About

I’m currently a research scholar and lecturer working with Uri Hasson and Ken Norman at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. I completed my PhD with Jim Haxby at Dartmouth College.

The core questions driving my research are “What is shared between individual brains?” and “How do we share our thoughts with one another?”—using language and other coordinated actions. My core expertise is in developing naturalistic experimental paradigms—using fMRI and ECoG—to better answer these questions in real-world contexts. My current work uses deep learning to better understand the neural computations driving social cognition.

Recent work

For an example of our most recent work, check out this project led by Zaid Zada now published in Neuron: link. We use embeddings from a large language model to track the flow of linguistic information from one brain to another in face-to-face conversations between pairs of ECoG patients.

^{Zada, Z., Goldstein, A. Y., Michelmann, S., Simony, E., Price, A., Hasenfratz, L., Barham, E., Zadbood, A., Doyle, W., Friedman, D., Dugan, P., Melloni, L., Devore, S., Flinker, A., Devinsky, O., Hasson, U.*, & Nastase, S. A.* (2024). A shared linguistic space for transmitting our thoughts from brain to brain in natural conversations. Neuron, 112(18), 3211–3222. DOI PDF}