Scene perception in the human brain

RA Epstein, CI Baker - Annual review of vision science, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Humans are remarkably adept at perceiving and understanding complex real-world scenes.
Uncovering the neural basis of this ability is an important goal of vision science …

Reading: The confluence of vision and language

JD Yeatman, AL White - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The scientific study of reading has a rich history that spans disciplines from vision science to
linguistics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and education. The study of …

Apparent thinning of human visual cortex during childhood is associated with myelination

VS Natu, J Gomez, M Barnett, B Jeska… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Human cortex appears to thin during childhood development. However, the underlying
microstructural mechanisms are unknown. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging …

A retinotopic code structures the interaction between perception and memory systems

A Steel, EH Silson, BD Garcia, CE Robertson - Nature Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Conventional views of brain organization suggest that regions at the top of the cortical
hierarchy processes internally oriented information using an abstract amodal neural code …

[HTML][HTML] Stress disrupts human hippocampal-prefrontal function during prospective spatial navigation and hinders flexible behavior

TI Brown, SA Gagnon, AD Wagner - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
The ability to anticipate and flexibly plan for the future is critical for achieving goal-directed
outcomes. Extant data suggest that neural and cognitive stress mechanisms may disrupt …

Extensive childhood experience with Pokémon suggests eccentricity drives organization of visual cortex

J Gomez, M Barnett, K Grill-Spector - Nature human behaviour, 2019 - nature.com
The functional organization of human high-level visual cortex, such as the face-and place-
selective regions, is strikingly consistent across individuals. An unanswered question in …

A network linking scene perception and spatial memory systems in posterior cerebral cortex

A Steel, MM Billings, EH Silson… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
The neural systems supporting scene-perception and spatial-memory systems of the human
brain are well-described. But how do these neural systems interact? Here, using fine …

A critical assessment of data quality and venous effects in sub-millimeter fMRI

K Kay, KW Jamison, L Vizioli, R Zhang, E Margalit… - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
Advances in hardware, pulse sequences, and reconstruction techniques have made it
possible to perform functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at sub-millimeter …

A probabilistic functional atlas of human occipito-temporal visual cortex

M Rosenke, R Van Hoof, J Van Den Hurk… - Cerebral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Human visual cortex contains many retinotopic and category-specific regions. These brain
regions have been the focus of a large body of functional magnetic resonance imaging …

Word contexts enhance the neural representation of individual letters in early visual cortex

M Heilbron, D Richter, M Ekman, P Hagoort… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Visual context facilitates perception, but how this is neurally implemented remains unclear.
One example of contextual facilitation is found in reading, where letters are more easily …