Publications

Note: * shared-first authorship, † shared-senior authorship.

2026

Nudelman Z., Nau M. (2026).
Brain-wide gaze-dependent activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep.
bioRxiv
Kling S.M., Lascombes U., Nau M., Masson G.S., Szinte M. (2026).
Optimizing MR-based gaze decoding for eye-closed eye tracking in fMRI.
bioRxiv
Liang Z., Glitz L., Nau M., Hefner M.B., Lan D., Klein-Flugge M., Summerfield C. (2026).
Distinct roles of hippocampus and neocortex in symbolic compositional generalization.
Neuron

2025

Park J.S., Gollapudi K., Ke J., Nau M., Pappas I., Leong Y.C. (2025).
Emotional arousal enhances narrative memories through functional integration of large-scale brain networks.
Nature Human Behavior
Nau M., Greene A., Tarder-Stoll H., Lossio-Ventura J.A., Pereira F., Chen J., Baldassano C., Baker C.I. (2025).
Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events.
Nature Communications
Kidder A.* & Silson E.H.*, Nau M., Baker C.I. (2025).
Distributed cortical regions for the recall of people, places and objects.
eNeuro

2024

Nau M., Schmid A.C., Kaplan S., Baker C.I., Kravitz D.J. (2024).
Centering cognitive neuroscience on task demands and generalization.
Nature Neuroscience
Polti I.* & Nau M.*, Kaplan R., Van Wassenhove V., Doeller C.F. (2024).
Encoding of task regularities links grid-like signals to human timing behavior.
bioRxiv

2023

Franceschiello B., Rumac S., Hilbert T., Nau M., et al. (2023).
Hi-Fi fMRI: High-resolution, fast-sampled and sub-second whole-brain functional MRI at 3T in humans.
bioRxiv

2022

Polti I.* & Nau M.*, Kaplan R., Van Wassenhove V., Doeller C.F. (2022).
Rapid encoding of task regularities in the human hippocampus guides sensorimotor timing.
eLife
Allen E.J., St-Yves G., Wu Y., Breedlove J.L., Dowdle L.T., Nau M., et al. (2022).
A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence.
Nature Neuroscience

2021

Frey M.* & Nau M.*†, Doeller C.F.† (2021).
Magnetic resonance-based eye tracking using deep neural networks.
Nature Neuroscience
Code · Data
Frey M., Tanni S., Perrodin C., O'Leary A., Nau M., et al. (2021).
Interpreting wide-band neural activity using convolutional neural networks.
eLife
Levitis E.* et al., Nau M., et al. (2021).
Centering inclusivity in the design of online conferences.
GigaScience

2020

Nau M., Navarro Schröder T., Frey M., Doeller C.F. (2020).
Behavior-dependent directional tuning in the human visual-navigation network.
Nature Communications
Bellmund J.L.S., Ruiter T.A., Nau M., Doeller C.F. (2020).
Deforming the metric of cognitive maps distorts memory.
Nature Human Behavior
Frey M., Nau M. (2020).
Memory efficient brain tumor segmentation using an autoencoder-regularized U-Net.
Springer LNCS
Nau M. (2020).
Perception & the cognitive map.
PhD Dissertation
Navarro Schröder T., Towse B.W., Nau M., et al. (2020).
Environmental anchoring of grid-like representations minimizes spatial uncertainty during navigation.
bioRxiv

2018-2019

Nau M. (2019).
Functional imaging of the medial temporal lobe.
Open Science Framework
Nau M.* & Julian J.B.*, Doeller C.F. (2018).
How the brain's navigation system shapes our visual experience.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
TiCS Cover
Nau M., Navarro Schröder T., Bellmund J.L.S., Doeller C.F. (2018).
Hexadirectional coding of visual space in human entorhinal cortex.
Nature Neuroscience
Nau M., Schindler A., Bartels A. (2018).
Real-motion signals in human early visual cortex.
NeuroImage