Jonas Kaplan - Publications

These are my scientific publications.


	2025
open access	Newsome, P., Vaccaro, A., Cardenas, S., Valen, N., Waizman, Y., Aviv, E., Leon, G., Kaplan, J.T., & Saxbe, D. (2025). My Baby Versus the World: Fathers' Neural Processing of Own-Infant, Unfamiliar-Infant, and Romantic Partner Stimuli. Human Brain Mapping.
request paper	Christov-Moore, L., Schoeller, F., Vaccaro, A., Iacoboni, M., Kaplan, J.T., & Reggente, N. (2025). Individual differences in aesthetic experience point to the role of body awareness in political orientation. Political Psychology.
open access	McDaniel, C., Habibi, H., & Kaplan, J.T. Mind wandering during creative incubation periods predicts increases in creative performance in a writing task. Scientific Reports.
request paper	Wu, H., Vaccaro, A.G., Kaplan J.T. (2025). First-Person Spoken Narratives Elicit Consistent Event Structures in the Angular Gyrus. Cortex.
request paper	Hennessy, S., Kaplan, J.T., & Habibi A. (2025). Music-evoked nostalgia activates default mode and reward networks across the lifespan. Human Brain Mapping. doi: 10.1002/hbm.70181
request paper	Abdurahman, S, Reimer, N.K., Golazizian, P., Baek, E., Shen, Y., Trager, J., Lulla, R., Kaplan, J.T., Parkinson, C., & Dehghani, M. (2025). Targeting Audiences’ Moral Values Shapes Misinformation Sharing Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. doi: 10.1037/xge0001714

	2024
request paper	Horner, S, Lulla, R., Wu, H., Shaktivel, S., Vaccaro, A., Herschel, E., Christov-Moore, L., McDaniel, C., Kaplan, J.T., & Greening, S., (2024). Brain activity associated with emotion regulation predicts individual differences in working memory ability. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. doi: 10.3758/s13415-024-01232-6
request paper	Kung, H-T., Cui, S., Kaplan, J.T., Joshi, A., Leahy, R.M., Nayak, K.S., & Haldar, J.P. (2024). Diffusion tensor brain imaging at 0.55T: A feasibility study. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 92(4). doi: 10.1002/mrm.30156
request paper	Vaccaro AG, Wu, H, Iyer R, Shakthivel, S, Christie, N, Damasio, A., Kaplan J.T. (2024). Neural patterns associated with mixed valence feelings differ in consistency and predictability throughout the brain. Cerebral Cortex, 34(4). doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhae122
request paper	Waizman, Y., Herschel, E., Cárdenas, S., Vaccaro, A., Aviv, E., Sellery, P., Goldenberg, D., Kaplan, J.T., & Saxbe, D. (2024). Neural correlates of inhibitory control in first-time fathers listening to infant cry, pink noise and silence: Associations with postpartum depression, anxiety, and stress. Behavioral Brain Research. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2024.114947
request paper	Lulla, R., Christov-Moore, L., Vaccaro, A., Reggente, N., Iacoboni, M., & Kaplan, J.T. (2024). Empathy from dissimilarity: Multivariate pattern analysis of neural activity during observation of others' somatosensory experiences. Imaging Neuroscience , 2. doi: 10.1162/imag_a_00110

	2023
request paper	Christov-Moore, L., Reggente, N., Vaccaro, A., Schoeller, F., Pluimer, B., Douglas, P. K., Iacoboni, M., & Kaplan, J. T. (2023). Preventing antisocial robots: a pathway to artificial empathy. Science Robotics.
open access	Kaplan, J.T., Vaccaro, A., Henning, M., & Christov-Moore, L. (2023). Moral reframing of messages about mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports.
request paper	Butera, C., Kaplan, J.T., Kilroy, E., Harrison, L., Jayashanka, A., Loureiro, F., & Aziz-Zadeh, L. (2023). The relationship between alexithymia, interoception, and neural functional connectivity during facial expression processing in autism spectrum disorder. Neuropsychologia.

	2022
open access	Vaccaro, A., Heydari, P., Christov-Moore, C., Damasio, A., & Kaplan, J.T. (2022). Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience.
request paper	Marshall, N., Kaplan, J.T., Stoycos, S., Goldenberg, D., Khoddam, H., Cardenas, S., Sellery, P., & Saxbe, D. (2022). ). Stronger Mentalizing Network Connectivity in Expectant Fathers Predicts Postpartum Father-Infant Attachment and Parenting Behavior. Social Neuroscience.
request paper	Greening, S., Lee, T-H., Gregoire, L., Burleigh, L., Robinson, T., Jiang, X., Mather, M., & Kaplan, J.T. (2022). Mental imagery can generate and regulate acquired differential fear conditioned reactivity. Scientific Reports.
preprint	Christov-Moore, L., Reggente, N., Vaccaro, A., Schoeller, F., Pluimer, B., Douglas, P. K.,Iacoboni, M., & Kaplan, J.T. (2022). Are Robots Sociopaths? A Neuroscientific Approach to the Alignment Problem PsyArXiv.

	2021
open access	Hennessy, S., Sachs, M., Kaplan, J.T., & Habibi, A. Music and mood regulation during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. (2021). PLoS ONE.
open access	Vaccaro, A.G., Scott, B., Gimbel, S.I., & Kaplan, J.T. (2021). Functional brain connectivity during narrative processing relates to transportation and story influence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
request paper	Cardenas, S. I., Stoycos, S.A., Sellery, P. Marshall, N., Khoddam, H., Kaplan, J.T., Goldenberg, D., & Saxbe, D. (2021). Theory of mind processing in expectant fathers: Associations with prenatal oxytocin and parental attunement. Developmental Psychobiology.

	2020
request paper	Kilroy, E., Harrison, L., Butera, C., Jayashankar, A., Cermak, S., Kaplan., J.T., Williams, M., Haranin, E., Bookheimer, S., Dapretto, M., & Aziz-Zadeh, L. (2020). Unique deficit in embodied simulation in Autism: An fMRI study comparing Autism and Developmental Coordination Disorder. Human Brain Mapping.
request paper	Man, K., Melo, G., Damasio, A., & Kaplan, J.T. (2020). Seeing objects helps us better hear the sounds they make. Neuroscience of Consciousness.
request paper	Vaccarro, A., Kaplan, J.T. & Damasio, A., D. (2020). Bittersweet: The neuroscience of mixed emotions. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
request paper	Khoddam, H., Goldenberg, D., Stoycos, S.A., Horton, K.T., Marshall, N., Cardenas, S., Kaplan, J.T., & Saxbe, D.E (2020). How do expectant fathers respond to infant cry? Examining brain and behavioral responses and the moderating role of testosterone. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
request pdf	Sachs, M., Habibi, A., Damasio, A., & Kaplan, J.T. (2020). Dynamic intersubject neural synchronization reflects affective responses to sad music. NeuroImage.

	2019
request pdf	Sachs, M., Kaplan, J.T., & Habibi, A., (2019). Echoing the emotions of others: Empathy is related to how adults and children map emotion onto the body. Cognition and Emotion.

	2018
request pdf	Saxbe, D., Del Piero, L., Stoycos, S., Gimbel, S., Margolin, G., & Kaplan, J.T. (2018). Community Violence Exposure in Early Adolescence: Longitudinal Associations with Hippocampal Structure and Function. Developmental Science.
request pdf	Sachs, M., Habibi, A., Damasio, A. & Kaplan, J.T. (2018). Decoding the neural signatures of emotions expressed through sound. NeuroImage.
request pdf	Saxbe, D.E., Lyden, H., Gimbel, S.I., Sachs, M.E., Del Piero, L.B., Margolin, G., & Kaplan, J.T. (2018). Longitudinal associations between family aggression, externalizing behavior, and the structure and function of the amygdala. Journal of Research on Adolescence.

	2017
open access	Sachs, M., Kaplan, J.T., Der Sarkissian, A., & Habibi, A. (2017). Increased engagement of the cognitive control network associated with music training in children during an fMRI Stroop task, PLOS One.
request pdf	Dehghani, M., Boghrati, R., Man, K., Hoover, J., Gimbel, S.I., Vaswani, A., Zevin, J., Immordino-Yang, M-H., Gordon, A., Damasio, A., & Kaplan, J.T. (2017). Decoding the Neural Representation of Story Meanings across Languages Human Brain Mapping.
request pdf	Stoycos, S., Del Piero, L., Margolin, G., Kaplan, J.T., & Saxbe, D. (2017). Neural correlates of inhibitory spillover in adolescence: Associations with internalizing symptoms. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
open access	Henning, M., Fox, G., Kaplan, J.T., Damasio, H., & Damasio, A. (2017). A Potential Role for mu-Opioids in Mediating the Positive Effects of Gratitude. Frontiers in Psychology.

	2016
open access	Kaplan, J.T., Gimbel, S.I. & Harris, S. (2016). Neural correlates of maintaining one's political beliefs in the face of counterevidence. Scientific Reports.
open access	Lyden, H., Gimbel, S. I., Del Piero, L., Tsai, B., Sachs, M., Kaplan, J.T., Margolin, G., & Saxbe, D. (2016). Associations Between Family Adversity and Brain Volume in Adolescence: Manual vs. Automated Brain Segmentation Yields Different Results. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
request pdf	Kaplan, J.T., Gimbel, S., Dehghani, M., Immordino-Yang, M-H., Sagae., K., Wong, J., Tipper, C., Damasio, H., Gordon, A ., & Damasio, A. (2016). Processing narratives concerning protected values: A cross-cultural investigation of neural correlates. Cerebral Cortex.
	2015
open access	Fox, G., Kaplan, J.T., Damasio, H., & Damasio, A. (2015). Neural correlates of gratitude. Frontiers in Psychology.
request pdf	Araujo, H., Kaplan, J.T., Damasio, H., Damasio, A. (2015). Neural correlates of different self domains. Brain and Behavior.
request pdf	Saxbe, D.E., Del Piero, L.B., Immordino-Yang, M.H., Kaplan, J.T., & Margolin, G. (2015). Neural mediators of the intergenerational transmission of family aggression. Development and Psychopathology.
request pdf	Man, K., Damasio, A., Meyer, K., & Kaplan J.T. (2015). Convergent and invariant object representations for sight, sound, and touch. Human Brain Mapping.
open access	Kaplan, J.T., Man, K., & Greening, S. (2015). Multi-Voxel Cross-Classification: Applying machine learning techniques to characterize abstraction in neural representations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9.
request pdf	Saxbe, D.E., Del Piero, L.B., Immordino-Yang, M.H., Kaplan, J.T., & Margolin, G. (2015). Neural correlates of adolescents' viewing of parents' and peers' emotions: Associations with risk-taking behavior and risky peer affiliations. Social Neuroscience.

	2014
request pdf	Martins, B., Ponzio, A., Velasco, R., Kaplan, J. T., Mathers, M. (2014). Dedifferentiation of emotion regulation strategy representations in the aging brain. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience.
open access	Habibi A, Ilari B, Crimi K, Metke M, Kaplan J, Joshi A, Leahy R, Shattuck D, Choi S, Ficek B, Haldar J, Damasio A and Damasio H. (2014). An Equal Start: Absence of Group Differences in Cognitive, Social and Neural Measures Prior to Music or Sports Training in Children. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8:690.
open access	Hale, T. S., Kane, A., Kaminsky, O., Tung, K., Loo, S., McGough, J., & Kaplan, J.T. (2014). Visual Network Asymmetry and Default Mode Network Function in ADHD: An fMRI Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 5:81.
open access	Araujo, H., Kaplan, J.T., & Damasio, A. (2014). The role of cortical midline structures in autobiographical self. PeerJ, 2:e481.

	2013
open access	Araujo, H., Kaplan, J.T., & Damasio, A. (2013). Cortical midline structures in autobiographical self processes: an activation-likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7: 584.
request pdf	Man, K., Kaplan, J., Damasio, H., & Damasio, A. (2013). Neural convergence and divergence in the mammalian cerebral cortex: from experimental neuroanatomy to functional neuroimaging. Journal of Comparative Neurology.
request pdf	K. Sagae, A. S. Gordon, M. Dehghani, M. Metke, J. S. Kim, S. I. Gimbel, C. Tipper, J. Kaplan and M.H. Immordino-Yang. (2013). A data-driven approach for classification of subjectivity in personal narratives. In Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, OASIcs XX, Scholss Dagstuhl.

	2012
request pdf	Man, K., Kaplan, J.T., Damasio, A., & Meyer, K. (2012). Sight and sound converge to form modality-invariant representations in temporo-parietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 16629-16636.
open access	Sobhani, M., Fox, G.R., Kaplan, J.T., & Aziz-Zadeh, L. (2012). Interpersonal liking modulates motor-related brain regions. PLoS One 7(10): e46809.
request pdf	Kaplan, J.T., & Meyer, K. (2012). Multivariate pattern analysis reveals common neural patterns across individuals during touch observation. NeuroImage, 60, 204-212.

	2011
open access	Meyer, K. & Kaplan, J.T. (2011). Cross-modal multivariate pattern analysis. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 57, e3307.
request pdf	Meyer, K., Kaplan, J. T., Essex, R., Damasio, H., Damasio, A. (2011). Seeing touch is correlated with content-specific activity in primary somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 21, 2113-2121.

	2010
pdfsuppl	Meyer, K., Kaplan, J. T., Essex, R., Webber, C., Damasio, H., Damasio, A. (2010). Predicting visual stimuli based on activity in auditory cortices. Nature Neuroscience, 13. pp 667-8.
pdfsuppl	Mukamel, R., Ekstrom, A. D., Kaplan, J., Iacoboni, M. and Fried, I. (2010). Single neuron responses in humans during execution and observation of actions. Current Biology, 20. pp 750-756.

	2009
open access	Harris, S., Kaplan, J.T., Curiel, A., Bookheimer, S., Iacoboni, M., & Cohen, M. (2009). The neural correlates of religious and nonreligious belief. PLoS One, 4(10).
request pdf	Greene, D.J., Mooshagian, E., Kaplan, J.T., Zaidel, E., & Iacoboni, M. (2009). The neural correlates of social attention: Automatic orienting to social and nonsocial cues. Psychological Research, 73, 4, 499-511.
request pdf	Mazziotta, J.C. Roger, W., Iacoboni, M., Sicotte, N., Yaden, K., Tran, M., Bean, C., Kaplan, J., Toga, A. W., and the Members of the International Consortium for Brain Mapping (ICBM). (2009). The myth of the normal, average human brain – the ICBM experience: Subject screening and eligibility. NeuroImage, 44, 914-922.
request pdf	Bystritsky A., Kaplan J.T., Feusner J., Wadekar M., Kerwin L., Burock M., Wu, A. Iacoboni M. (2009). Preliminary study of fMRI guided rTMS in the treatment of GAD. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 69, 1092-8.
request pdf	Aziz-Zadeh, L., Kaplan, J.T., & Iacoboni, M. (2009). Aha! The neural correlates of verbal insight solutions. Human Brain Mapping 30, 908-916.

	2008
request pdf	Kaplan, J.T., Aziz-Zadeh, L., Uddin, L., & Iacoboni, M. (2008). The self across the senses: The neural response to one’s own face and voice. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 3, 218-223.
open access	Mooshagian, E., Kaplan, J., Zaidel, E., & Iacoboni, M. (2008). Fast visuomotor processing of redundant targets: The role of the right temporo-parietal junction. PLOS One, 3.

	2007
request pdf	Kaplan, J.T. & Iacoboni, M. (2007). Multisensory action perception in left ventral premotor cortex. Cognitive Processing, 8. 103-113.
request pdf	Kaplan, J.T., Freedman, J., & Iacoboni, M. (2007). Us vs. Them: Political attitudes and party affiliation influence neural response to faces of presidential candidates. Neuropsychologia, 45, 55-64.
purchase	Iacoboni, M., Kaplan, J. T., & Wilson, S. (2007). A neural architecture for imitation. In Models and Mechanisms of Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimension. K. Dautenhahn, ed. Cambridge University Press.
purchase	Kaplan, J. T. & Zaidel, E. (2007). Alexithymia across cultures. In Fragments of Mind. H. Cohen & B. Stemmer, eds. Academic Press.

	2006
request pdf	Kaplan, J.T., & Iacoboni, M. (2006). Getting a grip on other minds: Mirror neurons, intention understanding, and cognitive empathy. Social Neuroscience, 1, 175-183.
request pdf	Molnar-Szakacs, I., Kaplan, J.T., Greenfield, P.M., & Iacoboni, M. (2006) Observing action sequences: The role of the fronto-parietal mirror neuron system. NeuroImage, 25, 926-35.

	2005
request pdf	Uddin, L., Kaplan, J.T., Molnar-Szackas, I., Zaidel, E., & Iacoboni, M. (2005). Self-recognition activates the right hemisphere: an event-related fMRI study. NeuroImage 25, pp. 926-935
request pdf	Kaplan, J.T. & Iacoboni, M. (2005). Listen to my actions! Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

	Earlier
request pdf	Kaplan, J.T. & Zaidel, E. (2001). Error monitoring in the hemispheres: The effect of lateralized feedback on lexical decision, Cognition, 82, Vol 2, 157-178.