Using movies and narratives as naturalistic stimuli in human neuroimaging studies has
yielded significant advances in understanding of cognitive and emotional functions. The …

For successful communication, we need to understand the external world consistently with
others. This task requires sufficiently similar cognitive schemas or psychological …

Powerful speeches can captivate audiences, whereas weaker speeches fail to engage their
listeners. What is happening in the brains of a captivated audience? Here, we assess …

Neuroimaging has advanced our understanding of human psychology using reductionist
stimuli that often do not resemble information the brain naturally encounters. It has improved …

Listening to speech in the noisy conditions of everyday life can be effortful, reflecting the
increased cognitive workload involved in extracting meaning from a degraded acoustic …

The neural correlates of narrative production and comprehension remain poorly understood.
Here, using positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging …

How do predictions in the brain incorporate the temporal unfolding of context in our natural
environment? We here provide evidence for a neural coding scheme that sparsely updates …

Individuals often align their emotional states during conversation. Here, we reveal how such
emotional alignment is reflected in synchronization of brain activity across speakers and …

Blindness is a unique model for understanding the role of experience in the development of
the brain's functional and anatomical architecture. Documenting changes in the structure of …

The brain functional mechanisms underlying emotional changes have been primarily
studied based on the traditional task design with discrete and simple stimuli. However, the …