Tasks and their role in visual neuroscience

K Kay, K Bonnen, RN Denison, MJ Arcaro, DL Barack - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Vision is widely used as a model system to gain insights into how sensory inputs are
processed and interpreted by the brain. Historically, careful quantification and control of …

The face of image reconstruction: progress, pitfalls, prospects

A Nestor, ACH Lee, DC Plaut, M Behrmann - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Recent research has demonstrated that neural and behavioral data acquired in response to
viewing face images can be used to reconstruct the images themselves. However, the …

Network communications flexibly predict visual contents that enhance representations for faster visual categorization

Y Yan, J Zhan, RAA Ince, PG Schyns - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Models of visual cognition generally assume that brain networks predict the contents of a
stimulus to facilitate its subsequent categorization. However, understanding prediction and …

Grounding deep neural network predictions of human categorization behavior in understandable functional features: The case of face identity

C Daube, T Xu, J Zhan, A Webb, RAA Ince… - Patterns, 2021 - cell.com
Deep neural networks (DNNs) can resolve real-world categorization tasks with apparent
human-level performance. However, true equivalence of behavioral performance between …

Strength of predicted information content in the brain biases decision behavior

Y Yan, J Zhan, O Garrod, X Cui, RAA Ince, PG Schyns - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Prediction-for-perception theories suggest that the brain predicts incoming stimuli to facilitate
their categorization. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 However, it remains …

Cultural facial expressions dynamically convey emotion category and intensity information

C Chen, DS Messinger, C Chen, H Yan, Y Duan… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Communicating emotional intensity plays a vital ecological role because it provides valuable
information about the nature and likelihood of the sender's behavior. 1, 2, 3 For example …

Dissecting muscle synergies in the task space

D O'Reilly, I Delis - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
The muscle synergy is a guiding concept in motor control research that relies on the general
notion of muscles 'working together'towards task performance. However, although the …

Facial expressions elicit multiplexed perceptions of emotion categories and dimensions

M Liu, Y Duan, RAA Ince, C Chen, OGB Garrod… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Human facial expressions are complex, multi-component signals that can communicate rich
information about emotions, 1–5 including specific categories, such as" anger," and broader …

Different computations over the same inputs produce selective behavior in algorithmic brain networks

K Jaworska, Y Yan, NJ Van Rijsbergen, RAA Ince… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
A key challenge in neuroimaging remains to understand where, when, and now particularly
how human brain networks compute over sensory inputs to achieve behavior. To study such …

Memories replayed: reactivating past successes and new dilemmas

EM Robertson, L Genzel - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Our experiences continue to be processed 'offline'in the ensuing hours of both wakefulness
and sleep. During these different brain states, the memory formed during our experience is …