Samuel Nastase

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California

Joined

May 2023

Names

Samuel Nastase (Preferred)

Samuel A. Nastase

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@usc.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Department of Psychology, University of Southern California (usc.edu)

2025 – Present

Postdoc

Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University (princeton.edu)

2018 – 2025

PhD student

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College (dartmouth.edu)

2012 – 2017

MS student

Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento (unitn.it)

2010 – 2012

Undergrad student

Johns Hopkins University (jhu.edu)

2006 – 2010

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Uri Hasson

2018 – Present

Postdoc Advisor

Kenneth A. Norman

2018 – Present

PhD Advisor

James V. Haxby

2012 – Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Leveraging shared connectivity to aggregate heterogeneous datasets into a common response space
Samuel Nastase, Yun-Fei Liu, Hanna Hillman, Kenneth A. Norman, Uri Hasson
- figshare
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Decoding the neural representation of observed social and nonsocial human actions
Samuel Nastase, Rebecca E. Philip, Vassiki Chauhan, Ma Feilong, Morgan K. Taylor, Sunny Tang, Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello, Yaroslav Halchenko, M. Ida Gobbini, James V. Haxby
- figshare
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Scaffolding human and AI instruction: neural alignment and learning gains in online education
Yingying Peng, Ping Li, Samuel A. Nastase
- OSF
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Onscreen Presence of Instructors in Video Lectures Affects Learners’ Neural Synchrony and Visual Attention During Multimedia Learning
Chanyuan Gu, Yingying Peng, Richard E. Mayer, Samuel A. Nastase, Ping Li
- OSF
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Temporal structure of natural language processing in the human brain corresponds to layered hierarchy of large language models
Ariel Goldstein, Eric Ham, Mariano Schain, Samuel A. Nastase, Bobbi Aubrey, Zaid Zada, Avigail Grinstein-Dabush, Harshvardhan Gazula, Amir Feder, Werner Doyle, Sasha Devore, Patricia Dugan, Daniel Friedman, Michael Brenner, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias, Orrin Devinsky, Noam Siegelman, Adeen Flinker, Omer Levy et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- Nature Communications
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Brainhack: developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience
Ariel Rokem, Robert Oostenveld, Andrew Doyle, Nathalia Bianchini Esper, Yu-Fang Yang, Melvin Selim ATAY, Olivia Stanley, Stefano Moia, Richard Bethlehem, Gael P. Varoquaux, Paula P. Brooks, Elizabeth Levitis, Damion Demeter, Junaid Salim Merchant, Matteo Mancini, Simon Schwab, Jakub Vohryzek, David O'Connor, Xihe Xie, Satrajit Ghosh et al. (40 additional authors not shown)
- OSF
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Larger language models better align with the reading brain
Samuel A. Nastase
- Nature Computational Science
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Emergence of a temporal processing gradient from naturalistic inputs and network connectivity
Claire H. C. Chang, Samuel A. Nastase, Uri Hasson, Peter Ford Dominey
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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The “Podcast” ECoG dataset for modeling neural activity during natural language comprehension
Zaid Zada, Samuel A. Nastase, Bobbi Aubrey, Itamar Jalon, Sebastian Michelmann, Haocheng Wang, Liat Hasenfratz, Werner Doyle, Daniel Friedman, Patricia Dugan, Lucia Melloni, Sasha Devore, Adeen Flinker, Orrin Devinsky, Ariel Goldstein, Uri Hasson
- Scientific Data
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Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts
Qihui Xu, Yingying Peng, Samuel A. Nastase, Martin Chodorow, Minghua Wu, Ping Li
- Nature Human Behaviour
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