Francisco Pereira
Recent Publications
A unitary representational space for abstract and concrete concepts derived from human similarity judgments
Persichetti A., Zheng C., Li T., Gotts S., Pereira F., Martin A.
Capturing instantaneous neural signal-behavior relationships with concurrent functional mixed models
Xin A.W., Cui E., Pereira F., Loewinger G.
Characterizing Universal Object Representations Across Vision Models
Mahner F. P., Roth J., Lam K. C., Bonner M. F., Pereira F., Hebart M. N.
Fast Penalized Generalized Estimating Equations for Large Longitudinal Functional Datasets
Loewinger G., Levis A., Cui E., Pereira F. Biometrics 82
In-Scanner Thoughts shape Resting-state Functional Connectivity: how participants "rest" matters
Gonzalez-Castillo J., Spurney M., Lam K.C., Gephart I. S., Pereira F., Handwerker D. A., Kam J. W. Y., Bandettini P. - in press at Nature Communications, 2026
Interpretable factorization of clinical questionnaires to identify latent factors of psychopathology
Lam K.C., Pereira F., Mahony B.W., Raznahan A. Transactions on Machine Learning Research 2026
Nonparametric causal inference for optogenetics: sequential excursion effects for dynamic regimes
Loewinger G., Levis A., Pereira F. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2026
Similarity-based representation factorization for revealing interpretable dimensions in representational data
Mahner F. P., Lam K. C., Pereira F., Hebart M. N.
TONI-NLP at PsyDefDetect: Defense Mechanism Detection via LLM-based Ensemble Methods
Paul D., Basavaraj A., Chan C. Perez-Rosas V., Inkpen D., Pereira F., Lossio-Ventura J. A. - Proceedings of the BioNLP 2026 (Shared Tasks)
A Statistical Framework for Analysis of Trial-Level Temporal Dynamics in Fiber Photometry Experiments
Loewinger G., Cui E., Lovinger D., Pereira F. in press at eLife, 2025
Brain-wide presynaptic networks of functionally distinct cortical neurons
Inacio A. R., Lam K. C., Zhao Y., Pereira F., Gerfen C. R., Lee S. in Nature 1-11, 2025
Detecting Cry in Daylong Audio Recordings using Machine Learning: The Development and Evaluation of Binary Classifiers
Henry L.M., Lee K., Hansen E., Tandilashvili E., Rozsypal J., Erjo T., Raven J. G., Reynolds H. M., Curtis P., Haller S.,Pine D., Norton E., Wakschlag K.S., Pereira F., Brotman M.A. in press at Assessment, 2025
Distinct prelimbic cortex ensembles encode response execution and inhibition
Madangopal R., Zhao Y., Heins C., Zhou U., Liang B., Barbera G., Lam K.C., Komer L.E., Weber S.J., Thompson D. J., Gera Y., Pham D.Q., Savell K.E., Warren B.L., Caprioli D., Venniro M., Bossert J.M., Ramsey L.A., Jedema H.P., Schoenbaum G., Lin D.T., Shaham Y., Pereira F., Hope B.T. in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (37), 2025
More Experts Than Galaxies: Conditionally-overlapping Experts With Biologically-Inspired Fixed Routing
Shaier S., Pereira F., K von der Wense, LE Hunter, M Jones in International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
Multivariate prediction of temper outbursts in a sample of youth enriched for irritability using ecological momentary assessment data: A registered report
Saha D., Naim R., Pereira F., Brotman M.A., Zheng C.Y. in PLoS one, vol. 30 (3), 2025
Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events
Nau M., Greene A., Tarder-Stoll H., Lossio-Ventura J.A., Pereira F., Chen J., Baldassano C., Baker C.I. in press at Nature Communications, 2025
Persistent representation of a prior schema in the orbitofrontal cortex facilitates learning of a conflicting schema
Maor I., Atwell J., Ascher I., Zhao Y., Takahashi Y.K., Hart E., Pereira F., Schoenbaum G. in press at Nature Communications, 2025
The encoding of interoceptive-based predictions by the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus D2+ neurons
Machen B., Miller S., Xin A., Lampert C., Assaf L., Tucker J., Pereira F., Loewinger G., Beas S. in press at iScience, 2025
A Comparison of ChatGPT and Fine-Tuned Open Pre-Trained Transformers (OPT) Against Widely Used Sentiment Analysis Tools: Sentiment Analysis of COVID-19 Survey Data
Lossio-Ventura J. A., Weger R., Lee A., Guinee E., Chung J. Y., Atlas L. Y., Linos E., Pereira F. JMIR Mental Health Vol 11, 2024
Causal Inference in the Closed-Loop: Marginal Structural Models for Sequential Excursion Effects
"Causal Inference in the Closed-Loop: Marginal Structural Models for Sequential Excursion Effects" Levis A., Loewinger G., Pereira in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
Dissociable encoding of motivated behavior by parallel thalamo-striatal projections
Beas S., Khan I., Gao C., Loewinger G., Macdonald E., Bashford A., Rodriguez-Gonzalez S., Pereira F., Penzo M.A. in Current Biology, 2024
Dynamic effects of psychiatric vulnerability, loneliness, and social distancing on distress during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from a large-scale longitudinal study
Atlas L. Y., Farmer C., Shaw J., Gibbon A., Guinee E.P., Lossio-Ventura J. A., Ballard E., Ernst M., Japee S., Pereira F., Chung J. Y. in Nature Mental Health, 2024
Outcomes that matter to depressed adolescents can be identified with large language models
Xin A., Lossio-Ventura J. A., Krause, K. R., Fiorini, G., Midgley N., Pereira F., and Nielson D. M. in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2024
A Highly Replicable Decline in Mood During Rest and Simple Tasks
"A Highly Replicable Decline in Mood During Rest and Simple Tasks" Jangraw D., Keren H., Sun H., Bedder R., Rutledge R., Pereira F., Thomas A., Pine D., Zheng C., Nielson D., Stringaris A. Nature Human Behaviour 7 (4), 596-610, 2023
Improving the Interpretability of fMRI Decoding using Deep Neural Networks and Adversarial Robustness
"Improving the Interpretability of fMRI Decoding using Deep Neural Networks and Adversarial Robustness" McClure P., Moraczewski D., Lam K. C., Thomas A., Pereira F. Aperture Neuro, 2023
Manifold learning for fMRI time-varying functional connectivity
"Manifold learning for fMRI time-varying functional connectivity" Gonzalez-Castillo J., Fernandez I., Lam K., Handwerker D., Pereira F., Bandettini P. Front Hum Neurosci. 2023; 17: 1134012
Trends in Language Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Relationship Between Language Use and Mental Health: Text Analysis Based on Free Responses From a Longitudinal Study
Weger R., Lossio-Ventura J. A., Rose-McCandlish M., Shaw J., Sinclair S., Pereira F., Chung J., Atlas L. JMIR Mental Health 10 (1), e40899, 2023
Prediction of mental well-being from individual characteristics and circumstances during the COVID-19 pandemic
Harris C., Farmer C., Gibbon A., Shaw J., Thomas A., Atlas L. Y., Chung J. Y., Pereira F.
Semantic Projection: Recovering Human Knowledge of Multiple, Distinct, Object Features from Word Embeddings
Grand G., Blank I., Pereira F., Fedorenko E. Nature Human Behaviour, 2022
VICE: Variational Interpretable Concept Embeddings
"VICE: Variational Interpretable Concept Embeddings" Muttenthaler L., Zheng C., McClure P., Vandermeulen R., Hebart M., Pereira F. in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022
Working memory and reward increase the accuracy of animal location encoding in the medial prefrontal cortex
"Working memory and reward increase the accuracy of animal location encoding in the medial prefrontal cortex" Ma X., Zheng C., Chen Y., Pereira F., Zheng L. Cerebral Cortex, 2022, 1-15
Cell-type-specific recruitment of GABAergic interneurons in the primary somatosensory cortex by long-range inputs
Naskar S., Qi J., Pereira F., Gerfen, C., Lee, S. Cell Reports 34, 108774, 2021
Gauging facial feature viewing preference as a stable individual trait in autism spectrum disorder.
Reimann G., Walsh C., Csumitta K., McClure P., Pereira F., Martin A., Ramot M. Autism Research 14:1670–1683, 2021
Mental representations of objects reflect the ways in which we interact with them
"Mental representations of objects reflect the ways in which we interact with them" Lam K. C., Pereira F., Vaziri-Pashkam M., Woodard K., McMahon E. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Conference, 2021 [selected for oral presentation]
The temporal representation of experience in subjective mood
"The temporal representation of experience in subjective mood" Keren H., Zheng C., Jangraw D. C., Chang K., Vitale A., Nielson D., Rutledge R. B., Pereira F., Stringaris A. eLife 2021
The temporal representation of experience in subjective mood
"The temporal representation of experience in subjective mood" Keren H., Zheng C., Jangraw D. C., Chang K., Vitale A., Nielson D., Rutledge R. B., Pereira F., Stringaris A. eLife 2021
Validating the Representational Space of Deep Reinforcement Learning Models of Behavior with Neural Data
"Validating the Representational Space of Deep Reinforcement Learning Models of Behavior with Neural Data" Bruch S. N. , McClure P., Zhou J., Schoenbaum G., Pereira F. bioRxiv preprint
A Deep Neural Network Tool for Automatic Segmentation of Human Body Parts in Natural Scenes
McClure P. , Reimann G., Ramot M., Pereira F. arXiv preprint
Revealing the multidimensional mental representations of natural objects underlying human similarity judgments
"Revealing the multidimensional mental representations of natural objects underlying human similarity judgments" Hebart, M., Zheng, C., Pereira, F., Baker, C. Nature Human Behaviour, 2020
Data-driven identification of subtypes of executive function across typical development, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and autism spectrum disorders
Vaidya C., You X., Mostofsky S., Pereira F., Berl M., Kenworthy L. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 61(1): 51–61. 2019
Imaging the spontaneous flow of thought: Distinct periods of cognition contribute to dynamic functional connectivity during rest
Gonzalez-Castillo J., Caballero-Gaudes C., Topolski N., Handwerker D., Pereira F. , Bandettini P. Neuroimage 15; 202: 116129. 2019
Knowing What You Know in Brain Segmentation Using Bayesian Deep Neural Networks
"Knowing What You Know in Brain Segmentation Using Bayesian Deep Neural Networks" McClure, P., Rho, N., Lee, J., Kaczmarzyk, J., Zheng, C., Ghosh, S., Nielson, D., Thomas, A., Bandettini, P., Pereira, F. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2019
Revealing interpretable object representations from human behavior
"Revealing interpretable object representations from human behavior" Zheng, C., Pereira, F., Baker, C., Hebart, M. International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019
Subtle predictive movements reveal actions regardless of social context
"Subtle predictive movements reveal actions regardless of social context" McMahon, E.G., Zheng, C.Y., Pereira, F., Gonzalez, R., Ungerleider, L.G. and Vaziri-Pashkam, M. Journal of vision 19 (7), 16-16, 2019
Distributed Weight Consolidation: A Brain Segmentation Case Study
"Distributed Weight Consolidation: A Brain Segmentation Case Study" McClure P., Zheng C., Kaczmarzyk J., Rogers-Lee J., Ghosh S., Nielson D., Bandettini P., Pereira F. Neural Information Processing Systems, 2018
Toward a universal decoder of linguistic meaning from brain activation
"Toward a universal decoder of linguistic meaning from brain activation" Pereira F., Lou B., Pritchett B., Ritter S., Gershman S., Kanwisher N., Botvinick M., Fedorenko E. Nature Communications 9 (963), 2018