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ArticleHuman brain mapping2023

Retinotopic connectivity maps of human visual cortex with unconstrained eye movements.

Gene Tangtartharakul, Catherine A Morgan, Simon K Rushton, D Samuel Schwarzkopf

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Article in Human brain mapping, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gene TangtartharakulSchool of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Catherine A MorganSchool of Psychology and Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-5837-8861
Simon K RushtonSchool of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8161-4095
D Samuel SchwarzkopfSchool of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0003-3686-1622
University of Auckland · NZCardiff University · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human visual cortex contains topographic visual field maps whose organization can be revealed with retinotopic mapping. Unfortunately, constraints posed by standard mapping hinder its use in patients, atypical subject groups, and individuals at either end of the lifespan. This severely limits the conclusions we can draw about visual processing in such individuals. Here, we present a novel data-driven method to estimate connective fields, resulting in fine-grained maps of the functional connectivity between brain areas. We find that inhibitory connectivity fields accompany, and often surround facilitatory fields. The visual field extent of these inhibitory subfields falls off with cortical magnification. We further show that our method is robust to large eye movements and myopic defocus. Importantly, freed from the controlled stimulus conditions in standard mapping experiments, using entertaining stimuli and unconstrained eye movements our approach can generate retinotopic maps, including the periphery visual field hitherto only possible to map with special stimulus displays. Generally, our results show that the connective field method can gain knowledge about retinotopic architecture of visual cortex in patients and participants where this is at best difficult and confounded, if not impossible, with current methods.

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Eye MovementsVisual CortexBrain MappingHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingRetinaVisual FieldsVisual Pathwaysbrain mappingconnective fieldsfunctional connectivitypopulation receptive fieldsretinotopyreverse correlationvisual system

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PMID37555758
PMCPMC10543111
OpenAlexW4385683915

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