Dr James C. Pang

Dr James C. Pang

Physicist/Neuroscientist working on neuroimaging and computational models

Papers

Preprints

  1. A. Holmes, K. Pavlovich, X. Qian, J.H. Zhou, Y.S. Chong, A.P. Tan, M.J. Meaney, J.G. Eriksson, D.S. Margulies, J.C. Pang^, A. Fornito^, From geometry to hierarchy: Charting the dominant modes of human cortical function through development, bioRxiv (2026) [LINK] (^co-senior author)
  2. N. Pan, F. Normand, A. Sangchooli, C. Adamson, P.T. Levi, V. Barnes, I.Z. Pope, S. Oldham, A. Holmes, T. Cao, J.C. Pang, Y. Long, Q. Chen, R.K. McNamara, M.P. DelBello, M.K. Singh, Y. Chen, Q. Gong, A. Fornito, Disrupted geometric constraints on connectome wiring in children and adolescents with ADHD, PsyArXiv (2026) [LINK]
  3. A. Holmes, W. Wei, R.A. Benn, F. Alberti, R. Scholz, J.C. Pang, A. Fornito, P.A. Robinson, D.S. Margulies, Cortical geometry constrains the unimodal anchors of sensory integration, bioRxiv (2026) [LINK]
  4. V. Barnes, J. Cruddas, T. Cao, I.Z. Pope, T. Xu, T. Funck, N. Palomero-Gallagher, J.C. Pang^, A. Fornito^, Regional heterogeneity shapes macroscopic wave dynamics of the human and non-human primate cortex, bioRxiv (2026) [LINK] (^co-senior author)
  5. R. Phogat, A. Behler, S. Sonkusare, J.C. Pang, N. Koussis, J.A. Roberts, J. DeKraker, J.M. Shine, A. Fornito, P.A. Robinson, M. Breakspear, A unified model of cortico-hippocampal interactions through neural field theory, bioRxiv (2025) [LINK]
  6. M. Foster, A. Segal, B. Adkinson, C. Chang, J.C. Pang, S. Chopra, C. Camp, D. Scheinost, Towards integrative brain imaging: Introducing a multitudinal strategy, OSF (2025) [LINK]
  7. M.D. Greaves, L. Novelli, J.C. Pang, A. Fornito, A. Razi, Spectral imprint of structural embedding in effective connectivity, bioRxiv (2025) [LINK]
  8. J.C. Pang+, P.A. Robinson, K.M. Aquino, P.T. Levi, A. Holmes, M. Markicevic, X. Shen, T. Funck, N. Palomero-Gallagher, R. Kong, B.T.T. Yeo, J. Tiego, M.A. Bellgrove, R.T. Constable, E. Lake, M. Breakspear, A. Fornito, Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain, bioRxiv (2025) [LINK] (+corresponding author)
  9. J.C. Pang+, K.M. Aquino, M. Oldehinkel, P.A. Robinson, B.D. Fulcher, M. Breakspear, A. Fornito, Reply to: Eigenmodes of the brain: revisiting connectomics and geometry, bioRxiv (2024) [LINK] (+corresponding author)
  10. A. Boyes, P.E. Schwenn, Z.Y. Shan, M. Korgaonkar, J.C. Pang, T. Prince, L. Mills, M.F. Kennedy, D.F. Hermens, Geometric eigenmode brain fingerprinting and its longitudinal associations with adolescent mental health and wellbeing, bioRxiv (2024) [LINK]
  11. J.C. Pang+, K.M. Aquino, M. Oldehinkel, P.A. Robinson, B.D. Fulcher, M. Breakspear, A. Fornito, Reply to: Commentary on Pang et al. (2023) Nature, bioRxiv (2023) [LINK] (+corresponding author)

Accepted/In press

  1. A. Fornito, R. Suarez, J.C. Pang, D.S. Margulies, M.P. van den Heuvel, S. Oldham, A. Holmes, A. Segal, N. Sestan, L. Fenlon, Transmodal association hubs of the cerebral cortex: Maps, models, and mechanisms, accepted in Nature Neuroscience (2026) [PREPRINT LINK]

Published Journal Articles

2026

  1. F. Normand, M. Gajwani, T. Cao, J. Cruddas, A. Sangchooli, S. Oldham, A. Holmes, P.A. Robinson, J.C. Pang^, A. Fornito^, Geometric constraints on the architecture of mammalian cortical connectomes, Cell, 189(17), 5283–5303.E17 [LINK] [CODE] (^co-senior author)
  2. T. Cao, J.C. Pang, M. Gajwani, A. Segal, A. Holmes, J. Wiley, S. Chopra, J.H. Zhou, C.C.H. Chen, F. Ji, B.J. Harrison, C.G. Davey, T. Constable, J. Tiego, B. Hartshorn, J. Kwee, M.A. Bellgrove, A. Fornito, The cross-site reproducibility of MRI morphometric phenotypes in psychiatric disorders, Nature Neuroscience, 29, 2273–2282 [LINK] [CODE]
  3. L. Novelli, D. Stoliker, T. Barta, M. Greaves, S. Chopra, J. Jackson, J. Kwee, J.C. Pang, M. Williams, A. Razi, Multimodal neuroimaging of context-dependent brain and behaviour dynamics under psilocybin, Scientific Data [LINK]
  4. Y. Shu, P.T. Levi, J. Tiego, T. Constable, J.C. Pang, B. Hartshorn, J. Kwee, K. Fortune, M. Bellgrove, A. Fornito, Complex affect dynamics offer limited incremental value for cross-sectional prediction of psychological and behavioural variables in cross-validated models, BMC Medicine [LINK]
  5. J. Cruddas, J.C. Pang, A. Fornito, Cortical traveling waves in time and space: Physics, physiology, and psychology, Neuron, 114(6) [LINK]
  6. K. Pavlovich, J.C. Pang, A. Fornito, The motion sensitivity and predictive utility of different estimates of inter-regional functional coupling in resting-state functional MRI, Network Neuroscience, 10(1), 221–243 [LINK] [CODE]

2025

  1. J.C. Pang+, Fundamental constraints shaping intrinsic brain activity, Physics of Life Reviews, 55, 46–48 [LINK] (+corresponding author)
  2. K. Pavlovich, J.C. Pang, A. Holmes, T. Constable, A. Fornito, The efficacy of resting-state fMRI denoising pipelines for motion correction and behavioural prediction, Imaging Neuroscience, 3:imag.a.97 [LINK] [CODE]
  3. N.C. Koussis, J.C. Pang, J. Jeganathan, B. Paton, A. Fornito, P.A. Robinson, B. Misic, M. Breakspear, Generation of surrogate brain maps preserving spatial autocorrelation through random rotation of geometric eigenmodes, Imaging Neuroscience, 3:imag.a.71 [LINK] [CODE]
  4. J. Jeganathan, N.C. Koussis, R. Phogat, J.C. Pang, S. Mansour L, A. Zalesky, M. Breakspear, Spurious correlations in surface-based functional brain imaging, Imaging Neuroscience, 3, imag_a_00478 [LINK] [CODE]

2024

  1. T. Cao, J.C. Pang, A. Segal, Y.-C. Chen, K.M. Aquino, M. Breakspear, A. Fornito, Mode-based morphometry: A multiscale approach to mapping human neuroanatomy, Human Brain Mapping, 45(4), e26640 [LINK] [CODE]
  2. Y.-C. Chen, J. Tiego, A. Segal, S. Chopra, A. Holmes, C. Suo, J.C. Pang, A. Fornito, K.M. Aquino, A multiscale characterization of cortical shape asymmetries in early psychosis, Brain Communications, 6(1), fcae015 [LINK] [CODE]

2023

  1. J.C. Pang+^, K.M. Aquino, M. Oldehinkel, P.A. Robinson, B.D. Fulcher, M. Breakspear, and A. Fornito, Geometric constraints on human brain function, Nature, 618, 566–574 [LINK] [PDF] [RESEARCH BRIEFING] [CODE] (+corresponding author; ^co-first author)
  2. A. Holmes, P. Levi, Y.-C. Chen, S. Chopra, K.M. Aquino, J.C. Pang, and A. Fornito, Disruptions of hierarchical cortical organization in early psychosis and schizophrenia, Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 8(12), 1240–1250 [LINK][PRESS RELEASE]
  3. P.T. Levi, S. Chopra, J.C. Pang, A. Holmes, T.A. Sassenberg, C.G. De Young, and A. Fornito, The effect of using group-averaged or individualized brain parcellations when investigating connectome dysfunction: A case study in psychosis, Network Neuroscience, 7(4), 1228–1247 [LINK] [CODE]
  4. M. Gajwani, S.J. Oldham, J.C. Pang, A. Arnatkeviçiute, J. Tiego, M.A. Bellgrove, and A. Fornito, Can hubs of the human connectome be identified consistently with diffusion MRI?, Network Neuroscience, 7(4), 1326–1350 [LINK] [CODE]

2022

  1. J.C. Pang+, J.K. Rilling, J.A. Roberts, M.P. van den Heuvel, and L. Cocchi, Evolutionary shaping of human brain dynamics, eLife, 11, e80627 [LINK] [CODE] (+corresponding author)
  2. Y.-C. Chen, A. Arnatkeviçiute, E. McTavish, J.C. Pang, C. Suo, A. Fornito, and K.M. Aquino, The individuality of shape asymmetries of the human cerebral cortex, eLife, 11, e75056 [LINK] [CODE]
  3. P. Sanz-Leon, N.J. Stevenson, R.M. Stuart, R.G. Abeysuriya, J.C. Pang, S.B. Lambert, C.C. Kerr, and J.A. Roberts, Risk of sustained SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Queensland, Australia, Scientific Reports, 12, 6309 [LINK]
  4. T.C. Lacy, P.A. Robinson, K.M. Aquino, and J.C. Pang+, Cortical depth-dependent modeling of visual hemodynamic responses, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 535, 110978 [LINK] [CODE] (+corresponding author)

2021

  1. J.C. Pang+, L.L. Gollo, and J.A. Roberts, Stochastic synchronization of dynamics on the human connectome, NeuroImage, 229, 117738 [LINK] [CODE] (+corresponding author)

2019

  1. M.M. Oliveira, J.C. Pang, P.A. Robinson, X. Liu, and M.M. Schira, Feasibility of functional magnetic resonance imaging of ocular dominance and orientation preference in primary visual cortex, PLoS Computational Biology, 15(11), e1007418 [LINK] [CODE]
  2. J.C. Pang+ and P.A. Robinson, Power spectrum of resting-state blood-oxygen-level-dependent signal, Physical Review E, 100, 2, 022418 [LINK] [CODE] (+corresponding author)

2018

  1. J.C. Pang+, K.M. Aquino, P.A. Robinson, T.C. Lacy, and M.M. Schira, Biophysically based method to deconvolve spatiotemporal neurovascular signals from fMRI data, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 308, 6–20 [LINK] [CODE] (+corresponding author)
  2. J.C. Pang+ and P.A. Robinson, Neural mechanisms of the EEG alpha-BOLD anticorrelation, NeuroImage, 181, 461–470 [LINK] [CODE] (+corresponding author)

2017

  1. J.C. Pang+, P.A. Robinson, K.M. Aquino, and N. Vasan, Effects of astrocytic dynamics on spatiotemporal hemodynamics: Modeling and enhanced data analysis, NeuroImage, 147, 994–1005 [LINK] [CODE] (+corresponding author)
  2. J.C. Pang+ and C.P. Monterola, Dendritic growth model of multi-level marketing, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 43, 100–110 [LINK] (+corresponding author)

2016

  1. J.C. Pang+, P.A. Robinson, and K.M. Aquino, Response-mode decomposition of spatio-temporal haemodynamics, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 13, 20160253 [LINK] [CODE] (+corresponding author)

2015

  1. J.C. Pang+ and J.Y. Bantang, Hodgkin-Huxley neurons with defective and blocked ion channels, International Journal of Modern Physics C, 26(10), 1550112 [LINK] (+corresponding author)

2014

  1. J.C. Pang+, C.P. Monterola, and J.Y. Bantang, Noise-induced synchronization in a lattice Hodgkin-Huxley neural network, Physica A, 393, 638–645 [LINK] (+corresponding author)

2012

  1. J.C. Pang+, J.Y. Bantang, and C.P. Monterola, Effect of random link malfunctions to synchronization of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons in a lattice network, International Journal of Modern Physics C, 23(3), 1250027 [LINK] (+corresponding author)

Published Book Chapters

  1. T. Cao, J.C. Pang, A. Fornito, A multiscale methodology for mapping human neuroanatomy, In: A. Di leva, J.M. Davidson (eds) Computational Neuroscience. Methods in Molecular Biology, 3062 (2026). [LINK]

Published Conference Proceedings

  1. A.S. Olsen, S. Mansour L, J.C. Pang, A. Zalesky, D. van de Ville, H. Behjat, On reconstruction of cortical functional maps using subject-specific geometric and connectome eigenmodes, IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 1–5 (2025) [LINK]
  2. A. Milloz, J. Vogel, A. Olsen, J.C. Pang, O. Strandberg, T.E. Anijarv, E. Stomrud, S. Palmqvist, N. Spotorno, R. Ossenkoppele, D. van de Ville, O. Hansson, H. Behjat, Multiscale quantification of hemispheric asymmetry in cortical maps using geometric eigenmodes, IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 1–5 (2025) [LINK]
  3. J.C. Pang+, K. Aquino, A. Fornito, Cortical geometry explains diverse patterns of brain activity, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 51, S39–S41 (2023) [LINK] (+corresponding author)
  4. J.C. Pang+, J.K. Rilling, J.A. Roberts, M.P. van den Heuvel, L. Cocchi, Evolutionary shaping of human brain dynamics, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 51, O15 (2023) [LINK] (+corresponding author)
  5. A. Holmes, P. Levi, K. Aquino, Y.C. Chen, S. Chopra, J.C. Pang, A. Fornito, Disturbed hierarchical function in schizophrenia and early psychosis, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 51, S38–S38 (2023) [LINK]
  6. T. Cao, J.C. Pang, K. Aquino, Y.C. Chen, A. Fornito, Mode-based morphometry: A new approach to mapping human neuroanatomy, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 51, S41–S42 (2023) [LINK]
  7. M. Gajwani, S.J. Oldham, J.C. Pang, A. Arnatkeviciute, J. Tiego, M.A. Bellgrove, A. Fornito, The effects of different preprocessing steps and cortical parcellations on diffusion MRI connectomics, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 51, S38–S39 (2023) [LINK]
  8. J.C. Pang+, P. Sanz-Leon, J. Hadida, L. Gollo, M. Woolrich, and J.A. Roberts, Spatiotemporal brain waves on resting-state MEG data, BMC Neuroscience, 21(Suppl 1), P172 (2020) [LINK] (+corresponding author)
  9. J.C. Pang+, L.L. Gollo, and J.A. Roberts, Noise can counterintuitively synchronize dynamics on the human connectome, BMC Neuroscience, 20(Suppl 1), P261 (2019) [LINK] (+corresponding author)