Kurt Braunlich

This paper develops a method to align brain activity between humans and monkeys, revealing conserved visual areas and species-specific differences in higher-order processing.

The paper uses fMRI and a new method called Sparse Supervised Embedding to identify functional signatures of retinotopic visual areas in macaques, revealing differences in sensitivity to contrast, saturation, and color across visual areas.

The paper shows that occipitotemporal cortex representations reflect individual differences in conceptual knowledge through attentional weighting of visual features.