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Active search signatures in a free‐viewing task exploiting concurrent EEG and eye movements recordings (2023)
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Tasks we often perform in our everyday lives, such as reading or looking for a friend in the crowd, are seemingly straightforward but they actually require the orchestrated activity of several cognitive processes. Free-viewing visual search requires... Read More about Active search signatures in a free‐viewing task exploiting concurrent EEG and eye movements recordings.

Decoding of human identity by computer vision and neuronal vision (2023)
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Extracting meaning from a dynamic and variable flow of incoming information is a major goal of both natural and artificial intelligence. Computer vision (CV) guided by deep learning (DL) has made significant strides in recognizing a specific identity... Read More about Decoding of human identity by computer vision and neuronal vision.

Exploring the Common Mechanisms of Motion-Based Visual Prediction (2022)
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Human vision supports prediction for moving stimuli. Here we take an individual differences approach to investigate whether there could be a common processing rate for motion-based visual prediction across diverse motion phenomena. Motion Induced Spa... Read More about Exploring the Common Mechanisms of Motion-Based Visual Prediction.

STDP Forms Associations between Memory Traces in Networks of Spiking Neurons (2019)
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Memory traces and associations between them are fundamental for cognitive brain function. Neuron recordings suggest that distributed assemblies of neurons in the brain serve as memory traces for spatial information, real-world items, and concepts. Ho... Read More about STDP Forms Associations between Memory Traces in Networks of Spiking Neurons.

Encoding of long-term associations through neural unitization in the human medial temporal lobe (2018)
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Rey, H. G., De Falco, E., Ison, M. J., Valentin, A., Alarcon, G., Selway, R., …Quian Quiroga, R. (2018). Encoding of long-term associations through neural unitization in the human medial temporal lobe. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 4372. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06870-2

© 2018, The Author(s). Besides decades of research showing the role of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) in memory and the encoding of associations, the neural substrates underlying these functions remain unknown. We identified single neurons in the hum... Read More about Encoding of long-term associations through neural unitization in the human medial temporal lobe.

Parsing a mental program: fixation-related brain signatures of unitary operations and routines in natural visual search (2018)
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Kamienkowski, J. E., Varatharajah, A., Sigman, M., & Ison, M. J. (2018). Parsing a mental program: fixation-related brain signatures of unitary operations and routines in natural visual search. NeuroImage, 183, 73-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.08.010

Visual search involves a sequence or routine of unitary operations (i.e. fixations) embedded in a larger mental global program. The process can indeed be seen as a program based on a while loop (while the target is not found), a conditional construct... Read More about Parsing a mental program: fixation-related brain signatures of unitary operations and routines in natural visual search.

Scene-selective coding by single neurons in the human parahippocampal cortex (2017)
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Mormann, F., Kornblith, S., Cerf, M., Ison, M. J., Kraskov, A., Tran, M., …Fried, I. (2017). Scene-selective coding by single neurons in the human parahippocampal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(5), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1608159113

Imaging, electrophysiological, and lesion studies have shown a relationship between the parahippocampal cortex (PHC) and the processing of spatial scenes. Our present knowledge of PHC, however, is restricted to the macroscopic properties and dynamics... Read More about Scene-selective coding by single neurons in the human parahippocampal cortex.

Long-term coding of personal and universal associations underlying the memory web in the human brain (2016)
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De Falco, E., Ison, M. J., Fried, I., & Quian Quiroga, R. (2016). Long-term coding of personal and universal associations underlying the memory web in the human brain. Nature Communications, 7, Article 13408. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13408

Neurons in the medial temporal lobe (MTL), a critical area for declarative memory, have been shown to change their tuning in associative learning tasks. Yet, it is unclear how durable these neuronal representations are and if they outlast the executi... Read More about Long-term coding of personal and universal associations underlying the memory web in the human brain.

Predicting episodic memory formation for movie events (2016)
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Tang, H., Singer, J., Ison, M. J., Pivazyan, G., Romaine, M., Frias, R., …Kreiman, G. (2016). Predicting episodic memory formation for movie events. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 30175. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep30175

© The Author(s) 2016. Episodic memories are long lasting and full of detail, yet imperfect and malleable. We quantitatively evaluated recollection of short audiovisual segments from movies as a proxy to real-life memory formation in 161 subjects at 1... Read More about Predicting episodic memory formation for movie events.

Specific responses of human hippocampal neurons are associated with better memory (2015)
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A population of human hippocampal neurons has shown responses to individual concepts (e.g., Jennifer Aniston) that generalize to different instances of the concept. However, recordings from the rodent hippocampus suggest an important function of thes... Read More about Specific responses of human hippocampal neurons are associated with better memory.

Rapid encoding of new memories by individual neurons in the human brain (2015)
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The creation of memories about real-life episodes requires rapid neuronal changes that may appear after a single occurrence of an event. How is such demand met by neurons in the medial temporal lobe (MTL), which plays a fundamental role in episodic m... Read More about Rapid encoding of new memories by individual neurons in the human brain.

Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task (2013)
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Kaunitz, L. N., Kamienkowski, J. E., Varatharajah, A., Sigman, M., Quian Quiroga, R., & Ison, M. J. (2014). Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task. NeuroImage, 89, 297-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.006

Despite the compelling contribution of the study of event related potentials (ERPs) and eye movements to cognitive neuroscience, these two approaches have largely evolved independently. We designed an eye-movement visual search paradigm that allowed... Read More about Looking for a face in the crowd: Fixation-related potentials in an eye-movement visual search task.