Preprints
Deen, B., Husain, G., Freiwald, W.A. (2023). A familiar face and person processing area in the human temporal pole. bioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2023.10.15.562392v1.
Deen, B., Freiwald, W.A. (2021). Parallel systems for social and spatial reasoning within the cortical apex. bioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2021.1109.1123.461550.
Materials: OSF
Data: OpenNeuro
Code: Github
Peer-reviewed publications
Deen, B.*, Schwiedrzik, C.*, Sliwa, J.*, Freiwald, W. (2023). Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 46, 381-401. *equal contribution
Deen, B., Saxe, R., Kanwisher, N.G. (2020). Processing communicative facial and vocal cues in the superior temporal sulcus. NeuroImage, 221(1), 117191.
Deen, B., Saxe, R. (2019). Parts-based representations of perceived face movements in the superior temporal sulcus. Human Brain Mapping, 40(8), 2499-2510. PDF
Powell, L. J., Deen, B., Saxe, R. (2017). Using individual functional channels of interest to study cortical development with fNIRS. Developmental Science, 21(4), e12595. PDF
Deen, B., Richardson, H., Dilks, D., Takahashi, A., Keil, B., Wald, L., Kanwisher, N.G., Saxe, R. (2017). Organization of high-level visual cortex in human infants. Nature Communications, 8, 13995.
Press: MIT Press, Quanta / The Atlantic, Le Monde, Wiley, LiveScience, IBTimes
Deen, B., Koldewyn, K., Kanwisher, N.G., Saxe, R. (2015). Functional organization of social perception and cognition in the superior temporal sulcus. Cerebral Cortex, 25(11), 4596-4609.
Data: STS Regions
Deen, B., Saxe, R., Bedny, M. (2015). Occipital cortex of blind individuals is functionally coupled with executive-control areas of frontal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(8), 1633-1647. PDF
Di Martino, A., […], Deen, B., […], Milham, M.P. (2013). The autism brain imaging data exchange: towards a large-scale evaluation of the intrinsic brain architecture in autism. Molecular Psychiatry, 19(6), 659-667.
Data: ABIDE dataset
Bolling, D.Z., Pitskel, N.B., Deen, B., Crowley, M.J., Mayes, L.C., Pelphrey, K.A. (2011). Development of neural systems for processing social exclusion from childhood to adolescence. Developmental Science, 14(6), 1431-1444.
Bolling, D.Z., Pitskel, N.B., Deen, B., Crowley, M.J., McPartland, J.C., Kaiser, M.D., Vander Wyk, B.C., Wu, J., Mayes, L.C., Pelphrey, K.A. (2011). Enhanced neural responses to rule violation in children with autism: a comparison to social exclusion. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(3), 280-294.
Deen, B., Pitskel, N.B., Pelphrey, K.A. (2011). Three systems of insular functional connectivity identified with cluster analysis. Cerebral Cortex, 21(7), 1489-1506.
Data: Insula clusters
Kaiser, M.D., Hudac, C.M., Shultz, S., Lee, S.M., Cheung, C., Berken, A.M., Deen, B., Pitskel, N.B., Sugrue, D.R., Voos, A.C., Saulnier, C.A., Ventola, P., Wolf, J.M., Klin, A., Vander Wyk, B.C., Pelphrey, K.A. (2011). Neural signatures of autism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 107(49), 21223-21228.
Bolling, D.Z., Pitskel, N.B., Deen, B., Crowley, M.J., McPartland, J.C., Mayes, L.C., Pelphrey, K.A. (2011). Dissociable brain mechanisms for processing social exclusion and rule violation. NeuroImage, 54(3), 2462-2471.
Deen, B., McCarthy, G. (2010). Reading about the actions of others: biological motion imagery and action congruency influence brain activity. Neuropsychologia, 48(6), 1607-1615.
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
Deen, B., Saxe, R. (2012). Neural correlates of social perception: the posterior superior temporal sulcus is modulated by action rationality but not animacy. Proceedings of the 34th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Essays and Opinion
Deen, B. (2020). How to Fix Science’s Diversity Problem. Scientific American. Link
Deen, B. (2020). The Cold Hard Truth About the Cosmos. Cooper Square Review. Link
Deen, B., Pelphrey, K.A. (2012). Perspective: Brain scans need a rethink. Nature 491, S20. Link
Creative Writing
Deen, B. (2020). Action Potential. Cooper Square Review. Link
ph.d. dissertation
Deen, B. (2016). Functional organization of the human superior temporal sulcus. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.