Neuroimaging: seeing the trees for the forest.
New functional imaging studies demonstrate that it is possible to decode a sensory visual pattern, and even an internal perceptual state, by combining seemingly insignificant feature selective signal biases present in a large number of voxels.
Leopold
David A
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Unit on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIH Building 49, Room B2J-45, MSC-4400, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
Wilke
Melanie
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D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D015357:Vision Disparity / Q000502:physiology; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*