Sam Nastase

@samnastase

assistant professor of psychology/neuroscience @USC丨he/him丨semiprofessional dungeon master丨🍉

Princeton, NJ snastase.github.io Joined November 2015

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Sam Nastase @samnastase Aug 18

New perspective piece out in @NeuroCellPress with @HassonLab, @zaidzada_, and Adele Goldberg! We try to articulate some of our excitement about LLMs and discuss what kinds of insights they might provide into the neural computations supporting natural language in the human brain.

Sam Nastase @samnastase Aug 21

We’re recruiting a full-time lab manager to join the Shared Minds Lab at USC! This will be a great opportunity for someone who wants to get hands-on experience with research before starting a PhD program in psychology or neuroscience. More below:

Sam Nastase @samnastase Oct 2, 2025

Loving the experience on X The Everything App where my post gets 6 likes (3 bots) and exactly 47 views over the course of 2+ hours! 👍👍

Sam Nastase @samnastase Oct 1, 2025

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @USC will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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Sam Nastase @samnastase Oct 1, 2025

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @USC will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

Sam Nastase @samnastase Jun 24, 2025

Really excited to share our new preprint led by @ahmadmsamara with @zaidzada_, Tammy Vanderwal, and @HassonLab titled "Cortical language areas are coupled via a soft hierarchy of model-based linguistic features" doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…