Computational neuroimaging and population receptive fields

BA Wandell, J Winawer - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2015 - cell.com
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) noninvasively measures human brain
activity at millimeter resolution. Scientists use different approaches to take advantage of the …

Rehabilitation of visual perception in cortical blindness

EL Saionz, A Busza, KR Huxlin - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2022 - Elsevier
Blindness is a common sequela after stroke affecting the primary visual cortex, presenting as
a contralesional, homonymous, visual field cut. This can occur unilaterally or, less …

Spared perilesional V1 activity underlies training-induced recovery of luminance detection sensitivity in cortically-blind patients

A Barbot, A Das, MD Melnick, MR Cavanaugh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) causes homonymous visual-field loss long
considered intractable. Multiple studies now show that perceptual training can restore visual …

Functional preservation and enhanced capacity for visual restoration in subacute occipital stroke

EL Saionz, D Tadin, MD Melnick, KR Huxlin - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Stroke damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) causes a loss of vision known as
hemianopia or cortically-induced blindness. While perimetric visual field improvements can …

Congenital visual pathway abnormalities: a window onto cortical stability and plasticity

MB Hoffmann, SO Dumoulin - Trends in neurosciences, 2015 - cell.com
Sensory systems project information in a highly organized manner to the brain, where it is
preserved in maps of the sensory structures. These sensory projections are altered in …

How visual cortical organization is altered by ophthalmologic and neurologic disorders

SO Dumoulin, T Knapen - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Receptive fields are a core property of cortical organization. Modern neuroimaging allows
routine access to visual population receptive fields (pRFs), enabling investigations of clinical …

Estimating average single-neuron visual receptive field sizes by fMRI

GA Keliris, Q Li, A Papanikolaou… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The noninvasive estimation of neuronal receptive field (RF) properties in vivo allows a
detailed understanding of brain organization as well as its plasticity by longitudinal following …

The critical role of V2 population receptive fields in visual orientation crowding

D He, Y Wang, F Fang - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Crowding, the identification difficulty for a target in the presence of nearby flankers, is an
essential bottleneck for object recognition and visual awareness [1, 2]. As suggested by …

Local neuroplasticity in adult glaucomatous visual cortex

J Carvalho, A Invernizzi, J Martins, RJ Renken… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The degree to which the adult human visual cortex retains the ability to functionally adapt to
damage at the level of the eye remains ill-understood. Previous studies on cortical …

Comparing different stimulus configurations for population receptive field mapping in human fMRI

I Alvarez, B de Haas, CA Clark, G Rees… - Frontiers in human …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Population receptive field (pRF) mapping is a widely used approach to measuring
aggregate human visual receptive field properties by recording non-invasive signals using …