Publications
*bold denotes Braga Lab members
W. Sun, A. Billot, S. McMains, K. Rodrigues, R.M. Braga, D. Izquierdo-Garcia, M.C. Eldaief (2026) Relationships between local metabolic activity and distributed functional connectivity in major depressive disorder. Translational Psychiatry 16, 65.
2026
J.J. Salvo*, M. Lakshman*, A.M. Holubecki*, Z.M. Saygin, M.M. Mesulam, R.M. Braga (2025) The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network. bioRxiv
A. Sheriff, G. Lane, Q. Yang, A. Dede, N. Arriaga, V. Sagar, M. Omidbeigi, A.M. Holubecki*, R.M. Braga, L.M. Kay, B.K. Tan, C. Zelano. Temporal organization of odor responses in the human olfactory bulb, 20 January 2026, PREPRINT available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8627400/v1]
N.L. Anderson*, J.J. Salvo*, J. Smallwood, R.M. Braga (2025) Distinct distributed brain networks dissociate self-generated mental states. bioRxiv, 2025.02.27.640604
C. Cyr*, A.M. Holubecki*, L. Shi*, M. Lakshman*, J.J. Salvo*, N.L. Anderson*, J.E. Kragel, S.M. Lurie, J. Voss, V. Kokkinos, J. Rosenow, S.U. Schuele, E.L. Johnson, C. Zelano, R.M. Braga (2025) Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects. bioRxiv, 2025.07.31.667730.
Z. Ladwig, K.Z. Kermani, A. Dworetsky, N. Labora, J.J. Hernandez, M. Dorn, D.M. Smith, D.E. Nee, R.M. Braga, S.E. Petersen, C. Gratton (2025) Precision fMRI reveals densely interdigitated network patches with conserved motifs in the lateral prefrontal cortex. bioRxiv.
R.M. Braga (2025) The canonical default network comprises parallel distributed networks with distinct medial temporal lobe connections. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 66, 101610.
C. Gratton, R.M. Braga (2025) Dense Phenotyping of Human Brain Network Organization Using Precision fMRI, Annual review of psychology 77.
J.J. Salvo*, N.L. Anderson*, R.M. Braga (2025) Intrinsic functional connectivity delineates transmodal language functions. Imaging Neuroscience, 2024.12.20.629770.
Y.H. Kwon, J.J. Salvo, N.L. Anderson, D. Edmonds, A.M. Holubecki, M. Lakshman, K. Yoo, B.T. Thomas Yeo, K. Kay, C. Gratton, R.M. Braga (2025) Situating the salience and parietal memory networks in the context of multiple parallel distributed networks using precision functional mapping. Cell Reports, 44(1).
R. Leech, R.M. Braga, D. Haydock, N. Vowles, E. Jefferies, B. Bernhardt, F. Turkheimer, F. Alberti, D. Margulies, O. Sherwood, E.J.H. Jones, J. Smallwood, F. Váša (2025) The spatial layout of antagonistic brain regions is explicable based on geometric principles. Communications Biology.
M. Peterson, R.M. Braga, D.L. Floris, J.A. Nielsen (2025) Evidence for a Compensatory Relationship between Left-and Right-Lateralized Brain Networks. Imaging Neuroscience.
2025
2024
2023
D. Edmonds*, J.J. Salvo*, N. Anderson*, M. Lakshman*, Q. Yang, K. Kay, C. Zelano, R.M. Braga (2024) The human social cognitive network contains multiple regions within the amygdala. Science Advances, 10, eadp0453.
Barbieri E, Salvo JJ, Anderson NL, Simon S; Ables-Torres L, Los MA, Behn J, Bonakdarpour B, Holubecki AM, Braga RM*, Mesulam MM* (2024) Progressive Verbal Apraxia of Reading. Cortex, 178, 223-234. *Joint senior authorship
Kucyi A, Anderson N, Bounyarith T, Braun D, Shareef-Trudeau L, Treves I, Braga RM, Hsieh PJ, Hung SM. (2024) Individual variability in neural representations of mind-wandering. Network Neuroscience, 1-29.
R. Leech, R. Vos De Wael, F. Váša, T. Xu, R.A. Benn, R. Scholz, R.M. Braga, M.P. Milham, J. Royer, B.C. Bernhardt, E.J.H. Jones, E. Jefferies, D.S. Margulies, J. Smallwood. (2023) Variation in spatial dependencies across the cortical mantle discriminates the functional behaviour of primary and association cortex. Nature Communications, 14: 5656.
B Kraus, R Zinbarg, R.M. Braga, R Nusslock, VA Mittal, C Gratton (2023) Insights from Personalized Models of Brain and Behavior for Identifying Biomarkers in Psychiatry. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105259.
M Eldaief, S McMains, D Izquierdo-Garcia, R.M. Braga (2023) Network-specific metabolic and hemodynamic effects elicited by non-invasive brain stimulation. Nature Mental Health, 1-15.
DC Perez, A Dworetsky, R.M. Braga, M Beeman, C Gratton (2023) Hemispheric Asymmetries of Individual Differences in Functional Connectivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35 (2), 200-225
2021
J.J. Salvo, A.M. Holubecki, R.M. Braga (2021) Correspondence between functional connectivity and task-related activity patterns within the individual. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 40: 178–188, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.05.003.
C Gratton, R.M. Braga (2021) Editorial overview: Deep imaging of the individual brain: past, practice, and promise. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 40, iii-vi.
J. Parvizi, R.M. Braga, A. Kucyi, M.J. Veit, P. Pinheiro-Chagas, C. Perry, C. Sava-Segal, M. Zeineh, E.K. van Staalduinen, J.M. Henderson, M. Markert (2021) Altered sense of self during seizures in the posteromedial cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118: e2100522118, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2100522118.
A. Xue, R. Kong, Q. Yang, M.C. Eldaief, P.A. Angeli, L.M. DiNicola, R.M. Braga, R.L. Buckner, B.T.T. Yeo. (2021) The detailed organization of the human cerebellum estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity within the individual. Journal of Neurophysiology, 125: 358-384, link.
R.M. Braga, L.M. DiNicola, H.C. Becker, R.L. Buckner (2020) Situating the Left-Lateralized Language Network in the Broader Organization of Multiple Specialized Large-Scale Distributed Networks. Journal of Neurophysiology, 124: 1415-1448, https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00753.2019.
L.M. DiNicola, R.M. Braga, R.L. Buckner (2020) Parallel Distributed Networks Dissociate Episodic and Social Functions Within the Individual. Journal of Neurophysiology 123: 1144-1179. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00529.2019
2020
2019
R.M. Braga, K.R.A. Van Dijk, J.R. Polimeni, M.C. Eldaief & R.L. Buckner (2019) Parallel Distributed Networks Resolved at High Resolution Reveal Close Juxtaposition of Distinct Regions. Journal of Neurophysiology, 121: 1513-1534, https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00808.2018.
2018
S. Kamourieh, R.M. Braga, R. Leech, A. Mehta & R. Wise (2018) Speech Registration in Symptomatic Memory Impairment. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 10: 201.
2017
R.M. Braga & R.L. Buckner (2017) Parallel Interdigitated Distributed Networks within the Individual Estimated by Intrinsic Functional Connectivity. Neuron, 95: 457-471.
R.M. Braga, P.J. Hellyer, R.J.S. Wise & R. Leech (2017) Auditory and visual connectivity gradients in frontoparietal cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 38: 255-270.
R.P. Monti, R. Lorenz, R.M. Braga, C. Anagnostopoulos, R. Leech & G. Montana (2017) Real-time estimation of dynamic functional connectivity networks. Human Brain Mapping, 38: 202-220.
2016
R.M. Braga, R.Z. Fu, B.M. Seemungal, R.J.S. Wise & R. Leech (2016) Eye movements during auditory attention predict individual differences in dorsal attention network activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10: 164.
2015
R.M. Braga & R. Leech (2015) Echoes of the Brain: Local-Scale Representation of Whole-Brain Functional Networks within Transmodal Cortex. The Neuroscientist, 21: 540-551.
R.M. Braga, Roze E, Ball G, Merchant N, Tusor N, Arichi T, Edwards D, Rueckert D & Counsell SJ (2015) Development of the Corticospinal and Callosal Tracts from Extremely Premature Birth up to 2 Years of Age. PLoS One, 10 (5) e0125681.
S. Kamourieh, R.M. Braga, R. Leech, R.D. Newbould, P. Malhotra, R.J.S. Wise (2015) Neural systems involved when attending to a speaker. Cerebral Cortex, 25: 4284-4298.
2014
S.R. Jilka, G. Scott, T. Ham, A. Pickering, V. Bonnelle, R.M. Braga, R. Leech, D.J. Sharp (2014) Damage to the salience network and interactions with the default mode network. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34: 10798-10807.
2013
R.M. Braga, D.J. Sharp, C. Leeson, R.J.S. Wise & R. Leech (2013) Echoes of the brain within default mode, association and heteromodal cortices. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33: 14031-14039.
R.M. Braga, L.R. Wilson, R.J.S. Wise, D.J. Sharp & R. Leech (2013) Separable networks for top down attention to auditory nonspatial and visuospatial modalities. NeuroImage, 74: 77-86.
R. Wise & R.M. Braga (2013) Default mode network: the seat of literary creativity? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18: 116-117.
2012
R. Leech, R.M. Braga & D.J. Sharp (2012) Echoes of the brain within the posterior cingulate cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32: 215-222.
E. Rose, P. Harris, G. Ball, L.Z. Elorza, R.M. Braga, J.M. Allsop, N. Merchant, E. Porter, T. Arichi, A.D. Edwards, M.A. Rutherford, F.M. Cowan & S.J. Counsell (2012) Tractography of the corticospinal tracts in infants with focal perinatal injury: comparison with normal controls and to motor development. Neuroradiology, 54: 507-516.
2010
M.A.A. van der Meer, Z. Richmond, R.M. Braga, P.A. Dudchenko & E.R. Wood (2010) Evidence for the use of an internal sense of direction in homing. Behavioral Neuroscience, 124: 164-169.