My research focuses on foundational and methodological issues in behavioral neuroscience. I am interested in linking the explanatory goals of neuroscience to its experimental methods: how does scientific practice (questions asked, data collected, and the interpretation of scientific data) influence our understanding of animal sentience and behavior?  

To answer these questions, I spend time in neuroscience labs – documenting, discussing, and even theorizing alongside scientists.

You can find selected articles, essays and reports here: 

Research articles

"Model Organisms" with Michael Dietrich (forthcoming), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

"Rethinking neuroscientific methodology: Lived experience in behavioral studies" (2024). Biological Theory, 19(3), 184-197.

Book reviews

Nemati, N. N., "Neuroscience as Technoscience: The Importance of Materiality in Simplification" (Forthcoming in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences), Review of Mazviita Chirimuuta's The Brain Abstracted (2024). 

Nemati, N. N., Felipe de Brigard and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Neuroscience and Philosophy (2022) Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2022. H-Net Network on science, medicine, and technology. 

Nemati, N. N., AS Barwich, Smellosophy: What the nose tells the mind (2021). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences,  43, 75. 

Public scholarship

"Beyond the algorithmic oracle: rethinking machine learning in behavioral neuroscience," (2025) with Matthew Whiteway, The Transmitter. 

"Carceral technology and the normalization of psychological torture," (2025) with Dasha Pruss, Open Global Rights. [español] 

"Rethinking naturalistic behaviour: The Terzolas manifesto" (2025), with Anna Chrzanowska, Mateusz Kostecki, Natalia Krasilshchikova, Matilde Perrino, Luigi Petrucco, Bendik H Aaby

Works-in-progress 

"What is Natural about Naturalistic Neuroscience?" (conditional acceptance) Biology & Philosophy. 

Title redacted. Paper on nonhuman animal behavior; under review.