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Dr. Mark Schira

Conjoint Lecturer

Research Areas: Organisation of Visual Cortex, Contour and Object Reconition, Foveal Vision, fMRI

Research Lab: Systems Neuroscience Group

Selected publications:

  • Schira MM, Spehar B. Differential Effect of Contrast Polarity Reversals on Closed Squares and open L-Junctions. Front. Psychology 2011. 2:47. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg. 2011.00047. <Article>
  • Schira MM, Tyler CW, Spehar B, Breakspear M. Modeling Magnification and Anisotropy in the Primate Foveal Confluence. PLoS Comp. Biol 2010, 6(1): e1000651. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.100065.<Article>
  • Schira MM, Breakspear M, Tyler CW, Spehar B. The Foveal Confluence in Human Visual Cortex, J. Neurosci. 2009, 29(28):9050–9058. <Article>
  • Schira MM, Wade RW, Tyler CW. (2007). The two-dimensional mapping of the central and parafoveal visual field to human visual cortex. J. of Neurophysiol. JN-00972-2006 epub 15. Mar 2007. Download <abstract> ; <full text>
  • Kraft A, Schira MM, Hagendorf H, Schmidt S, Olma M, Brandt SA. (2005). An fMRI localizer-technique: Efficient acquisition and functional properties of single retinotopic positions in the human visual cortex. Neuroimage. 28(2):453-63.
  • Kraft A, Müller NG, Hagendorf H, Schira MM, Dick S, Fendrich RM, Brandt SA. (2005). Interactions between task difficulty and hemispheric distribution of attended locations: implications for the splitting attention debate. Cog. Brain Res. 24: 19-32.
  • Tyler CW, Likova LT, Kontsevich LL, Schira MM, Wade AR. (2005). Enhanced concepts of occipital retinotopy. Current Medical Imaging Reviews 1(3),319-331.
  • Schira MM, Fahle M, Donner TH, Kraft A, Brandt SA. (2004). Differential contribution of early visual areas to the perceptual process of contour processing. J. of Neurophysiol. 91:1716-1721.
  • Greenlee MW, Schira MM, Kimmig H. (2002). Coherent motion pops out during smooth pursuit. Neuroreport1313-6.
  • Cornelissen FW, Kimmig H, Schira M, Rutschmann RM, Maguire RP, Broerse A, Den Boer JA, Greenlee MW. (2002). Event-related fMRI responses in the human frontal eye fields in a randomized pro- and antisaccade task. Exp. Brain Res. 145:270-4.
  • Kimmig H, Greenlee MW, Gondan M, Schira M, Kassubek J, Mergner T. (2002). Relationship between saccadic eye movements and cortical activity as measured by fMRI: quantitative and qualitative aspects. Exp. Brain Res.141, 184-194.
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