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fMRIbehaviorsubjective interpretations
Shifts in neural representations of ambiguous information predict reinterpretation.
Sava-Segal, C., Benson, T.✨, Finn, E.S.
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fMRIbehaviorsubjective interpretationsmemory
Reinterpretation counters self-bias in memory through representational updating.
Sava-Segal, C., Benson, T.✨, Finn, E.S.
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fMRIclinicalvision
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.

2026

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fMRIsubjective interpretations
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).

2025

Preprint
fMRIevent segmentation
Idiosyncratic event segmentation as a neural marker of loneliness.
Lu, C., Sava-Segal, C., Baek, E.C. (2025). OSF. Revise and resubmit.

2024

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iEEGvision
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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behaviormemory
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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behaviorsubjective interpretations
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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iEEGsymbolic systems
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

Proceedings
fMRI
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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fMRIbehaviorsubjective interpretationsevent segmentationmemory
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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iEEGclinicalnetworks
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.
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iEEGsymbolic systems
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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EEGexpertise
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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iEEGclinical
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).
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iEEGnetworks
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).

2020

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iEEGbehaviorclinical
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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EEGbehaviorsymbolic systemsvision
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.
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behaviorvision
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.

2019

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behaviorvision
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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