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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Idiosyncratic event segmentation as a neural marker of loneliness.
Lu, C., Sava-Segal, C., Baek, E.C. (2025). OSF.
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Narrative 'twist' shifts within-individual neural representations of dissociable story features.
Sava-Segal, C., Grall, C., Finn, E.S. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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.

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