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A comparison of sharpening and dampening accounts of the role of expectation in shaping the neural fidelity of early visual representations
Reuben Rideaux, Ziyue Hu, Kali Chidley…·Jason B. Mattingley
This study compares sharpening and dampening theories of expectation's role in visual neural fidelity using fMRI and EEG, finding evidence supporting dampening over sharpening.
DOI 10.64898/2026.07.05.736624