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.

Publications Talks

Selected Publications, Preprints & Conference Proceedings

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2025

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Idiosyncratic event segmentation as a neural marker of loneliness.
Lu, C., Sava-Segal, C., Baek, E.C. (2025). OSF.
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Representative work
Narrative 'twist' shifts within-individual neural representations of dissociable story features
Sava-Segal, C., Grall, C., Finn, E.S. (2025). bioRxiv.

2024

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

2023

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A multi-subject deconvolution algorithm for the analysis of naturalistic fMRI data
Uruñuela, E., Sava-Segal, C., Leung, M.✨, Finn, E.S., Caballero-Gaudes, C. (2023). Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
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Individual differences in neural event segmentation of continuous experiences
Sava-Segal, C., Richards, C., Leung, M.✨, & Finn, E.S. (2023). Cerebral Cortex.

2021

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Overlapping neuronal population responses in the human parietal cortex during visuospatial attention and arithmetic processing
Liu, N., Pinheiro-Chagas, P., Sava-Segal, C., Kastner, S., Chen, Q., & Parvizi, J. (2021). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
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Expertise modulates neural stimulus-tracking
Brookshire, G., Mangelsdorf, H.H., Sava-Segal, C., Reis, K., Nusbaum, H., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Casasanto, D. (2021). ENeuro.
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Altered sense of self during seizures in the posteromedial cortex
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). PNAS.

2020

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Deep posteromedial cortical rhythm in dissociation
Vesuna, S., Kauvar, I.V., Richman, E., Gore, F., Oskotsky, T., Sava-Segal, C., Luo, L., Malenka, R.C., Henderson, J.M., Nuyujukian, P., Parvizi, J., & Deisseroth, K. (2020). Nature.
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Unconscious number discrimination in the human visual system
Lucero, C., Brookshire, G., Sava-Segal, C., Bottini, R., Goldin-Meadow, S., Vogel, E.K., & Casasanto, D. (2020). Cerebral Cortex.

Selected Talks on Newer Work (all representative)

Upcoming

Self- versus other-generated interpretations of ambiguous social information are asymmetrically remembered. Symposium Talk – New Directions in Social Learning and Memory, Social Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS). Upcoming April 2026.
Understanding in flux: how reinterpretation reshapes patterns of neural activity. Richardson Lab, University of Edinburgh. Upcoming March 2026.
Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the subjective interpretation of complex experiences. BrainWorks Seminars: Current Works in Human Neuroscience at the Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University. Upcoming Feb 2026.

Recent

Shifts in neural activity predict subjective reinterpretation of ambiguous stimuli. Blitz Talk – Trends in Psychology Summit, Harvard University (Cognition, Brain, and Behavior area). May 2025.
Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the subjective interpretation of complex experiences. Lab Meeting – Scaffolding of Cognition Lab (PI: Cameron Ellis), Stanford University (virtual). May 2025.
Within-individual neural patterns differ for memories of self- and other-generated interpretations of the same stimuli. Data Blitz, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA. March 2025.
Individual differences in event segmentation of continuous experiences – methodological considerations. Lab Meeting – Social Connection Lab (PI: Elisa Baek), University of Southern California (virtual). February 2025.
Real-world social inputs trigger shifts in neural activity patterns and reinterpretations of ambiguous stimuli. Presentation at the Nanosymposium on Neural Bases of Human Social Cognition and Connection, Society for Neuroscience (SfN). October 2024.

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