A highly selective response to food in human visual cortex revealed by hypothesis-free voxel decomposition

M Khosla, NAR Murty, N Kanwisher - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Prior work has identified cortical regions selectively responsive to specific categories of
visual stimuli. However, this hypothesis-driven work cannot reveal how prominent these …

Scaling models of visual working memory to natural images

CJ Bates, GA Alvarez, SJ Gershman - Communications Psychology, 2024 - nature.com
Over the last few decades, psychologists have developed precise quantitative models of
human recall performance in visual working memory (VWM) tasks. However, these models …

Two brain systems for the perception of geometric shapes

M Sablé-Meyer, L Benjamin, CP Watkins, C He… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Many human cultures produce and enjoy geometric signs, a uniquely human trait whose
neural mechanisms are unknown. We formulate and test the hypothesis that, beyond an …