Vision Systems Physiology: Publications

Peer-reviewer journal publications since 2000, in reverse order


Sharifian F, Nurminen L, Vanni S: Visual interactions conform to pattern decorrelation in multiple cortical areas. PLoS ONE, 8(7) (2013) e68046


Salmela V, Vanni S: Brightness and transparency in the early visual cortex. Journal of Vision 13(7) (2013) article 16.


Salminen-Vaparanta N, Vanni S, Noreika V, Valiulis V, Móró L, Revonsuo A: Phosphenes elicited from V1 stimulation are subjectively brighter than phosphenes arising from V2 stimulation. Cerebral Cortex e-pub ahead of print (2013)


Nurminen L, Kilpeläinen M, Vanni S: Fovea-peripheria axis symmetry of surround modulation in the human visual system, PloS ONE, 8(2) (2013) e57906


Shushruth S*, Nurminen L*, Bijanzadeh M, Ichida J, Vanni S, Angelucci A: Different Orientation-Tuning of Near and Far Surround Suppression in Macaque Primary Visual Cortex mirrors their tuning in Human Perception. Journal of Neuroscience 33 (2013) 106-119 *) equal contribution


Kilpeläinen M., Nurminen L. and Donner K: The effect of mean luminance and grating pedestals on contrast perception: model simulations suggest a common, retinal, origin. Vision Research, 58 (2012), 51-58


Brogaard B, Vanni S, Silvanto J: Seeing mathematics: perceptual experience and brain activity in acquired synesthesia, Neurocase, e-pub ahead of print (2012)


Henriksson L, Karvonen J, Salminen-Vaparanta N, Railo H, Vanni S: Retinotopic Maps, Spatial Tuning, and Locations of Human Visual Areas in Surface Coordinates Characterized with Multifocal and Blocked fMRI Designs. PLoS ONE,, 7(5): e36859, (2012).


Koivisto M, Henriksson L, Revonsuo A, Railo H: Unconscious response priming by shape depends on geniculostriate visual projection. European Journal of Neuroscience, 35 (2012) 623-633


Railo H, Salminen-Vaparanta N, Henriksson L, Revonsuo A, Koivisto M: Unconscious and conscious processing of color rely on activity in early visual cortex: A TMS study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24 (2012) 819-829


Salminen-Vaparanta N, Koivisto M, Noreika V, Vanni S, Revonsuo A: Neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation suggests that area V2 is necessary for visual awareness. Neuropsychologia, 50 (2012) 1621-1627: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.03.015


Särkkä S, Solin A, Nummenmaa A, Vehtari A, Auranen T, Vanni S, Lin Fa-Hsuan: Dynamic Retrospective Filtering of Physiological Noise in BOLD fMRI: DRIFTER. Neuroimage 60 (2012) 1517-1527


Vanni S: Local model for contextual modulation in the cerebral cortex. Neural Networks 25 (2012) 30-40


Salminen-Vaparanta N, Noreika V, Revonsuo A, Koivisto M, Vanni S: Is selective primary visual cortex stimulation achievable with TMS? Human Brain Mapping 33 (2012) 652-665


Vuori E, Vanni S, Henriksson L, Tervo TM, Holopainen JM: Refractive surgery in anisometropic adult patients induce plastic changes in primary visual cortex. Acta Ophthalmologica 90 (2012) 669-676


Kilpeläinen M., Nurminen L. and Donner K: Effects of mean luminance changes on human contrast perception: contrast dependence, time-course and spatial specificity. PLoS ONE, 6 (2011), e17200


Koivisto M, Railo H, Revonsuo A, Vanni S, and Salminen-Vaparanta N: Recurrent processing in V1/V2 contributes to categorization of natural scenes. Journal of Neuroscience 31 (2011) 2488-2492


Vanni S, Rosenström T: Local non-linear interactions in the visual cortex may reflect global decorrelation. Journal of Computational Neuroscience 30 (2011) 109-124


Nurminen L, Peromaa T & Laurinen P: Surround suppression and facilitation in the fovea: Very long-range interactions in contrast perception. Journal of Vision 10(13):9 (2010)


Henriksson L, Hyvärinen A, Vanni S: Representation of cross-frequency spatial phase relationships in human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 29:45 (2009) 14342-14351.


Nurminen L, Kilpeläinen M, Laurinen P, Vanni S: Area summation model in human visual system: psychophysics, fMRI and modeling. Journal of Neurophysiology 102 (2009) 2900-2909.


von Pföstl V, Stenbacka L, Vanni S, Parkkonen L, Galletti C, Fattori P: Motion sensitivity of human V6: a magnetoencephalography study. Neuroimage 45 (2009) 1253-1263. Epub 2009 Jan 13.


Auranen T, Nummenmaa A, Vanni S, Vehtari A, Hämäläinen MS, Lampinen J, Jääskeläinen IP: Automatic fMRI-guided MEG multidipole localization for visual responses. Human Brain Mapping 30 (2009), 1087-1099.


Simola J, Stenbacka L, Vanni S: Topography of attention in the primary visual cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience 29 (2009) 188-196.


Henriksson L, Nurminen L, Hyvärinen A, Vanni S: Spatial frequency tuning in human retinotopic visual areas, Journal of Vision 8(10):5 (2008) 1-13 (Special Issue: Neuroimaging in Vision Science).


Pihlaja M, Henriksson L, James AC, Vanni S: Quantitative multifocal fMRI shows active suppression in human V1, Human Brain Mapping Human Brain Mapping 29 (2008) 1001-1014.


Stenbacka L, Vanni S: FMRI of peripheral visual field representation, Clinical Neurophysiology 118 (2007) 1303-1314.


Henriksson L, Raninen A, Näsänen R, Hyvärinen L, Vanni S: Training-induced cortical representation of a hemianopic hemifield, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 78 (2007) 74-81, epub ahead of print (2006) Sep 15.


Raninen A, Vanni S, Hyvärinen L, Näsänen R: Temporal sensitivity in hemianopic visual field can be improved by long-term training using flicker stimulation, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 78 (2007) 66-73, epub ahead of print (2006) Sep 4.


Stenbacka L, Vanni S: Central luminance flicker can activate peripheral retinotopic representation, Neuroimage 34 (2007) 342-348, available online 17 Oct 2006.


Vanni S, Henriksson L, Viikari M, James A: Retinotopic distribution of chromatic responses in human primary visual cortex, European Journal of Neuroscience 24 (2006) 1821-1831.


Vanni S, Henriksson L, James A: Multifocal fMRI of visual cortices, NeuroImage 27 (2005) 95-105.


Vanni S, Dojat M, Warnking J, Delon-Martin C, Segebarth C, Bullier J: Timing of interactions across the visual field in the human cortex, Neuroimage, 21 (2004) 818-828.


Vanni S, Warnking J, Dojat M, Delon-Martin C, Bullier J, Segebarth C: Sequence of pattern onset responses in the human visual areas: An fMRI constrained VEP source analysis, Neuroimage 21 (2004) 801-817.


Stenbacka L, Vanni S, Uutela K, Hari R: Comparison of minimum current estimate and dipole modeling in the analysis of simulated activity in the human visual cortices. Neuroimage 16 (2002) 936-943.


Jensen O, Vanni S: A new method to identify multiple sources of oscillatory activity from magnetoencephalographic data. Neuroimage 15 (2002) 568-574.


Vanni S, Tanskanen T, Seppä M, Uutela K, Hari R: Coinciding early activation of the human primary visual cortex and anteromedial cuneus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U S A 98 (2001) 2776-2780.


Vanni S, Raninen A, Näsänen R, Tanskanen T, Hyvärinen L: Dynamics of cortical activation in a hemianopic patient. Neuroreport 12 (2001) 861-865.


Vanni S, Uutela K: Foveal attention modulates responses to peripheral stimuli. Journal of Neurophysiology 83 (2000) 2443-2452.


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