Publications

The PESTILLI LAB's scientific publications have appeared in a wide range of journals, reaching diverse scientific communities, including neuroscience, psychology, computer science, and engineering. These papers contribute to both the understanding of normative and clinical populations, encompassing the development of innovative methods to study brain and behavior, as well as the application of these methods to advance scientific knowledge.

2024

The status of MRI databases across the world focused on psychiatric and neurological disorders

Saori C Tanaka Kiyoto Kasai Yasumasa Okamoto Shinsuke Koike Takuya Hayashi Ayumu Yamashita Okito Yamashita Tom Johnstone Franco Pestilli Kenji Doya Go Okada Hotaka Shinzato Eri Itai Yuji Takahara Akihiro Takamiya Motoaki Nakamura Takashi Itahashi Ryuta Aoki Yukiaki Koizumi Masaaki Shimizu Jun Miyata Shuraku Son Morio Aki Naohiro Okada Susumu Morita Nobukatsu Sawamoto Mitsunari Abe Yuki Oi Kazuaki Sajima Koji Kamagata Masakazu Hirose Yohei Aoshima Sayo Hamatani Nobuhiro Nohara Misako Funaba Tomomi Noda Kana Inoue Jinichi Hirano Masaru Mimura Hidehiko Takahashi Nobutaka Hattori Atsushi Sekiguchi Mitsuo Kawato Takashi Hanakawa

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Aug 2024 doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13717

Associative white matter tracts selectively predict sensorimotor learning

S Vinci-Booher DJ McDonald E Berquist F Pestilli

Nature Publishing Group Jun 2024 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06420-1

brainlife. io a decentralized and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research

Soichi Hayashi Bradley A Caron Anibal Sólon Heinsfeld Sophia Vinci-Booher Brent McPherson Daniel N Bullock Giulia Bertò Guiomar Niso Sandra Hanekamp Daniel Levitas Kimberly Ray Anne MacKenzie Paolo Avesani Lindsey Kitchell Josiah K Leong Filipi Nascimento-Silva Serge Koudoro Hanna Willis Jasleen K Jolly Derek Pisner Taylor R Zuidema Jan W Kurzawski Kyriaki Mikellidou Aurore Bussalb Maximilien Chaumon Nathalie George Christopher Rorden Conner Victory Dheeraj Bhatia Dogu Baran Aydogan Fang-Cheng F Yeh Franco Delogu Javier Guaje Jelle Veraart Jeremy Fischer Joshua Faskowitz Ricardo Fabrega David Hunt Shawn McKee Shawn T Brown Stephanie Heyman Vittorio Iacovella Amanda F Mejia Daniele Marinazzo R Cameron Craddock Emanuale Olivetti Jamie L Hanson Eleftherios Garyfallidis Dan Stanzione James Carson Robert Henschel David Y Hancock Craig A Stewart David Schnyer Damian O Eke Russell A Poldrack Steffen Bollmann Ashley Stewart Holly Bridge Ilaria Sani Winrich A Freiwald Aina Puce Nicholas L Port Franco Pestilli

Nature Methods May 2024 doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02237-2

Neurodesk an accessible, flexible and portable data analysis environment for reproducible neuroimaging

Angela I Renton Thuy T Dao Tom Johnstone Oren Civier Ryan P Sullivan David J White Paris Lyons Benjamin M Slade David F Abbott Toluwani J Amos Saskia Bollmann Andy Botting Megan EJ Campbell Jeryn Chang Thomas G Close Monika Dörig Korbinian Eckstein Gary F Egan Stefanie Evas Guillaume Flandin Kelly G Garner Marta I Garrido Satrajit S Ghosh Martin Grignard Yaroslav O Halchenko Anthony J Hannan Anibal S Heinsfeld Laurentius Huber Matthew E Hughes Jakub R Kaczmarzyk Lars Kasper Levin Kuhlmann Kexin Lou Yorguin-Jose Mantilla-Ramos Jason B Mattingley Michael L Meier Jo Morris Akshaiy Narayanan Franco Pestilli Aina Puce Fernanda L Ribeiro Nigel C Rogasch Chris Rorden Mark M Schira Thomas B Shaw Paul F Sowman Gershon Spitz Ashley W Stewart Xincheng Ye Judy D Zhu Aswin Narayanan Steffen Bollmann

Nature methods May 2024 doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-02145-x

ezBIDS Guided standardization of neuroimaging data interoperable with major data archives and platforms

Daniel Levitas Soichi Hayashi Sophia Vinci-Booher Anibal Heinsfeld Dheeraj Bhatia Nicholas Lee Anthony Galassi Guiomar Niso Franco Pestilli

Scientific data Feb 2024 doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-02959-0

Diffusion tensor analysis of white matter tracts is prognostic of persisting post-concussion symptoms in collegiate athletes

Giulia Bertò Lauren T Rooks Steven P Broglio Thomas A McAllister Michael A McCrea Paul F Pasquina Christopher Giza Alison Brooks Jason Mihalik Kevin Guskiewicz Josh Goldman Stefan Duma Steven Rowson Nicholas L Port Franco Pestilli

Neuroimage clinical Jan 2024 doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103646

2023

A Maturity Model for Operations in Neuroscience Research

Erik C Johnson Thinh T Nguyen Benjamin K Dichter Frank Zappulla Montgomery Kosma Kabilar Gunalan Yaroslav O Halchenko Shay Q Neufeld Michael Schirner Petra Ritter Maryann E Martone Brock Wester Franco Pestilli Dimitri Yatsenko

arXiv preprint arXiv 2401.00077 Dec 2023 doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.00077

A labeled Clinical-MRI dataset of Nigerian brains

Eberechi Wogu Patrick Filima Bradley Caron Daniel Levitas Peer Herholz Catherine Leal Mohammed F Mehboob Soichi Hayashi Simisola Akintoye George Ogoh Tawe Godwin Damian Eke Franco Pestilli

Arxiv Nov 2023 PMID 37986723

Development of human hippocampal subfield microstructure and relation to associative inference

Sophia Vinci-Booher Margaret L Schlichting Alison R Preston Franco Pestilli

Cerebral Cortex Sep 2023 doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad276

The Growth Rate of COVID-19 Cases in Spring 2020 Was Associated With Individual Mobility and County-level Political Leaning

Chris Parker Jorge Mejia Franco Pestilli

SSRN 4714781 Jul 2023 doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4714781

2022

White matter tracts traveling between cortical regions associated with the dorsal and ventral visual streams predict learning a perceptual-motor task

Sophia Vinci-Booher Elizabeth Berquist Franco Pestilli

Journal of Vision Dec 2022 doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.14.4258

Open and reproducible neuroimaging From study inception to publication

Guiomar Niso Rotem Botvinik-Nezer Stefan Appelhoff Alejandro De La Vega Oscar Esteban Joset A Etzel Karolina Finc Melanie Ganz Remi Gau Yaroslav O Halchenko Peer Herholz Agah Karakuzu David B Keator Christopher J Markiewicz Camille Maumet Cyril R Pernet Franco Pestilli Nazek Queder Tina Schmitt Weronika Sójka Adina S Wagner Kirstie J Whitaker Jochem W Rieger

NeuroImage Nov 2022 doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119623

A taxonomy of the brain’s white matter twenty-one major tracts for the 21st century

Daniel N Bullock Elena A Hayday Mark D Grier Wei Tang Franco Pestilli Sarah R Heilbronner

Cerebral Cortex Oct 2022 doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab500

Denoising diffusion weighted imaging data using convolutional neural networks

Hu Cheng Sophia Vinci-Booher Jian Wang Bradley Caron Qiuting Wen Sharlene Newman Franco Pestilli

Plos one Sep 2022 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274396

sparsegl An r package for estimating sparse group lasso

Xiaoxuan Liang Aaron Cohen Anibal Solón Heinsfeld Franco Pestilli Daniel J McDonald

arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.02942 Aug 2022 doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.02942

GPU-accelerated connectome discovery at scale

Varsha Sreenivasan Sawan Kumar Franco Pestilli Partha Talukdar Devarajan Sridharan

Nature Computational Science May 2022 doi.org/10.1038/s43588-022-00250-z

Development of white matter tracts between and within the dorsal and ventral streams

S Vinci-Booher B Caron D Bullock K James Franco Pestilli

Brain Structure and Function May 2022 doi.org/10.1007/s00429-021-02414-5

Visual information routes in the posterior dorsal and ventral face network studied with intracranial neurophysiology and white matter tract endpoints

Mariana Babo-Rebelo Aina Puce D Bullock Laurent Hugueville Franco Pestilli C Adam Katia Lehongre Virginie Lambrecq Vera Dinkelacker Nathalie George

Cerebral Cortex Jan 2022 doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab212

Mapping the Microstructure and Striae of the Human Olfactory Tract with Diffusion MRI

Shiloh L. Echevarria-Cooper Guangyu Zhou Christina Zelano Franco Pestilli Todd B. Parrish Thorsten Kahnt

The Journal of Neuroscience Jan 2022 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1552-21.2021

A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence

Emily J Allen Ghislain St-Yves Yihan Wu Jesse L Breedlove Jacob S Prince Logan T Dowdle Matthias Nau Brad Caron Franco Pestilli Ian Charest J Benjamin Hutchinson Thomas Naselaris Kendrick Kay

Nat Neurosci Jan 2022 doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00962-x

2021

Deep learning and cross-species analysis identify the influences of sex and cannabinoid signaling on cerebellar vermis morphology

Kylie Black Brent McPherson John Hainline Shawyon Baygani Brynna Webb Tristen Mier Amanda Essex Ken Mackie Franco Pestilli Anna Kalinovsky

Jul 2021 10.1101/2021.07.03.450642

International Data Governance for Neuroscience

Damian Eke Amy Bernard Jan G. Bjaalie Ricardo Chavarriaga Takashi Hanakawa Anthony Hannan Sean Hill Maryann Elizabeth Martone Agnes McMahon Oliver Ruebel Edda Thiels Franco Pestilli

Jun 2021 10.31234/osf.io/esz9b

Development of white matter tracts between and within the dorsal and ventral streams

S. Vinci-Booher B. Caron D. Bullock K. James F. Pestilli

Jan 2021 10.1101/2021.01.27.428423

In defense of decentralized research data management

Michael Hanke Franco Pestilli Adina S. Wagner Christopher J. Markiewicz Jean-Baptiste Poline Yaroslav O. Halchenko

Neuroforum Jan 2021 10.1515/nf-2020-0037

2020

A single-mode associates global patterns of brain network structure and behavior across the human lifespan

Brent McPherson Franco Pestilli

Sep 2020 10.1101/2020.09.24.312090

The visual white matter connecting human area prostriata and the thalamus is retinotopically organized

Jan W. Kurzawski Kyriaki Mikellidou Maria Concetta Morrone Franco Pestilli

Brain Structure and Function Jul 2020 10.1007/s00429-020-02096-5

Visual information routes in the posterior dorsal and ventral face network studied with intracranial neurophysiology, and white matter tract endpoints

M Babo-Rebelo A Puce D Bullock L Hugueville F Pestilli C Adam K Lehongre V Lambrecq V Dinkelacker N George

May 2020 10.1101/2020.05.22.102046

The visual white matter connecting human area prostriata and the thalamus is retinotopically organized

Jan W. Kurzawski Kyriaki Mikellidou Maria Concetta Morrone Franco Pestilli

Apr 2020 10.1101/2020.04.19.047993

Classifyber, a robust streamline-based linear classifier for white matter bundle segmentation

Giulia Bertò Daniel Bullock Pietro Astolfi Soichi Hayashi Luca Zigiotto Luciano Annicchiarico Francesco Corsini Alessandro De Benedictis Silvio Sarubbo Franco Pestilli Paolo Avesani Emanuele Olivetti

Feb 2020 10.1101/2020.02.10.942714

Advanced mapping of the human white matter microstructure better separates elite sports participation

Bradley Caron Daniel Bullock Lindsey Kitchell Brent McPherson Derek Alexander Kellar Hu Cheng Sharlene D. Newman Nicholas L. Port Franco Pestilli

Jan 2020 10.31234/osf.io/dxaqp

2019

Associative white matter connecting the dorsal and ventral posterior human cortex

Daniel Bullock Hiromasa Takemura Cesar F. Caiafa Lindsey Kitchell Brent McPherson Bradley Caron Franco Pestilli

Brain Structure and Function Nov 2019 10.1007/s00429-019-01907-8

Triple visual hemifield maps in optic chiasm hypoplasia

Khazar Ahmadi Alessio Fracasso Robert J. Puzniak Andre D. Gouws Renat Yakupov Oliver Speck Joern Kaufmann Franco Pestilli Serge O. Dumoulin Antony B. Morland Michael B. Hoffmann

Jul 2019 10.1101/703520

Associative white matter connecting the dorsal and ventral posterior human cortex

Daniel N. Bullock Hiromasa Takemura Cesar Caiafa Lindsey Kitchell Brent McPherson Bradley Caron Franco Pestilli

Jul 2019 10.31234/osf.io/kp3hj

Quantifying nerve decussation abnormalities in the optic chiasm

Robert J. Puzniak Khazar Ahmadi Jörn Kaufmann Andre Gouws Antony B. Morland Franco Pestilli Michael B. Hoffmann

May 2019 10.1101/633347

Functionally defined white matter of the macaque monkey brain reveals a dorso-ventral attention network

Ilaria Sani Brent C McPherson Heiko Stemmann Franco Pestilli Winrich A Freiwald

eLife Jan 2019 10.7554/eLife.40520

2018

Age-related macular degeneration affects the optic radiation white matter projecting to locations of retinal damage

Shoyo Yoshimine Shumpei Ogawa Hiroshi Horiguchi Masahiko Terao Atsushi Miyazaki Kenji Matsumoto Hiroshi Tsuneoka Tadashi Nakano Yoichiro Masuda Franco Pestilli

Brain Structure and Function Nov 2018 10.1007/s00429-018-1702-5

Age-related macular degeneration affects the optic radiation white matter projecting to locations of retinal damage

Shoyo Yoshimine Shumpei Ogawa Hiroshi Horiguchi Masahiko Terao Atsushi Miyazaki Kenji Matsumoto Hiroshi Tsuneoka Tadashi Nakano Yoichiro Masuda Franco Pestilli

May 2018 10.1101/336206

Human white matter and knowledge representation

Franco Pestilli

PLOS Biology Apr 2018 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005758

2016

Ensemble Tractography

Hiromasa Takemura Saad Jbabdi Cesar F. Caiafa Brian A. Wandell Franco Pestilli

PLOS Computational Biology Feb 2016 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004692

2015

Test-retest measurements and digital validation for in vivo neuroscience

Franco Pestilli

Scientific Data Dec 2015 10.1038/sdata.2014.57

Saccade Planning Evokes Topographically Specific Activity in the Dorsal and Ventral Streams

G. T. Saber F. Pestilli C. E. Curtis

Journal of Neuroscience Jan 2015 10.1523/jneurosci.1687-14.2015

2014

Evaluation and statistical inference for human connectomes

Franco Pestilli Jason D Yeatman Ariel Rokem Kendrick N Kay Brian A Wandell

Nat Meth Sep 2014 10.1038/nmeth.3098

A review of the mechanisms by which attentional feedback shapes visual selectivity

Sam Ling Janneke F. M. Jehee Franco Pestilli

Brain Struct Funct Jul 2014 10.1007/s00429-014-0818-5

2007

How do attention and adaptation affect contrast sensitivity?

F. Pestilli G. Viera M. Carrasco

Journal of Vision May 2007 10.1167/7.7.9