Publications

This list may not always include my most recent publications. For a more up-to-date list, check out my Google Scholar profile!

‡ = co-first authorship

Preprints

Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L.‡, Tsoi, L.‡, Speer, S., Zada, Z., Burns, S. M., Falk, E. B., & Tamir, D. (2025). fMRI hyperscanning reveals widespread neural coupling during natural conversations. PsyArXiv

Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Ahn, J., Kang,Y., Cosme, C., Stanoi, O., Pei, R., Speer,S., Burns, S.M., Cooper, N., Boyd, Z.,Bassett, D., Ochsner, K., Lydon-Staley, D.L., Mucha, P.J., Tamir, D., Falk, E.B. (2025). A generalizable neural signature of perceived loneliness. PsyArXiv

Speer, S. P. H., Haran, S, Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Falk, E. B.,Tsoi, L., Burns, S. M., & Tamir, D. I. (2024). Finding Agreement: fMRI hyperscanning reveals dyads that explore in mental state space facilitate opinion alignment. bioRxiv

In Press

Speer, S., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Tsoi, L., Burns, S., Weber, A. S., & Falk, E. B. (2025). From Words to Bonds The Science of Meaningful Conversations. The Psychological Quest for Meaning, 49.

Zada, Z., Nastase, S. A., Speer, S., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Tsoi, L., Burns, S., Falk, E., Hasson, U., & Tamir, D. (2025). Linguistic coupling between neural systems for speech production and comprehension during real-time dyadic conversations. Neuron.

2025

Burns, S. M., Tsoi, L., Falk, E. B., Speer, S. P. H., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., & Tamir, D. I. (2025). Interdependent minds: Quantifying the dynamics of successful social interaction. Current directions in psychological science.

2024

Speer, S. P. H., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Tsoi, L., Burns, S. M., Falk, E. B., & Tamir, D. I. (2024). Hyperscanning shows friends explore and strangers converge in conversation. Nature communications, 15(1), 7781.

Hughes, C., Setton, R., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Baracchini, G., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2024). Precision mapping of the default network reveals common and distinct (inter) activity for autobiographical memory and theory of mind. Journal of neurophysiology, 132(2), 375–388.

Snytte, J., Setton, R., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Natasha Rajah, M., Sheldon, S., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2024). Structure-Function Interactions in the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex Are Associated with Episodic Memory in Healthy Aging. eNeuro, 11(3), ENEURO.0418-23.2023.

2023

Kang, Y., Ahn, J., Cosme, D., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., McGowan, A., Zhou, D., Boyd, Z. M., Jovanova, M., Stanoi, O., Mucha, P. J., Ochsner, K. N., Bassett, D. S., Lydon-Staley, D., & Falk, E. B. (2023). Frontoparietal functional connectivity moderates the link between time spent on social media and subsequent negative affect in daily life. Scientific reports, 13(1), 20501.

Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Setton, R., Bzdok, D., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2023). Age differences in functional brain networks associated with loneliness and empathy. Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 7(2), 496–521.

Sassenberg, T. A., Burton, P. C., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Jung, R. E., Rustichini, A., Spreng, R. N., & DeYoung, C. G. (2023). Conscientiousness associated with efficiency of the salience/ventral attention network: Replication in three samples using individualized parcellation. NeuroImage, 272, 120081

2022

Setton, R.‡, Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L.‡ , Girn, M., Lockrow, A. W., Baracchini, G., Lowe, A. J., Cassidy, B.N., Li, J., Luh, W., Bzdok, D., Leahy, R.M., Ge, T., Margulies, D.S., Misic, B., Berhardt, B.C., Stevens, W. D., Brigard, F., Kundu, P., Turner, G.R., & Spreng, R. N. (2022). Age differences in the functional architecture of the human brain. Cerebral cortex.(New York, N.Y. : 1991), 33(1), 114–134.

Setton, R., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L. , Sheldon, S., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2022). Hippocampus and temporal pole functional connectivity is associated with age and individual differences in autobiographical memory. PNAS, 119(41), e2203039119.

Kantarovich, K.,Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Fernández-Cabello, S., Setton, R., Baracchini, G., Lockrow, A. W., Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2022). White matter lesion load is associated with lower within- and greater between- network connectivity across older age. Neurobiology of aging, 112, 170–180.

Spreng, R. N., Setton, R., Alter, U., Cassidy, B. N., Darboh, B., DuPre, E., Kantarovich, K., Lockrow, A. W., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Luh, W. M., Kundu, P., & Turner, G. R. (2022).Neurocognitive aging data release with behavioral, structural and multi-echo functional MRI measures. Scientific data, 9(1), 119.

2021

Huang, S., Faul, L., Sevinc, G., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Setton, R., Lockrow, A. W., Ebner, N. C., Turner, G. R., Spreng, R. N., & De Brigard, F. (2021). Age differences in intuitive moral decision-making: Associations with inter-network neural connectivity. Psychology and aging, 36(8), 902–916.

Baracchini, G., Mišić, B., Setton, R., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Girn, M., Nomi, J. S., Uddin, L. Q., Turner, G. R., & Spreng, R. N. (2021). Inter-regional BOLD signal variability is an organizational feature of functional brain networks. NeuroImage, 237, 118149.

Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L. & Spreng, R.N. (2021). Social exclusion reliably engages the default network: A meta-analysis of Cyberball. NeuroImage, 227, 117666.

2020

Spreng, R. N., Dimas, E., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Dagher, A., Koellinger, P., Nave, G., Ong, A., Kernbach, J. M., Wiecki, T. V., Ge, T., Li, Y., Holmes, A. J., Yeo, B. T. T., Turner, G. R., Dunbar, R. I. M., & Bzdok, D. (2020). The default network of the human brain is associated with perceived social isolation. Nature Communications, 11(1), 6393.

2019

Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Ge, T., Chong, M., Ferguson, M.A., Misic, B., Burrow., A.L.,Leahy, R., & Spreng, R.N. (2019). Loneliness and meaning in life are reflected in the intrinsic network architecture of the brain. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience,14(4), 423-433.

2017

Natan, R. G., Carruthers, I. M., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., & Geffen, M. N. (2017). Gain control in the auditory cortex evoked by changing temporal correlation of sounds. Cerebral Cortex, 27(3), 2385–2402.

2015

Aizenberg, M., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Briguglio, J. J., Natan, R. G., & Geffen, M. N. (2015).Bidirectional regulation of innate and learned behaviors that rely on frequency discrimination by cortical inhibitory neurons. PLoS Biology, 13(12), e1002308.

Carruthers, I. M., Laplagne, D. A., Jaegle, A., Briguglio, J. J., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Natan, R. G., & Geffen, M. N. (2015). Emergence of invariant representation of vocalizations in the auditory cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 114(5), 2726–2740.

Natan, R. G., Briguglio, J. J., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Jones, S. I., Aizenberg, M., Goldberg, E. M., & Geffen, M. N. (2015). Complementary control of sensory adaptation by two types of cortical interneurons. ELife, 4.

Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Davis, A. J. O., Aizenberg, M., & Geffen, M. N. (2015). Selective impairment in frequency discrimination in a mouse model of tinnitus. PloS One, 10(9), e0137749.

2014

O’Keefe, L. M., Doran, S. J., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Conti, L. H., Venna, V. R., & McCullough, L. D. (2014). Social isolation after stroke leads to depressive-like behavior and decreased BDNF levels in mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 260, 162–170.