Tasks and their role in visual neuroscience

Kendrick KAY; Kathryn BONNEN; Rachel N. DENISON; Mike J. ARCARO; David L. BARACK

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2023.03.022

Tasks and their role in visual neuroscience

Kendrick KAY^*, Kathryn BONNEN, Rachel N. DENISON, Mike J. ARCARO, David L. BARACK

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Abstract

Vision is widely used as a model system to gain insights into how sensory inputs are processed and interpreted by the brain. Historically, careful quantification and control of visual stimuli have served as the backbone of visual neuroscience. There has been less emphasis, however, on how an observer's task influences the processing of sensory inputs. Motivated by diverse observations of task-dependent activity in the visual system, we propose a framework for thinking about tasks, their role in sensory processing, and how we might formally incorporate tasks into our models of vision.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1697-1713
Number of pages	17
Journal	Neuron
Volume	111
Issue number	11
Early online date	10 Apr 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2023.03.022
Publication status	Published - 7 Jun 2023
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

We thank E. Cooper for extensive conversations and help with the initial version of this manuscript. We also thank I. Charest, M. Cole, C. Curtis, R. Poldrack, A. Schapiro, and M. Waskom for helpful discussions. Finally, we thank J. Breedlove, T. Knapen, T. Naselaris, B. Turner, and A. White for comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by startup funds from Boston University (R.N.D.).

Keywords

behavior
brain
information processing
modeling
task
visual cortex

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