The breadth and complexity of natural behaviors inspires awe. Understanding how our
perceptions, actions, and internal thoughts arise from evolved circuits in the brain has …

Evolution is a blind fitting process by which organisms become adapted to their
environment. Does the brain use similar brute-force fitting processes to learn how to …

Naturalistic experimental paradigms in neuroimaging arose from a pressure to test the
validity of models we derive from highly-controlled experiments in real-world contexts. In …

Converging evidence suggests that the primate ventral visual pathway encodes increasingly
complex stimulus features in downstream areas. We quantitatively show that there indeed …

Understanding the circuit mechanisms of the visual code for natural scenes is a central goal
of sensory neuroscience. We show that a three-layer network model predicts retinal natural …

Real-world experience is typically multimodal. Evidence indicates that the facilitation in the
detection of multisensory stimuli is modulated by the perceptual load, the amount of …

The use of movie-watching as an acquisition state for functional connectivity (FC) MRI has
recently enabled multiple groups to obtain rich data sets in younger children with both …

This paper provides an introduction to mixed-effects models for the analysis of repeated
measurement data with subjects and items as crossed random effects. A worked-out …

In recent years, the use of a large number of object concepts and naturalistic object images
has been growing strongly in cognitive neuroscience research. Classical databases of …

Highlights•Trade-off between sampling individual variation versus experimental
variation.•Different studies have allocated resources differently.•We argue that wide …