Testing cognitive theories with multivariate pattern analysis of neuroimaging data

MV Peelen, PE Downing - Nature human behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) has emerged as a powerful method for the analysis of
functional magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography and …

Persistent activity during working memory from front to back

CE Curtis, TC Sprague - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Working memory (WM) extends the duration over which information is available for
processing. Given its importance in supporting a wide-array of high level cognitive abilities …

Attractive serial dependence overcomes repulsive neuronal adaptation

TC Sheehan, JT Serences - PLoS biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Sensory responses and behavior are strongly shaped by stimulus history. For example,
perceptual reports are sometimes biased toward previously viewed stimuli (serial …

Unveiling the abstract format of mnemonic representations

Y Kwak, CE Curtis - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Working memory (WM) enables information storage for future use, bridging the gap between
perception and behavior. We hypothesize that WM representations are abstractions of low …

Neural tuning instantiates prior expectations in the human visual system

WJ Harrison, PM Bays, R Rideaux - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Perception is often modelled as a process of active inference, whereby prior expectations
are combined with noisy sensory measurements to estimate the structure of the world. This …

Orientation anisotropies in macaque visual areas

C Fang, X Cai, HD Lu - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
In mammals, a larger number of neurons in V1 are devoted to cardinal (horizontal and
vertical) orientations than to oblique orientations. However, electrophysiological results from …

Natural scene sampling reveals reliable coarse-scale orientation tuning in human V1

ZN Roth, K Kay, EP Merriam - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Orientation selectivity in primate visual cortex is organized into cortical columns. Since
cortical columns are at a finer spatial scale than the sampling resolution of standard BOLD …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping spatial frequency preferences across human primary visual cortex

WF Broderick, EP Simoncelli, J Winawer - Journal of vision, 2022 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Neurons in primate visual cortex (area V1) are tuned for spatial frequency, in a manner that
depends on their position in the visual field. Several studies have examined this …

Opposing effects of selectivity and invariance in peripheral vision

CM Ziemba, EP Simoncelli - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Sensory processing necessitates discarding some information in service of preserving and
reformatting more behaviorally relevant information. Sensory neurons seem to achieve this …

Feature-based attentional amplitude modulations of the steady-state visual evoked potentials reflect blood oxygen level dependent changes in feature-sensitive visual …

MR Boylan, C Panitz, AL Tebbe, P Vieweg… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Recent EEG studies have investigated basic principles of feature-based attention by means
of frequency-tagged random dot kinematograms in which different colors are simultaneously …