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Commentary, Cognition and Behavior

Inverted Encoding Models Assay Population-Level Stimulus Representations, Not Single-Unit Neural Tuning

Thomas C. Sprague, Kirsten C. S. Adam, Joshua J. Foster, Masih Rahmati, David W. Sutterer and Vy A. Vo
eNeuro 11 May 2018, 5 (3) ENEURO.0098-18.2018; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0098-18.2018
Thomas C. Sprague
1Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003
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Kirsten C. S. Adam
2Department of Psychology and Institute for Mind and Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
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2Department of Psychology and Institute for Mind and Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
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Masih Rahmati
1Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003
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David W. Sutterer
2Department of Psychology and Institute for Mind and Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
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Vy A. Vo
3Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0098-18.2018
PubMed 
29876523
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History 
  • Received March 15, 2018
  • Revision received April 26, 2018
  • Accepted May 3, 2018
  • Published online May 11, 2018.
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Copyright © 2018 Sprague et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Thomas C. Sprague1,
  2. Kirsten C. S. Adam2,*,
  3. Joshua J. Foster2,*,
  4. Masih Rahmati1,*,
  5. David W. Sutterer2,* and
  6. Vy A. Vo3,*
  1. 1Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003
  2. 2Department of Psychology and Institute for Mind and Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
  3. 3Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Thomas C. Sprague, Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY, 10003. E-mail: tsprague{at}nyu.edu.
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: T.C.S., K.C.S.A., J.J.F., M.R., D.W.S., and V.A.V. wrote the paper.

  2. ↵* K.C.S.A., J.J.F., M.R., D.W.S., and V.A.V. contributed equally to this work.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) Grant F32-EY028438 (to T.C.S.), a National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship (to V.A.V.), the NEI Grant R01-EY016407 (M.R.), and the National Institute of Mental Health Grant 2R01-MH087214-06A1 (K.C.S.A., J.J.F., and D.W.S.).

Funding

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    F32-EY028438; R01-EY016407
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)

    Graduate Research Fellowship
  • HHS | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    2R01-MH087214-06A1

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eNeuro 11 May 2018, 5 (3) ENEURO.0098-18.2018; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0098-18.2018

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eNeuro 11 May 2018, 5 (3) ENEURO.0098-18.2018; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0098-18.2018
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