Maunsell Lab Publications

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Murphey, D.K., Maunsell, J.H.R., Beauchamp, M.S., Yoshor, D. (2009) Perceiving electrical stimulation of identified human visual areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (in press).

Dulay, M.F., Murphey, D.K., Sun, P., David, Y.B., Beauchamp, M.S., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2009) Computer-controlled electrical stimulation for quantitative mapping of human cortical functions. Journal of Neurosurgery (in press).

Lee, J., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2009) A normalization model of attentional modulation of single unit responses. PLoS One (in press).

Murphey, D.K., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2008) Electrical microstimulation thresholds for behavioral detection and saccades in monkey frontal eye fields. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 105:7315-7320.

Ghose, G.M., Maunsell, J.H.R., (2008) Spatial summation can explain the attentional modulations of neuronal responses to multiple stimuli in area V4. Journal of Neuroscience 28:5115-5126.

Yoshor, D., Bosking, W.H., Lega, B.C., Sun, P., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2008) Local cortical function after uncomplicated subdural electrode implantation. Journal of Neurosurgery 108:139-144.

Lee, Joonyeol, Williford, T., Maunsell, J.H.R., (2007) Spatial attention and the latency of neuronal responses in macaque area V4. Journal of Neuroscience 27:9632-9637.

Yoshor, D., Ghose, G.M., Bosking, W.H., Sun, P., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2007) Spatial attention does not strongly modulate neuronal responses in early human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 27:13205-13209.

Yoshor, D., Bosking, W.H., Ghose, G.M., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2007) Receptive fields in human visual ortex mapped with surface electrodes. Cerebral Cortex 17:2293-2302. [Abstract]

Murphey, D.K., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2007) Behavioral detection of electrical microstimulation in different cortical visual areas. Current Biology 17:862-867. [PDF]

Lee, J., Williford, T., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2007) Spatial attention and the latency of neuronal responses in macaque area V4. Journal of Neuroscience 27:9632-9637. [PDF]

Williford, T., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2006) Effects of spatial attention on contrast response functions in macaque area V4. Journal of Neurophysiology 96:40-54. [PDF]

Boudreau, C.E., Williford, T.H., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2006) Effects of task difficulty and target likelihood in area V4 of macaque monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology 96:2377-2387. [PDF]

Maunsell, J.H.R., Treue, S (2006) Feature-based attention in visual cortex. Trends in Neuroscience 29:317-322. [Abstract]

Williford, T., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2006) Effects of spatial attention on contrast response functions in macaque area V4. Journal of Neurophysiology 96:40-54.

Ferrera, V.P., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2005) Motion processing in macaque V4. Nature Neuroscience 8:1125.

DiCarlo, J.J., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2005) Using neuronal latency to determine sensory-motor processing in reaction time tasks. Journal of Neurophysiology 93:2974-2986. [PDF]

Maunsell, J.H.R. (2004) The role of attention in visual cerebral cortex. (In) L.M. Chalupa and J.S. Werner (Eds.) The Visual Neurosciences. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. pp. 1538-1545.

Maunsell, J.H.R. (2004) Neuronal representations of cognitive state: reward or attention? Trends in Cognitive Science 8:261-265. [Abstract]

Cook, E.P., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2004) Attentional modulation of motion integration of individual neurons in the middle temporal area (MT). Journal of Neuroscience 24:7964-7977. [PDF]

Yang, T., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2004) The effect of perceptual learning on neuronal responses in monkey visual area V4. Journal of Neuroscience 24:1617-1626. [PDF]

Maunsell, J.H.R., Ghose, G.M. (2004) Dynamics of attentional modulation in visual cerebral cortex (in) M.S. Gazzaniga (ed.) The Cognitive Neurosciences, 3rd Edition, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. pp. 351-358.

Maunsell, J.H.R., Cook E.P. (2003) The role of attention in visual processing. (In) A. Parker, A. Derrington and C. Blakemore (eds.) The Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp.157-172.

Maunsell, J.H.R. (2004) The role of attention in visual cerebral cortex. (In) L.M. Chalupa and J.S. Werner (Eds.) The Visual Neurosciences. pp. 1538-1545.

DiCarlo, J.J., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2003) Anterior inferotemporal neurons of monkeys engaged in object recognition can be highly sensitive to object retinal position. Journal of Neurophysiology 89:3264-3278. [PDF]

Ghose, GM, Maunsell, J.H.R. (2002) Attentional modulation in visual cortex depends on task timing. Nature 419:616-620. [Abstract]

Cook, E.P., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2002) Dynamics of neuronal responses in macaque MT and VIP during motion detection. Nature Neuroscience 5:985-994. [PDF]

Ghose, G.M., Yang, T., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2002) Physiological correlates of perceptual learning in monkey V1 and V2. Journal of Neurophysiology 87:1867-1888. [PDF]

Cook, E.P., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2002) Attentional modulation of behavioral performance and neuronal responses in middle temporal and ventral intraparietal areas of macaque monkey. Journal of Neuroscience 22:1994-2004. [PDF]

Maunsell, J.H.R., Romo, R. (2002) Cognitive neuroscience: editorial overview. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 12:131-133.

Maunsell, J.H.R., Cook E.P. (2002) The role of attention in visual processing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 357:1063-1072. [PDF]

Maunsell, J.H.R., McAdams, C.J. (2001) Effects of attention on the responsiveness and selectivity of individual neurons in visual cerebral cortex. (In) J. Braun, C. Koch and J.L. Davis (Eds.) Visual Attention and Cortical Circuits. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. pp. 103-119.

DiCarlo, J.J., Maunsell, J.H.R. (2000) Form representation in monkey inferotemporal cortex is virtually unaltered by free viewing. Nature Neuroscience 3:814-821. [PDF]

McAdams, C.J. Maunsell, J.H.R. (2000) Attention to both space and feature modulates neuronal responses in macaque area V4. Journal of Neurophysiology 83:1751-1755. [PDF]

McAdams, C.J., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1999) Effects of attention on the reliability of individual neurons in monkey visual cortex. Neuron. 23:765-773. [PDF]

McAdams, C.J., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1999) Effects of attention on the orientation tuning functions of single neurons in macaque area V4. Journal of Neuroscience. 19:431-441. [PDF]

Treue, S., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1999) Effects of attention on the processing of motion in macaque middle temporal and medial superior temporal visual cortical areas. Journal of Neuroscience. 19:7591-7602. [PDF]

Maunsell, J.H.R., Ghose, G.M., Assad, J.A., McAdams, C.J., Boudreau, C.E., Noerager, B.D. (1999) Visual response latencies of magnocellular and parvocellular LGN neurons in macaque monkeys. Visual Neuroscience 16:1-14.

Maunsell, J.H.R., McAdams, C.J. (1999) Effects of Attention on Neuronal Response Properties in Visual Cerebral Cortex (in) M.S. Gazzaniga (ed.) The New Cognitive Neurosciences, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. pp. 315-324.

Ghose, G.M., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1999) Specialized representations in visual cortex: A role for binding? Neuron 24:79-85.

Maunsell, J.H.R. (1999) Visual cortex, extrastriate. (in) G. Adelman, B.H. Smith (eds.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2nd Edition, pp. 2118-2121.

Sereno, A.B., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1998) Shape selectivity in primate lateral intraparietal cortex. Nature 395:500-503. [Abstract]

Gibson, J.R., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1997) The sensory modality specificity of neural activity related to memory in visual cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 78:1263-1275. [PDF]

Treue, S., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1997) Attentional modulation of visual signal processing in the parietal cortex. (in) P. Thier and H.-O. Karnath (ed.) Parietal Lobe Contributions to Orientation in 3D Space, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 357-370.

Marsálek, P., Koch, C., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1997) On the relationship between synaptic input and spike output jitter in individual neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 94:735-740.

Treue, S., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1996) Attentional modulation of visual motion processing in cortical areas MT and MST. Nature 382:539-541. [Abstract]

Lehky, S.R., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1996) No binocular rivalry in the LGN of alert macaque monkeys. Vision Research 36:1225-1234. [Abstract]

Assad, J.A., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1995) Neural correlates of inferred motion in primate posterior parietal cortex. Nature 373:518-521. [Abstract]

Maunsell, J.H.R. (1995) The brain's visual world: Representation of visual targets in cerebral cortex. Science 270:764-769.

Maunsell, J.H.R., Ferrera, V.P. (1994) Parallel processing in monkey extrastriate cortex. (in) T.B. Lawton (ed.) Computation Vision Based on Neurobiology, Proceedings of SPIE 2054, pp. 240-242.

Maunsell, J.H.R., Ferrera, V.P. (1994) Attentional mechanisms in visual cortex. (in) M.S. Gazzaniga (ed.) The Cognitive Neurosciences, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. pp. 451-461.

Ferrera, V.P., Rudolph, K., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1994) Responses of neurons in the parietal and temporal visual pathways during a motion task. Journal of Neuroscience 14:6171-6186. [PDF]

Ferrera, V.P., Nealey, T.A., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1994) Responses in macaque visual area V4 following inactivation of the parvocellular and magnocellular LGN pathways. Journal of Neuroscience 14:2080-2088. [PDF]

Nealey, T.A., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1994) Magnocellular and parvocellular contributions to the responses of neurons in macaque striate cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 14:2069-2079. [PDF]

Page, W.K., King, W.M., Merigan, W., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1994) Magnocellular or parvocellular lesions in the lateral geniculate nucleus of monkeys cause minor deficits of smooth pursuit eye movements. Vision Research 34:223-239.

Maunsell, J.H.R., Ferrera, V.P. (1993) Extraretinal representations in visual areas of macaque cerebral cortex. (in) T. Ono, L.R. Squire, M.E. Raichle, D.I. Perrett, M. Fukuda (eds.) Brain Mechanisms of Perception and Memory: From Neuron to Behavior. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 104-118.

Merigan, W.H., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1993) How parallel are the primate visual pathways? Ann. Rev. Neurosci. 16:369-402. [Abstract]

Maunsell, J.H.R. (1993) Neuronal correlates of object representation. (in) T. Poggio, D. Glaser. (eds.) Exploring Brain Functions: Models in Neuroscience. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 195-202.

Merigan, W.H., Nealey, T.A., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1993) Visual effects of lesions of cortical area V2 in macaques. Journal of Neuroscience 13:3180-3191. [PDF]

Pasternak, T., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1992) Spatiotemporal sensitivity following lesions of area 18 in the cat. Journal of Neuroscience 12:4521-4529. [PDF]

Maunsell, J.H.R., Gibson, J.R. (1992) Visual response latencies in striate cortex of the macaque monkey. Journal of Neurophysiology 68:1332-1344. [PDF]

Maunsell, J.H.R. (1992) Functional visual streams. Current Opinion Neurobiol. 2:506-510.

Ferrera, V.P., Nealey, T.A., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1992) Mixed parvocellular and magnocellular geniculate signals in visual area V4. Nature 358:756-758. [Abstract]

Merigan, W.H., Byrne, C.E., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1991) Does primate motion perception depend on the magnocellular pathway? Journal of Neuroscience 11:3422-3429. [PDF]

Maunsell, J.H.R., Sclar, G., Nealey, T.A., DePriest, D.D. (1991) Extraretinal representations in area V4 in the macaque monkey. Visual Neuroscience 7:561-573.

Merigan, W.H., Katz, L. M., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1991) The effects of parvocellular lateral geniculate lesions on the acuity and contrast sensitivity of macaque monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience 11:994-1001. [PDF]

Maunsell, J.H.R., Hochstein, S. (1991) Effects of behavioral state on the stimulus selectivity of neurons in area V4 of the macaque monkey. (in) B. Blum (ed.) Channels in the Visual Nervous System: Neurophysiology, Psychophysics and Models. Freund Publishing, Tel Aviv. 447-470.

Maunsell, J.H.R., Nealey, T.A., DePriest, D.D. (1990) Magnocellular and parvocellular contributions to responses in the middle temporal visual area (MT) of the macaque monkey. Journal of Neuroscience 10:3323-3334. [PDF]

Merigan, W.H., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1990) Macaque vision after magnocellular lateral geniculate lesions. Visual Neuroscience 5:347-352.

Sclar, G., Maunsell, J.H.R., Lennie, P (1990) Coding of image contrast in central visual pathways of the macaque monkey. Vision Research 30:1-10.

Maunsell, J.H.R., Nealey, T.A., Sclar, G., DePriest, D.D. (1989) Representation of extraretinal information in monkey visual cortex (in) D. Lam (ed.) Proceedings of the Retinal Research Foundation Symposium 2:223-235.

Pasternak, T., Horn, K., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1989) Deficits in speed discrimination following lesions of the lateral suprasylvian cortex in the cat. Visual Neuroscience 3:365-376.

Maunsell, J.H.R. (1988) Representation of three-dimensional visual space in the cerebral cortex. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology 66:478-487.

Haenny, P.E., Maunsell, J.H.R., Schiller, P.H. (1988) State dependent activity in monkey visual cortex. Experimental Brain Research 69:245-259.

Schiller, P.H., Sandell, J.H., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1987) The effects of frontal eye field and superior colliculus lesions on saccadic latencies in the rhesus monkey. Journal of Neurophysiology 57:1033-1049. [PDF]

Maunsell, J.H.R., Van Essen, D.C. (1987) The topographic organization of the middle temporal visual area in the macaque monkey: Representational biases and relationship to callosal connections and myeloarchitectonic boundaries. Journal of Comparative Neurology 266:535-555.

Maunsell, J.H.R. (1987) Physiological evidence for two visual subsystems (in) L. Vaina (ed.) Matters of Intelligence Reidel Press, Dordrecht, Holland, 59-87.

Maunsell, J.H.R., Newsome, W.T. (1987) Visual processing in monkey extrastriate cortex. Ann. Rev. Neurosci. 10:363-401.

Schiller, P.H., Sandell, J.H., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1986) Functions of the ON and OFF channels of the visual system. Nature 322:824-825. [Abstract]

Newsome, W.T., Maunsell, J.H.R., Van Essen, D.C. (1986) Ventral posterior visual area of the macaque: Visual topography and areal boundaries. Journal of Comparative Neurology 252:139-153.

Van Essen, D.C., Newsome, W.T., Maunsell, J.H.R., Bixby, J.L. (1986) The projections from striate cortex (V1) to areas V2 and V3 in the macaque monkey: Asymmetries, areal boundaries, and patchy connections. Journal of Comparative Neurology 244:451-480.

Van Essen, D.C., Newsome, W.T., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1984) The representation of the visual field in striate cortex of the macaque: Anisotropies and individual variability. Vision Research 24:429-448.

Maunsell, J.H.R., Van Essen, D.C. (1983) The connections of the middle temporal visual area in the macaque monkey and their relationship to a hierarchy of cortical areas. Journal of Neuroscience 3:2563-2586. [PDF]

Maunsell, J.H.R., Van Essen, D.C. (1983) Functional properties of neurons in the middle temporal visual area of the macaque monkey. II. Binocular interactions and the sensitivity to binocular disparity. Journal of Neurophysiology 49:1148-1167. [PDF]

Maunsell,J.H.R., Van Essen, D.C. (1983) Functional properties of neurons in the middle temporal visual area of the macaque monkey. I. Selectivity for stimulus direction, speed and orientations. Journal of Neurophysiology 49:1127-1147. [PDF]

Van Essen, D.C., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1983) Hierarchical organization and functional streams in the visual cortex. Trends Neurosci. 6:370-375.

Van Essen, D.C., Maunsell, J.H.R., Bixby, J.L. (1981) The middle temporal visual area in the macaque: Myeloarchitecture, connections, functional properties and topographic organization. Journal of Comparative Neurology 199:293-326.

Van Essen, D.C., Maunsell, J.H.R., Bixby, J.L. (1980) Organization of extrastriate visual areas in the macaque monkey (in) Woolsey, C.N. (ed.) Cortical Sensory Organization Humana Press, Clifton, NJ. 2:157-170.

Bixby, J.L., Maunsell, J.H.R., Van Essen, D.C. (1980) Effects of motorunit size on innervation patterns in neonatal mammals. Experimental Neurology 70:516-524.

Van Essen, D.C., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1980) Two-dimensional maps of the cerebral cortex. Journal of Comparative Neurology 191:255-281.