@TheColeLab

Professor at Rutgers, director of a cognitive & network neuroscience lab – neuroimaging, connectivity, cognitive control, NeuroAI ([email protected])

 Rutgers University-Newark
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Joined July 2013
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Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueil20 Dec 2025
The Science paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… (now viral online, unfortunately!) A welcome correction that came out today: zenodo.org/records/18002186

Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance

Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We...

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Michael W. Cole@TheColeLab20 Nov 2025
Replying to @TheColeLab @RaviMill
This study is now peer reviewed and published at Nature Communications! Congratulations to first author @RaviMill Check out the paper here (open access): nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Dynamically shifting from compositional to conjunctive brain representations supports cognitive...

Nature Communications - Learning shifts multi-task representations from compositional to conjunctive formats. Cortical conjunctions uniquely associate with effects of practice, and index switch...

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Ravi Mill@RaviMill19 Nov 2025
Excited to see our paper with @TheColeLab finally out in peer-reviewed form @NatureComms ! Please check it out: “Dynamically shifting from compositional to conjunctive brain representations supports cognitive task learning”, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-6…

Dynamically shifting from compositional to conjunctive brain representations supports cognitive...

Nature Communications - Learning shifts multi-task representations from compositional to conjunctive formats. Cortical conjunctions uniquely associate with effects of practice, and index switch...

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Michael W. Cole@TheColeLab30 Jun 2023
Lab's latest: "Neural representation dynamics reveal computational principles of cognitive task learning", wherein we tracked dynamic changes in cortical-subcortical cognitive representations over practice, revealing computational principles underlying task learning: 1/n
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🚨 This work is out now in @PLOSCompBiol! 🚨🧠 This work was a huge labor of love and curiosity during grad school working with @TheColeLab and I'm so pleased to finally share the peer-reviewed study with our community! Enormous gratitude to coauthors @TheColeLab @RUBENSARO @taku_ito1 @BrianKeaneLab @RaviMill 🙏🤘 journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…

Distributed network flows generate localized category selectivity in human visual cortex

Author summary A fundamental question in neuroscience has persisted for over a century: to what extent do distributed processes drive brain function? The existence of category-selective regions...

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Carrisa V Cocuzza, PhD (she/her)@carrisa_cocuzza22 Feb 2022
🎉 New preprint alert! 🎉 “Distributed network processes account for the majority of variance in localized visual category selectivity” Big thanks to coauthors @RUBENSARO @taku_ito1 @RaviMill @BrianKeaneLab @TheColeLab 🧵1/9 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Distributed network processes account for the majority of variance in localized visual category...

In seeking to understand processes fundamental to brain function, the debate between localized versus distributed processing has persisted for over a century. High category selectivity of some visual...

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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize8 Oct 2024
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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Doris Tsao
@doristsao14 Apr 2024
This is unbelievable. How can a country that cares about the future begrudge $300 million to unlock the secrets of the mind and cure the most devastating ailments of the soul? This is 0.0035% of the federal budget. If you make 100k a year, this works out to $3.50. A coffee to invest on a project that almost certainly will change the future of medicine and humanity. Am writing to Barbara Lee, Alex Padilla, and Laphonza Butler now. I don't think I have ever personally felt how nonsensical the federal budget is.
TK Kozai (BIONICLab.org)@BIONIC_Lab14 Apr 2024
As some of you are well aware, the BRAIN Initiative funding was cut by 40% (braininitiative.nih.gov/news…). “This is truly awful, This large cut to the BRAIN Initiative is, simply put, going to kill jobs and hurt patients over the next 10-20 years.” – Kip Ludwig, PhD

The BRAIN Initiative

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Doug Schultz@DHSchultz_4 Apr 2024
Another update on our concussion research project: medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…. There are mixed results in the literature regarding the possible influence of concussion history on gray matter morphology. We looked at this issue in ~300 college athletes.

Self-reported concussion history is not related to cortical volume in college athletes

The long-term consequences of concussion are still being uncovered but have been linked to disruptions in cognition and psychological well-being. Previous studies focusing on the association between...

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Doug Schultz@DHSchultz_27 Feb 2024
This paper is now published (liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/n…) led by @hc_bouchard. Briefly, we found disruptions to within and between DMN functional connectivity from baseline to ~48 hrs after concussion. These changes were correlated with symptoms and cognitive performance.
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Peer review sucks, but it beats the alternative - so let’s make it better by keeping in mind that the point of peer review is to provide the authors with a “soft-opening” of their “show” to make sure that they’re ready for prime time. More at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @suzanahh

Peer review sucks, but it beats the alternative. So let's make it better

Click on the article title to read more.

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How scuba diving helped me embrace open science By @sattertt thetransmitter.org/open-neur…

How scuba diving helped me embrace open science

Our lab adopted practices to make data- and code-sharing feel safer, including having the coding equivalent of a dive buddy. Trainees call the buddy system a welcome safety net.

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New preprint: Comparison of whole-brain task-modulated functional connectivity methods for fMRI task connectomics Link: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… We compared whole-brain task-modulated functional connectivity (TMFC) methods using biophysically realistic simulations. (1/N)
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New paper @NatureComms from me & @DianaTamir! "Neural representations of situations and mental states are composed of sums of representations of the actions they afford" nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Matt Hardy
@mdahardy11 Jan 2024
Our paper on optimal nudging is out in Psych Review! We use resource-rational analysis to formalize nudges and predict their effects. We also show how to use this approach to automatically construct *optimal* nudges that best improve choice. With @callfredaway and @cocosci_lab
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Our work on direct nonlinear whole-brain system identification at fast time-scales. This work will make it possible to infer biophysically interpretable, brain-wide latent dynamics from EEG. Matthew Singh, w/ @ccplab_wustl, @TheColeLab biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Precision data-driven modeling of cortical dynamics reveals idiosyncratic mechanisms underlying...

Task-free brain activity affords unique insight into the functional structure of brain network dynamics and is a strong marker of individual differences. In this work, we present an algorithmic...

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Actually, there's a 20th CMBN poster at SfN that's being presented right now! Check it out! “Using causally informed functional connectivity to identify prefrontal-cingulate TMS targets for reward positivity modulation” – Diversity poster session. Poster TT10 @ 6:30pm tonight
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Nicole Lalta@LaltaNicole11 Nov 2023
I’ll be presenting my poster: “Using causally informed functional connectivity to identify prefrontal-cingulate TMS targets for reward positivity modulation” at the Diversity poster session at #SfN2023. Catch me at poster TT10 @ 6:30pm tonight – at Washington, DC
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The CMBN (Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience) at Rutgers will have *19* posters at #SfN23! Topics range from visual processing, learning, and saliency to development, brain connectivity, and aging. The posters are listed below. Check them out if you'll be at SfN!
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🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the 2023-2024 @RutgersU Brain Health Institute Trainee Travel Awards for #neuroscience. Students and Post-docs from across Rutgers were awarded $500 to attend a national/international conference. Stay tuned for more opportunities @BHI_Rutgers
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GLASSO for the win! Congrats @KLPeterson_ on this work systematically showing the reliability and validity of using regularized partial correlation to estimate FC 🧠🎉🚨
Michael W. Cole@TheColeLab21 Sep 2023
Lab’s latest: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, wherein we demonstrate a major improvement to the standard fMRI functional connectivity measure (correlation) 1/n
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Bharat Biswal@restingstate16 Aug 2023
Thanks to a grant from NIH, we will be able to give 25-30 travel awards to students and postdocs to attend the Resting State Brain Connectivity Conference to be held at UTDallas. Please submit your abstracts by Aug 18th!
RSBC2023@rsbcDallas202328 Jul 2023
Abstract Submission Deadline has been EXTENDED!! Submit by Friday, August 18, 2023 > restingstate.com/submit-abst…
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