Contact:
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Education:
B.S. (1991) Biologial Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University.B.S. (1991) Chemistry,Carnegie Mellon University.
Ph.D. (1999) Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco.
Publications:
Silver MA, Ress D, Heeger DJ (2007) Neural Correlates of Sustained Spatial Attention in Human Early Visual Cortex. J Neurophysiol 97:229-237. pdf supplementary materials
Silver MA, Logothetis NK (2004) Temporal frequency and contrast tagging bias the type of competition in interocular switch rivalry. Vision Res 47:532-543.pdf
Silver MA (2006) Modeling the time course of attention signals in human primary visual cortex. Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 605(14):1-8 pdf
Silver MA, Ress D, Heeger DJ (2005) Topographic maps of visual spatial attention in human parietal cortex. J Neurophysiol 94:1358-1371. pdf
Silver MA, Logothetis NK (2004) Grouping and segmentation in binocular rivalry. Vision Res 44:1675-1692.pdf
Silver MA, Fagiolini M, Gillespie DC, Howe CL, Frank MG, Issa NP, Antonini A, Stryker MP (2001) Infusion of nerve growth factor (NGF) into kitten visual cortex increases immunoreactivity for NGF, NGF receptors, and choline acetyltransferase in basal forebrain without affecting ocular dominance plasticity or column development. Neurosci 108:569-585. pdf
Silver MA, Stryker MP (2001) TrkB-like immunoreactivity is present on geniculocortical afferents in layer IV of kitten primary visual cortex. J Comp Neurol 436:391-398. pdf
Silver MA, Stryker MP (2000) Distributions of synaptic vesicle proteins and GAD65 in deprived and nondeprived ocular dominance columns in layer IV of kitten primary visual cortex are unaffected by monocular deprivation. J Comp Neurol 422:652-664.pdf
Silver MA, Stryker MP (2000) A method for measuring colocalization of presynaptic markers with anatomically labeled axons using double label immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy. J Neurosci Methods 94:205-215. pdf
Silver MA, Stryker MP (1999) Synaptic density in geniculocortical afferents remains constant after monocular deprivation in the cat. J Neurosci 19:10829-10842.pdf
