We often assume that the variables of functional and structural brain parameters—such as
synaptic weights, the firing rates of individual neurons, the synchronous discharge of neural …

A widely discussed hypothesis in neuroscience is that transiently active ensembles of
neurons, known as" cell assemblies," underlie numerous operations of the brain, from …

We describe a model of visual processing in which feedback connections from a higher-to a
lower-order visual cortical area carry predictions of lower-level neural activities, whereas the …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

Most of our knowledge about the functional organization of neuronal systems is based on
the analysis of the firing patterns of individual neurons that have been recorded one by one …

It takes a fraction of a second to recognize a person or an object even when seen under
strikingly different conditions. How such a robust, high-level representation is achieved by …

Spoken word recognition requires complex, invariant representations. Using a meta-analytic
approach incorporating more than 100 functional imaging experiments, we show that …

How is reading, a cultural invention, coded by neural populations in the human brain? The
neural code for written words must be abstract, because we can recognize words regardless …

Visual object recognition is of fundamental importance to most animals. The diversity of
tasks that any biological recognition system must solve suggests that object recognition is …

Sensitivity to configural changes in face processing has been cited as evidence for face-
exclusive mechanisms. Alternatively, general mechanisms could be fine-tuned by …