Trial reportJournal of neurophysiology2005
Cortical representation of space around the blind spot.
Trial report in Journal of neurophysiology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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- Rapid topographic reorganization in adult human primary visual cortex (V1) during noninvasive and reversible deprivation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Stronger perceptual filling-in of spatiotemporal information in the blind spot compared with artificial gaps.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- In vivo functional localization of the temporal monocular crescent representation in human primary visual cortex.NeuroImage · 2020Article
- Inflation versus filling-in: why we feel we see more than we actually do in peripheral vision.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- On the functional order of binocular rivalry and blind spot filling-in.Vision research · 2017Article
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- Filling-in rivalry: Perceptual alternations in the absence of retinal image conflict.Journal of vision · 2017Article
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- Precise visuotopic organization of the blind spot representation in primate V1.Journal of neurophysiology · 2015Article
- Predictions of Visual Content across Eye Movements and Their Modulation by Inferred Information.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015Article
- fMRI of the rod scotoma elucidates cortical rod pathways and implications for lesion measurements.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
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Abstract
The neural mechanism that mediates perceptual filling-in of the blind spot is still under discussion. One hypothesis proposes that the cortical representation of the blind spot is activated only under conditions that elicit perceptual filling-in and requires congruent stimulation on both sides of the blind spot. Alternatively, the passive remapping hypothesis proposes that inputs from regions surrounding the blind spot infiltrate the representation of the blind spot in cortex. This theory predicts that independent stimuli presented to the left and right of the blind spot should lead to neighboring/overlapping activations in visual cortex when the blind-spot eye is stimulated but separated activations when the fellow eye is stimulated. Using functional MRI, we directly tested the remapping hypothesis by presenting flickering checkerboard wedges to the left or right of the spatial location of the blind spot, either to the blind-spot eye or to the fellow eye. Irrespective of which eye was stimulated, we found separate activations corresponding to the left and right wedges. We identified the centroid of the activations on a cortical flat map and measured the distance between activations. Distance measures of the cortical gap across the blind spot were accurate and reliable (mean distance: 6-8 mm across subjects, SD approximately 1 mm within subjects). Contrary to the predictions of the remapping hypothesis, cortical distances between activations to the two wedges were equally large for the blind-spot eye and fellow eye in areas V1 and V2/V3. Remapping therefore appears unlikely to account for perceptual filling-in at an early cortical level.
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