Research & Publications

I've been lucky to work on a number of different intersecting topics and methods. Publications, preprints, and conference proceedings are listed below, and can be filtered accordingly. See my CV for a complete list of publications and presentations. A * marks work that may be indicative of future directions, and a ✦ marks a student I've mentored. PDF copies are for personal use only; copyright remains with the respective publishers.

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Reinterpretation counters self-bias in memory through representational updating.
Sava-Segal, C., Benson, T.✦, Finn, E.S.
Neural representational alignment in developmental prosopagnosia differs beyond visual regions during naturalistic visual processing.
Kidder, A.*, Sava-Segal, C.*, Finn, E.S., Duchaine, B., Baker, C.I. VSS, 2026.
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Publications, Preprints & Conference Proceedings

Preprint (bioRxiv)
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Shifts in neural representations, not gaze, track how people reinterpret ambiguous social scenes.
Sava-Segal, C., Benson, T.✦, Finn, E.S. (2026). bioRxiv.
PDF Code (GitHub) Data (OpenNeuro)
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Narrative 'twist' shifts within-individual neural representations of dissociable story features.
Sava-Segal, C., Grall, C., Finn, E.S. (2026). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Preprint (PsyArXiv)
Idiosyncratic event segmentation as a neural marker of loneliness.
Lu, C., Sava-Segal, C., Baek, E.C. (2025). OSF. Revise and resubmit.
Spatiotemporal hierarchies of face representation in the human ventral temporal cortex.
Salehi, S., Schrouff, J., Dehaqani, M.R.A., Sava-Segal, C., Raccah, O., Baek, S. (2024). Scientific Reports.
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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.
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.
Proceedings (ISMRM)
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).
PDF Code (GitHub) Data (OpenNeuro)
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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.
Intracranial electroencephalography reveals selective task-evoked responses and resting state connectivity of periventricular heterotopias.
Akkol, S., Kucyi, A., Hu, W.H., Zhao, B., Zhang, C., Sava-Segal, C., Liu, S., Razavi, B., Zhang, J., Zhang, K., & Parvizi, J. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience.
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.
Expertise modulates neural stimulus-tracking.
Brookshire, G., Mangelsdorf, H.H., Sava-Segal, C., Reis, K., Nusbaum, H., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Casasanto, D. (2021). ENeuro.
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). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Temporal order of signal propagation within and across intrinsic brain networks.
Veit, M.J., Kucyi, A., Hu, W., Zhang, C., Zhao, B., Guo, Z., Yang, B., Sava-Segal, C., Perry, C., Zhang, J., Zhang, K., & Parvizi, J. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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.
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.
Effects of repetition suppression on sound-induced flash illusion with aging.
Sun, Y., Liu, X., Li, B., Sava-Segal, C., Wang, A., & Zhang, M. (2020). Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 216.
The effects of cognitive expectation on sound-induced flash illusion.
Wang, A., Sang, H., He, J., Sava-Segal, C., Tang, X., & Zhang, M. (2019). Perception, 48(12), 1214–1234.

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