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ArticleScientific reports2021

Occipital cortex is modulated by transsaccadic changes in spatial frequency: an fMRI study.

Bianca R Baltaretu, Benjamin T Dunkley, W Dale Stevens, J Douglas Crawford

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Bianca R BaltaretuCentre for Vision Research and Vision: Science To Applications (VISTA) Program, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada. b.baltaretu@gmail.com.
Benjamin T DunkleyDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X8, Canada.
W Dale StevensCentre for Vision Research and Vision: Science To Applications (VISTA) Program, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada.
J Douglas CrawfordCentre for Vision Research and Vision: Science To Applications (VISTA) Program, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada.
York University · CAUniversity of Toronto · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that inferior parietal and ventral occipital cortex are involved in the transsaccadic processing of visual object orientation. Here, we investigated whether the same areas are also involved in transsaccadic processing of a different feature, namely, spatial frequency. We employed a functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm where participants briefly viewed a grating stimulus with a specific spatial frequency that later reappeared with the same or different frequency, after a saccade or continuous fixation. First, using a whole-brain Saccade > Fixation contrast, we localized two frontal (left precentral sulcus and right medial superior frontal gyrus), four parietal (bilateral superior parietal lobule and precuneus), and four occipital (bilateral cuneus and lingual gyri) regions. Whereas the frontoparietal sites showed task specificity, the occipital sites were also modulated in a saccade control task. Only occipital cortex showed transsaccadic feature modulations, with significant repetition enhancement in right cuneus. These observations (parietal task specificity, occipital enhancement, right lateralization) are consistent with previous transsaccadic studies. However, the specific regions differed (ventrolateral for orientation, dorsomedial for spatial frequency). Overall, this study supports a general role for occipital and parietal cortex in transsaccadic vision, with a specific role for cuneus in spatial frequency processing.

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AdultBrain MappingFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleOccipital LobeParietal LobeSaccadesYoung Adult

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