Contentotopic mapping: the topographical organization of object knowledge in the brain

Project Information

ContentMAP

Grant agreement ID: 802553

DOI

10.3030/802553

Project closed

EC signature date 7 November 2018

Start date 1 February 2019

End date 31 March 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 816 004,00

EU contribution

€ 1 816 004,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA
Portugal

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (32)

Temporal differences and commonalities between hand and tool neural processing

Author(s): L. Amaral, G. Besson, E. Caparelli-Dáquer, F. Bergström, J. Almeida
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-48180-8

Decoding stimuli (tool-hand) and viewpoint invariant grasp-type information

Author(s): Fredrik Bergström, Moritz Wurm, Daniela Valério, Angelika Lingnau, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Cortex, Issue 139, 2021, Page(s) 152-165, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.03.004

Optimistic Youth: Young Adults Predicted a Faster Decrease in Risk during COVID-19 Emergency State in Portugal

Author(s): Sara Scaletti, Inês Duarte, Catarina Senra, Jorge Almeida, António Jorge Ferreira, Jon Walbrin, Artur Pilacinski
Published in: Portuguese Journal of Public Health, Issue 40, 2025, Page(s) 43-51, ISSN 2504-3137
Publisher: S. Karger AG
DOI: 10.1159/000524076

Reciprocal interactions among parietal and occipito-temporal representations support everyday object-directed actions

Author(s): Bradford Z. Mahon, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 198, 2025, Page(s) 108841, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108841

Neural and behavioral similarity-driven tuning curves for manipulable objects

Author(s): Daniela Valério, André Peres, Fredrik Bergström, Philipp Seidel, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Imaging Neuroscience, Issue 3, 2025, ISSN 2837-6056
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/imag_a_00482

Tool heads prime saccades

Author(s): Artur Pilacinski, Stella De Haan, Rita Donato, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11/1, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-91254-8

Knowing how to do it or doing it? A double dissociation between tool-gesture production and tool-gesture knowledge

Author(s): Daniela Valério, Isabel Santana, Diana Aguiar de Sousa, Guilherme Schu, Gabriela Leal, Isabel Pavão Martins, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Cortex, Issue 141, 2021, Page(s) 449-464, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.05.008

Neuroplastic changes in functional wiring in sensory cortices of the congenitally deaf: A network analysis

Author(s): Michaela Ruttorf, Zohar Tal, Lénia Amaral, Fang Fang, Yanchao Bi, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Human Brain Mapping, Issue 44, 2023, Page(s) 6523-6536, ISSN 1065-9471
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26530

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Alters Functional Network Structure in Humans: A Graph Theoretical Analysis

Author(s): Michaela Ruttorf, Stephanie Kristensen, Lothar R. Schad, Jorge Almeida
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Issue 38, 2022, Page(s) 2829-2837, ISSN 0278-0062
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2019.2915206

Semantic feature production norms for manipulable objects

Author(s): Daniela Valério, Akbar Hussain, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Cognitive Neuropsychology, Issue 40, 2024, Page(s) 167-185, ISSN 0264-3294
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2023.2279185

Alternative brain connectivity underscores age-related differences in the processing of interactive biological motion

Author(s): Jon Walbrin, Jorge Almeida, Kami Koldewyn
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, 2023, Page(s) JN-RM-2109-22, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2109-22.2023

Primary manipulation knowledge of objects is associated with the functional coupling of pMTG and aIPS

Author(s): Akbar Hussain, Jon Walbrin, Marija Tochadse, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 205, 2024, Page(s) 109034, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.109034

Within-category representational stability through the lens of manipulable objects

Author(s): Dongha Lee, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Cortex, Issue 137, 2021, Page(s) 282-291, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.12.026

The cerebellum is causally involved in episodic memory under aging

Author(s): Jorge Almeida, Ana R. Martins, Lénia Amaral, Daniela Valério, Qasim Bukhari, Guilherme Schu, Joana Nogueira, Mónica Spínola, Ghazaleh Soleimani, Filipe Fernandes, Ana R. Silva, Felipe Fregni, Marcel Simis, Mário Simões, André Peres
Published in: GeroScience, 2024, ISSN 2509-2715
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-023-00738-0

The contributions of the ventral and the dorsal visual streams to the automatic processing of action relations of familiar and unfamiliar object pairs

Author(s): Shan Xu, Xingyu Liu, Jorge Almeida, Dietmar Heinke
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 245, 2024, Page(s) 118629, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118629

The European Portuguese version of the Oxford Cognitive Screening (OCS-Pt): a screening test for acute stroke patients

Author(s): Daniela Valério, Jorge Almeida, Nele Demeyere, Marisa Lima, Joana Nogueira, Isabel Santana
Published in: Neurological Sciences, Issue 43, 2022, Page(s) 3717-3728, ISSN 1590-1874
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-022-05880-9

Temporal characteristics of global form perception in translational and circular Glass patterns

Author(s): Rita Donato, Andrea Pavan, Jorge Almeida, Massimo Nucci, Gianluca Campana
Published in: Vision Research, Issue 187, 2024, Page(s) 102-109, ISSN 0042-6989
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2021.06.003

Action at a distance on object-related ventral temporal representations

Author(s): Dongha Lee, Bradford Z. Mahon, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Cortex, Issue 117, 2019, Page(s) 157-167, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.02.018

Underfunding Basic Psychological Science Because of the Primacy of the Here and Now: A Scientific Conundrum

Author(s): Jorge Almeida
Published in: Perspectives on Psychological Science, Issue 18, 2025, Page(s) 527-530, ISSN 1745-6916
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/17456916221105213

Overlapping but distinct: Distal connectivity dissociates hand and tool processing networks

Author(s): Lénia Amaral, Fredrik Bergström, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Cortex, Issue 140, 2021, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.03.011

Size constancy affects the perception and parietal neural representation ofobject size

Author(s): Stephanie Kristensen, Alessio Fracasso, Serge O. Dumoulin, Jorge Almeida, Ben M. Harvey,
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 232, 2021, Page(s) 117909, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117909

Precedence of parvocellular- over magnocellular-biased information for 2D object-related shape processing

Author(s): Jorge Almeida
Published in: Cognitive Neuropsychology, Issue 39, 2022, Page(s) 95-98, ISSN 0264-3294
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2022.2076584

Guidelines for TMS/tES clinical services and research through the COVID-19 pandemic

Author(s): Marom Bikson; Colleen A. Hanlon; Adam J. Woods; Bernadette T. Gillick; Leigh Charvet; Claus Lamm; Graziella Madeo; Adrienn Holczer; Jorge Almeida; Andrea Antal; Mohammad Reza Ay; Chris Baeken; Daniel M. Blumberger; Salvatore Campanella; Joan A. Camprodon; Lasse Christiansen; Colleen Loo; Jennifer T. Crinion; Paul Fitzgerald; Luigi Gallimberti; Peyman Ghobadi-Azbari; Iman Ghodratitoostani; Roland H
Published in: Brain Stimulation, 13 (4), Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) Elsevier, ISSN 1935-861X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000417479

High-Level Representations in Human Occipito-Temporal Cortex Are Indexed by Distal Connectivity

Author(s): Jon Walbrin, Jorge Almeida
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 41/21, 2021, Page(s) 4678-4685, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2857-20.2021

Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on neural activity and functional connectivity during fear extinction

Author(s): Dongha Lee, Raquel Guiomar, Óscar F. Gonçalves, Jorge Almeida, Ana Ganho-Ávila
Published in: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Issue 23, 2024, Page(s) 100342, ISSN 1697-2600
Publisher: Asociacion Espanola de Psicologia Conductual
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2022.100342

Disentangling hand and tool processing: Distal effects of neuromodulation

Author(s): Lénia Amaral, Rita Donato, Daniela Valério, Egas Caparelli-Dáquer, Jorge Almeida, Fredrik Bergström
Published in: Cortex, Issue 157, 2024, Page(s) 142-154, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.08.011

Virtual Reality for Safe Testing and Development in Collaborative Robotics: Challenges and Perspectives

Author(s): Sergi Bermúdez i Badia, Paula Alexandra Silva, Diogo Branco, Ana Pinto, Carla Carvalho, Paulo Menezes, Jorge Almeida, Artur Pilacinski
Published in: Electronics, Issue 11, 2025, Page(s) 1726, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/electronics11111726

Characterizing the discriminability of visual categorical information in strongly connected voxels

Author(s): Jon Walbrin, Paul E. Downing, Filipa Dourado Sotero, Jorge Almeida
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 195, 2024, Page(s) 108815, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108815

A checklist for assessing the methodological quality of concurrent tES-fMRI studies (ContES checklist): a consensus study and statement

Author(s): Hamed Ekhtiari, Peyman Ghobadi-Azbari, Axel Thielscher, Andrea Antal, Lucia M. Li, A. Duke Shereen, Yuranny Cabral-Calderin, Daniel Keeser, Til Ole Bergmann, Asif Jamil, Ines R. Violante, Jorge Almeida, Marcus Meinzer, Hartwig R. Siebner, Adam J. Woods, Charlotte J. Stagg, Rany Abend, Daria Antonenko, Tibor Auer, Marc Bächinger, Chris Baeken, Helen C. Barron, Henry W. Chase, Jenny Crinion, Abhish
Published in: Nature Protocols, Issue 17, 2022, Page(s) 596-617, ISSN 1754-2189
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41596-021-00664-5

Neural and behavioral signatures of the multidimensionality of manipulable object processing

Author(s): J. Almeida, A. Fracasso, S. Kristensen, D. Valério, F. Bergström, R. Chakravarthi, Z. Tal, J. Walbrin
Published in: Communications Biology, 2024, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.29.534804

Fine-grained knowledge about manipulable objects is well-predicted by contrastive language image pre-training

Author(s): Jon Walbrin, Nikita Sossounov, Morteza Mahdiani, Igor Vaz, Jorge Almeida
Published in: iScience, Issue 27, 2025, Page(s) 110297, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110297

Face-Specific Perceptual Distortions Reveal A View- and Orientation-Independent Face Template

Author(s): Jorge Almeida, Andreia Freixo, Miguel Tábuas-Pereira, Sarah B. Herald, Daniela Valério, Guilherme Schu, Diana Duro, Gil Cunha, Qasim Bukhari, Brad Duchaine, Isabel Santana
Published in: Current Biology, 2020, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.067

Other (5)

The neural organization of visual information in the auditory cortex of the congenitally deaf

Author(s): Zohar Tal, Joana Sayal, Fang Fang, Yanchao Bi, Jorge Almeida, Alessio Fracasso
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.17.537188

Contentopic mapping in ventral and dorsal association cortex: the topographical organization of manipulable object information

Author(s): J. Almeida, S. Kristensen, Z. Tal, A. Fracasso
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.29.568856

The way of the light: how visual information reaches the auditory cortex in congenitally deaf adults

Author(s): Giuliana Martinatti Giorjiani, Zohar Tal, Hamed Nili, BI Yanchao, Fang Fang, Jorge Almeida
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.25.477765

Subliminal risk influences subjective value in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Author(s): Patrícia Fernandes, Sangil Lee, Joseph W. Kable, Philipp Seidel, Jorge Almeida, Johan Eriksson, Bruno de Sousa, Fredrik Bergström
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.11.642695

fMROI: a simple and adaptable toolbox for easy region-of-interest creation

Author(s): André Peres, Daniela Valério, Igor Vaz, Morteza Mahdiani, Jon Walbrin, Jorge Almeida
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.29.587330