Publications related to Parieto-occipital sulcus

Loss of Motor Cortical Inputs to the Red Nucleus after CNS Disorders in Nonhuman Primates

The premotor (PM) and primary motor (M1) cortical areas broadcast voluntary motor commands through multiple neuronal pathways, including the corticorubral projection that reaches the red nucleus (RN). However, the respective contribution of M1 and PM to co ...

SOC NEUROSCIENCE2023

Metabolite concentration changes associated with positive and negative BOLD responses in the human visual cortex: A functional MRS study at 7 Tesla

Rolf Gruetter, Yohan Boillat, Lijing Xin, Wietske Van der Zwaag

Negative blood oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD) signal observed during task execution in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be caused by different mechanisms, such as a blood-stealing effect or neuronal deactivation. Electrophysiological re ...

2019

Pathway-, layer- and cell-type-specific thalamic input to mouse barrel cortex

Carl Petersen, Berat Semihcan Sermet, Johannes Maria Mayrhofer

Mouse primary somatosensory barrel cortex (wS1) processes whisker sensory information, receiving input from two distinct thalamic nuclei. The first-order ventral posterior medial (VPM) somatosensory thalamic nucleus most densely innervates layer 4 (L4) bar ...

2019

Distinct vestibular effects on early and late somatosensory cortical processing in humans

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Christian Pfeiffer, Michiel van Elk

In non-human primates several brain areas contain neurons that respond to both vestibular and somatosensory stimulation. In humans, vestibular stimulation activates several somatosensory brain regions and improves tactile perception. However, less is known ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2016

Vision in clutter : neural correlates of visual crowding

Vitaly Chicherov

Perception of a visual target can strongly deteriorate in the presence of flanking elements (crowding). Crowding is the main limiting factor in reading and a major contributor to poor vision in amblyopia. In crowding, elements appear jumbled and thus are h ...

EPFL2015

Neural correlates of visual crowding

Michael Herzog, Gijs Plomp, Vitaly Chicherov

In visual crowding, target discrimination strongly deteriorates when flanking elements are added. We have recently shown that crowding cannot be explained by simple low-level interactions and that grouping is a key component instead. We presented a vernier ...

Elsevier2014

The Contributions of Sensory Dominance and Attentional Bias to Cross-modal Enhancement of Visual Cortex Excitability

Micah Murray

Approaching or looming sounds (L-sounds) have been shown to selectively increase visual cortex excitability [Romei, V., Murray, M. M., Cappe, C., & Thut, G. Preperceptual and stimulus-selective enhancement of low-level human visual cortex excitability by s ...

2013

Electrophysiological Evidence for Ventral Stream Deficits in Schizophrenia Patients

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Gijs Plomp

Schizophrenic patients suffer from many deficits including visual, attentional, and cognitive ones. Visual deficits are of particular interest because they are at the fore-end of information processing and can provide clear examples of interactions between ...

Oxford Univ Press2013

Distinct illusory own-body perceptions caused by damage to posterior insula and extrastriate cortex

Olaf Blanke, Lukas Heydrich

Recent research in cognitive neuroscience using virtual reality, robotic technology and brain imaging has linked self-consciousness to the processing and integration of multisensory bodily signals. This work on bodily self-consciousness has implicated the ...

2013

Age-related changes in visually evoked electrical brain activity

Michael Herzog, Gijs Plomp

Whereas much is known about the degenerative effects of aging on cortical tissue, less is known about how aging affects visually evoked electrical activity, and at what latencies. We compared visual processing in elderly and young controls using a visual m ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

When transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) modulates feature integration

Michael Herzog, Johannes Rüter

How the brain integrates visual information across time into coherent percepts is an open question. Here, we presented two verniers with opposite offset directions one after the other. A vernier consists of two vertical bars that are horizontally offset. W ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Feature integration but not feature separation can be modulated by TMS

Michael Herzog, Johannes Rüter

How the brain integrates visual information across time into coherent percepts is an open question. Here, we investigated this integration using a feature fusion paradigm. In feature fusion, two stimuli are presented in immediate succession. The stimuli ar ...

2010

When motion takes form : an electrophysiological approach to visual motion perception in humans

Manuel Mercier

When and where is visual motion processed in the human brain? This question is highly relevant considering the importance of motion for our perception of the dynamical world surrounding us. In the present work we studied motion processing, firstly through ...

EPFL2009

Postlesional plasticity in central auditory processing : MRI and FMRI image registration and statistical signal processing

Dragana Viceic

The most general and striking evidence related with brain injury is that of the restoration of function. Recovery of motor and somatosensory functions has shown to commonly occur after stroke, but not all individuals show improvement. Clinical studies have ...

EPFL2007

Metabolic compartmentalization in the human cortex and hippocampus: evidence for a cell- and region-specific localization of lactate dehydrogenase 5 and pyruvate dehydrogenase

Pierre Magistretti, Luc Pellerin

BACKGROUND: For a long time now, glucose has been thought to be the main, if not the sole substrate for brain energy metabolism. Recent data nevertheless suggest that other molecules, such as monocarboxylates (lactate and pyruvate mainly) could be suitable ...

2007