Because the searchlight approach constrains cortical-locus-to-model-dimension mapping to nearby cortical locations, the whole cortex transformation matrix, RiA, is sparse with zero weights for all mappings of cortical loci to model dimensions that are separated by more than 2x the searchlight diameter (~4 cm in this implementation).
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