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: 

Academic

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

Book Reviews

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

"Carceral Technology and the Normalization of Psychological Torture," (2025) with Dasha Pruss, Open Global Rights. [español] 

Manuscripts and works-in-progress

Rethinking Naturalistic Behaviour: The Terzolas Manifesto (2025), with Anna Chrzanowska, Mateusz Kostecki, Natalia Krasilshchikova, Matilde Perrino, Luigi Petrucco, Bendik H Aaby