What has vision science taught us about fMRI?

The field of vision science, like other domains of cognitive neuroscience, has widely adopted functional MRI as one of its core tools. This has led some researchers to ask how much, if anything, have we learnt about the human visual system from fMRI. A recent symposium at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society was dedicated to this question (Puce et al., 2021). Here, we draw attention to the fact that many vision scientists have used fMRI to answer the opposite question:What has our existing knowledge of the visual system taught us about functional MRI?