Hasson Uri
Psychology Department and the Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
J Neurosci. 2025 Mar 19;45(12):e2368242025. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2368-24.2025.
As we train multiple generations of students to narrowly design clever, carefully controlled experiments in our confined lab spaces, we may fail to notice, as a field, that we have overlooked fundamental aspects of human cognition. This is a first-person account of how our research and understanding of the neural code were forever transformed when we decided to open the lab's door to the natural world. This journey started with the decision to shift from controlled stimuli to natural dynamic and "messy" stimuli. This transition enabled us to focus on how information is accumulated and processed over time. As a result, we have discovered a new topographic mapping of the hierarchy of cortical processing timescales. I will conclude with a general observation of the paradigm shift occurring in the field as it increasingly emphasizes the study of the neural processes that underlie human behavior in natural, everyday contexts. I am excited to share this journey with you.
当我们培养了一代又一代的学生，让他们在有限的实验室空间里精心设计巧妙且严格控制的实验时，作为一个领域，我们可能没有注意到我们忽略了人类认知的基本方面。这是一篇第一人称的叙述，讲述了当我们决定向自然世界敞开实验室大门时，我们对神经编码的研究和理解是如何被永远改变的。这段旅程始于从受控刺激转向自然动态且“杂乱”刺激的决定。这种转变使我们能够专注于信息如何随着时间积累和处理。结果，我们发现了一种关于皮层处理时间尺度层次结构的新拓扑映射。最后，我将对该领域正在发生的范式转变进行总体观察，因为它越来越强调对自然日常情境中人类行为背后的神经过程的研究。我很高兴与你分享这段旅程。
