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In ethnographic research and analysis, reflexivity is vital to achieving constant coordination between field and concept work. However, it has been conceptualized predominantly as an ethnographer’s individual mental capacity. In this article, we draw on ten years of experience in conducting research together with partners from social psychiatry and mental health care across different research projects. We unfold three modes of achieving reflexivity co-laboratively: contrasting and discussing disciplinary concepts in interdisciplinary working groups and feedback workshops; joint data interpretation and writing; and participating in political agenda setting. Engaging these modes reveals reflexivity as a distributed process able to strengthen the ethnographer’s interpretative authority, and also able to constantly push the conceptual boundaries of the participating disciplines and professions.
When a visual stimulus is repeated, average neuronal responses typically decrease, yet they might maintain or even increase their impact through increased synchronization. Previous work has found that many repetitions of a grating lead to increasing gamma-band synchronization. Here we show in awake macaque area V1 that both, repetition-related reductions in firing rate and increases in gamma are specific to the repeated stimulus. These effects showed some persistence on the timescale of minutes. Further, gamma increases were specific to the presented stimulus location. Importantly, repetition effects on gamma and on firing rates generalized to natural images. These findings suggest that gamma-band synchronization subserves the adaptive processing of repeated stimulus encounters, both for generating efficient stimulus responses and possibly for memory formation.