Statistical learning of distractor suppression downregulates prestimulus neural excitability in early visual cortex

O Ferrante, A Zhigalov, C Hickey… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Visual attention is highly influenced by past experiences. Recent behavioral research has
shown that expectations about the spatial location of distractors within a search array are …

An adversarial collaboration to critically evaluate theories of consciousness

Cogitate Consortium, O Ferrante, U Gorska-Klimowska… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Different theories explain how subjective experience arises from brain activity,. These
theories have independently accrued evidence, yet, confirmation bias and dependence on …

Spatiotemporal properties of common semantic categories for words and pictures

Y Bezsudnova, AJ Quinn, SC Wynn… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
The timing of semantic processing during object recognition in the brain is a topic of ongoing
discussion. One way of addressing this question is by applying multivariate pattern analysis …

Modulation of alpha oscillations by attention is predicted by hemispheric asymmetry of subcortical regions

T Ghafari, C Mazzetti, K Garner, T Gutteling, O Jensen - eLife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Evidence suggests that subcortical structures play a role in high-level cognitive functions
such as the allocation of spatial attention. While there is abundant evidence in humans for …

Oscillatory brain responses to emotional stimuli are effects related to events rather than states

L Luther, JM Horschig, JM van Peer… - Frontiers in Human …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Emotional cues draw attention, thereby enabling enhanced processing. Electrophysiological
brain research in humans suggests that increased gamma band activity and decreased …

An artificial intelligence–based pipeline for automated detection and localisation of epileptic sources from magnetoencephalography

L Zheng, P Liao, X Wu, M Cao, W Cui… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a powerful non-invasive diagnostic modality
for presurgical epilepsy evaluation. However, the clinical utility of MEG mapping for …

Fast retrieval of fMRI data for real-time applications: improving the transfer time through direct connection

M Lührs, BA Poser, T Auer, R Goebel - Aperture Neuro, 2023 - apertureneuro.org
Background Anorexia nervosa is a severe psychiatric disorder with a heterogeneous course
with one of the highest rates of morbidity and mortality of all psychiatric disorders. Little is …

Theta and alpha oscillations in human hippocampus and medial parietal cortex support the formation of location‐based representations

A Satish, VG Keller, S Raza, S Fitzpatrick… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Our ability to navigate in a new environment depends on learning new locations. Mental
representations of locations are quickly accessible during navigation and allow us to know …

Optimizing magnetometers arrays and pre-processing pipelines for multivariate pattern analysis

Y Bezsudnova, O Jensen - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) has proven an excellent tool in cognitive neuroscience
for identifying representational-specific neuronal patterns using EEG, MEG, and MRI …

Early parafoveal semantic integration in natural reading

Y Pan, S Frisson, KD Federmeier, O Jensen - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Humans can read and comprehend text rapidly, implying that readers might process multiple
words per fixation. However, the extent to which parafoveal words are previewed and …