TY - JOUR
T1 - Reliability of cortical activity during natural stimulation
AU - Hasson, Uri
AU - Malach, Rafael
AU - Heeger, David J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by an International Human Frontier Science Program Organization long-term fellowship (U.H.); National Institutes of Health Grants R01-MH69880 and R21-DA024423 (D.J.H.) and grants from the Weizmann–New York University Demonstration Fund in Neuroscience, the Israel Science Foundation, the Benozyio Center and the Minerva Foundation (R.M.). Special thanks to Barbara Knappmeyer for contributing to the acquisition and analysis of the Hitchcock data, and to David Carmel for comments on an earlier draft.
PY - 2010/1
Y1 - 2010/1
N2 - Response reliability is complementary to more conventional measurements of response amplitudes, and can reveal phenomena that response amplitudes do not. Here we review studies that measured reliability of cortical activity within or between human subjects in response to naturalistic stimulation (e.g. free viewing of movies). Despite the seemingly uncontrolled nature of the task, some of these complex stimuli evoke highly reliable, selective and time-locked activity in many brain areas, including some regions that show little response modulation in most conventional experimental protocols. This activity provides an opportunity to address novel questions concerning natural vision, temporal scale of processing, memory and the neural basis of inter-group differences.
AB - Response reliability is complementary to more conventional measurements of response amplitudes, and can reveal phenomena that response amplitudes do not. Here we review studies that measured reliability of cortical activity within or between human subjects in response to naturalistic stimulation (e.g. free viewing of movies). Despite the seemingly uncontrolled nature of the task, some of these complex stimuli evoke highly reliable, selective and time-locked activity in many brain areas, including some regions that show little response modulation in most conventional experimental protocols. This activity provides an opportunity to address novel questions concerning natural vision, temporal scale of processing, memory and the neural basis of inter-group differences.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tics.2009.10.011
DO - 10.1016/j.tics.2009.10.011
M3 - Review article
C2 - 20004608
AN - SCOPUS:72649087477
SN - 1364-6613
VL - 14
SP - 40
EP - 48
JO - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
IS - 1
ER -