ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain.
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- Neurofeedback Training Facilitates Awareness and Enhances Emotional Well-being Associated with Real-World Meditation Practice: A 7-T MRI Study.Mindfulness · 2025Article
- Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Inducing representational change in the hippocampus through real-time neurofeedback.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- RT-Cloud: A cloud-based software framework to simplify and standardize real-time fMRI.NeuroImage · 2022Article
- Semantic relatedness retroactively boosts memory and promotes memory interdependence across episodes.eLife · 2022Article
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Abstract
Learning requires changing the brain. This typically occurs through experience, study, or instruction. We report an alternate route for humans to acquire visual knowledge, through the direct sculpting of activity patterns in the human brain that mirror those expected to arise through learning. We used neurofeedback from closed-loop real-time functional MRI to create new categories of visual objects in the brain, without the participants' explicit awareness. After neural sculpting, participants exhibited behavioral and neural biases for the learned, but not for the control categories. The ability to sculpt new perceptual distinctions into the human brain offers a noninvasive research paradigm for causal testing of the link between neural representations and behavior. As such, beyond its current application to perception, our work potentially has broad relevance for advancing understanding in other domains of cognition such as decision-making, memory, and motor control.
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