Publications

2025

Almeida, J., Kristensen, S., Tal, Z., & Fracasso, A. (2025). Contentopic mapping in ventral and dorsal association cortex: the topographical organization of manipulable object information. NeuroImage, 121514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121514

Urbaniak, M., Paczyńska, M., Caramazza, A., & Bola, Ł. (2025). Neural representation of nouns and verbs in congenitally blind and sighted individuals. Nature Communications, 16(1), 8090. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63423-0

Caglar, L. R., Walbrin, J., Akwayena, E., Almeida, J., & Mahon, B. Z. (2025). Object-directed action representations are componentially built in parietal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(34), e2421032122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2421032122

Martinez-Addiego, F., Liu, Y., Moon, K., Shytle, E., Amaral, L., O’Brien, C., ... & Striem-Amit, E. (2025). Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(34), e2503188122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2503188122

Fernandes, P., Lee, S., Kable, J. W., Seidel, P., Almeida, J., Eriksson, J., ... & Bergstrom, F. (2025). Subliminal risk influences subjective value in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. bioRxiv, 2025-03. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.11.642695

Valério, D., Peres, A., Bergström, F., Seidel, P., & Almeida, J. (2025). Neural and behavioral similarity-driven tuning curves for manipulable objects. Imaging Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00482

Fischer, J. (2025). Visual simulation: Catching a glimpse of what’s to come. Current Biology, 35(1), R21-R23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.018

2024

Liu, S., Wurm, M. F., & Caramazza, A. (2024). Dissociating goal from outcome during action observation. Cerebral Cortex, 34(12), bhae487. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae487

Hussain, A., Walbrin, J., Tochadse, M., & Almeida, J. (2024). Primary manipulation knowledge of objects is associated with the functional coupling of pMTG and aIPS. Neuropsychologia, 109034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109034

Carvalho, J., Abdollahzadeh, A., & Ferrari, R. J. (2024). Deep learning and neuroimage processing in understanding neurological diseases. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 18, 1523973. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2024.1523973

Mahon, B. Z., & Almeida, J. (2024). Reciprocal interactions among parietal and occipitotemporal representations support everyday object-directed actions. Neuropsychologia, 198, 108841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108841

Walbrin, J., Sossounov, N., Mahdiani, M., Vaz, I., & Almeida, J. (2024). Fine-grained knowledge about manipulable objects is well-predicted by CLIP. iScience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110297

Walbrin, J., Downing, P. E., Sotero, F. D., & Almeida, J. (2024). Characterizing the discriminability of visual categorical information in strongly connected voxels. Neuropsychologia, 195, 108815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108815

PREPRINT AVAILABLE Peres, A., Valério, D., Vaz, I., Mahdiani, M., Walbrin, J., & Almeida, J. (2024). fMROI: a simple and adaptable toolbox for easy region-of-interest creation. bioRxiv, 2024-03. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.29.587330

2023

Almeida, J., Kristensen, S., Tal, Z., & Fracasso, A. (2023). Contentopic mapping in ventral and dorsal association cortex: the topographical organization of manipulable object information. bioRxiv, 2023-11. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.29.568856