Publications

2024

Geisler, D. & Meyer, M. L. (under review). Identifying a neural signature that predicts self-focus. Download Preprint PDF.

Broom, T., Iyer, S., Courtney, A. L., & Meyer, M. L. (in press). Loneliness corresponds with neural representations and language use that deviate from shared cultural perceptions. Communications Psychology. Download Preprint PDF.

Brietzke, S., Barbarossa, K. & Meyer, M. L. (under review). Get out of my head: social evaluative brain states carry over into post-feedback rest to promote learning what others think of us. Download Preprint PDF.

Jimenez, C. A. & Meyer, M. L. (2024). Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) prioritizes social learning during rest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(12), e2309232121. Download PDF.

Iyer, S., Coller, E., Finn, E. S., & Meyer, M. L. (2024). Individuals who see the good in the bad engage distinctive default network coordination during post-encoding rest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(1) e2306295121. Download PDF.

2023

Meyer, M. L. (2023). Don't You Forget About Me: The Importance of Studying the Brain Basis of Real-world Interpersonal Memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(2), 149-157. Download PDF.

Orwig, W., Setton, R., Diez, I., Bueichekú, E., Meyer, M. L., Tamir, D. I., Sepulcre, J. & Schacter, D. L. (2023). Creativity at rest: Exploring functional network connectivity of creative experts. Network Neuroscience, 1-31. Download PDF.

2022

Huber, C., Brietske, S., Inagaki, T. K., & Meyer, M. L. (2022). American prejudice during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports, 12, 22278. Download PDF.

Wang, W., Nepal, S., Huckins, J., Hernandez, L., Vojdanovski, V., Mack, D., Plomp, J., Obuchi, M., DaSilva, A. Murphy, E., Hedlund, E., Rogers, C., Meyer, M. L., & Campbel, A. (2022). First-gen lens: Assessing mental health of first-generation students across their first year at college using mobile sensing. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 6(2):1-32, http://10.1145/3543194. Download PDF.

Nepal, S., Wang, W., Vojdanovski, V., Huckins, J. F.,  daSilva, A., Meyer, M.L., & Campbell, A. (2022). COVID student study: A year in the life of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of mobile phone sensing. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, USA, https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502043. Download PDF.

2021

Brietzke, S., & Meyer, M. L. (2021). Temporal self-compression: Behavioral and neural evidence that past and future selves are compressed as they move away from the present. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 18(49), e2101403118. Download PDF.

daSilva, A., Huckins, J. F., Wang, W., Wang, R., Campbell, A. T., & Meyer, M. L. (in press). Daily perceived stress predicts less next-day social interaction in humans: Evidence from a naturalistic mobile sensing study. Emotion. Download PDF.

Sippel, L. M., Holzheimer, P. E., Huckins, J. F., Collier, E., Feilong, M., Wheatley, T., & Meyer, M. L. (2021). Neurocognitive mechanisms of poor social connection in PTSD: Evidence for abnormalities in social working memory. Depression & Anxiety, 38, 615-625. Download PDF.

Mack, D. L., DaSilva, A. W., Rogers, C., Hedlund, E., Murphy, E. I., Vojdanowvki, V., Plomp, J., Wang, W., Nepal, S. K., Holtzheimer, P. E., Wagner, D. D. Jacobson, N. C., Meyer, M. L., Campbell, A. T., & Huckins, J. F. (in press). Mental health and behavior of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal mobile smartphone and ecological momentary assessment study, Part II. Journal of Medical Internet Research. Download PDF.

2020

Courtney, A. L., & Meyer, M. L. (2020). Self-other representation in the social brain reflects social connection. Journal of Neuroscience, 4(20), 5616-5627. Download PDF.

Collier, E., & Meyer, M. L. (2020). Memory of others’ disclosures is consolidated during rest and associated with providing support: neural and linguistic evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(20), 1672-1687. Download PDF.

Inagaki, T., Brietkze, S., & Meyer, M. L. (2020). The resting brain sets support-giving in motion: dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) activity during momentary rest primes supportive responding. Cerebral Cortex Communications. Download PDF.

Huckins, J., DaSilva, A., Wang, W., Hedlund, E.L., Rogers, C., Nepal, S. K., Wu, J., Obuchi, M., Murphy, E. I., Meyer, M. L., Wagner, D. D., Holtzheimer, P.E., & Campbell, A. T. (2020). Mental health and behavior during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal mobile smartphone and ecological momentary assessment study in college students. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(6). Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., & Collier, E. (2020). Theory of Minds: Managing mental state inferences in working memory is associated with the dorsomedial subsystem of the default network and social integration. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(1), 63-73. Download PDF.

2019

Meyer, M. L. (2019). Social by default: Characterizing the social functions of the resting brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Download PDF.

Inagaki, T., & Meyer, M. L. (2019). Individual differences in resting state connectivity and giving social support: Implications for health. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., Davachi, L., Ochsner, K. N., & Lieberman, M. D. (2019). Evidence that default network connectivity during rest consolidates social information. Cerebral Cortex, 12(5), 1910-1920. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., Zhao, Z., & Tamir, D. I. (2019) Simulating other people changes the self. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., Hershfield, H. E., Waytz, A., Mildner, J., & Tamir, D. I. (2019). Creative expertise is associated with transcending the here and now. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 148(11), 1898-1930. Download PDF.

Lieberman, M. D., Straccia, M. A., Meyer, M. L., Meng, D., & Tan, K. M. (2019). Social, self, situational, and affective processes in medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC): Causal, multivariate, and reverse inference evidence. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. Download PDF.

Moieni, M., Irwin, M. R., Haltom, K. E. B., Jevtic, I., Meyer, M. L., Breen, E. C., Cole, S. W., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2019). Exploring the role of gratitude and support-giving on inflammatory outcomes. Emotion, 19(6), 939-949. Download PDF.

Tabak, B. A., Teed, A., Castle, E., Dutcher, J. M., Meyer, M. L., Bryan, R., Irwin, M. R., Lieberman, M.D., & Eisenberger, N. I., (2019). Null results of oxytocin and vasopressin administration across a range of social cognitive and behavioral paradigms: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107, 124-132. Download PDF.

2018

Meyer, M. L., & Lieberman, M. D. (2018). Why people are always thinking about themselves: Medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) activity during rest primes self-referential processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Download PDF.

Krol, S. A., Meyer, M. L., Lieberman, M. D., & Bartz, J. A. (2018). Social working memory predicts social network size in humans. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. DOI: 10.1007/s40750-018-0100-9. Download PDF.

2009-2017

Meyer, M. L. (2017). Neurobiological causes and consequences of cultural differences in social cognition. In N. Gonzales, E. Telzer, & J. M. Causadias (Eds.), Handbook of Culture and Biology. Wiley. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., & Lieberman, M.D. (2016). Social working memory training improves perspective-taking accuracy. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Download PDF.

Tabak, B. A., Meyer, M. L., Dutcher, J., Castle, L., Irwin, M. R., Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2016). Oxytocin reduces social working memory performance in individuals with higher levels of social anxiety. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(8), 1272-79. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., Taylor, S. E., & Lieberman, M.D. (2015). Social working memory and its distinctive link to social cognitive ability: An fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(10), 1338-47. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., Williams, K. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2015). Why social pain can live on: Different neural mechanisms are associated with reliving social and physical pain. PLOS One. Download PDF.

Spunt, R. P., Meyer, M. L., & Lieberman, M. D. (2015). The default mode of human brain function primes the intentional stance, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(6), 1116-1124. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., Masten, C. L., Ma, Y., Wang, C., Shi, Z., Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D. & Han, S. (2015). Differential neural activation to friends and strangers links interdependence to empathy. Culture & Brain, 3, 21-38. Download PDF.

Tabak, B. A., Meyer, M. L., Castle, E., Dutcher, J., Irwin, M. R., Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I., (2015). Vasopressin, but not oxytocin, increases empathic concern among individuals who received higher levels of paternal warmth: A randomized controlled trial. Psychoneuroimmunology, 51, 253-261. Download PDF.

Dumontheil, I., Jensen, S. G, Meyer, M. L., Lieberman, M.D., & Blakemore, S.-J. (2014). Preliminary investigation of the influence of dopamine regulating genes on social working memory. Social Neuroscience, 9(5), 437-451. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., Way, B. M., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2013). Broadening the scope of cultural neuroscience. [Commentary on Chiao et al.] Psychological Inquiry. 24, 47-52. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., Spunt, R. P., Berkman, E. T., Taylor, S. E., & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Evidence for social working memory from a parametric functional MRI study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 1883-1888. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L. & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Social working memory: Neurocognitive networks and directions for future research. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 1-11. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., Masten, C. L., Ma, Y., Wang, C., Shi, Z., Eisenberger, N. I., & Han, S. (2012). Empathy for the social suffering of friends and strangers recruits distinct patterns of brain activity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 4, 446-454. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., Berkman, E. T., Karremans, J. C. & Lieberman, M. D. (2010). Incidental regulation of attraction: The neural basis of the derogation of alternatives in romantic relationships. Emotion & Cognition, 25, 490-505. Download PDF.

Meyer, M. L., Wu, S., Geary, D. & Menon, V. (2009). Differential contribution of specific working memory components to mathematical skills in 2nd and 3rd graders. Learning and Individual Differences, 20, 101-109. Download PDF.

Decety, J. & Meyer, M. (2009). From emotion resonance to empathic understanding: A developmental neuroscience account. Development and Psychopathology, 20, 1053-1080. Download PDF.

Wu, S., Meyer, M., Maeda, U., Salimpoor, V., Tomiyama, S., Geary, D., & Menon, V. (2009). Standardized assessment of strategy use, working memory, and math performance in early mental arithmetic. Developmental Neuropsychology, 33, 365-363. Download PDF.

Decety, J. & Meyer, M. L. (2009). Imitation as a stepping stone to empathy. In M. de Hann and M. Gunnar. The Handbook of Developmental Social Neuroscience (pp. 142-158). New York: Guilford Publications.