Task-dependent organization of brain regions active during rest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106. 10841-10846.