Co-Planar Stereotaxic Atlas of the Human Brain—3-Dimensional Proportional System: An Approach to Cerebral Imaging, J. Talairach, P. Tournoux. Georg Thieme Verlag, New York (1988), 122 pp., 130 figs. DM 268

The linear transform model of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) hypothesizes that fMRI responses are proportional to local average neural activity averaged over a period of time. This work reports results from three empirical tests that support this hypothesis. First, fMRI responses in human primary visual cortex (V1) depend separably on stimulus timing and stimulus contrast. Second, responses to long-duration stimuli can be predicted from responses to shorter duration stimuli. Third, the noise in the fMRI data is independent of stimulus contrast and temporal period. Although these tests can not prove the correctness of the linear transform model, they might have been used to reject the model. Because the linear transform model is consistent with our data, we proceeded to estimate the temporal fMRI impulse-response function and the underlying (presumably neural) contrast-response function of human V1.

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Linear Systems Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Human V1

The handbook of research synthesis and meta-analysis, 2nd ed.

Simple cells in the striate cortex have been depicted as half-wave-rectified linear operators. Complex cells have been depicted as energy mechanisms, constructed from the squared sum of the outputs of quadrature pairs of linear operators. However, the linear/energy model falls short of a complete explanation of striate cell responses. In this paper, a modified version of the linear/energy model is presented in which striate cells mutually inhibit one another, effectively normalizing their responses with respect to stimulus contrast. This paper reviews experimental measurements of striate cell responses, and shows that the new model explains a significantly larger body of physiological data.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0952523800009640

Normalization of cell responses in cat striate cortex

http://web.mit.edu/~ppurdon/www/source-imaging.pdf

EEG source imaging

Pseudoneglect: a review and meta-analysis of performance factors in line bisection tasks.

Visuospatial attention in line bisection: stimulus modulation of pseudoneglect.

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~gary/cs200/w04/papers/blakeslee-99.pdf

Mark E. McCourt

Papers

Pseudoneglect: a review and meta-analysis of performance factors in line bisection tasks.

Visuospatial attention in line bisection: stimulus modulation of pseudoneglect.

A multiscale spatial filtering account of the White effect, simultaneous brightness contrast and grating induction

Right hemisphere control of visuospatial attention: Line-bisection judgments evaluated with high-density electrical mapping and source analysis

A spatial frequency dependent grating-induction effect