J. Brendan Ritchie

Graspable foods and tools elicit similar responses in visual cortex

The paper investigates whether visual cortex responses to graspable food items and tools are driven by shared behavioral affordances rather than distinct categories.

Untangling the animacy organization of occipitotemporal cortex

This study investigates how animacy organization in occipitotemporal cortex relates to face-body division and taxonomic hierarchy, finding that animal resemblance to faces and bodies creates an apparent animacy continuum.

Orthogonal Representations of Object Shape and Category in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Human Visual Cortex

This study compares how deep CNNs and human visual cortex represent object shape and category, finding that CNNs and the brain encode these features separately, with CNNs peaking in final layers and the brain in anterior ventral temporal cortex.

Using neural distance to predict reaction time for categorizing the animacy, shape, and abstract properties of objects

The paper investigates whether neural distance predicts reaction times in categorization tasks involving animacy, shape, and crisscrossing categories, finding it correlates with RTs for animate stimuli.

The ventral visual pathway represents animal appearance over animacy, unlike human behavior and deep neural networks

The paper shows that ventral visual cortex represents object appearance over animacy, unlike neural networks, which prioritize animacy in categorization.

Decoding The Brain: Neural Representation And The Limits Of Multivariate Pattern Analysis In Cognitive Neuroscience

This paper critiques the assumption that decodability implies representational content in neural data and proposes improvements to multivariate pattern analysis.

Asymmetric compression of representational space for object animacy categorization under degraded viewing conditions

The paper investigates how animacy categorization in the human brain is affected by stimulus degradation, finding asymmetric shifts in neural activation patterns for animate versus inanimate objects.