Reposted by Ben Prystawski
1/ New preprint! 🧠👶 "Eccentricity, not category, organizes infant ventral temporal cortex." With Emily M Chen, Cleo Tay, Kylie Syzmanski, and @camerontellis.bsky.social
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Eccentricity, but not category, organizes infant ventral temporal cortex
Scene- and word-selective regions in adult ventral temporal cortex occupy consistent locations across individuals and align with eccentricity biases for peripheral versus central parts of the visual f...
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Common analyses of neural representations: Encoding models (relating activity to task features) drawing of an arrow from a trace saying [on_____on____] to a neuron and spike train. Comparing models via neural predictivity: comparing two neural networks by their R^2 to mouse brain activity. RSA: assessing brain-brain or model-brain correspondence using representational dissimilarity matrices](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e6ewzleebkdi2y2bxhjxoknt/bafkreiav2io2ska33o4kizf57co5bboqyyfdpnozo2gxsicrfr5l7qzjcq)
