Research & Publications

Below you'll find my recent publications, conference proceedings, presentations, and related code. For the most up-to-date information, please refer to Google Scholar or my CV.

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Selected Publications, Preprints & Conference Proceedings

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2025

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Sava-Segal, C., Grall, C., Finn, E.S. (2025). Narrative 'twist' shifts within-individual neural representations of dissociable story features. bioRxiv.

2024

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Sava-Segal, C., Finn, E.S. (2024). Self- versus other-generated interpretations of ambiguous social stimuli are asymmetrically remembered. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
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Benson, T.✨, Sava-Segal, C., Finn, E.S. (2024). Personality Traits Predict the Valence but not Semantic Content of Narrative Interpretations. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
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Pinheiro-Chagas, P., Sava-Segal, C., Serdar Akkol, Daitch, A., Parvizi, J. (2024). Spatiotemporal dynamics of successive activations across the human brain during a simple cognitive task. Journal of Neuroscience.

2023

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Sava-Segal, C., Richards, C., Leung, M.✨, & Finn, E.S. (2023). Individual differences in neural event segmentation of continuous experiences. Cerebral Cortex.
https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad106

2021

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Liu, N., Pinheiro-Chagas, P., Sava-Segal, C., Kastner, S., Chen, Q., & Parvizi, J. (2021). Overlapping Neuronal Population Responses in the Human Parietal Cortex during Visuospatial Attention and Arithmetic Processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(12), 2548-2558.
https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01775
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Brookshire, G., Mangelsdorf, H.H., Sava-Segal, C., Reis, K., Nusbaum, H., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Casasanto, D. (2021). Expertise Modulates Neural Stimulus-Tracking. ENeuro, 8(4), ENEURO.0065-21.2021.
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0065-21.2021
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Parvizi, J., Braga, R.M., Kucyi, A., Veit, M.J., Pinheiro-Chagas, P., Perry, C., Sava-Segal, C., Zeineh, M., van Staalduinen, E.K., Henderson, J.M., & Markert, M. (2021). Altered sense of self during seizures in the posteromedial cortex. PNAS, 118(29), e2100522118.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2100522118

Selected Talks

Sava-Segal, C., Benson, T., Finn, E.S. (October 2024). Real-world social inputs trigger shifts in neural activity patterns and reinterpretations of ambiguous stimuli. Presentation at Nanosymposium on Neural Bases of Human Social Cognition and Connection, Society for Neuroscience (SfN).
Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the subjective interpretations of complex experiences (April 2024). Invited Lab Meeting, Section on Learning and Plasticity (PI – Chris Baker), NIH.
Sava-Segal, C., Grall, C., Bartolino, K., Equita, J., Benson, T., Finn, E.S. (July 2023). Narrative 'twists' shift neural representations. Presentation at the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Montreal, CA.
Individual variability in neural event segmentation reflects stimulus content and interpretation (November 2022). Baldassano & Aly Lab Meeting at Columbia University, NY.
(Re)appraisal of ambiguous stimuli (August 2022). Text Analysis (Natural Language Processing) Meeting at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
Individual variability in neural event segmentation reflects stimulus content and interpretation (March 2022). Whifield-Gabrieli Lab Meeting at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. (Virtual)
Exploring idiosyncrasies in the appraisal of naturalistic events (August 2021). University of Chicago Psychology Dept. Joint Lab Meeting - Rosenberg, Bainbridge, Leung Labs, Chicago, IL. (Virtual)

Selected Poster Presentations

Sava-Segal, C., Benson, T., Finn, E.S. (2024). Multivariate neural pattern changes reflect within-subject shifts in subjective interpretations. Presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seoul, Korea.
Sava-Segal, C., Grall, C., Bartolino, K., Equita, J., Benson, T., Finn, E.S. (2023). Narrative 'twists' shift neural representations. Presentation at the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Montreal, CA.
Sava-Segal, C., Finn, E.S. (2023). Shifting interpretations of multistable, "naturalistic" stimuli. Presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Sava-Segal, C., Finn, E.S. (2022). Individual variability in neural event segmentation reflects stimulus content and interpretation. Presented at the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Glasgow, UK.
Sava-Segal, C.*, Zhang, C.*, Zhao, B., Kucyi, A., Tao, A., Ko, H.J., Yih, J., Parvizi, J. (2022). Direct cortical recordings in the human brain during race categorization of faces. Presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
🏆 Graduate Student Award Winner
Sava-Segal, C., Finn, E.S. (2021). Exploring the role of event boundaries in idiosyncratic memory formation. Presented at the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (virtual).

See my CV for a complete list of publications and presentations.