Real-world memory and the brain

Peer-reviewed Publications

• Eckardt D, Helion C, Schmidt H, Chen J, Murty V (2024). Storytelling changes the structure and perceived value of event memories. Cognition.
• Lee Y, Chen J (2024). The relationship between event boundarystrength and pattern shifts across the cortical hierarchy during naturalistic movie-viewing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
• Antony J, Lozano A, Dhoat P, Chen J, & Bennion K (2024). Causal network properties predict memory organization for non-linear narratives. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
• Chen J, Bornstein AM (2024) Thecausal structure and computational value of narratives. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
• Lee Masson H, Chen J, Isik L (2024). A shared neural code forsocial interaction perception and memory in the superior temporal sulcus. Neuropsychologia.
• Born S, Shi K, Lee Masson H, Lee H, Lee Y, Chen J (2023). Word-timestampedtranscripts of two spoken narrative recall functional neuroimaging datasets. Data in Brief.
• Nau M, Tarder-Stoll H, Greene A, Chen J, Baldassano C, Lossio-Ventura JA, Pereira F, Baker C (2023). Linking brain activity during viewing and recall of movie events through gaze behavior. Journal of Vision.
• Lee H, Chen J, Hasson U (2023). A functional neuroimaging dataset acquired during naturalistic movie watching and narrated recall of a series of short cinematic films. Data in Brief.
• Musz E, Loiotile RE, Chen J, Bedny M (2023). Naturalistic audio-movies reveal common spatial organization across "visual" cortices of different blind individuals. Cerebral Cortex.
• Zadbood A, Nastase SA, Chen J, Norman KA, Hasson U (2022). Neural representations of naturalistic events are updated as our understanding of the past changes. eLife.
• Lee H, Chen J (2022). Narratives as networks: Predicting memory from the structure of naturalistic events. Nature Communications. [link]
• Lee H, Chen J (2022). A generalized cortical activity pattern at internally-generated mental context boundaries during unguided narrative recall. eLife. [link]
• Musz E, Chen J (2022). Neural signatures of compression in the retelling of past events. Communications Biology. [link]
• Nastase SA, Liu Y-F, Hillman H, Zadbood A, Hasenfratz L, Keshavarzian N, Chen J, Honey J, Yeshurun Y, Regev M, Nguyen M, Chang CHC, Baldassano C, Lositsky O, Simony E, Chow MA, Leong YC, Brooks PP, Micciche E, Choe E, Goldstein A, Vanderwal T, Halchenko YO, Norman KA, Hasson U (2021). The “Narratives” fMRI dataset for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension. Scientific Data. [link]
• Leong YC, Chen J, Willer R, Zaki J (2021). Conservative and liberal attitudes drive polarized neural responses to political content. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [link]
• Lee H, Bellana B, Chen J (2020). What can narratives tell us about the neural bases of human memory? Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. [link]
• Zuo X, Honey CJ, Barense MD, Crombie D, Norman KA, Hasson U, Chen J (2020). Temporal integration of narrative information in a hippocampal amnesic patient. NeuroImage. [PDF]
• Sadeh T, Chen J, Y Goshen-Gottstein, Moscovitch M (2019). Overlap between hippocampal pre-encoding and encoding patterns supports episodic memory. Hippocampus. [PDF]
• Aly M, Chen J, Turk-Browne N, Hasson U (2018). Learning naturalistic temporal structure in the posterior medial network. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [PDF]
• Baldassano C, Chen J, Zadbood A, Pillow JW, Hasson U, & Norman KA (2017). Discovering event structure in continuous narrative perception and memory. Neuron. [PDF]
• Zadbood A, Chen J, Leong YC, Norman KA, & Hasson U (2017). How we transmit memories to other brains: constructing shared neural representations via communication. Cerebral Cortex. [PDF]
• Chen J*, Leong YC*, Honey CJ, Yong CH, Norman KA, Hasson U (2017). Shared memories reveal shared structure in neural activity across individuals. Nature Neuroscience. (*co-authorship) [PDF]
• Chen J, Honey CJ, Simony E, Arcaro MJ, Norman KA, Hasson U (2016). Accessing real-life episodic information from minutes versus hours earlier modulates hippocampal and high-order cortical dynamics. Cerebral Cortex. [PDF]
• Chen J, Hasson U, Honey CJ (2015, commentary). Processing timescales as an organizing principle for primate cortex. Neuron.
• Chen PH, Chen J, Yeshurun Y, Hasson U, Haxby J, Ramadge PJ (2015). A reduced-dimension fMRI shared response model. Neural Information Processing Systems.
• Hasson U, Chen J, Honey CJ. Hierarchical process memory: memory as an integral component of information processing (2015). Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
• Chen J, Cook PA, Wagner AD (2015). Prediction strength modulates responsesin human area CA1 to sequence violations. Journal of Neurophysiology.
• Gonzalez A, Hutchinson JB, Uncapher MR, Chen J, LaRocque KF, Foster BL, Rangarajan V, Parvizi J, Wagner AD (2015). Electrocorticography reveals the temporal dynamics of posterior parietal cortical activity during recognition memory decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Chen J, Dastjerdi M, Foster BL, Larocque KF, Rauschecker AM, Parvizi J, Wagner AD (2013). Human hippocampal increases in low-frequency power during associative prediction violations. Neuropsychologia.
• Chen J, Olsen RK, Preston AR, Glover GH, & Wagner AD (2011). Associative retrieval processes in the human medial temporal lobe: hippocampal retrieval success and CA1 mismatch detection. Learning & Memory.
• Rauschecker AM, Dastjerdi M, Weiner KS, Witthoft N, Chen J, Selimbeyoglu A, Parvizi J (2011). Illusions of visual motion elicited by electrical stimulation of human MT complex. PLoS ONE.
• Clausen TP, Chen J, Bryant JP,Provenza FD, Villalba J (2010). Dynamicsof the volatile defense of winter “dormant” balsam poplar (Populusbalsamifera). Journal of Chemical Ecology.
• Olsen RK, Nichols EA, Chen J, Hunt JF, Glover GH, Gabrieli JDE, Wagner, AD (2009). High-resolution fMRI of human medial temporal lobe reveals performance-related sustained and anticipatory activity during delayed-match-to-sample. Journal of Neuroscience.

Preprints

• Li X, Ni NK, Born S, Gualano RJ, Lee I, Bellana B*, Chen J* (under review). Agency personalizes episodic memories. PsyArXiv: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7evwj
• Nau M, Greene A, Tarder-Stoll H, Lossio-Ventura JA, Pereira F, Chen J, Baldassano C,Baker C (under review). Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events. bioRxiv: doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.19.619187
• Su H, Li X, Born S, Honey CJ, Chen J, Lee H (under review). Neural dynamics ofspontaneous memory recall and future thinking in the continuous flow of thoughts.
  bioRxiv: doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.02.616300

Other Publications

• Moral Narratives Workshop Proceedings (2023). Kim J, et al. PsyArXiv:10.31234/osf.io/m59vz.
• Zhang H, Chen PH, Chen J, Zhu X, Turek JS, Willkie TL, Hasson U,Ramadge PJ (2016). A searchlight factor model approach for locating shared information in multi-subject fMRI analysis. arXiv:1610.03914.
• Chen PH, Zhu X, Zhang H, Turek JS, ChenJ, WillkeTL, Hasson U, Ramadge PJ (2016). Aconvolutional autoencoder for multi-subject fMRI data aggregation. arXiv:1608.04846.