The Perception and Brain Dynamics Laboratory is located at NYU Langone Health's campus in Manhattan. Our laboratory is part of the Neuroscience Institute, and affiliated with Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience and Physiology, and Radiology. Below is a list of our representative publications by topic.

Perceptual Awareness

• Spatiotemporal neural dynamics of object recognition under uncertainty in humans, eLife, 2023
• Frequency-specific neural signatures of perceptual content and perceptual stability, eLife, 2022
• Long-term priors influence visual perception through recruitment of long-range feedback, Nature Communications, 2021
• Cortical and subcortical signatures of conscious object recognition, Nature Communications, 2021
• A dual role of prestimulus spontaneous neural activity in visual object recognition, Nature Communications, 2019
• Initial-state-dependent, robust, transient neural dynamics encode conscious visual perception, PLoS Computational Biology, 2017
• Modulating Conscious Movement Intention by Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and the Underlying Neural Mechanisms, Journal of Neuroscience, 2015
• Spatiotemporal Dissociation of Brain Activity underlying Subjective Awareness, Objective Performance and Confidence, Journal of Neuroscience, 2014
• Brain mechanisms for simple perception and bistable perception, PNAS, 2013

Priors in Perception/One-Shot Perceptual Learning

• Long-term priors influence visual perception through recruitment of long-range feedback, Nature Communications, 2021
• One-trial perceptual learning in the absence of conscious remembering and independent of the medial temporal lobe, PNAS, 2021
• A Gradient of Sharpening Effects by Perceptual Prior across the Human Cortical Hierarchy, Journal of Neuroscience, 2021
• Neural dynamics of visual ambiguity resolution by perceptual prior, eLife, 2019
• Content-specific activity in frontoparietal and default-mode networks during prior-guided visual perception, eLife, 2018
• Unconsciously Elicited Perceptual Prior, Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2016

1/f Aperiodic Brain Activity and Its Functional Roles

• Neural integration underlying naturalistic prediction flexibly adapts to varying sensory input rate, Nature Communications, 2021
• Neural Integration of Stimulus History Underlies Prediction for Naturalistically Evolving Sequences, Journal of Neuroscience, 2018
• Random Recurrent Networks Near Criticality Capture the Broadband Power Distribution of Human ECoG Dynamics, Cerebral Cortex, 2017
• Scale-Free Neural and Physiological Dynamics in Naturalistic Stimuli Processing, eNeuro, 2016
• Scale-Free Properties of the Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Signal during Rest and Task, Journal of Neuroscience, 2011
• The temporal structures and functional significance of scale-free brain activity, Neuron, 2010

How Spontaneous Activity Influences Task Processing

• Spectral signature and behavioral consequence of spontaneous shifts of pupil-linked arousal in human, eLife, 2021
• Average is Optimal: An Inverted-U Relationship between Trial-to-Trial Brain Activity and Behavioral Performance, PLoS Computational Biology, 2013
• Spontaneous and Task-Evoked Brain Activity Negatively Interact, Journal of Neuroscience, 2013

Reviews

• Next frontiers in consciousness research, Neuron, 2023
• Towards a pluralistic neurobiological understanding of consciousness, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023
• Spontaneous Perception: a framework for task-free, self-paced perception, Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021
• Neuromodulation of brain state and behavior, Annual Reviews of Neuroscience, 2020
• Beyond trial-based paradigms: Continuous behavior, ongoing neural activity, and natural stimuli, Journal of Neuroscience, 2018
• Robust, transient neural dynamics during conscious perception, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2018
• Volition and action in the human brain: processes, pathologies, and reasons, Journal of Neuroscience, 2017
• Scale-free brain activity: past, present and future, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2014
• The fMRI signal, slow cortical potential and consciousness, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2009