• Brain Imaging: Reality and Hype – a 47 minute introduction to fMRI and issues in neuroethics. One lecture in a series that comprises a graduate course in neuroethics.

• "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
• "Brain Imaging: Reality and Hype" part of the Penn Neuroethics Learning Collaborative, March 2009
• "Panel Discussion: Ethics of Brain Imaging and Psychiatry" part of the Penn Neuroethics Learning Collaborative, March 2009
• "From Skulls to Scans: the use and misuse of science in racial differences" sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology on the topic of the Morton Skulls collection. My presentation begins at 44 minutes.
• A four-day course on fMRI, with a focus on studies from my lab in neural adaptation methods. Hosted by the BCBL:
  • Day 1 - General introduction to fMRI
  • Day 2 - Inference, the Fourier transform, signal and noise, experimental design in time, perfusion fMRI
  • Day 3 - Adaptation, carry-over designs, and neural tuning
  • Day 4 - How direct and carry-over effects are related, and Q&A

• 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
• An introduction to Behavioral Neurology - Links for two presentations on structure and function relationships in Behavioral Neurology.

Posters are provided until the corresponding paper is published.

• VSS May 2014, St. Pete's Beach, Fl
  • A single mechanism of temporal integration unites neural adaptation and norm-based coding
    Poster 23.505 - Face Perception: Neural Mechanisms Pavillion (Saturday, May 17, 2014, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm)

• VSS May 2013, Naples, Fl
  • Cortical surface structure predicts extrastriate retinotopic function
    Spatial vision: Models Vista Ballroom (Saturday, May 11, 2013, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm)
  • Blindness subtly alters the distant functional connectivity of dorsal and ventral extra-striate cortex (TRAVEL AWARD)
    Development Royal Ballroom 1-3 (Saturday, May 11, 2013, 2:30 - 4:15 pm)
  • Neural adaptation is sensitive to the gamut and division of a stimulus space
    Face perception: Identification Vista Ballroom (Saturday, May 11, 2013, 2:45 - 6:45 pm)
  • Blindness produces yoked changes in V1 cortical thickness, cross-modal responses, and resting metabolism
    Multisensory processing Royal Ballroom 1-3 (Sunday, May 12, 2013, 5:15 - 7:00 pm)
  • Facial expression training improves emotion recognition and changes neural tuning in a patient with acquired emotion recognition deficits and prosopagnosia
    Face Perception: Disorders Orchid Ballroom (Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm)
• Human Brain Mapping June 2013, Seattle, Washington
  • TBA
• SFN Nov 2013, San Diego, CA
  • TBA

• SFN Oct 2012, New Orleans, LA
  • Complexity and contradiction in neural encoding of face similarity (Abstract #14212)
    Session 317 (317.15), Monday Oct 15, 11:30 AM, Room 383
• VSS May 2012, Naples, Fl
  • The Blind Exchange Hemispheric Synchrony for long-range Functional Connectivity in V1
  • Staged Gene Therapy of Canine Retinal Blindness Does Not Produce Cortical Amblyopia for the Later Treated Eye, Poster 63.449
  • Application of fMRI adaptation to characterize the neural representation of color
• Human Brain Mapping June 2012, Beijing, China
  • A graph-theoretic approach to neuroimaging experimental design
    Abstract #546, Wednesday June 13 1:30-3:30 pm
  • The Blind Exchange Hemispheric Synchrony for long-range Functional Connectivity in V1
  • Retinotopy of V1, V2, and V3 Is Well Predicted by Cortical Surface Anatomy
    Abstract #1050, Monday June 11 1:30-3:30 pm

• SFN Nov 2011, Washington, DC
  • A universal retinotopic map of V1 based on surface anatomy (Abstract #16871)
    Session 428 (428.04), Monday Nov 14, 1:45 PM, Room 146A
  • Enhanced excitability to visual stimulation in area V1 and LGN using fMRI in patients with migraine with aura.
    Session 382 (382.11/QQ36), Monday Nov 14, 10 AM to 11 AM, Hall A-C
• VSS May 2011, Naples, FL
  • Confounding of prototype and similarity effects in fMRI studies of face and object representation
    - Face perception: Neural mechanisms, Monday, May 9, 2011, 8:15 am - 12:15 pm, Orchid Ballroom
  • De Bruijn cycles for neural decoding
    - Object recognition: Experience and learning, Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 8:15 am - 12:15 pm, Vista Ballroom
  • Neural coding of location and facing direction on a familiar college campus
    - Scene perception: Features and categories, Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 3:00 - 7:00 pm, Orchid Ballroom
  • Stimulus Similarity and Dimensionality in the Processing of Non-Face Objects
    - Object recognition: Features, Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 3:00 - 7:00 pm, Location: Vista Ballroom
  • Larger BOLD responses to visual stimulation in area V1 in people with migraine with aura
    - Development: Disorders, Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 3:00 - 7:00 pm, Vista Ballroom
  • A Universal Retinotopic Mapping of V1 with Respect to Anatomy
    - Perceptual organization: Mechanisms and models, Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 8:15 am - 12:15 pm, Royal Ballroom 6-8
  • Multi-focal and phase-encoded retinotopy compared
    - Perceptual organization: Mechanisms and models, Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 8:15 am - 12:15 pm, Royal Ballroom 6-8

• SFN Nov 2010, San Diego, CA
  • Absence of cortical thickening in people with migraine as compared to controls - 0.3 MB Poster PDF
  • Confounding of prototype and similarity effects in fMRI studies of face and object representation
    - Session 834, Wed Nov 17, 1-5PM, Room 5B

• ARVO May 2010, Fort Lauderdale, FL
  • Behavioral measurement of photoreceptor-directed contrast sensitivity in the canine - 0.75 MB Poster PDF

• VSS May 2010, Naples, FL
  • Adaptation for landmark identity and landmark location on a familiar college campus
  • Dissociable temporal components of neural similarity in face perception: An ERP study - 0.92 MB Poster PDF
  • Does he look scared to you? Effects of trait anxiety upon neural dissimilarity measures for ambiguous and pure emotional expressions

• 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 ]
• A Harris, GK Aguirre. (2010) Neural Tuning for Face Wholes and Parts in Human Fusiform Gyrus Revealed by fMRI Adaptation. Journal of Neurophysiology. 104(1):336-45..
  [ Behavioral data for experiment 3 ]
  • 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

• ISMRM 2008, Berkeley, CA
  • BB Avants, GK Aguirre, J Walker, and JC Gee. Unbiased Diffeomorphic Shape and Intensity Atlas Creation: Application to Canine Brain in Proc. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 16th Scientific Meeting, Berkeley, 2005, p. 2808.
• 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

• The Frank Elliott Lectureship in Behavioral Neurology

• Starting page for scholarly activities for Penn residents in Neurology