multivariate pattern analysis

Population codes of prior knowledge learned through environmental regularities

How the brain makes correct inferences about its environment based on noisy and ambiguous observations is one of the fundamental questions in Neuroscience. Prior knowledge about the probability with which certain events occur in the environment plays …

Evidence for confounding eye movements under attempted fixation and active viewing in cognitive neuroscience

Eye movements can have serious confounding effects in cognitive neuroscience experiments. Therefore, participants are commonly asked to fixate. Regardless, participants will make so-called fixational eye movements under attempted fixation, which are …

A large single-participant fMRI dataset for probing brain responses to naturalistic stimuli in space and time

Visual and auditory representations in the human brain have been studied with encoding, decoding and reconstruction models. Representations from convolutional neural networks have been used as explanatory models for these stimulus-induced …

Eye movements explain decodability during perception and cued attention in MEG

Eye movements are an integral part of human perception, but can induce artifacts in many magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) studies. For this reason, investigators try to minimize eye movements and remove these artifacts …

Convolutional neural network-based encoding and decoding of visual object recognition in space and time

Representations learned by deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for object recognition are a widely investigated model of the processing hierarchy in the human visual system. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, CNN representations of …

Differential temporal dynamics during visual imagery and perception

Visual perception and imagery rely on similar representations in the visual cortex. During perception, visual activity is characterized by distinct processing stages, but the temporal dynamics underlying imagery remain unclear. Here, we investigated …

Vividness of visual imagery depends on the neural overlap with perception in visual areas

Research into the neural correlates of individual differences in imagery vividness point to an important role of the early visual cortex. However, there is also great fluctuation of vividness within individuals, such that only looking at differences …

Reinstatement of associative memories in early visual cortex is signaled by the hippocampus

The cortical reinstatement hypothesis of memory retrieval posits that content-specific cortical activity at encoding is reinstated at retrieval. Evidence for cortical reinstatement was found in higher-order sensory regions, reflecting reactivation of …