Andre Zamani is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Kalina Christoff in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Thought Laboratory. His research focuses on characterizing the neural bases of spontaneous thought using a combination of methodologies such as behavioral experimentation, neuroimaging with fMRI, and phenomenology. Andre received his B.A. in Psychology and Neuroscience in 2019 from the University of Puget Sound, and M.A. in Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 2023.

Thought; BOLD fMRI; self-processes; phenomenology; neurophenomenology

Mills, C., Zamani, A., White, R., & Christoff, K. (2021). Out of the blue: understanding abrupt and wayward transitions in thought using probability and predictive processing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0692

Zamani, A., Carhart-Harris, R., & Christoff, K. (2022). Prefrontal Contributions to the Stability and Variability of Thought and Conscious Experience. Neuropsychopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-021-01147-7

Zamani, A., Mills, C., Girn, M., & Christoff, K. (2023). A Closer Look at Transitions Between the Generative and Evaluative Phases of Creative Thought. In: Ball, L.J., & Vallée-Tourangeau, F., editors. Routledge international handbook of creative cognition. UK: Taylor & Francis

Poulos, C., Zamani, A., Pillemer, D., Leichtman, M., Christoff, K., & Mills, C. (2023). Investigating the appraisal structure of spontaneous thoughts: evidence for differences among unexpected thought, involuntary autobiographical memories, and ruminative thought. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01814-y

Tripathi, V., Batta, I., Zamani, A., Atad, A. A., Sheth, S., Zhang, J., Wager, T., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Uddin, L. Q., Prakash, R., Bauer, C. (Under review). Default mode network anti-correlation as a transdiagnostic biomarker of cognitive function. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/uhs3c

Burrell, J., Zamani, A., & Christoff, K. (Under review). Neurocognitive Dynamics, Mental Flexibility, and Constraints on Thought. In: Barbey, A., editor. The oxford handbook of cognitive enhancement and brain plasticity. UK: Oxford University Press.