Zach Nudelman

Excited to share my first #preprint with @matthiasnau.bsky.social on how gaze behavior shapes brain activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Gaze-dependent activity was widespread even during sleep, including in many visual cortices, and altered brain-wide functional connectivity! 🧵 1/8

We’re super excited about these findings because they suggest that eye-brain dynamics, as studied here, may provide a window into eyes-closed cognition. Think dreaming, anesthesia, coma – there are many cognitive states that lack a continuous behavioral read-out! 7/8

Excited to share my first #preprint with @matthiasnau.bsky.social on how gaze behavior shapes brain activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Gaze-dependent activity was widespread even during sleep, including in many visual cortices, and altered brain-wide functional connectivity! 🧵 1/8

These eye-brain dynamics largely persisted across wakefulness and sleep (but we also report evidence for local differences – promising targets for future work on differences across sleep stages etc.) 5/8

Excited to share my first #preprint with @matthiasnau.bsky.social on how gaze behavior shapes brain activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Gaze-dependent activity was widespread even during sleep, including in many visual cortices, and altered brain-wide functional connectivity! 🧵 1/8

Here, we developed an unsupervised MR-based eye tracking method (MReyeMove, to be released) that infers gaze behavior directly from the MR signal of the eyes. It enabled us to examine gaze-dependent brain activity in a fantastic resting-state and sleep dataset shared by Gu and colleagues. 3/8

Excited to share my first #preprint with @matthiasnau.bsky.social on how gaze behavior shapes brain activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Gaze-dependent activity was widespread even during sleep, including in many visual cortices, and altered brain-wide functional connectivity! 🧵 1/8