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Diffusion-based stimulus optimization reveals functional organization across higher visual cortex

2026-05-15

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Characterizing the fine-grained functional organization of human higher visual cortex remains a central challenge, as traditional neuroimaging experiments constrain the diversity of stimuli that can be sampled. In prior work we addressed this challenge by developing a novel data-driven tool, termed “BrainDiVE” (Luo et al. 2023), which synthesizes naturalistic images predicted to strongly activate specific brain re...

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Literature Corpus work: 3be8c110-e121-5a80-b600-a38f6f685324
DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.12.724119

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