Current and Past News

July 2024 Scientific American interviewed Dr. Wagner about the lab's research on parasocial relationships. Interview

September 2023 Tim Broom published a new paper in a Cerebral Cortex on how loneliness impacts the representation of real and fictional others. PDF Press Release

September 2022 Welcome to Huanqing Wang, Eunjee Ko & Dan Zhu, all new graduate students in the lab!

August 2022 Tim Broom published a new paper in a JOCN using intersubject RSA to examine neural synchrony when viewing a political debate. PDF

September 2021 Welcome to Rani Bawa, a new graduate student in the lab!

August 2021 Allison Londeree published a new paper in a SCAN special issue using representational similarity analysis to study taste and health in the brain. PDF

March 2021 A new paper with Tim Broom on indentification with fictional characters is out! PDF OSU Press Release

September 2019 Our fMRI paper using a round-robin task among friends is out! PDF OSU Press Release