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The Population Spatial Frequency Toolbox

Open Access
|Feb 2026

Abstract

A goal of vision science is to develop computational models that characterize the fundamental response properties of neurons in visual cortex. One such property is spatial frequency (SF) tuning: neural populations in visual cortex selectively respond to specific bands of SF, which determines the level of detail, coarse or fine, represented from the visual input. The Population Spatial Frequency Toolbox (pSF-Toolbox) is a MATLAB package for characterizing the SF tuning of neural populations from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. This open-source toolbox includes stimulus presentation scripts and voxel-wise parameter optimization tools validated across a range of vision studies.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.610 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647
Language: English
Submitted on: Aug 2, 2025
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Accepted on: Jan 21, 2026
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Published on: Feb 5, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Luis D. Ramirez, Feiyi Wang, Emily Wiecek, Louis N. Vinke, Sam Ling, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.