The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Mar 22, 2021
Understanding how and where in the brain sentence-level meaning is constructed from words presents a major scientific challenge. Recent advances have begun to explain brain activation elicited by sentences using vector models of word meaning derived ...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Dec 17, 2020
The human cortex encodes information in complex networks that can be anatomically dispersed and variable in their microstructure across individuals. Using simulations with neural network models, we show that contemporary statistical methods for funct...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Jan 2, 2020
Adolescence is a time of extensive neural restructuring, leaving one susceptible to atypical development. Although neural maturation in humans can be measured using functional and structural MRI, the subtle patterns associated with the initial stages...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Nov 21, 2019
Identifying the features of population responses that are relevant to the amount of information encoded by neuronal populations is a crucial step toward understanding population coding. Statistical features, such as tuning properties, individual and ...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Jul 3, 2019
The ability of neural networks to associate successive states of network activity lies at the basis of many cognitive functions. Hence, we hypothesized that many ubiquitous structural and dynamical properties of local cortical networks result from as...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Jul 1, 2019
Artificial agents are becoming prevalent across human life domains. However, the neural mechanisms underlying human responses to these new, artificial social partners remain unclear. The uncanny valley (UV) hypothesis predicts that humans prefer anth...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Jun 13, 2019
Recent studies showed agreement between how the human brain and neural networks represent objects, suggesting that we might start to understand the underlying computations. However, we know that the human brain is prone to biases at many perceptual a...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
May 15, 2019
The auditory system converts the physical properties of a sound waveform to neural activities and processes them for recognition. During the process, the tuning to amplitude modulation (AM) is successively transformed by a cascade of brain regions. T...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Nov 30, 2018
Perceptual decision-making is the subject of many experimental and theoretical studies. Most modeling analyses are based on statistical processes of accumulation of evidence. In contrast, very few works confront attractor network models' predictions ...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Sep 24, 2018
For many neural network models in which neurons are trained to classify inputs like perceptrons, the number of inputs that can be classified is limited by the connectivity of each neuron, even when the total number of neurons is very large. This pose...