Trial reportThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2011
Orientation decoding depends on maps, not columns.
Trial report in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 138 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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138 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of fMRI decoding: Quantifying influences on human visual population codes.Neuropsychologia · 2016Pooled it
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- Dopamine D2-receptor blockade enhances decoding of prefrontal signals in humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015Trial
- A common neural code for perceived and inferred emotion.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014Trial
- The integration of motion and disparity cues to depth in dorsal visual cortex.Nature neuroscience · 2012Trial
- Orientation Maps in Mouse Superior Colliculus Explained by Population Model of Non-Orientation Selective Neurons.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Contours drive distinct orientation selectivity in the human visual system.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Emergence of form-independent direction selectivity in human V3A and MT.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Contentopic mapping in ventral and dorsal association cortex: The topographical organization of manipulable object information.NeuroImage · 2025Article
- Large-Scale Color Biases in the Retinotopic Functional Architecture Are Region Specific and Shared across Human Brains.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Multi-voxel pattern analysis for developmental cognitive neuroscientists.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
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- Convolutional neural networks develop major organizational principles of early visual cortex when enhanced with retinal sampling.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Bounded contribution of human early visual cortex to the topographic anisotropy in spatial extent perception.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Testing the generalization of neural representations.NeuroImage · 2023Article
- Testing cognitive theories with multivariate pattern analysis of neuroimaging data.Nature human behaviour · 2023Review
- A Texture Statistics Encoding Model Reveals Hierarchical Feature Selectivity across Human Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Identifying cortical areas that underlie the transformation from 2D retinal to 3D head-centric motion signals.NeuroImage · 2023Article
- Low-level tuning biases in higher visual cortex reflect the semantic informativeness of visual features.Journal of vision · 2023Article
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Abstract
The representation of orientation in primary visual cortex (V1) has been examined at a fine spatial scale corresponding to the columnar architecture. We present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measurements providing evidence for a topographic map of orientation preference in human V1 at a much coarser scale, in register with the angular-position component of the retinotopic map of V1. This coarse-scale orientation map provides a parsimonious explanation for why multivariate pattern analysis methods succeed in decoding stimulus orientation from fMRI measurements, challenging the widely held assumption that decoding results reflect sampling of spatial irregularities in the fine-scale columnar architecture. Decoding stimulus attributes and cognitive states from fMRI measurements has proven useful for a number of applications, but our results demonstrate that the interpretation cannot assume decoding reflects or exploits columnar organization.
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