It is important to obtain unbiased estimates of visual population receptive fields (pRFs) by functional magnetic resonance imaging. We use mild regularization constraints to estimate pRF topography without a-priori assumptions about pRF shape, allowing us to choose specific pRF models post-hoc. This is particularly advantageous in subjects with visual-pathway lesions.
We thank the VISTA software group (Brian Wandell and associates, at Stanford).
S. S. was supported by McNair 2280403105,NEI R01-EY109272, and NEI R01-EY024019 and as HHMI Early Carrer Award. A. P. and G. K. was supported by the Max-Planck Society, G. K. was supported by the PLASTICISE project of the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission, Contract no. HEATH-F2-2009-223524.
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