Studying Cortical Plasticity in Ophthalmic and Neurological Disorders: From Stimulus‐Driven to Cortical Circuitry Modeling Approaches

J Carvalho, RJ Renken, FW Cornelissen - Neural Plasticity, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Unsolved questions in computational visual neuroscience research are whether and how
neurons and their connecting cortical networks can adapt when normal vision is …

Convolutional neural networks develop major organizational principles of early visual cortex when enhanced with retinal sampling

D da Costa, L Kornemann, R Goebel, M Senden - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Primate visual cortex exhibits key organizational principles: cortical magnification,
eccentricity-dependent receptive field size and spatial frequency tuning as well as radial …

Reading imagined letter shapes from the mind's eye using real-time 7 tesla fMRI

R Goebel, R van Hoof, S Bhat, M Lührs… - … Winter Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a 7 Tesla fMRI proof-of-concept study of the first letter speller BCI that decodes
imagined letter shapes from activity patterns in early visual cortical areas. New tools are …

A selection and targeting framework of cortical locations for line‐scanning fMRI

J Heij, L Raimondo, JCW Siero… - Human Brain …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Depth‐resolved functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is an emerging field growing
in popularity given the potential of separating signals from different computational processes …

[HTML][HTML] qPRF: A system to accelerate population receptive field modeling

S Waz, Y Wang, ZL Lu - NeuroImage, 2025 - Elsevier
BOLD response can be fitted using the population receptive field (PRF) model to reveal how
visual input is represented on the cortex (Dumoulin and Wandell, 2008). Fitting the PRF …

Unlocking the Secrets of the Primate Visual Cortex: A CNN-Based Approach Traces the Origins of Major Organizational Principles to Retinal Sampling

D da Costa, L Kornemann, R Goebel, M Senden - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Primate visual cortex exhibits key organizational principles: Cortical magnification,
eccentricity-dependent receptive field size and spatial frequency tuning as well as radial …

Exploratory Data Analysis Methods for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI): A Comprehensive Review of Software Programs Used in Research

HA Jaber, BA Al-Ghali, MM Kareem, I Çankaya… - Al-Nahrain Journal for …, 2024 - nahje.com
This extensive and thorough review aims to systematically outline, clarify, and examine the
numerous exploratory data analysis techniques that are employed in the intriguing and …

Neural Correlates of High-Level Visual Saliency Models

A Kroner, M Senden, R Goebel - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Visual saliency highlights regions in a scene that are most relevant to an observer. The
process by which a saliency map is formed has been a crucial subject of investigation in …

Modulation of motion signals across the visual cortical hierarchy during bistable perception

K Beneyton, M Heilbron, H Kennedy, K Knoblauch… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Top-down influences play a critical role in perception. In vision, an ideal paradigm for
studying these influences exploits ambiguous sensory experience where perceptual …

[PDF][PDF] The efficient cause of science: Computational methods for mapping the visual cortex

S Bhat - 2023 - cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl
The retinotopic organization of the human visual cortex has intrigued neuroscientists ever
since the beginning of the nineteenth century when visual field maps were first discovered in …