Saliency

The prefrontal cortex is a core limbic region crucial for emotional memory formation and adaptive decision-making. Accumulating evidence across species highlights the distinct roles of prefrontal subregions in various behaviors and memory processes. Despite this understanding, little is known about how distinct features of associative memories are encoded in neuronal ensembles within and across distinct prefrontal subregions and the role of these representations in the encoding and retrieval of emotional memories. In this study, we aim to elucidate the interplay between prefrontal subregions a

In recent years electrophysiological studies have profited from the use of multivariate pattern analysis methods. However, these often rely on outdated classification algorithms. Deep neural networks provide high performance at the cost of interpretability of learned features because of black box approaches. In this project, we evaluated how the interpretability of networks for electroencephalography (EEG) data is affected by the network architecture and the method for feature extraction and visualisation. To this aim, we used two convolutional neural network architectures: (1)ResNet, a residu

Li Zhaoping discusses how cortical activity supports visual perception and the role of saliency in directing attention and gaze.