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ReviewCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2016

fMRI adaptation revisited.

Jonas Larsson, Samuel G Solomon, Adam Kohn

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Review in Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Parallel Processing of Facial Expression and Head Orientation in the Macaque Brain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jonas LarssonDepartment of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK. Electronic address: jonas.larsson@rhul.ac.uk.
Samuel G SolomonDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: s.solomon@ucl.ac.uk.
Adam KohnDominick Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. Electronic address: adam.kohn@einstein.yu.edu.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USRoyal Holloway University of London · GBUniversity College London · GB

Funding

Visual Cortical AdaptationR01EY016774 · NEI · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI KOHN, ADAM · 2008 to 2017
$3.7M
Learning and updating internal visual modelsR01EY024858 · NEI · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI KOHN, ADAM, SCHWARTZ, ODELIA · 2015 to 2017
$1.7M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY016774NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024858Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust WT090749MA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adaptation has been widely used in functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) studies to infer neuronal response properties in human cortex. fMRI adaptation has been criticized because of the complex relationship between fMRI adaptation effects and the multiple neuronal effects that could underlie them. Many of the longstanding concerns about fMRI adaptation have received empirical support from neurophysiological studies over the last decade. We review these studies here, and also consider neuroimaging studies that have investigated how fMRI adaptation effects are influenced by high-level perceptual processes. The results of these studies further emphasize the need to interpret fMRI adaptation results with caution, but they also provide helpful guidance for more accurate interpretation and better experimental design. In addition, we argue that rather than being used as a proxy for measurements of neuronal stimulus selectivity, fMRI adaptation may be most useful for studying population-level adaptation effects across cortical processing hierarchies.

Indexed as

Brain MappingMagnetic Resonance ImagingAdaptation, PhysiologicalHumansPhotic StimulationVisual CortexVisual PerceptionAdaptationFunction imagingRepetition suppressionSurround suppression

Identifiers

PMID26703375
PMCPMC4870150
OpenAlexW2206542232

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