Beyond the Visual Word Form Area–a cognitive characterization of the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex

A Dȩbska, M Wójcik, K Chyl… - Frontiers in Human …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The left ventral occipitotemporal cortex has been traditionally viewed as a pathway for visual
object recognition including written letters and words. Its crucial role in reading was …

A data-driven framework for mapping domains of human neurobiology

E Beam, C Potts, RA Poldrack, A Etkin - Nature neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Functional neuroimaging has been a mainstay of human neuroscience for the past 25 years.
Interpretation of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data has often occurred …

The brain connectome for Chinese reading

W Guo, S Geng, M Cao, J Feng - Neuroscience Bulletin, 2022 - Springer
Chinese, as a logographic language, fundamentally differs from alphabetic languages like
English. Previous neuroimaging studies have mainly focused on alphabetic languages …

How usefulness shapes neural representations during goal-directed behavior

G Castegnetti, M Zurita, B De Martino - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Value is often associated with reward, emphasizing its hedonic aspects. However, when
circumstances change, value must also change (a compass outvalues gold, if you are lost) …

[HTML][HTML] Knowing what you need to know in advance: The neural processes underpinning flexible semantic retrieval of thematic and taxonomic relations

M Zhang, D Varga, X Wang, K Krieger-Redwood… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Semantic retrieval is flexible, allowing us to focus on subsets of features and associations
that are relevant to the current task or context: for example, we use taxonomic relations to …

Neurora: A python toolbox of representational analysis from multi-modal neural data

Z Lu, Y Ku - Frontiers in neuroinformatics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In studies of cognitive neuroscience, multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) is widely used as
it offers richer information than traditional univariate analysis. Representational similarity …

Intersecting distributed networks support convergent linguistic functioning across different languages in bilinguals

S Geng, W Guo, ET Rolls, K Xu, T Jia, W Zhou… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
How bilingual brains accomplish the processing of more than one language has been
widely investigated by neuroimaging studies. The assimilation-accommodation hypothesis …

Semantic representations in inferior frontal and lateral temporal cortex during picture naming, reading, and repetition

AG Liuzzi, K Meersmans, R Peeters… - Human Brain …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Reading, naming, and repetition are classical neuropsychological tasks widely used in the
clinic and psycholinguistic research. While reading and repetition can be accomplished by …

Modeling task effects on meaning representation in the brain via zero-shot meg prediction

M Toneva, O Stretcu, B Póczos… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
How meaning is represented in the brain is still one of the big open questions in
neuroscience. Does a word (eg, bird) always have the same representation, or does the task …

Stimulus repetition and sample size considerations in item-level representational similarity analysis

S Mazurchuk, LL Conant, JQ Tong… - Language, cognition …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In studies using representational similarity analysis (RSA) of fMRI data, the reliability of the
neural representational dissimilarity matrix (RDM) is a limiting factor in the ability to detect …