Lab Presentations

• "The Fundamentals of fMRI" by Dr. Geoffrey Aguirre, November 2004
• "What Lurks Behind the Brain Image: Differentiating Neuroscience from Neuro-Bunk" part of the Penn Media Seminar on Neuroscience and Society, September 2008

• Introduction to continuous carry-over designs for fMRI, a talk presented at Human Brain Mapping 2007 (and in a revised form in 2009)
• fMRI Images and Inferences - Talk Slides

Posters are provided until the corresponding paper is published.

• Human Brain Mapping June 2009, San Francisco, CA
  • Repetition Suppression and Continuous Carryover Designs - Download Course/Talk Information - 37.3KB PDF
  • Cortical representation of texture and scale studied with fMRI - 4.5 MB Poster PDF

• Vision Sciences Society May 2009, Naples, FL
  • Cortical representation of texture and scale studied with fMRI. - Talk Abstract
  • DM Drucker, WT Kerr, GK Aguirre. (2009) Distinguishing conjoint and independent neural tuning for stimulus features with fMRI adaptation. Journal of Neurophysiology. June;101(6):3310-24 [ Link to supplementary materials ] [ Link to Faculty of 1000 evaluation ]
  • Flexible Neural Tuning for Face Parts and Wholes in the Fusiform Face Area. - 4.5 MB Poster PDF
  • A semi-automated solution for increasing the reliability of manually defined visual area boundaries. - 11.2 MB Poster PDF
  • Cortical Recovery Following Gene Therapy in a Canine Model of Achromatopsia. - 392 KB Poster PDF

• Law and Neuroscience Conference - March 2009, New York, NY
  • fMRI Images and Inferences - Talk Slides

• Cognitive Neuroscience Society - March 2009, San Francisco, CA
  • Representational similarity analysis - characterizing visual population codes for shapes, objects, and faces - Talk Abstract - 96KB PDF

• Society for Neuroscience November 2008, Washington, DC
  • DM Drucker, WT Kerr, GK Aguirre. (2009) Distinguishing conjoint and independent neural tuning for stimulus features with fMRI adaptation. Journal of Neurophysiology. June;101(6):3310-24 [ Link to supplementary materials ] [ Link to Faculty of 1000 evaluation ]
• Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science October 2008, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Cortical Responses to Rod- and Cone-Isolating Flicker in a Canine Model of Achromatopsia. - 364KB PDF
    • Note: This poster received the Best Vision Poster Award from The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
• Vision Sciences Society May 2008, Naples, FL
  • A Harris, GK Aguirre. (2008) The Effects of Parts, Wholes, and Familiarity on Face-Selective Responses in MEG. Journal of Vision, 8(10), 1-12.
  • DM Drucker, GK Aguirre. (2009) Different spatial scales of shape similarity representation in lateral and ventral LOC. Cerebral Cortex, (TBA).
  • DM Drucker, WT Kerr, GK Aguirre. (2009) Distinguishing conjoint and independent neural tuning for stimulus features with fMRI adaptation. Journal of Neurophysiology. June;101(6):3310-24 [ Link to supplementary materials ] [ Link to Faculty of 1000 evaluation ]
  • Cross-modal plasticity in visual cortex of the early blind - 4.5MB PDF
• North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society March 2008, Orlando
  • Cross-modal plasticity in visual cortex of the early blind
    • Note: This poster received the 2008 Best Resident Abstract Award from The North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society

• Human Brain Mapping June 2007, Chicago
  • GK Aguirre (2007) Continuous carry-over designs for fMRI. Neuroimage, 35, 1480-1494.
• Vision Sciences Society May 2007, Sarasota, FL
  • Familiarity Modulates Holistic Processing in the Fusiform Face Area [Talk]
  • AL Thomas, K Lawler, IR Olson, GK Aguirre. (2008) The Philadelphia Face Perception Battery. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 23(2), 175-187.
  • Representation of the Ipsilateral Visual Field in Early Retinotopic Cortex - 4.1MB PDF
  • The Map in the Brain: Distributed Cortical Representations of Large-Scale Space - 1.8MB PDF