MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitWe are pleased to announce that we will be holding a two-day workshop on representational similarity analysis (RSA) at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit on February 16-17, 2015. The workshop will provide in-depth teaching of basic and advanced aspects of RSA. It will include (1) didactical introductions to this set of […]
Has anyone seen the toolbox?
Hamed Nili, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, and collaborators have published a toolbox for representational similarity analysis and an accompanying paper in PLoS Computational Biology. The toolbox enables anyone familiar with Matlab to test computational theories of brain information processing. It also introduces three new features of the method. The first new feature is the linear-discriminant t value, […]
Is that my friend John? Or is it a car?
Whenever you perceive something in the outside world, such as someone walking toward you in the street, your brain almost instantly processes a wide range of information. Do you recognise the person? Should you approach or move away? We have to represent essential features of the world in order to act successfully. Traditionally, neuroimaging has […]
Future of scientific publishing discussed
The current system of scientific publishing has lately received increasing scrutiny and criticism. One essential innovation that has received broad attention in the past decade is open access (OA). OA is now beginning to become a owreality. Hever, in addition to access, a scientific publication system also needs to provide evaluation of papers. Evaluation steers the […]
Two CBU scientists give THE book reviews
Tristan Bekinschtein and Nikolaus Kriegeskorte have both recently given book reviews for the Times Higher Education supplement. Tristan reviewed ‘Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist’ by Christof Koch, read his review here and Nikolaus reviewed ‘Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are’ by Sebastian Seung, and you can read his review here.
Categorical, yet graded – the brain’s response to individual objects
We live in a rich visual environment populated by many different kinds of objects. Categorisation of these objects is important for determining our actions towards them. Previous studies have shown that the human brain contains regions that respond selectively to images from a certain object category. The two most well-known category-selective regions are the fusiform […]
Categorical, yet graded – the brain's response to individual objects
We live in a rich visual environment populated by many different kinds of objects. Categorisation of these objects is important for determining our actions towards them. Previous studies have shown that the human brain contains regions that respond selectively to images from a certain object category. The two most well-known category-selective regions are the fusiform […]
