Recent methodological advances in fMRI contrast and readout strategies have allowed
researchers to approach the mesoscopic spatial regime of cortical layers. This has …

Hierarchy is a major organizational principle of the cortex and underscores modern
computational theories of cortical function. The local microcircuit amplifies long-distance …

High-resolution fMRI in the sub-millimeter regime allows researchers to resolve brain activity
across cortical layers and columns non-invasively. While these high-resolution data make it …

Understanding the human brain is a “Grand Challenge” for 21st century research.
Computational approaches enable large and complex datasets to be addressed efficiently …

How is conscious experience related to material brain processes? A variety of theories
aiming to answer this age-old question have emerged from the recent surge in …

Individual brains vary in both anatomy and functional organization, even within a given
species. Inter-individual variability is a major impediment when trying to draw generalizable …

Recent advances in fMRI have enabled non-invasive measurements of brain function in
awake, behaving humans at unprecedented spatial resolutions, allowing us to separate …

Human ventral temporal cortex (VTC) is critical for visual recognition. It is thought that this
ability is supported by large-scale patterns of activity across VTC that contain information …

Multiple theories attribute to the primate prefrontal cortex a critical role in conscious
perception. However, opposing views caution that prefrontal activity could reflect other …

In human and nonhuman primate brains, columnar (mesoscale) organization has been
demonstrated to underlie both lower and higher order aspects of visual information …