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ReviewNeuroImage2020

Studying the visual brain in its natural rhythm.

David A Leopold, Soo Hyun Park

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Review in NeuroImage, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Modeling naturalistic face processing in humans with deep convolutional neural networks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  12. Encoding of 3D physical dimensions by face-selective cortical neurons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

David A LeopoldSection on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA; Neurophysiology Imaging Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA. Electronic address: leopoldd@mail.nih.gov.
Soo Hyun ParkSection on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
National Institute of Mental Health · USNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · US

Funding

Neurophysiology of Visual PerceptionZIAMH002838 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI LEOPOLD, DAVID A · 2009 to 2025
$14.0M
Visual Adaptation and Neuronal SelectivityZIAMH002898 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI LEOPOLD, DAVID A · 2009 to 2025
$13.6M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA MH002838Intramural NIH HHS ZIA MH002898
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How the brain fluidly orchestrates visual behavior is a central question in cognitive neuroscience. Researchers studying neural responses in humans and nonhuman primates have mapped out visual response profiles and cognitive modulation in a large number of brain areas, most often using pared down stimuli and highly controlled behavioral paradigms. The historical emphasis on reductionism has placed most studies at one pole of an inherent trade-off between strictly controlled experimental variables and open designs that monitor the brain during its natural modes of operation. This bias toward simplified experiments has strongly shaped the field of visual neuroscience, with little guarantee that the principles and concepts established within that framework will apply more generally. In recent years, a growing number of studies have begun to relax strict experimental control with the aim of understanding how the brain responds under more naturalistic conditions. In this article, we survey research that has explicitly embraced the complexity and rhythm of natural vision. We focus on those studies most pertinent to understanding high-level visual specializations in brains of humans and nonhuman primates. We conclude that representationalist concepts borne from conventional visual experiments fall short in their ability to capture the real-life visual operations undertaken by the brain. More naturalistic approaches, though fraught with experimental and analytic challenges, provide fertile ground for neuroscientists seeking new inroads to investigate how the brain supports core aspects of our daily visual experience.

Indexed as

Brain MappingSocial PerceptionAnimalsBrainFacial RecognitionHumansPrimatesVisual PerceptionBodiesFace patchesFacesFree viewingInferior temporal cortexITNaturalisiticNeural representationPerceptionPrimateVision

Identifiers

PMID32278093
PMCPMC7299837
OpenAlexW3015529091

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Registered trials

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