Emily Allen

Hierarchical Processing of Natural Scenes in the Human Pulvinar

The paper investigates the role of the pulvinar in high-level visual processing using fMRI and finds it has functional specificity for bodies and faces, mirroring cortical organization principles.

Cortical substrates of perceptual confusion between pitch and timbre

The paper investigates neural substrates of perceptual confusion between pitch and timbre by analyzing fMRI responses to manipulated auditory stimuli.

Temporal asymmetry of neural representations predicts memory decisions

The paper shows that memory decisions are predicted by the difference in neural similarity between past and future events, with strongest effects in recent memory and weak true memories.

Re-expression of CA1 and entorhinal activity patterns preserves temporal context memory at long timescales

The paper shows that re-expression of CA1 and entorhinal activity patterns predicts temporal context memory over long timescales in humans.

Color-biased regions in the ventral visual pathway are food-selective

The paper analyzes fMRI data to show that color-biased regions in the ventral visual pathway are food-selective and respond to color saturation and other image features.

Brain-optimized neural networks learn non-hierarchical models of representation in human visual cortex

This study trains neural networks to predict human visual cortex activity and finds they can learn non-hierarchical representations, challenging the idea that visual areas function in a strict hierarchical sequence.

A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive and computational neuroscience

The paper introduces a large-scale 7T fMRI dataset of natural scenes to advance cognitive and computational neuroscience research.

Dissociation of tonotopy and pitch in human auditory cortex

This study shows that auditory cortical gradients are organized by both spectral content and pitch, with primary regions tuned to spectral content and higher-level pitch tuning in surrounding areas.