Neural tuning and representational geometry

N Kriegeskorte, XX Wei - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
A central goal of neuroscience is to understand the representations formed by brain activity
patterns and their connection to behaviour. The classic approach is to investigate how …

Behavioral Studies using large-scale brain networks–methods and validations

M Liu, RC Amey, RA Backer, JP Simon… - Frontiers in Human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mapping human behaviors to brain activity has become a key focus in modern cognitive
neuroscience. As methods such as functional MRI (fMRI) advance cognitive scientists show …

A spontaneous stereotype content model: Taxonomy, properties, and prediction.

G Nicolas, X Bai, ST Fiske - Journal of personality and social …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
The spontaneous stereotype content model (SSCM) describes a comprehensive taxonomy,
with associated properties and predictive value, of social-group beliefs that perceivers report …

A guide to representational similarity analysis for social neuroscience

H Popal, Y Wang, IR Olson - Social cognitive and affective …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Representational similarity analysis (RSA) is a computational technique that uses pairwise
comparisons of stimuli to reveal their representation in higher-order space. In the context of …

Dynamic interactive theory as a domain-general account of social perception

JB Freeman, RM Stolier, JA Brooks - Advances in experimental social …, 2020 - Elsevier
The perception of social categories, emotions, and personality traits from others' faces each
have been studied extensively, but in relative isolation. We synthesize emerging findings …

Social conformity updates the neural representation of facial attractiveness

D Chen, Z Yao, J Liu, H Wu, X Hu - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
People readily change their behavior to comply with others. However, to which extent they
will internalize the social influence remains elusive. In this preregistered …

The topology and geometry of neural representations

B Lin, N Kriegeskorte - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - pnas.org
A central question for neuroscience is how to characterize brain representations of
perceptual and cognitive content. An ideal characterization should distinguish different …

[HTML][HTML] Reappraisal and empathic perspective-taking–More alike than meets the eyes

C Morawetz, S Berboth, N Kohn, PL Jackson… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Emotion regulation and empathy represent highly intertwined psychological processes
sharing common conceptual ground. Despite the wealth of research in these fields, the joint …

Statistical inference on representational geometries

HH Schütt, AD Kipnis, J Diedrichsen, N Kriegeskorte - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Neuroscience has recently made much progress, expanding the complexity of both neural
activity measurements and brain-computational models. However, we lack robust methods …

Person knowledge shapes face identity perception

DW Oh, M Walker, JB Freeman - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Recognition of others' identity through facial features is essential in life. Using both
correlational and experimental approaches, we examined how person knowledge biases …