Publications

Preprints

Kim, H., Lux, B.K., Finn, E.S., & Woo, C.W. (2023). Getting personal: Brain decoding of spontaneous thought using personal narratives. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2023.05.12.540141 [link]

Recent editorials

Finn, E. S., Poldrack, R. A., & Shine, J. M. (2023). Functional neuroimaging as a catalyst for integrated neuroscience. Nature, 623(7986), 263-273. [pdf]

Rosenberg, M.D., & Finn, E.S. (2022). How to establish robust brain–behavior relationships without thousands of individuals. Nature Neuroscience, 25, 835–837. [pdf]

Botch, T.L., Robertson, C.E., & Finn, E.S. (2022). A deeper look at vision and memory. Nature Neuroscience, 25, 8-10. [pdf]

Finn, E.S., Glerean, E., Hasson, U., & Vanderwal, T. (2021). Naturalistic Imaging: The use of ecologically valid conditions to study brain function. NeuroImage, 247, Article 118776. [pdf]

Peer-reviewed publications

2024

Botch, T. L., & Finn, E. S. (2024). Neural representations of concreteness and concrete concepts are specific to the individual. The Journal of Neuroscience, e0288242024. PDF

Wat, E. K., Jangraw, D. C., Finn, E. S., Bandettini, P. A., Preston, J. L., Landi, N., Hoeft, F., Frost, S., Lau, A., Chen, G., Pugh, K., & Molfese, P. J. (2024). Will you read how I will read? Naturalistic fMRI predictors of emergent reading. Neuropsychologia, 193, 108763. [pdf]

Iyer, S., Collier, E., Broom, T. W., Finn, E. S., & Meyer, M. L. (2024). Individuals who see the good in the bad engage distinctive default network coordination during post-encoding rest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(1), e2306295121. [pdf]

2023

Jangraw, D. C., Finn, E. S., Bandettini, P. A., Landi, N., Sun, H., Hoeft, F., Chen, G., Pugh, K., & Molfese, P. J. (2023). Inter-subject correlation during long narratives reveals widespread neural correlates of reading ability. NeuroImage, 282, 120390. [pdf]

Yang, E., Milisav, F., Kopal, J., Holmes, A.J., Mitsis, G.D., Misic, B., Finn, E.S., & Bzdok, D. (2023). The default network dominates neural responses to evolving movie stories. Nature Communications, 14(1), 4197. [pdf]

Sava-Segal, C., Richards, C., Leung, M., & Finn, E.S. (2023). Individual differences in neural event segmentation of continuous experiences. Cerebral Cortex, 33(13), 8164-8178 [pdf]

Grall, C., Equita, J., & Finn, E.S. (2023). Neural unscrambling of temporal information during a nonlinear narrative. Cerebral Cortex, 33(11), 7001-7014 [pdf]

2022

Baek, E.C., Hyon, R., López, K., Finn, E.S., Porter, M.A., & Parkinson, C. (2022). In-degree centrality in a social network is linked to coordinated neural activity. Nature Communications, 13, Article 1118. [pdf]

Grall, C., & Finn, E.S. (2022) Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: a media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(6), 598–608. [pdf]

Goyal, N., Moraczewski, D., Bandettini, P.A., Finn, E.S., & Thomas, A. (2022). The positive-negative mode link between brain connectivity, demographics, and behavior: A pre-registered, replication of Smith et al. (2015). Royal Society Open Science, 9, Article 201090. [pdf]

Varrier, R.S., & Finn, E.S. (2022). Seeing social: A neural signature for conscious perception of social interactions. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(49), 9211-9226 [pdf]

2021

Bandettini, P.A., Finn, E.S., & Huber, L. (2021). Challenges and opportunities of mesoscopic brain mapping with fMRI. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 40, 189-200. [pdf]

Finn, E.S. (2021). Is it time to put rest to rest? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(12), 1021-1032. [pdf]

Finn, E.S., & Bandettini, P.A. (2021). Movie-watching outperforms rest for functional connectivity-based prediction of behavior. NeuroImage, 235, Article 117963. [pdf]

Finn, E.S., & Rosenberg, M.D. (2021). Beyond fingerprinting: Choosing predictive connectomes over reliable connectomes. NeuroImage, 239, Article 118254. [pdf]

Finn, E.S., Huber, L., & Bandettini, P.A. (2021). Higher and deeper: Bringing layer fMRI to association cortex. Progress in Neurobiology, 207, Article 101930. [pdf]

Huber, L., Finn, E.S., Chai, Y., Goebel, R., Stirnberg, R., Stöcker, T., Marrett, S., Uludag, K., Kim, S.G., Han, S., Bandettini, P.A., & Poser, B.A. (2021). Layer-dependent functional connectivity methods. Progress in Neurobiology, 207, Article 101835. [pdf]

Scheinost, D., Dadashkarimi, J., Finn, E.S., Wambach, C.G., MacGillivray, C., Roule, A.L., Niendam, T.A., Pine, D.S., Brotman, M.A., Leibenluft, E., & Tseng, W-L. (2021). Functional connectivity during frustration: a preliminary study of predictive modeling of irritability in youth. Neuropsychopharmacology, 46(7), 1300-1306. [pdf]

Song, H., Finn, E.S., & Rosenberg, M.D. (2021). Neural signatures of attentional engagement during narratives and its consequences for event memory. PNAS, 118(33). [pdf]

2020

Chen, G., Taylor, P.A., Qu, X., Molfese, P.J., Bandettini, P.A., Cox, R.W., & Finn, E.S. (2020). Untangling the Relatedness among Correlations, Part III: Inter-Subject Correlation Analysis through Bayesian Multilevel Modeling for Naturalistic Scanning. NeuroImage, 216, Article 116474. [pdf]

Finn, E.S., Glerean, E., Khojandi, A.Y., Nielson, D., Molfese, P.J., Handwerker, D.A., & Bandettini, P.A. (2020). Idiosynchrony: From shared responses to individual differences during naturalistic neuroimaging. NeuroImage, 215, Article 116828. [pdf]

Huber, L., Finn, E.S., Handwerker, D.A., Boenstrup, M., Glen, D., Kashyap, S., Ivanov, D., Petridou, N., Marrett, S., Goense, J., Poser, B., & Bandettini, P.A. (2020). Sub-millimeter fMRI reveals multiple topographical digit representations that form action maps in human motor cortex. NeuroImage, 208, Article 116463. [pdf]

Rosenberg, M.D., Scheinost, D., Greene, A.S., Avery, E.W., Kwon, Y.H., Finn, E.S., Ramani, R., Qiu, M., Constable, R.T., & Chun, M.M. (2020). Functional connectivity predicts changes in attention observed across minutes, days, and months. PNAS, 117(7), 3797-3807. [pdf]

2019

Finn, E.S., Huber, L., Jangraw, D.C., Molfese, P.J., & Bandettini, P.A. (2019). Layer-dependent activity in human prefrontal cortex during working memory. Nature Neuroscience, 22, 1687–1695. [pdf]

Lake, E.M.R., Finn, E.S., Noble, S.M., Vanderwal, T., Shen, X., Rosenberg, M.D., Spann, M.N., Chun, M.M., & Constable, R.T. (2019). The functional brain organization of an individual predicts measures of social abilities in autism spectrum disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 86, 315-326. [pdf]

2018

Finn, E.S., Corlett, P.R., Chen, G., Bandettini, P.A., & Constable, R.T. (2018). Trait paranoia shapes inter-subject synchrony in brain activity during an ambiguous social narrative. Nature Communications, 9 Article 2043. [pdf]

Horien, C., Noble, S., Finn, E.S., Shen, X., Scheinost, D., & Constable, R.T. (2018). Considering factors affecting the connectome-based identification process: Comment on Waller et al. NeuroImage, 169 172-175. [pdf]

2017

Finn, E.S., Scheinost, D., Finn, D.M., Shen, X., Papademetris, X., & Constable, R.T. (2017). Can brain state be manipulated to emphasize individual differences in functional connectivity? NeuroImage, 160 140-151. [pdf]

Noble, S., Scheinost, D., Finn, E.S., Shen, X., Papademetris, X., McEwen, S.C., Bearden, C.E., Addington, J., Goodyear, B., Cadenhead, K.S., Mirzakhanian, H., Cornblatt, B.A., Olvet, D.M., Mathalon, D.H., McGlashan, T.H., Perkins, D.O., Belger, A., Seidman, L.J., Thermenos, H., […], Constable R.T. (2017). Multisite reliability of MR-based functional connectivity. NeuroImage, 146, 959-970. [pdf]

Rosenberg, M.D., Finn, E.S., Scheinost, D., Constable, R.T., & Chun, M.M. (2017). Characterizing attention with predictive network models. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(4), 290-302. [pdf]

Shen X., Finn E.S., Scheinost D., Rosenberg M.D., Chun M.M., Papademetris X., & Constable R.T. (2017). Using connectome-based predictive modeling to predict individual behavior from brain connectivity. Nature Protocols, 12(3), 506-518. [pdf]

Vanderwal, T., Eilbott, J., Finn, E.S., Craddock, R.C., Turnbull, A., & Castellanos, F.X. (2017). Individual differences in functional connectivity during naturalistic viewing conditions. NeuroImage, 157, 521-530. [pdf]

2016

Finn, E.S., & Constable, R.T. (2016). Individual variation in functional brain connectivity and its implications for personalized approaches to psychiatric disease. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 18(3), 277–287. [pdf]

Pinango, M.M., Finn, E.S., Lacadie, C., & Constable, R.T. (2016). The localization of long-distance dependency components: Integrating the focal-lesion and neuroimaging record. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 1434. [pdf]

Rosenberg, M.D., Zhang, S., Hsu, W.T., Scheinost, D., Finn, E.S., Shen, X., Constable, R.T., Li, C., & Chun, M.M. (2016). Methylphenidate modulates functional network connectivity to enhance attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(37), 9547–9557. [pdf]

Rosenberg, M.D.*, Finn, E.S.*, Scheinost, D., Shen, X., Papademetris, X., Constable, R.T., & Chun, M.M. (2016). A neuromarker of sustained attention from whole-brain functional connectivity. Nature Neuroscience, 19(1), 165–171. [pdf]
*Authors contributed equally
Press coverage: NPR, Science magazine

Scheinost, D., Tokoglu, F., Shen, X., Finn, E.S., Noble, S., Papademetris, X., & Constable, R.T. (2016). Fluctuations in global brain activity are associated with changes in whole-brain connectivity of functional networks. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 63(12), 2540–2549. [pdf]

2015

Finn, E.S.*, Shen, X.*, Scheinost, D., Rosenberg, M.D., Huang, J., Chun, M.M., Papademetris, X., & Constable, R.T. (2015). Functional connectome fingerprinting: Identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity. Nature Neuroscience, 18(11), 1664–1671. [pdf]
*Authors contributed equally
Press coverage: BBC, NBC, PBS, CBS, Newsweek, Scientific American, Discover, Wired, Nature News, The Scientist
Companion article for lay reader: E.S. Finn, “Brain activity is as unique – and identifying – as a fingerprint.” TheConversation.com

Garrison, K.A., Scheinost, D., Finn, E.S., Shen, X., & Constable, R.T. (2015). The (in)stability of functional brain network measures across thresholds. NeuroImage, 118, 651-661. [pdf]

Powers III, A.R., Ganscos, M.G., Finn, E.S., Morgan, P.T., & Corlett, P.R. (2015). Ketamine-induced hallucinations. Psychopathology, 48(6), 376-385. [pdf]

Rosenberg, M.D., Finn, E.S., Constable, R.T., & Chun, M.M. (2015). Predicting moment-to-moment attentional state. NeuroImage, 114, 249-256. [pdf]

Scheinost, D., Finn, E.S., Tokoglu, F., Shen, X., Papademetris, X., Hampson, M., & Constable, R.T. (2015). Sex differences in normal age trajectories of functional brain networks. Human Brain Mapping, 36(4), 1524-1535. [pdf]

2014 and earlier

Finn, E.S., Shen, X., Holahan, J.M., Scheinost, D., Lacadie, C., Papademetris, X., Shaywitz, S.E., Shaywitz, B.A., & Constable, R.T. (2014). Disruption of functional networks in dyslexia: A whole-brain, data-driven analysis of connectivity. Biological Psychiatry, 76(5), 397-404. [pdf]

Scheinost, D., Shen, X., Finn, E.S., Sinha, R., Constable, R.T., & Papademetris, X. (2014). Coupled intrinsic connectivity distribution analysis: A method for exploratory connectivity analysis of paired fMRI data. PLoS ONE, 9(3), Article e93544. [pdf]

Constable, R.T., Scheinost, D., Finn, E.S., Shen, X., Hampson, M., Winstanley, F.S., Spencer, D.D., & Papademetris X. (2013). Potential use and challenges of functional connectivity mapping in intractable epilepsy. Frontiers in Neurology, 4, Article 39. [pdf]