Search Results - "Silver, Michael A."
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Topographic maps in human frontal and parietal cortex
Published in Trends in cognitive sciences (01-11-2009)“…Retinotopic mapping of functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) responses evoked by visual stimuli has resulted in the identification of many areas in human visual…”
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Hemisphere-dependent attentional modulation of human parietal visual field representations
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (14-01-2015)“…Posterior parietal cortex contains several areas defined by topographically organized maps of the contralateral visual field. However, recent studies suggest…”
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Functional heterogeneity in posterior parietal cortex across attention and episodic memory retrieval
Published in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) (01-01-2014)“…While attention is critical for event memory, debate has arisen regarding the extent to which posterior parietal cortex (PPC) activation during episodic…”
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Functional mapping of the magnocellular and parvocellular subdivisions of human LGN
Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (15-11-2014)“…The magnocellular (M) and parvocellular (P) subdivisions of primate LGN are known to process complementary types of visual stimulus information, but a method…”
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Topographic Maps of Visual Spatial Attention in Human Parietal Cortex
Published in Journal of neurophysiology (01-08-2005)“…1 Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California; and 2 Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University, New…”
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Neural Correlates of Sustained Spatial Attention in Human Early Visual Cortex
Published in Journal of neurophysiology (01-01-2007)“…1 Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford; 2 School of Optometry and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley,…”
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Visual cortical γ-aminobutyric acid and perceptual suppression in amblyopia
Published in Frontiers in human neuroscience (02-09-2022)“…In amblyopia, abnormal visual experience during development leads to an enduring loss of visual acuity in adulthood. Physiological studies in animal models…”
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Transfer of Perceptual Learning From Local Stereopsis to Global Stereopsis in Adults With Amblyopia: A Preliminary Study
Published in Frontiers in neuroscience (24-09-2021)“…It has long been debated whether the analysis of global and local stereoscopic depth is performed by a single system or by separate systems. Global stereopsis…”
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Spatial attention improves reliability of fMRI retinotopic mapping signals in occipital and parietal cortex
Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (01-11-2010)“…Spatial attention improves visual perception and increases the amplitude of neural responses in visual cortex. In addition, spatial attention tasks and fMRI…”
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Humans Use Summary Statistics to Perceive Auditory Sequences
Published in Psychological science (01-08-2013)“…In vision, humans use summary statistics (e.g., the average facial expression of a crowd) to efficiently perceive the gist of groups of features. Here, we…”
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Cholinergic Enhancement Reduces Spatial Spread of Visual Responses in Human Early Visual Cortex
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (10-12-2008)“…Animal studies have shown that acetylcholine decreases excitatory receptive field size and spread of excitation in early visual cortex. These effects are…”
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The benefits of cholinergic enhancement during perceptual learning are long-lasting
Published in Frontiers in computational neuroscience (29-05-2013)“…The neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) regulates many aspects of cognition, including attention and memory. Previous research in animal models has shown that…”
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Windows to the soul: vision science as a tool for studying biological mechanisms of information processing deficits in schizophrenia
Published in Frontiers in psychology (31-10-2013)“…Cognitive and information processing deficits are core features and important sources of disability in schizophrenia. Our understanding of the neural…”
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Attention selectively modifies the representation of individual faces in the human brain
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (17-04-2013)“…Attention modifies neural tuning for low-level features, but it is unclear how attention influences tuning for complex stimuli. We investigated this question…”
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Visual spatial attention enhances the amplitude of positive and negative fMRI responses to visual stimulation in an eccentricity-dependent manner
Published in Vision research (Oxford) (07-06-2013)“…•We used reverse correlation to generate visual field maps in numerous cortical areas.•Spatial attention enhances both positive and negative fMRI responses in…”
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Donepezil Does Not Enhance Perceptual Learning in Adults with Amblyopia: A Pilot Study
Published in Frontiers in neuroscience (07-08-2017)“…Amblyopia is a developmental disorder that results in a wide range of visual deficits. One proven approach to recovering vision in adults with amblyopia is…”
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Predictive Context Influences Perceptual Selection during Binocular Rivalry
Published in Frontiers in human neuroscience (2011)“…PREDICTION MAY BE A FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF SENSORY PROCESSING: it has been proposed that the brain continuously generates predictions about forthcoming…”
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Sedentary time and its association with risk for disease incidence, mortality, and hospitalization in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Published in Annals of internal medicine (20-01-2015)“…The magnitude, consistency, and manner of association between sedentary time and outcomes independent of physical activity remain unclear. To quantify the…”
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Neither Cholinergic Nor Dopaminergic Enhancement Improve Spatial Working Memory Precision in Humans
Published in Frontiers in neural circuits (05-12-2017)“…Acetylcholine and dopamine are neurotransmitters that play multiple important roles in perception and cognition. Pharmacological cholinergic enhancement…”
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Broader visual orientation tuning in patients with schizophrenia
Published in Frontiers in human neuroscience (04-11-2011)“…Reduced gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) levels in cerebral cortex are thought to contribute to information processing deficits in patients with schizophrenia…”
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