ReviewNeuroImage2021
Movies and narratives as naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging.
Review in NeuroImage, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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82 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging studies of autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Functional neurological disorder, suggestion and virtual reality: neuroanatomical and computational perspectives.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Naturalistic fMRI Language Mapping With Rotation Forest.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Dynamic fMRI networks of human emotion.eLife · 2026Article
- Identifying the neural mechanisms associated with older adults' dynamic theory of mind judgments during a movie-watching task.Social neuroscience · 2026Article
- Altered Theory of Mind Engagement and Neural Alignment in Social Anxiety During Movie Viewing.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Impact of anger, compassion, and hope on climate action taking.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Learning via short videos impairs memory accuracy and reduces brain synchrony.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Inter-subject correlations and their behavioral associations vary across movies: Implications for generalizability.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Neural Oscillations Track Subjective and Pupillary Arousal During Naturalistic Movie Viewing.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Rethinking Naturalistic Movie Neuroimaging Through Film Form.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Altered neurovascular coupling in patients with human immunodeficiency virus-associated asymptomatic neurocognitive impairment: a multimodal magnetic resonance imaging study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Infants: Insights From More Than 750 Scanning Sessions.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2026Article
- Perspective-taking in video advertising: insights from EEG connectivity and channel-wise spectral analysis.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Video games as stimuli in neuroimaging studies: a minireview.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- Regional activity and interregional functional connectivity uniquely contribute to social cognitive judgments during movie-watching.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- An EEG dataset to study neural correlates of audiovisual long-term memory retrieval.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Near-infrared time-resolved spectroscopy reveals task-induced emotions by measuring cerebral blood oxygenation changes in the frontal pole during creative activity using a real object.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2025Article
- From Speech Semantics to Brain Activity-Timescales Are Key in Their Information Transfer.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
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Abstract
Using movies and narratives as naturalistic stimuli in human neuroimaging studies has yielded significant advances in understanding of cognitive and emotional functions. The relevant literature was reviewed, with emphasis on how the use of naturalistic stimuli has helped advance scientific understanding of human memory, attention, language, emotions, and social cognition in ways that would have been difficult otherwise. These advances include discovering a cortical hierarchy of temporal receptive windows, which supports processing of dynamic information that accumulates over several time scales, such as immediate reactions vs. slowly emerging patterns in social interactions. Naturalistic stimuli have also helped elucidate how the hippocampus supports segmentation and memorization of events in day-to-day life and have afforded insights into attentional brain mechanisms underlying our ability to adopt specific perspectives during natural viewing. Further, neuroimaging studies with naturalistic stimuli have revealed the role of the default-mode network in narrative-processing and in social cognition. Finally, by robustly eliciting genuine emotions, these stimuli have helped elucidate the brain basis of both basic and social emotions apparently manifested as highly overlapping yet distinguishable patterns of brain activity.
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