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Online information about fMRI methods, fMRI physics, and neuroanatomy

Useful slides on fMRI physics and methods



Course Readings by Session


Amazon logo Huettel, S. A., A. W. Song, and G. McCarthy. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Publishers, 2004. ISBN: 0878932887.

Amazon logo Farah, Martha J. Visual Agnosia. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0262062380.

Amazon logo ———. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 0631214038.


WEEK #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introduction to fMRI and High-level Vision

Basic Neuroanatomy of the Visual System
Huettel. Chapters 1, and 2. 2004.
2Functional Organization of the Ventral Visual Pathway

Controversies Concerning this Organization

fMRI Design/Methods

How to Critique an fMRI Paper
Grill-Spector K., and R. Malach. "The human visual cortex." Annu Rev Neurosci 27 (2004): 649-77.

Amazon logo Kanwisher (2003). "The Ventral Visual Object Pathway in Humans: Evidence from fMRI." In The Visual Neurosciences. Edited by Leo M. Chalupa, and John S. Werner. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0262033089.

Recommended

Culham, J. C. "Functional Neuroimaging: Experimental Design and Analysis" Chapter to appear in Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition. Edited by Cabeza, Kingstone. (In press)

Haxby, J. V., M. I. Gobbini, M. L. Furey, A. Ishai, J. L. Schouten, and P. Pietrini. "Distributed and overlapping representations of faces and objects in ventral temporal cortex." Science 293, no. 5539 (September 28, 2001): 2425-30.

Pietrini, P., M. L. Furey, E. Ricciardi, M. I. Gobbini, W. H. Wu, L. Cohen, M. Guazzelli, and J. V. Haxby. "Beyond sensory images: Object-based representation in the human ventral pathway." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101, no. 15 (April 13, 2004): 5658-63.
3Visual Recognition, Object Shape, and the Lateral Occipital Complex (LOC)Schultz, R. T., D. J. Grelotti, A. Klin, J. Kleinman, C. Van der Gaag, R. Marois, and P. Skudlarski. "The role of the fusiform face area in social cognition: implications for the pathobiology of autism." Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 358 (2003): 415-27.

Amazon logo Ullman. "Approaches to Visual Recognition." In Functional Neuroimaging of Visual Cognition. Edited by Nancy Kanwisher, and John Duncan. Oxford; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0198528450.

Grill-Spector, K. "The neural basis of object perception." Curr Opin Neurobiol 13, no. 2 (April 2003): 159-66.

Recommended

Vuilleumier, P., R. N. Henson, J. Driver, and R. J. Dolan. "Multiple levels of visual object constancy revealed by event-related fMRI of repetition priming." Nat Neurosci 5, no. 5 (May 2002): 491-9.

Amedi, A., G. Jacobson, T. Hendler, R. Malach, and E. Zohary. "Convergence of visual and tactile shape processing in the human lateral occipital complex." Cereb Cortex 12, no. 11 (November 2002): 1202-12.
4Face Processing and the FFA

Student Oral Presentations
Farah. Chapter 7 in Visual Agnosia. 2nd ed. 2004.

Amazon logo Tanaka, and Farah. Chapter from Perception of Faces, Objects, and Scenes: Analytic and Holistic Processes. Edited by Mary A. Peterson, and Gillian Rhodes. Oxford; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0195165381.

Amazon logo Tanaka, McKone, Martini, and Nakayama. Chapter from Perception of faces, objects, and scenes: analytic and holistic processes. Edited by Mary A. Peterson, and Gillian Rhodes. Oxford; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0195165381.

Recommended

Vuilleumier, P., J. L. Armony, J. Driver, and R. J. Dolan. "Distinct spatial frequency sensitivities for processing faces and emotional expressions." Nat Neurosci 6, no. 6 (June 2003): 624-31.

McKone, Elinor, and Nancy Kanwisher. Does the Human Brain Process Objects of Expertise like Faces? A Review of the Evidence. (In Press)

Duchaine, Bradley C., Kerry Dingle, Edward Butterworth, and Ken Nakayama. "Normal Greeble Learning in a Severe Case of Developmental Prosopagnosia." Neuron 43 (August 19, 2004): 469-473.
5Scene Perception and the PPA

Student Oral Presentations (cont.)
Epstein, R. A. "The cortical basis of visual scene processing." Visual Cognition 12 (2005): 954-978.

Oliva, A., and A. Torralba. "Modeling the Shape of the Scene: A Holistic Representation of the Spatial Envelope." International Journal of Computer Vision 42, no. 3 (2001): 145-175.

Nadel, and Hupbach. "Species comparisons in development: The case of the geometric 'module'." Chapter to appear in Attention and Performance XXI. Edited by Munakata, and Johnson. 2004.
6The Effect of Experience on Extrastriate Cortex

Student Oral Presentations (cont.)
Henson, R., T. Shallice, and R. Dolan. "Neuroimaging evidence for dissociable forms of repetition priming." Science 287, no. 5456 (February 18, 2000): 1269-72.

Grill-Spector, K., T. Kushnir, T. Hendler, and R. Malach. "The dynamics of object-selective activation correlate with recognition performance in humans." Nat Neurosci 3, no. 8 (August 2000): 837-43.
7Visual Attention

Student Oral Presentations (cont.)
Freiwald, and Kanwisher. Visual Selective Attention: Insights from Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology. (In press)

Behrmann, M., J. J. Geng, and S. Shomstein. "Parietal cortex and attention." Curr Opin Neurobiol 14, no. 2 (April 2004): 212-7.
8Visual Awareness: How does the Neural Representation of Conscious and Unconscious Visual Information Differ?

Student Oral Presentations (cont.)
Dehaene, S., C. Sergent, and J. P. Changeux. "A neuronal network model linking subjective reports and objective physiological data during conscious perception." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100, no. 14 (July 8, 2003): 8520-5.

Recommended

Kanwisher, N. "Neural Events and Perceptual Awareness." Cognition 79 (2001): 89-113.

Baars. "The conscious access hypothesis: origins and recent evidence." Trends Cogn Sci 6 (2002): 47-52.
9Guest Lecture: Doris Tsao, Harvard Medical School

Student Oral Presentations (cont.)
Orban, G. A., D. Essen Van, and W. Vanduffel. "Comparative mapping of higher visual areas in monkeys and humans." Trends Cogn Sci 8, no. 7 (July 2004): 315-324.
10Project Presentations and Discussion
11Project Presentations and Discussion (cont.)
12Project Presentations and Discussion (cont.)

 








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