Posts by Jyrki Ahveninen, PhD
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Commentary: Sparse Brain Activity Patterns May Underlie Human Cognition
Jyrki Ahveninen, PhD, and colleagues believe sparse brain activity, where only a few neurons in a population fire at a given time, might contribute to the fingerprint patterns of activity evident in multi-voxel pattern analysis results from functional MRI—and give rise to perceptual, emotional and cognitive functions.
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Review: Movies and Narratives as Naturalistic Stimuli in Neuroimaging
Jyrki Ahveninen, PhD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, and colleagues recently reviewed the use of movies and stories as stimuli during neuroimaging research into memory, attention, language, emotions and social cognition.
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