Arjen Alink

This EEG study shows expectations shape brain responses through two phases: initial enhancement of expected visual information, followed by prioritization of unexpected information.

This paper challenges the idea that expectation suppression is due to reduced prediction errors, proposing instead that it results from reduced attention to predictable stimuli.

The paper shows that individuals with higher autistic traits rely more on fine image details for natural image recognition.

The paper evaluates statistical tests for detecting discriminability between brain response patterns to exemplars and recommends more powerful methods over the standard t test.

The paper investigates fear generalization by analyzing fixation patterns on faces, finding that threat prediction drives adaptive changes in visual exploration strategies.

The paper compares neural mechanisms of fMRI adaptation and finds that local neural scaling best explains repetition suppression effects across multiple features and experiments.

This study shows that prospective motion correction improves multi-voxel pattern decoding in fMRI at higher resolutions.

This study shows that fMRI can detect fine-grained orientation preferences in V1, challenging the global-areal-map hypothesis and demonstrating that local neuronal selectivity contributes to orientation decoding.

This paper shows that temporal pattern drift in fMRI data affects pattern similarity estimates and proposes methods to recover orientation information.