April 2011
Volume 52, Issue 14
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   April 2011
Population Receptive Field Estimates In Primary Visual Cortex Of Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa
Yoichiro Masuda; Hiroshi Horiguchi; Serge O. Dumoulin; Satoshi Nakadomari; Satoru Miyauchi; Shigeyuki Kan; Takahiko Koike; Ayumu Furuta; Hiroshi Tsuneoka; Brian A. Wandell
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Yoichiro Masuda
    Ophthalmology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    Atsugi City Hospital, Atsugi, Japan
  • Hiroshi Horiguchi
    Ophthalmology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    Stanford Universitiy, Palo Alto, California
  • Serge O. Dumoulin
    Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Satoshi Nakadomari
    Ophthalmology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Saitama, Japan
  • Satoru Miyauchi
    National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan
  • Shigeyuki Kan
    National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan
  • Takahiko Koike
    National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan
  • Ayumu Furuta
    Maeda Ophthalmic Clinic, Fukushima, Japan
  • Hiroshi Tsuneoka
    Ophthalmology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
  • Brian A. Wandell
    Stanford Universitiy, Palo Alto, California
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships  Yoichiro Masuda, None; Hiroshi Horiguchi, None; Serge O. Dumoulin, None; Satoshi Nakadomari, None; Satoru Miyauchi, None; Shigeyuki Kan, None; Takahiko Koike, None; Ayumu Furuta, None; Hiroshi Tsuneoka, None; Brian A. Wandell, None
  • Footnotes
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      Yoichiro Masuda, Hiroshi Horiguchi, Serge O. Dumoulin, Satoshi Nakadomari, Satoru Miyauchi, Shigeyuki Kan, Takahiko Koike, Ayumu Furuta, Hiroshi Tsuneoka, Brian A. Wandell; Population Receptive Field Estimates In Primary Visual Cortex Of Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2011;52(14):4996.

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Abstract

Purpose: : BOLD responses can be elicited by task demands in regions of V1 deafferented due to retinal lesion. Our hypothesis is that task-dependent responses in the lesion projection zone (LPZ) arise from an imbalance between feed-forward gating signals and extrastriate feed-back signals (Masuda et al., 2008, 2010). Extrastriate feed-back neurons projecting to V1 have larger receptive fields (RF) than feed-forward signals. We used fMRI to measure the RF in the LPZ of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) patients and test the hypothesis that the RF size estimated from task-dependent LPZ signals is larger than the size estimated in corresponding V1 regions of healthy controls.

Methods: : We measured RF size using moving-bar stimuli and a model-based analytical method (Dumoulin and Wandell, 2008). The subjects either viewed the stimuli passively or performed a stimulus judgment task. RP subjects had a peripheral visual field loss so that they had a visual field contraction within 10 degrees in radius. Control subjects were presented stimuli that simulated the peripheral visual field loss of the RP subject.

Results: : In all subjects during passive view we measured a response in the posterior calcarine sulcus, which is the functional retina projection zone (FPZ), and a large unresponsive zone in the anterior calcarine sulcus (LPZ). In control subjects there was no significant difference in the V1 signal between passive viewing and an attention-demanding task. However, in the RP subjects we observed a significant response in the LPZ in the attention-demanding task. The RF size estimated from the task-dependent BOLD was substantially larger than the typical RF size in this portion of anterior calcarine cortex.

Conclusions: : The large RF size in the LPZ is consistent with the hypothesis that the task-dependent signals arise from extrastriate signals. We propose that in RP subjects, unlike controls, extrastriate feed-back signals are not gated by feed-forward retinal signals.

Keywords: plasticity • visual cortex 
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