Occipital Lobe

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Abnormal visual pathways in human albinos studied with visually evoked potentials. 
  • Age-related dedifferentiation and hyperdifferentiation of perceptual and mnemonic representations. 
  • Aging and attentional guidance during visual search: functional neuroanatomy by positron emission tomography. 
  • Analysis of neural interactions explains the activation of occipital cortex by an auditory stimulus. 
  • Anomalous origins of the calcarine and parieto-occipital arteries. 
  • Application of long-interval paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation to motion-sensitive visual cortex does not lead to changes in motion discrimination. 
  • Attentive and pre-attentive aspects of figural processing. 
  • Benign pediatric localization-related epilepsies. 
  • Churg-Strauss syndrome: an uncommon cause of intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • Configural specificity of the lateral occipital cortex. 
  • Correlated size variations in human visual cortex, lateral geniculate nucleus, and optic tract. 
  • Differential contributions of prefrontal, medial temporal, and sensory-perceptual regions to true and false memory formation. 
  • Electrophysiological correlates of lateral interactions in human visual cortex. 
  • Form-from-motion: MEG evidence for time course and processing sequence. 
  • Frequency-specific coupling in fronto-parieto-occipital cortical circuits underlie active tactile discrimination. 
  • III. Electrophysiological studies of face processing in Williams syndrome. 
  • Impact of signal-to-noise on functional MRI. 
  • Language processing in age-related macular degeneration associated with unique functional connectivity signatures in the right hemisphere. 
  • Late-life depression and microstructural abnormalities in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex white matter. 
  • Memory for emotional words following unilateral temporal lobectomy. 
  • Morphometric three-dimensional computed tomography anatomy of the hypoglossal canal. 
  • Neural mechanisms of risky decision-making and reward response in adolescent onset cannabis use disorder. 
  • Predictive codes for forthcoming perception in the frontal cortex. 
  • Que PASA? The posterior-anterior shift in aging. 
  • Remediation of sleep-deprivation-induced working memory impairment with fMRI-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation. 
  • Structure--function spatial covariance in the human visual cortex. 
  • Task-independent and task-specific age effects on brain activity during working memory, visual attention and episodic retrieval. 
  • The BOLD fMRI refractory effect is specific to stimulus attributes: evidence from a visual motion paradigm. 
  • The Rapid Capture of Attention by Rewarded Objects. 
  • The bottom-up and top-down processing of faces in the human occipitotemporal cortex. 
  • The cis-regulatory effect of an Alzheimer's disease-associated poly-T locus on expression of TOMM40 and apolipoprotein E genes. 
  • The pulvinar nucleus of Galago senegalensis. 
  • The temporal dynamics of the effects in occipital cortex of visual-spatial selective attention. 
  • The time course of shape discrimination in the human brain. 
  • Visual activation in alpha-chloralose-anaesthetized cats does not cause lactate accumulation in the visual cortex as detected by [1H]NMR difference spectroscopy. 
  • White matter abnormalities in major depression: evidence from post-mortem, neuroimaging and genetic studies. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Cabeza, Roberto, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke Science & Society
  • Turkington, Timothy Garvey, Associate Professor in Radiology, Radiology