Neuroimaging: seeing the trees for the forest

David A Leopold; Melanie Wilke

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2005.08.055

Neuroimaging: seeing the trees for the forest

Curr Biol. 2005 Sep 20;15(18):R766-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.08.055.

Authors

David A Leopold¹, Melanie Wilke

Affiliation

¹ Unit on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIH Building 49, Room B2J-45, MSC-4400, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.

PMID: 16169478
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.08.055

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Attention / physiology*
Brain Mapping / methods
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
Multivariate Analysis
Vision Disparity / physiology
Visual Cortex / physiology*
Visual Perception / physiology*