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Uri Hasson is a Professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Psychology Department. His research focuses on developing novel methods to assess the shared idiosyncratic aspects of cortical response time courses across individuals. He investigates how complex stimuli evoke reliably selective responses in specific brain areas and how these areas show response modulation under conventional experimental protocols. Hasson evaluates the factors that contribute to the emergence of shared responses and aims to dissociate the neuronal processes that are common among individuals as opposed to those that are unique or idiosyncratic. His lab operates under the understanding that traditional psychology and neuroscience methods often engage in reductionist techniques that sacrifice real-life complexity for control. By employing complementary paradigms, Hasson’s work seeks to explore how neural activity drives human behavior in realistic situations, focusing particularly on how the brain integrates complex information over time. His research employs a diverse array of methodologies, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and direct measurement of electrical activity through intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG).
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