Hyperalignment: Modeling shared information encoded in idiosyncratic cortical topographies

JV Haxby, JS Guntupalli, SA Nastase, M Feilong - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Information that is shared across brains is encoded in idiosyncratic fine-scale functional
topographies. Hyperalignment captures shared information by projecting pattern vectors for …

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 …

Integrative and distinctive coding of visual and conceptual object features in the ventral visual stream

CB Martin, D Douglas, RN Newsome, LLY Man… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
A significant body of research in cognitive neuroscience is aimed at understanding how
object concepts are represented in the human brain. However, it remains unknown whether …

A multi-scale cortical wiring space links cellular architecture and functional dynamics in the human brain

C Paquola, J Seidlitz, O Benkarim, J Royer… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The vast net of fibres within and underneath the cortex is optimised to support the
convergence of different levels of brain organisation. Here, we propose a novel coordinate …

Six challenges for embodiment research

M Ostarek, F Huettig - Current Directions in Psychological …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Twenty years after Barsalou's seminal perceptual-symbols article, embodied cognition, the
notion that cognition involves simulations of sensory, motor, or affective states, has moved …

Categorical representation from sound and sight in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex of sighted and blind

S Mattioni, M Rezk, C Battal, R Bottini… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Is vision necessary for the development of the categorical organization of the Ventral
Occipito-Temporal Cortex (VOTC)? We used fMRI to characterize VOTC responses to eight …

[HTML][HTML] Grid-like and distance codes for representing word meaning in the human brain

S Viganò, V Rubino, A Di Soccio, M Buiatti, M Piazza - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Relational information about items in memory is thought to be represented in our brain
thanks to an internal comprehensive model, also referred to as a “cognitive map”. In the …

The neuro-cognitive representations of symbols: the case of concrete words

V Borghesani, M Piazza - Neuropsychologia, 2017 - Elsevier
We live our lives surrounded by symbols (eg, road signs, logos, but especially words and
numbers), and throughout our life we use them to evoke, communicate and reflect upon …

Task-based activation and resting-state connectivity predict individual differences in semantic capacity for complex semantic knowledge

G Rabini, S Ubaldi, SL Fairhall - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Our ability to know and access complex factual information has far reaching effects,
influencing our scholastic, professional and social lives. Here we employ functional MRI to …

Distinct representational structure and localization for visual encoding and recall during visual imagery

WA Bainbridge, EH Hall, CI Baker - Cerebral Cortex, 2021 - academic.oup.com
During memory recall and visual imagery, reinstatement is thought to occur as an echoing of
the neural patterns during encoding. However, the precise information in these recall traces …