Magnetoencephalography in cognitive neuroscience: a primer

J Gross - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is an invaluable tool to study the dynamics and
connectivity of large-scale brain activity and their interactions with the body and the …

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 …

Visual imagery and perception share neural representations in the alpha frequency band

S **e, D Kaiser, RM Cichy - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
To behave adaptively with sufficient flexibility, biological organisms must cognize beyond
immediate reaction to a physically present stimulus. For this, humans use visual mental …

Myelination synchronizes cortical oscillations by consolidating parvalbumin-mediated phasic inhibition

M Dubey, M Pascual-Garcia, K Helmes, DD Wever… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Abstract Parvalbumin-positive (PV+) γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) interneurons are critically
involved in producing rapid network oscillations and cortical microcircuit computations, but …

Pre-frontal cortex guides dimension-reducing transformations in the occipito-ventral pathway for categorization behaviors

Y Duan, J Zhan, J Gross, RAA Ince, PG Schyns - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
To interpret our surroundings, the brain uses a visual categorization process. Current
theories and models suggest that this process comprises a hierarchy of different …

Bayesian inference of population prevalence

RAA Ince, AT Paton, JW Kay, PG Schyns - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Within neuroscience, psychology, and neuroimaging, the most frequently used statistical
approach is null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) of the population mean. An …

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 …

Psychophysical reverse correlation reflects both sensory and decision-making processes

G Okazawa, L Sha, BA Purcell, R Kiani - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Goal-directed behavior depends on both sensory mechanisms that gather information from
the outside world and decision-making mechanisms that select appropriate behavior based …

Social class perception is driven by stereotype-related facial features.

RT Bjornsdottir, LB Hensel, J Zhan… - Journal of …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Social class is a powerful hierarchy that determines many privileges and disadvantages.
People form impressions of others' social class (like other important social attributes) from …

Modelling face memory reveals task-generalizable representations

J Zhan, OGB Garrod, N van Rijsbergen… - Nature human …, 2019 - nature.com
Current cognitive theories are cast in terms of information-processing mechanisms that use
mental representations,,–. For example, people use their mental representations to identify …