Compressive spatial summation in human visual cortex

KN Kay, J Winawer, A Mezer… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Neurons within a small (a few cubic millimeters) region of visual cortex respond to stimuli
within a restricted region of the visual field. Previous studies have characterized the …

[HTML][HTML] Faciotopy—a face-feature map with face-like topology in the human occipital face area

L Henriksson, M Mur, N Kriegeskorte - cortex, 2015 - Elsevier
The occipital face area (OFA) and fusiform face area (FFA) are brain regions thought to be
specialized for face perception. However, their intrinsic functional organization and status as …

Population receptive field estimates of human auditory cortex

JM Thomas, E Huber, GC Stecker, GM Boynton… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
Here we describe a method for measuring tonotopic maps and estimating bandwidth for
voxels in human primary auditory cortex (PAC) using a modification of the population …

Spatial vision in older adults: perceptual changes and neural bases

AM McKendrick, YM Chan… - … and Physiological Optics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The number of older adults is rapidly increasing internationally, leading to a
significant increase in research on how healthy ageing impacts vision. Most clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Minimizing biases in estimating the reorganization of human visual areas with BOLD retinotopic mapping

P Binda, JM Thomas, GM Boynton, I Fine - Journal of vision, 2013 - jov.arvojournals.org
There is substantial interest in using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
retinotopic mapping techniques to examine reorganization of the occipital cortex after vision …

[HTML][HTML] Retinotopic maps, spatial tuning, and locations of human visual areas in surface coordinates characterized with multifocal and blocked FMRI designs

L Henriksson, J Karvonen, N Salminen-Vaparanta… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The localization of visual areas in the human cortex is typically based on mapping the
retinotopic organization with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The most …

Is selective primary visual cortex stimulation achievable with TMS?

N Salminen‐Vaparanta, V Noreika… - Human brain …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The primary visual cortex (V1) has been the target of stimulation in a number of transcranial
magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies. In this study, we estimated the actual sites of stimulation …

Attention preserves the selectivity of feature-tuned normalization

M Klímová, IM Bloem, S Ling - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Attention and divisive normalization both contribute to making visual processing more
efficient. Attention selectively increases the neural gain of relevant information in the early …

Subjective characteristics of TMS-induced phosphenes originating in human V1 and V2

N Salminen-Vaparanta, S Vanni, V Noreika… - Cerebral …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
One way to study the neural correlates of visual consciousness is to localize the cortical
areas whose stimulation generates subjective visual sensations, called phosphenes. While …

[HTML][HTML] The psychosis human connectome project: Design and rationale for studies of visual neurophysiology

MP Schallmo, KB Weldon, RS Kamath, HR Moser… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Visual perception is abnormal in psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. In addition to
hallucinations, laboratory tests show differences in fundamental visual processes including …