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| Hans P Op de BeeckSummaryAffiliation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Country: Belgium Publications
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The neural basis of visual object learningHans P Op de Beeck
Laboratory of Biological Psychology, University of Leuven K U Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Trends Cogn Sci 14:22-30. 2010....
Distributed subordinate specificity for bodies, faces, and buildings in human ventral visual cortexHans P Op de Beeck
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Leuven K U Leuven, Belgium Laboratory of Biological Psychology, University of Leuven K U Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Neuroimage 49:3414-25. 2010....- Perceived shape similarity among unfamiliar objects and the organization of the human object vision pathwayHans P Op de Beeck
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 28:10111-23. 2008..Thus, for unfamiliar objects, the organization of human object-selective cortex is strongly related to perceived shape, and this shape-based organization emerges gradually throughout the object vision pathway... - Interpreting fMRI data: maps, modules and dimensionsHans P Op de Beeck
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Nat Rev Neurosci 9:123-35. 2008.... - The representation of perceived shape similarity and its role for category learning in monkeys: a modeling studyHans P Op de Beeck
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Vision Res 48:598-610. 2008..These results show the intimate link between category learning and perceived similarity as represented in IT cortex... - A stable topography of selectivity for unfamiliar shape classes in monkey inferior temporal cortexHans P Op de Beeck
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Cereb Cortex 18:1676-94. 2008..Together, these results suggest that IT cortex contains a large-scale map of shape that is largely independent of meaning, familiarity, and behavioral task... - Probing the mysterious underpinnings of multi-voxel fMRI analysesHans P Op de Beeck
Laboratory of Biological Psychology, University of Leuven KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Neuroimage 50:567-71. 2010..A few suggestions are made about the type of evidence that is needed to help us understand the as yet mysterious underpinnings of multi-voxel fMRI analyses... 
Effects of perceptual learning in visual backward masking on the responses of macaque inferior temporal neuronsH P Op de Beeck
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, K U Leuven Medical School, Herestraat 49, Leuven, Belgium
Neuroscience 145:775-89. 2007..These findings suggest that extensive training in recognizing backward-masked objects results in neural changes that reduce IT responses to the interfering irrelevant masking patterns and enhance the processing of the relevant objects...- Discrimination training alters object representations in human extrastriate cortexHans P Op de Beeck
McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
J Neurosci 26:13025-36. 2006..These findings support a dynamic view of the ventral visual pathway in which the cortical representation of an object category is continuously modulated by experience... - Fine-scale spatial organization of face and object selectivity in the temporal lobe: do functional magnetic resonance imaging, optical imaging, and electrophysiology agree?Hans P Op de Beeck
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Leuven Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 28:11796-801. 2008.... - Tuning for shape dimensions in macaque inferior temporal cortexGreet Kayaert
Laboratory Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K.U. Leuven Medical School, Leuven, Belgium
Eur J Neurosci 22:212-24. 2005..The independence of dimensional tuning may provide the neural basis for the independence of psychophysical judgements of multidimensional stimuli... - The representation of subordinate shape similarity in human occipitotemporal cortexSven Panis
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
J Vis 8:9.1-15. 2008..Together, these results suggest a narrow tuning in object-selective cortex for individual exemplars from natural object categories, consistent with an exemplar-based encoding principle... - The visual word form area is organized according to orthographyWouter Braet
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Neuroimage 59:2751-9. 2012..Given the relationships between the internal organization and how visual input is processed in a brain region, our findings provide important constraints for computational models of how visual word forms are represented in the brain... - Feedback of visual object information to foveal retinotopic cortexMark A Williams
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Nat Neurosci 11:1439-45. 2008..Instead, our findings indicate that position-invariant object information from higher cortical areas is fed back to foveal retinotopic cortex, enhancing task performance... - A preference for contralateral stimuli in human object- and face-selective cortexChristopher C Hemond
McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e574. 2007..Nevertheless, each region showed a significant preference for contralateral stimuli. These results indicate that sensitivity to stimulus position is present even in high-level ventral visual cortex... - Activation of fusiform face area by Greebles is related to face similarity but not expertiseMarijke Brants
University of Leuven K U Leuven, Belgium
J Cogn Neurosci 23:3949-58. 2011..This indicates that the activity in the FFA for Greebles does not depend on the degree of expertise acquired with the objects but on the interpretation of the stimuli as face-related... - Subordinate categorization enhances the neural selectivity in human object-selective cortex for fine shape differencesCeline R Gillebert
University of Leuven K U Leuven, Belgium
J Cogn Neurosci 21:1054-64. 2009..This result indicates that the task context during training modulates the extent to which object selectivity is enhanced as a result of training... - Continuous mapping of the cortical object vision pathway using traveling waves in object spaceElfi Goesaert
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Leuven K U Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Neuroimage 49:3248-56. 2010..We conclude that phase-encoding techniques can help in revealing the organization of high-level visual regions for complex object properties... - The transfer of object learning across exemplars and their orientation is related to perceptual similarityAnnelies Baeck
Laboratory of Biological Psychology, University of Leuven KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Vision Res 68:40-7. 2012.... - Emergence of perceptual Gestalts in the human visual cortex: the case of the configural-superiority effectJonas Kubilius
University of Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium
Psychol Sci 22:1296-303. 2011..These results show how at least some Gestalt phenomena in vision emerge only at the higher stages of visual information processing and suggest that feed-forward processing might be sufficient to produce such phenomena... - Dynamic prototypicality effects in visual searchGreet Kayaert
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Leuven K U Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, Bus 3711, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Exp Psychol Gen 140:506-19. 2011..In general, we show that the prototypical status of a stimulus in visual search is a highly dynamic property, depending on the distribution of stimuli within a shape space but not on familiarity with the prototype... - Dynamic norm-based encoding for unfamiliar shapes in human visual cortexSven Panis
University of Leuven K U Leuven, Belgium
J Cogn Neurosci 23:1829-43. 2011.... - Transfer of object learning across distinct visual learning paradigmsAnnelies Baeck
Laboratory of Biological Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
J Vis 10:17.1-9. 2010..The transfer was only partial when reversed. This pattern of results indicates that both general processes and processes specific for the type of stimulus degradation are involved in perceptual learning... - Against hyperacuity in brain reading: spatial smoothing does not hurt multivariate fMRI analyses?Hans P Op de Beeck
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Leuven K U Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Neuroimage 49:1943-8. 2010..Further simulations in which the scale of cortical organization was known indicate that this effect of smoothing contradicts the idea that the patterns detected with multivariate techniques reflect a fine-scale spatial organization... - The distributed representation of random and meaningful object pairs in human occipitotemporal cortex: the weighted average as a general ruleAnnelies Baeck
Laboratory of Biological Psychology, University of Leuven KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Neuroimage 70:37-47. 2013..A weighted average thus relates the response patterns of object pairs to the response patterns of single objects, even when the objects interact... - Representations of facial identity information in the ventral visual stream investigated with multivoxel pattern analysesElfi Goesaert
Laboratory of Biological Psychology, University of Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 33:8549-58. 2013..These findings demonstrate a relatively distributed representation of perceptual and conceptual face properties that involves both face-selective/sensitive and non-face-selective cortical regions... - Homologous involvement of striatum and prefrontal cortex in rodent and human water maze learningDaniel G Woolley
Laboratory of Movement Control and Neuroplasticity, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110:3131-6. 2013..The remarkably high degree of anatomical overlap in brain function between mouse and human observed in our study emphasizes the extent of convergence achievable with a well-matched multilevel approach... - A multivariate approach reveals the behavioral templates underlying visual discrimination in ratsBen Vermaercke
Laboratory of Biological Psychology, University of Leuven KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Curr Biol 22:50-5. 2012....