Talia Brandman

This study shows that scene context and attention independently improve MEG decoding of object categories, even when objects are degraded and attention is directed away from them.

The paper shows that objects sharpen scene representations in visual cortex, with effects starting around 300 ms after stimulus onset, similar to how scenes sharpen object representations.

This paper introduces RBS to track cognitive fluctuations during naturalistic stimulation and finds consistent, replicable patterns across individuals.

The paper identifies the cognitive state of surprise as selectively correlated with DMN fMRI coactivation during movie viewing, suggesting the DMN's role in prediction-error representations.

The paper shows that both natural sounds and spoken words improve visual object category decoding between 300-500 ms after visual onset, suggesting a semantic route of facilitation.

The paper shows that left scene-selective cortex uses object cues to infer scene layout, while right scene-selective cortex represents visual features of scenes.