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ReviewThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2013

Perceptual spaces: mathematical structures to neural mechanisms.

Qasim Zaidi, Jonathan Victor, Josh McDermott, Maria Geffen, Sliman Bensmaia, Thomas A Cleland

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Review in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. When noncanonical olfaction is optimal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. The Geometry of Low- and High-Level Perceptual Spaces.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  6. A physicochemical model of odor sampling.PLoS computational biology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Qasim ZaidiGraduate Center for Vision Research, State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, New York 10036, Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10021, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, and Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853.
Jonathan Victor
Josh McDermott
Maria Geffen
Sliman Bensmaia
Thomas A Cleland

Funding

CENTRAL PROCESSING OF VISUAL INFORMATIONR01EY007977 · NEI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Jonathan D Victor · 1989 to 2026
$9.0M
NEURAL COMPUTATIONS IN VISUAL CORTEXR01EY009314 · NEI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI VICTOR, JONATHAN D · 1991 to 2014
$5.3M
NEURAL BASIS OF SHAPE FROM TEXTURER01EY013312 · NEI · STATE COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY · PI ZAIDI, QASIM · 2001 to 2015
$3.8M
MECHANISMS OF COLOR DETECTION, INDUCTION, AND ADAPTATIONR01EY007556 · NEI · STATE COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY · PI ZAIDI, QASIM · 1993 to 2010
$2.4M
CRCNS: Higher-order feature detection in olfactory bulbR01DC012249 · NIDCD · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI CLELAND, THOMAS A · 2011 to 2013
$704k
MECHANISMS OF COLOR DETECTION, INDUCTION AND ADAPTATIONR29EY007556 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI ZAIDI, QASIM · 1988 to 1992
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A central goal of neuroscience is to understand how populations of neurons build and manipulate representations of percepts that provide useful information about the environment. This symposium explores the fundamental properties of these representations and the perceptual spaces in which they are organized. Spanning the domains of color, visual texture, environmental sound, music, tactile quality, and odor, we show how the geometric structures of perceptual spaces can be determined experimentally and how these structures provide insights into the principles of neural coding and the neural mechanisms that generate the codes, and into the neural processing of complex sensory stimuli. The diversity of the neural architecture in these different sensory systems provides an opportunity to compare their different solutions to common problems: the need for dimensionality reduction, strategies for topographic or nontopographic mapping, the utility of the higher-order statistical structure inherent in natural sensory stimuli, and the constraints of neural hardware.

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Models, NeurologicalBrainBrain MappingHumansNerve NetNeural PathwaysNeuronsPerception

Identifiers

PMID24198350
PMCPMC3818541

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