Functional neuroimaging in psychiatry and the case for failing better

MM Nour, Y Liu, RJ Dolan - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Psychiatric disorders encompass complex aberrations of cognition and affect and are
among the most debilitating and poorly understood of any medical condition. Current …

Decoding cognition from spontaneous neural activity

Y Liu, MM Nour, NW Schuck, TEJ Behrens… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In human neuroscience, studies of cognition are rarely grounded in non-task-
evoked,'spontaneous' neural activity. Indeed, studies of spontaneous activity tend to focus …

Generative replay underlies compositional inference in the hippocampal-prefrontal circuit

P Schwartenbeck, A Baram, Y Liu, S Mark, T Muller… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Human reasoning depends on reusing pieces of information by putting them together in new
ways. However, very little is known about how compositional computation is implemented in …

Enhancing precision in human neuroscience

S Nebe, M Reutter, DH Baker, J Bölte, G Domes… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Human neuroscience has always been pushing the boundary of what is measurable. During
the last decade, concerns about statistical power and replicability–in science in general, but …

Impaired neural replay of inferred relationships in schizophrenia

MM Nour, Y Liu, A Arumuham, Z Kurth-Nelson… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
An ability to build structured mental maps of the world underpins our capacity to imagine
relationships between objects that extend beyond experience. In rodents, such …

Trajectories through semantic spaces in schizophrenia and the relationship to ripple bursts

MM Nour, DC McNamee, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Human cognition is underpinned by structured internal representations that encode
relationships between entities in the world (cognitive maps). Clinical features of …

How our understanding of memory replay evolves

ZS Chen, MA Wilson - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Memory reactivations and replay, widely reported in the hippocampus and cortex across
species, have been implicated in memory consolidation, planning, and spatial and skill …

Replay in minds and machines

L Wittkuhn, S Chien, S Hall-McMaster… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Experience-related brain activity patterns reactivate during sleep, wakeful rest, and brief
pauses from active behavior. In parallel, machine learning research has found that …

Replay-triggered brain-wide activation in humans

Q Huang, Z Xiao, Q Yu, Y Luo, J Xu, Y Qu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The consolidation of discrete experiences into a coherent narrative shapes the cognitive
map, providing structured mental representations of our experiences. In this process, past …

Distinct replay signatures for prospective decision-making and memory preservation

GE Wimmer, Y Liu, DC McNamee… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Theories of neural replay propose that it supports a range of functions, most prominently
planning and memory consolidation. Here, we test the hypothesis that distinct signatures of …