representational similarity analysis

The rapid emergence of auditory object representations in cortex reflect central acoustic attributes

Human listeners are bombarded by acoustic information that the brain rapidly organizes into coherent percepts of objects and events in the environment, which aids speech and music perception. The efficiency of auditory object recognition belies the …

The emergence of semantic meaning in the ventral temporal pathway

In the ventral visual pathway, early visual areas encode light patterns on the retina in terms of image properties, for example, edges and color, whereas higher areas encode visual information in terms of objects and categories. At what point does …