HIGH-RESOLUTION fMRI STUDIES OF HUMAN VISUAL PROCESSING

High-Resolution fMRI Studies of Human Visual Processing -The Tong Lab relies on high-resolution fMRI at 7 Tesla to investigate the functional role of the early visual system in visual perception, attentional selection, figure-ground processing, predictive coding, and visual working memory.

Relevant Publications

Kamitani, Y., Tong, F. (2005). Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain. Nature Neuroscience, 8: 679-85.

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Kamitani, Y, & Tong, F. (2006). Decoding seen and attended motion directions from activity in the human visual cortex. Current Biology, 16, 1096-1102.

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Yamashita, O., Sato, M.-A., Yoshioka, T., Tong, F., Kamitani, Y. (2008). Sparse estimation automatically selects voxels relevant for the decoding of fMRI activity patterns. Neuroimage, 42, 1414-1429.

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Swisher, J.D., Gatenby, J.C., Gore, J.C., Wolfe, B.A., Moon, C.-H., Kim, S.-G., Tong, F. (2010). Multiscale pattern analysis of orientation-selective activity in the primary visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 30: 325-330.

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Hong, S. W., Tong, F., & Seiffert, A. E. (2012). Direction-selective patterns of activity in human visual cortex suggest common neural substrates for different types of motion. Neuropsychologia, 50(4): 514-21.

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Tong, F., & Pratte, M.S. (2012). Decoding patterns of human brain activity. Annual Review of Psychology, 63, 483-509.

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Swisher, J. D., Sexton, J. A., Gatenby, J. C., Gore, J. C., & Tong, F. (2012). Multishot versus single-shot pulse sequences in very high field fMRI: a comparison using retinotopic mapping. PLoS One, 7(4), e34626, 1-12.

Ling, S., Pratte, M. S., & Tong, F. (2015). Attention alters orientation processing in the human lateral geniculate nucleus. Nature Neuroscience, 18(4), 496-498.

Pratte, M. S., Sy, J. L., Swisher, J. D., & Tong, F. (2016). Radial bias is not necessary for orientation decoding. Neuroimage, 127, 23-33.

Poltoratski S., Ling S., McCormack D., Tong F. (2017). Characterizing the effects of feature salience and top-down attention in the early visual system. Journal of Neurophysiology, 118(1), 564-573.