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Online information about fMRI methods, fMRI physics, and neuroanatomy

Useful slides on fMRI physics and methods

Huettel, S. A., A. W. Song, and G. McCarthy. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Publishers, 2004. ISBN: 0878932887.

Farah, Martha J. Visual Agnosia. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0262062380.

———. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 0631214038.

Course readings.

WEEK #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction to fMRI and High-level Vision Basic Neuroanatomy of the Visual System	Huettel. Chapters 1, and 2. 2004.
2	Functional Organization of the Ventral Visual Pathway Controversies Concerning this Organization fMRI Design/Methods How to Critique an fMRI Paper	Grill-Spector K., and R. Malach. "The human visual cortex." Annu Rev Neurosci 27 (2004): 649-77. Kanwisher (2003). "The Ventral Visual Object Pathway in Humans: Evidence from fMRI." In The Visual Neurosciences. Edited by Leo M. Chalupa, and John S. Werner. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0262033089. Recommended Culham, J. C. "Functional Neuroimaging: Experimental Design and Analysis" Chapter to appear in Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition. Edited by Cabeza, Kingstone. (In press) Haxby, J. V., M. I. Gobbini, M. L. Furey, A. Ishai, J. L. Schouten, and P. Pietrini. "Distributed and overlapping representations of faces and objects in ventral temporal cortex." Science 293, no. 5539 (September 28, 2001): 2425-30. Pietrini, P., M. L. Furey, E. Ricciardi, M. I. Gobbini, W. H. Wu, L. Cohen, M. Guazzelli, and J. V. Haxby. "Beyond sensory images: Object-based representation in the human ventral pathway." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101, no. 15 (April 13, 2004): 5658-63.
3	Visual Recognition, Object Shape, and the Lateral Occipital Complex (LOC)	Schultz, R. T., D. J. Grelotti, A. Klin, J. Kleinman, C. Van der Gaag, R. Marois, and P. Skudlarski. "The role of the fusiform face area in social cognition: implications for the pathobiology of autism." Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 358 (2003): 415-27. Ullman. "Approaches to Visual Recognition." In Functional Neuroimaging of Visual Cognition. Edited by Nancy Kanwisher, and John Duncan. Oxford; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0198528450. Grill-Spector, K. "The neural basis of object perception." Curr Opin Neurobiol 13, no. 2 (April 2003): 159-66. Recommended Vuilleumier, P., R. N. Henson, J. Driver, and R. J. Dolan. "Multiple levels of visual object constancy revealed by event-related fMRI of repetition priming." Nat Neurosci 5, no. 5 (May 2002): 491-9. Amedi, A., G. Jacobson, T. Hendler, R. Malach, and E. Zohary. "Convergence of visual and tactile shape processing in the human lateral occipital complex." Cereb Cortex 12, no. 11 (November 2002): 1202-12.
4	Face Processing and the FFA Student Oral Presentations	Farah. Chapter 7 in Visual Agnosia. 2nd ed. 2004. Tanaka, and Farah. Chapter from Perception of Faces, Objects, and Scenes: Analytic and Holistic Processes. Edited by Mary A. Peterson, and Gillian Rhodes. Oxford; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0195165381. Tanaka, McKone, Martini, and Nakayama. Chapter from Perception of faces, objects, and scenes: analytic and holistic processes. Edited by Mary A. Peterson, and Gillian Rhodes. Oxford; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0195165381. Recommended Vuilleumier, P., J. L. Armony, J. Driver, and R. J. Dolan. "Distinct spatial frequency sensitivities for processing faces and emotional expressions." Nat Neurosci 6, no. 6 (June 2003): 624-31. McKone, Elinor, and Nancy Kanwisher. Does the Human Brain Process Objects of Expertise like Faces? A Review of the Evidence. (In Press) Duchaine, Bradley C., Kerry Dingle, Edward Butterworth, and Ken Nakayama. "Normal Greeble Learning in a Severe Case of Developmental Prosopagnosia." Neuron 43 (August 19, 2004): 469-473.
5	Scene Perception and the PPA Student Oral Presentations (cont.)	Epstein, R. A. "The cortical basis of visual scene processing." Visual Cognition 12 (2005): 954-978. Oliva, A., and A. Torralba. "Modeling the Shape of the Scene: A Holistic Representation of the Spatial Envelope." International Journal of Computer Vision 42, no. 3 (2001): 145-175. Nadel, and Hupbach. "Species comparisons in development: The case of the geometric 'module'." Chapter to appear in Attention and Performance XXI. Edited by Munakata, and Johnson. 2004.
6	The Effect of Experience on Extrastriate Cortex Student Oral Presentations (cont.)	Henson, R., T. Shallice, and R. Dolan. "Neuroimaging evidence for dissociable forms of repetition priming." Science 287, no. 5456 (February 18, 2000): 1269-72. Grill-Spector, K., T. Kushnir, T. Hendler, and R. Malach. "The dynamics of object-selective activation correlate with recognition performance in humans." Nat Neurosci 3, no. 8 (August 2000): 837-43.
7	Visual Attention Student Oral Presentations (cont.)	Freiwald, and Kanwisher. Visual Selective Attention: Insights from Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology. (In press) Behrmann, M., J. J. Geng, and S. Shomstein. "Parietal cortex and attention." Curr Opin Neurobiol 14, no. 2 (April 2004): 212-7.
8	Visual Awareness: How does the Neural Representation of Conscious and Unconscious Visual Information Differ? Student Oral Presentations (cont.)	Dehaene, S., C. Sergent, and J. P. Changeux. "A neuronal network model linking subjective reports and objective physiological data during conscious perception." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100, no. 14 (July 8, 2003): 8520-5. Recommended Kanwisher, N. "Neural Events and Perceptual Awareness." Cognition 79 (2001): 89-113. Baars. "The conscious access hypothesis: origins and recent evidence." Trends Cogn Sci 6 (2002): 47-52.
9	Guest Lecture: Doris Tsao, Harvard Medical School Student Oral Presentations (cont.)	Orban, G. A., D. Essen Van, and W. Vanduffel. "Comparative mapping of higher visual areas in monkeys and humans." Trends Cogn Sci 8, no. 7 (July 2004): 315-324.
10	Project Presentations and Discussion
11	Project Presentations and Discussion (cont.)
12	Project Presentations and Discussion (cont.)