Attention
Bressler DW, Fortenbaugh FC, Robertson LC, Silver MA (2013) Visual spatial attention enhances the amplitude of positive and negative fMRI responses to visual stimulation in an eccentricity-dependent manner. Vision Research, in press. pdf
Gratton C, Sreenivasan KK, Silver MA, D'Esposito M (2013) Attention selectively modifies the representation of individual faces in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience 33:6979-6989. pdf
Hutchinson JB, Uncapher MR, Weiner KS, Bressler DW, Silver MA, Preston AR, Wagner AD (2013) Functional heterogeneity in posterior parietal cortex across attention and episodic memory retrieval. Cerebral Cortex, in press. pdf
Bressler DW, Silver MA (2010) Spatial attention improves reliability of fMRI retinotopic mapping signals in occipital and parietal cortex. NeuroImage 53:526-533. pdf supplementary materials
Silver MA, Landau AN, Lauritzen TZ, Prinzmetal W, Robertson LC (2010) "Isolating human brain functional connectivity associated with a specific cognitive process", in Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XV, edited by B.E. Rogowitz and T.N. Pappas, Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 7527, pp. 75270B-1 to 75270B-9. pdf
Lauritzen TZ, D'Esposito M, Heeger DJ, Silver MA (2009) Top-down flow of visual spatial attention signals from parietal to occipital cortex. Journal of Vision 9(13):18:1-14. pdf supplementary materials
Silver MA, Kastner S (2009) Topographic maps in human frontal and parietal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13:488-495. pdf
Visual processing in schizophrenia
Rokem A, Yoon JH, Ooms RE, Maddock RJ, Minzenberg MJ, Silver MA (2011) Broader visual orientation tuning in patients with schizophrenia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5:127. pdf
Yoon JH, Maddock RJ, Rokem A, Silver MA, Minzenberg MJ, Ragland JD, Carter CS (2010) Gamma-aminobutyric acid concentration is reduced in visual cortex in schizophrenia and correlates with orientation-specific surround suppression. Journal of Neuroscience 30:3777-3781. pdf
Yoon JH, Rokem AS, Silver MA, Minzenberg MJ, Ursu S, Radland JD, Carter CS (2009) Diminished orientation-specific surround suppression of visual processing in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin 35:1078-1084. pdf
Cholinergic pharmacology
Rokem A, Silver MA (2013) The benefits of cholinergic enhancement during perceptual learning are long-lasting. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 7:66.
Kosovicheva AA, Sheremata SL, Rokem A, Landau AN, Silver MA (2012) Cholinergic enhancement reduces orientation-specific surround suppression but not visual crowding. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 6:61. pdf
Rokem A, Landau AN, Garg D, Prinzmetal W, Silver MA (2010) Cholinergic enhancement increases the effects of voluntary attention but does not affect involuntary attention. Neuropsychopharmacology 35:2538-2544. pdf
Rokem A, Silver MA (2010) Cholinergic enhancement augments magnitude and specificity of visual perceptual learning in healthy humans. Current Biology 20:1723-1728. pdf supplementary materials
Silver MA, Shenhav A, D'Esposito M (2008) Cholinergic enhancement reduces spatial spread of visual responses in early visual cortex. Neuron 60:904-914. pdf supplementary materials
Binocular rivalry
Bressler DW, Denison RN, Silver MA (2013) High-level modulations of binocular rivalry: effects of stimulus configuration, spatial and temporal context, and observer state. In: The Constitution of Visual Consciousness: Lessons from Binocular Rivalry (Miller SM, Ed.), pp. 253-280. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.
Denison RN, Silver MA (2012) Distinct contributions of the magnocellular and parvocellular visual streams to perceptual selection. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24:246-259. pdf supplementary materials
Denison RN, Piazza EA, Silver MA (2011) Predictive context influences perceptual selection during binocular rivalry. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5:166. pdf
Dopaminergic pharmacology
Rokem A, Landau AN, Prinzmetal W, Wallace DA, Silver MA, D'Esposito M (2012) Modulation of inhibition of return by the dopamine D2 receptor agonist bromocriptine depends on individual DAT1 genotype. Cerebral Cortex 22:1133-1138. pdf
Perception of visual space
Fortenbaugh FC, Sanghvi S, Silver MA, Robertson LC (2012) Exploring the edges of visual space: The influence of visual boundaries on peripheral localization. Journal of Vision 12(2):19:1-18. pdf
Auditory perception
Piazza EA, Sweeny TD, Wessel D, Silver MA, Whitney D (2013) Statistical summary in auditory perception. Psychological Science, in press.
Motion Perception
Rokem A, Silver MA (2009) A model of encoding and decoding in V1 and MT accounts for motion perception anisotropies in the human visual system. Brain Research 1299:3-16. pdf