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Human cortical regions involved in extracting depth from motionG A Orban
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Faculty of Medicine, Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Leuven, Belgium
Neuron 24:929-40. 1999....
Comparative mapping of higher visual areas in monkeys and humansGuy A Orban
Lab Neuro en Psychofysiologie, K U Leuven, Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Trends Cogn Sci 8:315-24. 2004..In the long term, fMRI offers opportunities to compare the functional anatomy of a variety of cognitive functions in the two species...
Comment on Devlin and PoldrackGuy A Orban
Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K.U. Leuven Medical School, Belgium
Neuroimage 37:1057-8; discussion 1066-8. 2007
Functional MRI in the awake monkey: the missing linkGuy A Orban
Laboratory of Neuro- and Psychophysiology, Medical School, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium
J Cogn Neurosci 14:965-9. 2002
Imaging image processing in the human brainG A Orban
K U Leuven, School of Medicine, Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Campus Gasthuisberg, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Curr Opin Neurol 14:47-54. 2001....
Human brain activity related to speed discrimination tasksG A Orban
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, KULeuven, Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, Belgium
Exp Brain Res 122:9-22. 1998..These results confirm that processing in the human visual cortex is task dependent and underscore the role of the middle fusiform gyrus in temporal comparison of simple attributes...
The neuronal machinery involved in successive orientation discriminationG A Orban
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Belgium
Prog Neurobiol 55:117-47. 1998..By the same token, a comparison of these two tasks, which use the same input and the same attribute, demonstrates the task dependency of processing in the human and non-human primate visual system...
Extracting 3D from motion: differences in human and monkey intraparietal cortexW Vanduffel
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, Leuven B 3000, Belgium
Science 298:413-5. 2002..In contrast, intraparietal areas showed significant 3D-SFM activation in humans but not in monkeys. This suggests that human intraparietal cortex contains visuospatial processing areas that are not present in monkeys...
Attention-dependent suppression of metabolic activity in the early stages of the macaque visual systemW Vanduffel
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, Leuven B 3000, Belgium
Cereb Cortex 10:109-26. 2000....
Brain activity underlying stereotyped and non-stereotyped retrieval of learned stimulus-response associationsR Vandenberghe
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Eur J Neurosci 11:4037-50. 1999....
Maintaining and shifting attention within left or right hemifieldR Vandenberghe
Laboratorium voor Neuroen Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Cereb Cortex 10:706-13. 2000..The current experiment confirms that left frontal convexity is sensitive to manipulations of the direction of visuospatial attention. The results do not indicate a specific role of parietal cortex in attentional shifting...
Visual motion processing investigated using contrast agent-enhanced fMRI in awake behaving monkeysW Vanduffel
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, Belgium
Neuron 32:565-77. 2001..Moving lines activate some regions that have not been previously implicated in motion processing. Overall, the results clarify the relationship between the motion pathway and the dorsal stream in primates...
Regional brain activity during shape recognition impaired by a scopolamine challenge to encodingA M Rosier
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, KU Leuven, Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
Eur J Neurosci 11:3701-14. 1999..In addition, in the intraparietal sulcus, differential activation also increased following impaired memory storage, possibly reflecting enhanced visuospatial attention in an effort to compensate for impaired performance...
Investigation of cortical reorganization in area 17 and nine extrastriate visual areas through the detection of changes in immediate early gene expression as induced by retinal lesionsL Arckens
Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology and Immunological Biotechnology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Comp Neurol 425:531-44. 2000....
Positron-emission tomography imaging of long-term shape recognition challengesA Rosier
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Universite Catholique de Leuven Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94:7627-32. 1997..In contrast, thalamic differential activation increased in response to memory challenges. This increase might reflect enhanced retrieval attempts as a compensatory mechanism for restoring recognition performance...
Human brain regions involved in heading estimationH Peuskens
Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, KULeuven, Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 21:2451-61. 2001..These results suggest possible homologies with the dorsal part of the medial superior temporal area and area 7a in the monkey...
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess adaptation and size invariance of shape processing by humans and monkeysHiromasa Sawamura
Laboratorium voor Neuroen Psychofysiologie, K.U. Leuven Medical School, Campus Gashuisberg, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 25:4294-306. 2005..The results provide additional evidence for the homology between the macaque IT cortex and human LOC but also add to the growing list of differences between human and monkey intraparietal sulcus regions...
Similarities and differences in motion processing between the human and macaque brain: evidence from fMRIGuy A Orban
K.U. Leuven, Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Pyschofysiologie, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Neuropsychologia 41:1757-68. 2003..On the other hand, striking functional differences also emerged: in humans V3A and several regions in the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) are much more motion sensitive than their simian counterparts...
The processing of visual shape in the cerebral cortex of human and nonhuman primates: a functional magnetic resonance imaging studyKatrien Denys
Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K. U. Leuven Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 24:2551-65. 2004..The shape-sensitive regions can be used to constrain the warping of monkey to human cortex and suggest a large expansion of lateral parietal and superior temporal cortex in humans compared with monkeys...
Mapping the parietal cortex of human and non-human primatesGuy A Orban
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, K U Leuven, Medical School, Leuven, Belgium
Neuropsychologia 44:2647-67. 2006..This additional cortical tissue may provide the capacity for an enhanced visual analysis of moving images necessary for sophisticated control of manipulation and tool handling...
Searching for a salient target involves frontal regionsClaire Wardak
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, KU Leuven Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Cereb Cortex 20:2464-77. 2010..Our results show that efficient search involves frontal regions as much as visual regions and in particular that ventral prefrontal area 45 is involved in top-down control during efficient search...
Functional impact of cerebral projection systemsW Vanduffel
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Faculteit Geneeskunde, Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
Mol Psychiatry 3:215-9. 1998..We describe a new combination of a metabolic mapping and a reversible deactivation technique in an animal model to assess the functional impact of cerebral connections...
The neural substrate of orientation short-term memory and resistance to distractor itemsL Cornette
Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Eur J Neurosci 15:165-75. 2002..These results, combined with those of two previous studies using an identical reduction strategy, underscore the functional heterogeneity in the prefrontal cortex during short-term and working memory...
Scopolamine-induced impairment of delayed recognition of abstract visual shapesA Rosier
Laboratorium voor Neurofysiologie, KU Leuven Medical School, Belgium
Neuropsychobiology 37:98-103. 1998....
Attentional responses to unattended stimuli in human parietal cortexR Vandenberghe
Neurology Department, KU LeuvenLeuven, Belgium
Brain 128:2843-57. 2005..Functional imaging in neglect patients will be necessary to assess IPS function in those cases where the structural lesion spares the middle IPS segment...
Convergence of depth from texture and depth from disparity in macaque inferior temporal cortexYan Liu
Laboratorium voor Neuro-en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, B3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 24:3795-800. 2004..Furthermore, the tilt preference was invariant over different types of textures and slants, suggesting an abstract representation of surface tilt in ventral visual cortex...
A distinct representation of three-dimensional shape in macaque anterior intraparietal area: fast, metric, and coarseSiddharth Srivastava
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Medical School, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 29:10613-26. 2009..Unlike the known representation of three-dimensional shape in inferior temporal cortex, the neural representation in AIP appears to emphasize object parameters required for the planning of grasping movements...
The organization of orientation selectivity throughout macaque visual cortexWim Vanduffel
Laboratorium voor Neuro and Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculteit Geneeskunde, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B 3000, Belgium
Cereb Cortex 12:647-62. 2002..In parafoveal but not foveal visual field representations of V2, the orientation columns were centered on the thick cytochrome oxidase stripes, extended into the adjacent interstripe region, but were virtually absent in the thin stripes...
Color discrimination involves ventral and dorsal stream visual areasKristl G Claeys
Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K.U. Leuven, Medical School, Herestraat 49, B3000 Leuven, Belgium
Cereb Cortex 14:803-22. 2004..These experiments demonstrated that even with color as the attribute, successive discrimination, in which a decision process has to link visual signals to motor responses, involves both ventral and dorsal visual stream areas...
Specificity of regions processing biological motionH Peuskens
Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K.U. Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg O and N, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Eur J Neurosci 21:2864-75. 2005..These results were confirmed with implied action stimuli...
Cooperative changes in GABA, glutamate and activity levels: the missing link in cortical plasticityL Arckens
Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology and Immunological Biotechnology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Naamsestraat 59, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Eur J Neurosci 12:4222-32. 2000....
Selectivity of neuronal adaptation does not match response selectivity: a single-cell study of the FMRI adaptation paradigmHiromasa Sawamura
Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K.U. Leuven Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, B3000 Leuven, Belgium
Neuron 49:307-18. 2006..The neuronal adaptation at the single-cell level showed a greater degree of stimulus selectivity than the responses. This complicates the interpretation of fMR-A paradigms when inferring neuronal selectivity...
Charting the lower superior temporal region, a new motion-sensitive region in monkey superior temporal sulcusKoen Nelissen
Laboratorium voor Neurofysiologie en Psychofysiologie, K.U. Leuven Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 26:5929-47. 2006..This ventral path including the LST region, FST area, and STPm region is likely involved in the visual analysis of actions and biological motion...
Shape selectivity for camouflage-breaking dynamic stimuli in dorsal V4 neuronsSantosh G Mysore
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, O and N2, Gasthuisberg, K U Leuven Medical School, Leuven, Belgium
Cereb Cortex 18:1429-43. 2008..Cue-invariant shape selectivity was more pronounced when kinetic shapes included the temporal frequency cue. This invariance may be rooted in nonlinearities occurring early in the visual pathway...
Higher order visual processing in macaque extrastriate cortexGuy A Orban
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, K U Leuven Medical School, Leuven, Belgium
Physiol Rev 88:59-89. 2008..The most common putative mechanism for generating such emergent selectivity is the pattern of excitatory and inhibitory linear inputs from the afferent area combined with nonlinear mechanisms in the afferent and receiving area...
Coding of images of materials by macaque inferior temporal cortical neuronsKároly Köteles
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, K U Leuven Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, B3000 Leuven, Belgium
Eur J Neurosci 27:466-82. 2008....
The retinotopic organization of the human middle temporal area MT/V5 and its cortical neighborsHauke Kolster
Laboratorium voor Neurofysiologie en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 30:9801-20. 2010..Together with similarities in retinotopic organization and topological neighborhood, the functional properties suggest that MT/V5 in human and macaque cortex are homologous...
Coding of shape and position in macaque lateral intraparietal areaPeter Janssen
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Medical School, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 28:6679-90. 2008..Furthermore, the shape representation in the dorsal visual stream appears to differ radically from the known representation of shape in the ventral visual stream...
The processing of three-dimensional shape from disparity in the human brainSvetlana Georgieva
Laboratorium voor Neurofysiologie en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Faculteit Geneeskunde, Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 29:727-42. 2009..Interestingly, activity in these occipital regions correlates with the depth amplitude perceived by the subjects in the 3D surfaces used as stimuli in these fMRI experiments...
The retinotopic organization of primate dorsal V4 and surrounding areas: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study in awake monkeysDenis Fize
Laboratorium voor Neuroen Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven B-3000, Belgium
J Neurosci 23:7395-406. 2003..This finding indicates that early visual cortex is mostly conserved throughout hominid evolution...
Processing of kinetic boundaries in macaque V4Santosh G Mysore
Lab. voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K.U.Leuven Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven B-3000, Belgium
J Neurophysiol 95:1864-80. 2006..The neurons selective for kinetic patterns tended to be clustered within dorsal V4...
The extraction of 3D shape from texture and shading in the human brainSvetlana S Georgieva
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven School of Medicine, Campus Gasthuisberg, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Cereb Cortex 18:2416-38. 2008....
At least at the level of inferior temporal cortex, the stereo correspondence problem is solvedPeter Janssen
Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, K.U. Leuven Medical School, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Neuron 37:693-701. 2003..These results show that the correspondence problem is solved at least in far extrastriate cortex, as it is in the monkey's perception...
Anterior regions of monkey parietal cortex process visual 3D shapeJean Baptiste Durand
Lab Neuro en Psychofysiologie, K U Leuven, Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B 3000, Leuven, Belgium
Neuron 55:493-505. 2007..These results indicate that extracting 3D spatial information from stereo involves several intraparietal areas, among which AIP and anterior LIP are more specifically engaged in extracting the 3D shape of objects...
The selectivity of neurons in the macaque fundus of the superior temporal area for three-dimensional structure from motionSantosh G Mysore
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Medical School, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 30:15491-508. 2010..Overall, these results indicate that FST neurons code motion-defined 3D shape fragments, underscoring the central role of FST in processing 3D-SFM...
The monkey ventral premotor cortex processes 3D shape from disparityOlivier Joly
Lab Neuro en Psychofysiologie, K U Leuven, Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B 3000, Leuven, Belgium
Neuroimage 47:262-72. 2009..In conclusion, our data point to a distributed functional network, including TEs, AIP and F5a, involved in the analysis of stereoscopic 3D shape information and its potential use in the visual control of grasping...
Attention to 3-D shape, 3-D motion, and texture in 3-D structure from motion displaysHendrik Peuskens
K.U. Leuven, Medical School, Belgium
J Cogn Neurosci 16:665-82. 2004....
Human functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals separation and integration of shape and motion cues in biological motion processingJan Jastorff
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychophysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Medical School, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 29:7315-29. 2009....
The extraction of depth structure from shading and texture in the macaque brainKoen Nelissen
Laboratorium voor Neuro and Psychofysiologie, K U Leuven Medical School, Leuven, Belgium
PLoS ONE 4:e8306. 2009....
A higher order motion region in human inferior parietal lobule: evidence from fMRIKristl G Claeys
Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Neuron 40:631-42. 2003....
Parietal regions processing visual 3D shape extracted from disparityJean Baptiste Durand
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, KU Leuven Medical School, Leuven, Belgium
Neuroimage 46:1114-26. 2009..Neuron 55, 493-505 obtained in the monkey indicates that DIPSA and DIPSM may represent human homologues for the posterior part of AIP and the adjoining part of LIP respectively...
Observing others: multiple action representation in the frontal lobeKoen Nelissen
Laboratorium voor Neuro-en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Medical School, Leuven, Belgium
Science 310:332-6. 2005..Observation of shapes activated area 45, but not premotor F5. Convergence of object and action information in area 45 may be important for full comprehension of actions...
Extracting 3D structure from disparityGuy A Orban
Laboratorium voor Neuro en Psychofysiologie, K U Leuven, Medical School, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49 1021, BE 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Trends Neurosci 29:466-73. 2006..Thus, stereoscopic 3D shape is processed in both the dorsal, occipito-parietal and the ventral, occipito-temporal streams...
Visual activation in prefrontal cortex is stronger in monkeys than in humansKatrien Denys
K. U. Leuven Medical School, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Cogn Neurosci 16:1505-16. 2004..This difference was observed for two different stimulus sets, at two field strengths, and over a range of tasks. These results suggest that there may be more volitional control over visual processing in humans than in monkeys...
Search for color 'center(s)' in macaque visual cortexRoger B H Tootell
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cereb Cortex 14:353-63. 2004..Consistent with a recent hypothesis, V4 was not uniquely specialized for color processing, but areas located antero-ventral to V4 (in/near TEO and anterior TE) showed more color-biased activity...
Stereopsis activates V3A and caudal intraparietal areas in macaques and humansDoris Y Tsao
Massachusetts General Hospital, NMR Center, Athinoula A Martinos Center, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
Neuron 39:555-68. 2003..Thus, in both primate species a small cluster of areas at the parieto-occipital junction appears to be specialized for stereopsis...
Processing of abstract ordinal knowledge in the horizontal segment of the intraparietal sulcusWim Fias
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
J Neurosci 27:8952-6. 2007..This extends the numerical processing function of IPS into the realm of abstract knowledge processing...
Learning to see the difference specifically alters the most informative V4 neuronsSteven Raiguel
Laboratorium voor Neuro-en-Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Medical School, BE-3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Neurosci 26:6589-602. 2006..Thus, we conclude that it is the most informative V4 neurons, those most directly involved in the discrimination, that are specifically modified by perceptual learning...
Parietal representation of symbolic and nonsymbolic magnitudeWim Fias
Ghent University
J Cogn Neurosci 15:47-56. 2003..In addition, the interaction between task and type of stimulus identified a region anterior to the conjunction site, not specific for quantitative processing, but reflecting general processes loaded by number processing...
Repeated fMRI using iron oxide contrast agent in awake, behaving macaques at 3 TeslaFrancisca P Leite
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Neuroimage 16:283-94. 2002..Overall, the contrast agent produced a dramatic improvement in functional brain imaging results in the awake, behaving primate at this field strength. (c) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA)...
The quantitative nature of a visual task differentiates between ventral and dorsal streamWim Fias
Ghent University
J Cogn Neurosci 14:646-58. 2002..These results demonstrate that a single attribute can be processed either in the ventral or dorsal stream, depending on the cognitive operations required by the tasks...
A hippocampal-parietal network for learning an ordered sequenceFilip Van Opstal
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, H Dunantlaan 2, Ghent, Belgium
Neuroimage 40:333-41. 2008..This suggests an involvement of the angular gyrus in learning the ordinal associations between the stimuli...
Involvement of multiple functionally distinct cerebellar regions in visual discrimination: a human functional imaging studyKristl G Claeys
Laboratory of Theoretical Neurobiology, Born-Bunge Foundation, University of Antwerp-U.A, Universiteitsplein 1, B2610, Antwerpen, Belgium
Neuroimage 20:840-54. 2003..We conclude that successive color discrimination activates multiple, functionally distinct cerebellar regions...
