* This page lists recent and representative research products. Other information can be found on my ORCID page.
Recent papers and preprints
Moguilner, S., Tiraboschi, E., Fantoni, G., Strelevitz, H., Soleimani, H., Del Torre, L., Hasson, U., & Haase, A. (2025). Neuronal correlates of sleep in honey bees. Neural Networks, in press.
Notaro, G., & Hasson, U. (2025). Quantifying sighting dominance using on-display projections of monocular and binocular views. Behavior Research Methods, 57.
Truong, N., Pesenti, D., & Hasson, U. (2025). Explaining human comparisons using alignment-importance heatmaps. Computational Brain & Behavior, in press.
Koba, C., Crimi, A., Collignon, O., Ricciardi, E., & Hasson, U. (2024). Neural networks associated with eye movements in congenital blindness. European Journal of Neuroscience, 60, 4624-4638.
Bao, W., & Hasson, U. (2024). Identifying and interpreting non-aligned human conceptual representations using language modeling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.06204.
Flechas, M. N., Bao, W., Herbelot, A., & Hasson, U. (2023). Enhancing Interpretability using human similarity judgements to prune word embeddings. Proceedings of the 6th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP. doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.blackboxnlp-1.13
Tarigopula, P., Fairhall, S., Bavaresco, A., Truong, N., & Hasson, U. (2023). Improved prediction of behavioral and neural similarity spaces using pruned DNNs. Neural Networks, 168. 89-104
Notaro, G., & Hasson, U. (2021). Semantically predictable input streams impede gaze-orientation to surprising locations. Cortex, 139. 222-239.
Koba, C., Notaro, G., Tamm, S., Nilsonne, G., & Hasson, U. (2021). Spontaneous eye-movements during eyes-open rest reduce resting-state-network modularity by increasing visual-sensorimotor connectivity. Network Neuroscience, 5. 451-476.
Other representative publications
Hasson, U., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2019). Emerging opportunities for advancing Cognitive Neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3. 363-365.
Notaro, G., van Zoest, W., Altman, M., Melcher, D., & Hasson, U. (2019). Predictions as a window into learning: anticipatory fixation offsets carry more information about environmental statistics than stimulus-responses. Journal of Vision, 19. 10.1167/19.2.8
Hasson, U., Egidi, G., Marelli, M., & Willems, R. (2018). Grounding the neurobiology of language in first principles: The necessity of non-language-centric explanations for language comprehension. Cognition, 180. 135-157.
Skipper, J. I., & Hasson, U. (2017). A core speech circuit between primary motor,somatosensory, and auditory cortex: evidence from connectivity and genetic descriptions. bioRxiv. 139550; doi: 10.1101/139550
Iacovella, V., Faes, L., & Hasson. (2018). Task-induced deactivation in diverse brain systems correlates with interindividual differences in distinct autonomic indices Neuropsychologia, 113. 29-42. bioRxiv preprint
Nastase, S. A., Davis, B., & Hasson. (2018). Cross-modal and non-monotonic representations of statistical regularity are encoded in local neural response patterns. NeuroImage, 173. 509-517. bioRxiv preprint
Hasson, U., Iacovacci, J., Davis, B., Flanagan, R., Tagliazucchi E., Laufs, H., & Lacasa L. (2017). A combinatorial framework to quantify peak/pit asymmetries in complex dynamics. Scientific Reports, 8. arXiv preprint
Zacà, D., Hasson, U., Minati, L., & Jovicich, J. (2018). A method for retrospective estimation of natural head movement during structural MRI. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging, 48. 927-937.
Andric, M., Davis, B., & Hasson, U. (2017). Visual cortex signals a mismatch between regularity of auditory and visual streams. NeuroImage, 157. 648-659.
Atilgan, H., Collignon, O., & Hasson, U. (2017). Structural neuroplasticity of the superior temporal plane in early and late blindness. Brain & Language, 170. 71-81.
Hasson, U. (2017). The neurobiology of uncertainty: implications for statistical learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society [B], 372. 20160048.
Cashdollar, N., Ruhnau, P., Weisz, N., & Hasson, U. (2017 [online 2016]). The role of working memory in the probabilistic inference of future sensory events. Cerebral Cortex, 27. 2955–2969
Davis, B., & Hasson, U. (2018 [online 2016]). Predictability of what or where reduces brain activity, but a bottleneck occurs when both are predictable. NeuroImage, 167. 224-236
Andric, M., Goldin-Meadow, S., Small, S. L., & Hasson, U. (2016). Repeated movie viewings produce similar local activity patterns but different network configurations. NeuroImage, 142. 613-627.
Tremblay, P., Deschamps, I., Baroni, M., & Hasson, U. (2016). Neural sensitivity to syllable frequency and mutual information in speech perception and production. NeuroImage, 136. 106-121.
Hasson, U., Andric, M., Atilgan, H., & Collignon, O. (2016). Congenital blindness is associated with large-scale reorganization of anatomical networks. NeuroImage, 128. 362-372.
Hartzell, J. F., Davis, B., Melcher, D., Miceli, G., Jovicich, J., Nath, T., Singh, N. C., & Hasson, U. (2016). Brains of verbal memory specialists show anatomical differences in language, memory and visual systems. NeuroImage, 131. 181-192.
Andric, M., & Hasson, U. (2015). Global features of functional brain networks change with contextual disorder. NeuroImage, 117. 103-113.
Nastase, S., Iacovella, V., Davis, B., & Hasson, U. (2015). Connectivity in the human brain dissociates entropy and complexity of auditory inputs. NeuroImage, 105. 292-300.
Hartzell, J. F., Tobia, M. J., Cashdollar, N. M., Davis, B., & Hasson, U. (2015). Differential lateralization of hippocampal connectivity reflects features of recent context and ongoing demands: An examination of immediate post-task activity. Human Brain Mapping, 36, 519-537.
Nastase, S., Iacovella, V., & Hasson, U. (2014). Uncertainty in visual and auditory series is coded by modality-general and modality-specific neural systems. Human Brain Mapping, 35. 1111-1128.
Davis, B., Jovicich, J., Iacovella, V., & Hasson, U. (2014). Functional and developmental significance of amplitude variance asymmetry in the BOLD resting state signal. Cerebral Cortex, 24. 1332-1350.
Tobia, M. J., Iacovella, V., Davis, B., & Hasson, U. (2012). Neural systems mediating recognition of changes in statistical regularities. NeuroImage, 63. 1730-1742.
Tobia, M. J., Iacovella, V., & Hasson, U. (2012). Multiple sensitivity profiles to diversity and transition structure in non-stationary input. NeuroImage, 60. 991-1005.
Iacovella, V., & Hasson, U. (2011). The relationship between BOLD signal and autonomic nervous system functions: Implications for processing of "physiological noise". Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 29. 1338-1345
Hasson, U., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2009). Task-dependent organization of brain regions active during rest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106. 10841-10846.
Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Abstract coding of audiovisual speech: Beyond sensory representation. Neuron, 56. 1116-1126.
Hasson, U., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Brain networks subserving the extraction of sentence information and its encoding to memory. Cerebral Cortex, 17. 2899-2913.
Hasson, U., Simmons, J. P., & Todorov, A. (2005). Believe it or not: On the possibility of suspending belief. Psychological Science, 16. 566-571.
Hasson, U., & Glucksberg, S. (2006). Does understanding negation entail affirmation?: An examination of negated metaphors. Journal of Pragmatics, 38. 1015-1032. [Master's Thesis]