Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz

🧠Excited to share our new paper with @NiclasKaiser — an invited contribution to Psychiatria Fennica! "Rethinking mental health through emerging relational frameworks: A review of multi-person approaches". Available here: psykiatriantutkimussaatio.fi/wp-content/upl…

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (2026) Together we sync: a systematic qualitative and quantitative review of fMRI hyperscanning studies academic.oup.com/scan/article/2…

New preprint: "A Deep Learning Model of Mental Rotation Informed by Interactive VR Experiments" 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2512.13517 by Raymond Khazoum @RayKhazoum , Daniela Fernandes @DdsFernades, Aleksandr Krylov, Qin Li and myself

𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 Paper out discussing how more standard network models miss key points of brain complexity. And some more radical points at the end. doi.org/10.1016/j.plre…

Registration now open ! Free and hybrid - everyone welcome 😎 Full info below aalto.fi/en/events/smok…

Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays Happy to see this one out ! 😎 aeon.co/essays/why-you…

Delighted to share our new Perspective article @NatRevNeurosci, led by the great Edoardo Chidichimo: "Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination". With @loopyluppi, Pedro Mediano, @introspection, @DrVLeong and Richard Bethlehem nature.com/articles/s4158…

New online! Gut–brain communication: types of sensory nerves and mechanisms of activation bit.ly/4p0zwgX

*Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/ language* Neuroscience & Philo Salon: join our discussion with Elliot Murphy with commentaries by @wmatchin and @sandervanbree Nov 5, 10:30 am eastern US Register: umd.zoom.us/my/luizpessoa?…

Trends in Cognitive Sciences Belief in karma: how beliefs about moral causality shape social behavior sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Grateful to Tuula Kieseppä (Editor) and the reviewers for their insightful feedback, and deeply grateful to @Lauri_Parkkonen and @aivoAALTO for their mentorship and support at @AaltoUniversity, and to @BusinessFinland and the Norman Loveless Memorial Fund for supporting the work

We highlight valuable work by many labs and researchers, including @leoschilbach , @dimitrisbolis, @introspection, @thomasinselmd, and many others, alongside previous work with Niclas (e.g., the ConNECT approach - frontiersin.org/journals/human…).

🧠Excited to share our new paper with @NiclasKaiser — an invited contribution to Psychiatria Fennica! "Rethinking mental health through emerging relational frameworks: A review of multi-person approaches". Available here: psykiatriantutkimussaatio.fi/wp-content/upl…

I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab and work on Multi-Brain Stimulation (MBS). Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇 This position is funded by the @ERC_Research Reposts are very welcome 🙏 #Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #SocialNeuroscience

Nature Communications Creative experiences and brain clocks nature.com/articles/s4146…

🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nature Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics nature.com/articles/s4158…

"From Prediction to Understanding: Will AI Foundation Models Transform Brain Science?" by T. Serre and E. Pavlick 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2509.17280