Jan W. Kurzawski

This study benchmarks seven automated methods and manual segmentation for LGN delineation, finding HIPS-THOMAS and DeepThalamus perform best, while manual segmentation remains precise but variable.

The paper investigates how the ventral stream processes natural images with noise, finding that recognition bandwidth is conserved but noise tolerance increases along the stream.

The paper shows that monocular deprivation in humans reduces pulvinar-to-V1 connectivity, correlating with reduced ocular dominance shift, suggesting pulvinar modulates adult visual plasticity.

The paper measures crowding distance and V4 map size in humans to find that V4 size predicts the spacing limit of visual perception.

This paper validates the Bouma law across 50 observers, showing it explains 82-94% of crowding distance variance, with additional factors revealing asymmetries and proposing a standardized Bouma factor b for cross-study comparisons.

EasyEyes enables accurate fixation for online vision testing without gaze tracking, showing consistent crowding thresholds across lab and online settings.

GLMsingle improves single-trial fMRI response estimates using custom HRFs, noise regressors, and ridge regression, enhancing reliability and decoding performance across datasets.

The paper investigates non-neural factors affecting BOLD response magnitudes in human participants and proposes a correction method to improve fMRI data interpretation.

The paper investigates short-term plasticity in the visual thalamus, finding plasticity in the ventral pulvinar but not in the lateral geniculate nucleus.

This study assesses the reproducibility of retinotopic maps across two fMRI datasets, finding consistent pRF properties despite differences in experimental protocols.

The paper shows that white matter fibers connecting area prostriata and the thalamus are retinotopically organized, with distinct pathways for central and peripheral visual fields.

This study shows that short-term monocular deprivation in adults increases BOLD response to the deprived eye in V1, V2, V3, and V4, indicating homeostatic plasticity in the visual cortex.