L M Vaina

Summary

Affiliation: Boston University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi First-order and second-order motion: neurological evidence for neuroanatomically distinct systems
    Lucia M Vaina
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Boston University, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Prog Brain Res 144:197-212. 2004
  2. ncbi Functional neuroanatomy of biological motion perception in humans
    L M Vaina
    Boston University, Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, 44 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:11656-61. 2001
  3. ncbi Visual deficits in a patient with 'kaleidoscopic disintegration of the visual world'
    L M Vaina
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
    Eur J Neurol 9:463-77. 2002
  4. ncbi Can spatial and temporal motion integration compensate for deficits in local motion mechanisms?
    Lucia M Vaina
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
    Neuropsychologia 41:1817-36. 2003
  5. ncbi Interaction of cortical networks mediating object motion detection by moving observers
    F J Calabro
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
    Exp Brain Res 221:177-89. 2012
  6. ncbi Perception of first- and second-order motion: separable neurological mechanisms?
    L M Vaina
    Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, Boston University and Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    Hum Brain Mapp 7:67-77. 1999
  7. ncbi Regional cerebral correlates of global motion perception: evidence from unilateral cerebral brain damage
    L M Vaina
    Boston University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Massachusetts, USA
    Brain 124:310-21. 2001
  8. ncbi Complex motion perception and its deficits
    L M Vaina
    Biomedical Engineering Department, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
    Curr Opin Neurobiol 8:494-502. 1998
  9. ncbi Neural systems underlying learning and representation of global motion
    L M Vaina
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, Boston University, 44 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95:12657-62. 1998
  10. ncbi Acoustic facilitation of object movement detection during self-motion
    F J Calabro
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 278:2840-7. 2011

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Publications21

  1. ncbi First-order and second-order motion: neurological evidence for neuroanatomically distinct systems
    Lucia M Vaina
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Boston University, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Prog Brain Res 144:197-212. 2004
    ..The data reported here also suggest that different cortical regions may be in charge of processing direction-discrimination in second-order motion defined by different second-order attributes...
  2. ncbi Functional neuroanatomy of biological motion perception in humans
    L M Vaina
    Boston University, Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, 44 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:11656-61. 2001
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  3. ncbi Visual deficits in a patient with 'kaleidoscopic disintegration of the visual world'
    L M Vaina
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
    Eur J Neurol 9:463-77. 2002
    ..Structural magnetic resonance imaging revealed an infarct in the ventro-medial occipito-temporal region, extending ventro-laterally and leading to a 'kaleidoscopic disintegration of visible objects'...
  4. ncbi Can spatial and temporal motion integration compensate for deficits in local motion mechanisms?
    Lucia M Vaina
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
    Neuropsychologia 41:1817-36. 2003
    ..Such a specific impairment has not been reported before...
  5. ncbi Interaction of cortical networks mediating object motion detection by moving observers
    F J Calabro
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
    Exp Brain Res 221:177-89. 2012
    ..Our results support the use of scene context (e.g., eccentricity, depth) in the detection of object motion. We suggest that the cortical activation and visually responsive networks provide a potential substrate for this computation...
  6. ncbi Perception of first- and second-order motion: separable neurological mechanisms?
    L M Vaina
    Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, Boston University and Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    Hum Brain Mapp 7:67-77. 1999
    ..Our results suggest that the two motion systems are mediated by regionally separate mechanisms from an early stage of cortical processing...
  7. ncbi Regional cerebral correlates of global motion perception: evidence from unilateral cerebral brain damage
    L M Vaina
    Boston University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Massachusetts, USA
    Brain 124:310-21. 2001
    ....
  8. ncbi Complex motion perception and its deficits
    L M Vaina
    Biomedical Engineering Department, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
    Curr Opin Neurobiol 8:494-502. 1998
    ..It has been reported that these patients have impaired performance of psychophysical tasks of complex motion discrimination...
  9. ncbi Neural systems underlying learning and representation of global motion
    L M Vaina
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, Boston University, 44 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95:12657-62. 1998
    ..Together, these results indicate that the learning and representation of visual motion discrimination are mediated by different, but probably interacting, neuronal subsystems...
  10. ncbi Acoustic facilitation of object movement detection during self-motion
    F J Calabro
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 278:2840-7. 2011
    ..Taken together, these results suggest that parsing object motion from self-motion-induced optic flow can operate on multisensory object representations...
  11. ncbi A laterally interconnected neural architecture in MST accounts for psychophysical discrimination of complex motion patterns
    S A Beardsley
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    J Comput Neurosci 10:255-80. 2001
    ..Taken together, these results suggest that robust processing of the complex motion patterns associated with self-motion and optic flow may be mediated by an inhibitory structure of neural interactions in MST...
  12. ncbi A neural network model of spiral-planar motion tuning in MSTd
    Scott A Beardsley
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 44 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Vision Res 43:577-95. 2003
    ..Based on the computational model we propose an experimental paradigm to investigate the existence of equivalent computational structures in MSTd...
  13. ncbi An effect of relative motion on trajectory discrimination
    Scott A Beardsley
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, P O Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
    Vision Res 48:1040-52. 2008
    ..We interpret these differences as providing support for the role of relative motion mechanisms in the segmentation and representation of object motions that do not occlude the path of an observer's self-motion...
  14. ncbi Stereo motion transparency processing implements an ecological smoothness constraint
    Finnegan J Calabro
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 44 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Perception 35:1219-32. 2006
    ..These results suggest that the mechanism processing transparent motion may implement a smoothness constraint that tends to combine similar motions into a single percept...
  15. ncbi The role of human extra-striate visual areas V5/MT and V2/V3 in the perception of the direction of global motion: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study
    Alan Cowey
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
    Exp Brain Res 171:558-62. 2006
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  16. ncbi Global motion mechanisms compensate local motion deficits in a patient with a bilateral occipital lobe lesion
    Scott A Beardsley
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA
    Exp Brain Res 173:724-32. 2006
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  17. ncbi Deficits of motion integration and segregation in patients with unilateral extrastriate lesions
    Lucia M Vaina
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 44 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Brain 128:2134-45. 2005
    ..Although no patient suffered from only one defect, the overall pattern of results strongly supports the notion of regional specialization for different aspects of motion processing...
  18. ncbi How can a patient blind to radial motion discriminate shifts in the center-of-motion?
    Scott A Beardsley
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Boston University, 44 Cummington St, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    J Comput Neurosci 18:55-66. 2005
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  19. ncbi Psychophysical evidence for a radial motion bias in complex motion discrimination
    Scott A Beardsley
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 44 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Vision Res 45:1569-86. 2005
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  20. ncbi Perceptual deficits in patients with impaired recognition of biological motion after temporal lobe lesions
    Lucia M Vaina
    Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:16947-51. 2004
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  21. ncbi Is precise discrimination of low level motion needed for heading discrimination?
    Constance S Royden
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, College of the Holy Cross, MA, USA
    Neuroreport 15:1013-7. 2004
    ..Judgments of curved path motion appear more dependent on accurate 2D motion perception...