The occipital place area is causally involved in representing environmental boundaries during navigation

JB Julian, J Ryan, RH Hamilton, RA Epstein - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
Thirty years of research suggests that environmental boundaries—eg, the walls of an
experimental chamber or room—exert powerful influence on navigational behavior, often to …

Two distinct scene-processing networks connecting vision and memory

C Baldassano, A Esteva, L Fei-Fei, DM Beck - Eneuro, 2016 - eneuro.org
A number of regions in the human brain are known to be involved in processing natural
scenes, but the field has lacked a unifying framework for understanding how these different …

Continuous and intermittent theta burst stimulation to the visual cortex do not alter GABA and glutamate concentrations measured by magnetic resonance …

KS Stoby, SA Rafique, G Oeltzschner… - Brain and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Theta burst stimulation (TBS), a form of repetitive transcranial magnetic
stimulation (rTMS), uses repeated high‐frequency bursts to non‐invasively modulate neural …

Theta-burst TMS to the posterior superior temporal sulcus decreases resting-state fMRI connectivity across the face processing network

DA Handwerker, G Ianni, B Gutierrez… - Network …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Humans process faces by using a network of face-selective regions distributed across the
brain. Neuropsychological patient studies demonstrate that focal damage to nodes in this …

Neural representation of geometry and surface properties in object and scene perception

MX Lowe, J Rajsic, JP Gallivan, S Ferber, JS Cant - NeuroImage, 2017 - Elsevier
Multiple cortical regions are crucial for perceiving the visual world, yet the processes
shaping representations in these regions are unclear. To address this issue, we must …

Continuous and intermittent theta burst stimulation of primary visual cortex do not modulate resting state functional connectivity: A sham‐controlled multi‐echo fMRI …

R Cohan, SA Rafique, KS Stoby, DJ Gorbet… - Brain and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction: Theta burst stimulation (TBS) is a type of rTMS protocol which has the
advantage of a shorter delivery time over traditional rTMS. When applied to motor cortex …

Mapping the functional and structural connectivity of the scene network

DM Watson, TJ Andrews - Human Brain Mapping, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The recognition and perception of places has been linked to a network of scene‐selective
regions in the human brain. While previous studies have focussed on functional connectivity …

[HTML][HTML] Theta-burst TMS of lateral occipital cortex reduces BOLD responses across category-selective areas in ventral temporal cortex

IIA Groen, EH Silson, D Pitcher, CI Baker - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Human visual cortex contains three scene-selective regions in the lateral, medial and ventral
cortex, termed the occipital place area (OPA), medial place area (MPA) and …

Assessing differential effects of single and accelerated low‐frequency rTMS to the visual cortex on GABA and glutamate concentrations

SA Rafique, JKE Steeves - Brain and behavior, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background The application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for
therapeutic use in visual‐related disorders and its underlying mechanisms in the visual …

Parahippocampal cortex processes the nonspatial context of an event

RA Diana - Cerebral cortex, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Parahippocampal cortex (PHc) is known to process spatial information, both in perceptual
and episodic memory studies. However, recent theories propose an expanded role for PHc …