MESOVISION

LABORATORY

Journal Articles

Malladi, S. N., Skerswetat, J., Tootell, R. B., Gaier, E. D., Bex, P., Hunter, D. G., & Nasr, S. (in press). Decreased scene-selective activity within the posterior intraparietal cortex in amblyopic adults. Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Nasr, S., Skerswetat, J., Gaier, E. D., Malladi, S. N., Kennedy, B., Tootell, R. B. H., Bex, P., & Hunter, D. G. (2025) Using high-resolution functional MRI to differentiate impacts of strabismic and anisometropic amblyopia on evoked ocular dominance activity in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 45(6). [pdf]

Aganj, I. and Nasr, S., 2024, October. Selective Functional Connectivity between Ocular Dominance Columns in the Primary Visual Cortex. In International Workshop on Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis, 1-10. [pdf]

Marchant, Joshua K., Natalie G. Ferris, Diana Grass, Magdelena S. Allen, Vivek Gopalakrishnan, Mark Olchanyi, Devang Sehgal et al. (2024) Mesoscale Brain Mapping: Bridging Scales and Modalities in Neuroimaging–A Symposium Review. Neuroinformatics 22(4), 679-706.[pdf]

Kennedy, Bryan, Sarala N. Malladi, Roger BH Tootell, & Shahin Nasr. (2024) A previously undescribed scene-selective site is the key to encoding ego-motion in naturalistic environments. Elife 13, RP91601. [pdf]

Haenelt, D., Trampel, R., Nasr, S., Polimeni, J.R., Tootell, R., Sereno, M.I., Pine, K.J., Edwards, L.J., Helbling, S., & Weiskopf, N. (2023). High-resolution quantitative and functional MRI indicate lower myelination of thin and thick stripes in human secondary visual cortex. eLife. [pdf]

Rosas, H. D., Lewis, L., Connors, N., Mercaldo, N. D., Nasr, S. (2023). Are you angry? Neural basis of impaired facial expression recognition in pre-manifest Huntington’s. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 109, 105289. [pdf]

Kennedy, B., Bex, P., Hunter, D. G., & Nasr, S. (2023). Two interdigitated fine-scale channels for encoding motion and stereopsis within the human magnocellular stream. Progress in Neurobiology. [pdf]

Tootell, R.B., Nasiriavanaki, Z., Babadi, B., Greve, D.N., Nasr, S., & Holt, D.J. (2022). Interdigitated Columnar Representation of Personal Space and Visual Space in Human Parietal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. [pdf]

Wang, J., Nasr, S., Roe, A. W., & Polimeni, J. R. (2022). Critical factors in achieving fine-scale functional MRI: Removing sources of inadvertent spatial smoothing. Human Brain Mapping. [pdf]

Nasr, S., Kleinfeld, D., & Polimeni, J. R. (2021). The Global Configuration of Visual Stimuli Alters Co-Fluctuations of Cross-Hemispheric Human Brain Activity. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(47), 9756–9766. [pdf]

Tootell, R. B. H., & Nasr, S. (2020). Scotopic Vision Is Selectively Processed in Thick-Type Columns in Human Extrastriate Cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 00(00), 1-19. [pdf]

Berman, A. J. L., Grissom, W. A., Witzel, T., Nasr, S., Park, D. J., Setsompop, K., & Polimeni, J. R. (in press). Ultra‐high spatial resolution BOLD fMRI in humans using combined segmented‐accelerated VFA‐FLEET with a recursive RF pulse design. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, mrm.28415. [pdf]

Nasr, S., LaPierre, C., Vaughn, C. E., Witzel, T., Stockmann, J. P., & Polimeni, J. R. (2020). In vivo functional localization of the temporal monocular crescent representation in human primary visual cortex. NeuroImage, 209, 116516. [pdf]

Nasr, S., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2020). Asymmetries in Global Perception Are Represented in Near-versus Far-Preferring Clusters in Human Visual Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(40), 355-368. [pdf]

Tuominen, L., Boeke, E., DeCross, S., Wolthusen, R. P., Nasr, S., Milad, M., Vangel, M., Tootell, R., & Holt, D. (2019). The relationship of perceptual discrimination to neural mechanisms of fear generalization. NeuroImage, 188, 445–455. [pdf]

Nasr, S., & Rosas, H. D. (2019). Impact of Huntington’s Disease on Mental Rotation Performance in Motor Pre-Symptomatic Individuals. Journal of Huntington’s Disease, 8(3), 339–356. [pdf]

Nasr, S., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2018). Visual field biases for near and far stimuli in disparity selective columns in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 168, 358–365. [pdf]

Wolthusen, R. P. F., Coombs, G., Boeke, E. A., Ehrlich, S., DeCross, S. N., Nasr, S., & Holt, D. J. (2018). Correlation Between Levels of Delusional Beliefs and Perfusion of the Hippocampus and an Associated Network in a Non–Help-Seeking Population. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 3(2), 178–186. [pdf]

Nasr, S., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2018). Columnar organization of mid-spectral and end-spectral hue preferences in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 181, 748–759. [pdf]

Tootell, R. B. H., & Nasr, S. (2017). Columnar segregation of magnocellular and parvocellular streams in human extrastriate cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(33), 8014–8032. [pdf]

Nasr, S., & Rosas, H. D. (2016). Impact of Visual Corticostriatal Loop Disruption on Neural Processing within the Parahippocampal Place Area. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(40), 10456-10471. [pdf]

Echavarria, C., Nasr, S., & Tootell, R. (2016). Smooth versus textured surfaces: Feature-based category selectivity in human visual cortex. ENeuro, 3(5). [pdf]

Nasr, S., Polimeni, J. R., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2016). Interdigitated Color- and Disparity-Selective Columns within Human Visual Cortical Areas V2 and V3. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(6), 1841–1857. [pdf]

Nasr, S., Stemmann, H., Vanduffel, W., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2015). Increased visual stimulation systematically decreases activity in lateral intermediate cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 25(10), 4009–4028. [pdf]

Tootell, R. B. H., Echavarria, C., & Nasr, S. (2015). A problem of overlap. Visual Neuroscience, 32, E001. [pdf]

Holt, D. J., Boeke, E. A., Wolthusen, R. P. F., Nasr, S., Milad, M. R., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2014). A parametric study of fear generalization to faces and non-face objects: relationship to discrimination thresholds. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 1–12. [pdf]

Nasr, S., Echavarria, C. E., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2014). Thinking Outside the Box: Rectilinear Shapes Selectively Activate Scene-Selective Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(20), 6721–6735. [pdf]

Holt, D. J., Cassidy, B. S., Yue, X., Rauch, S. L., Boeke, E. A., Nasr, S., Tootell, R. B. H., & Coombs, G. (2014). Neural correlates of personal space intrusion. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(12), 4123–4134. [pdf]

Nasr, S., Devaney, K. J., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2013). Spatial encoding and underlying circuitry in scene-selective cortex. NeuroImage, 83, 892–900. [pdf]

Yue, X., Nasr, S., Devaney, K. J., Holt, D. J., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2013). FMRI analysis of contrast polarity in face-selective cortex in humans and monkeys. NeuroImage, 76, 57–69. [pdf]

Nasr, S., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2012). A cardinal orientation bias in scene-selective visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(43), 14921–14926. [pdf]

Nasr, S. (2012). Sensitivity of event-related brain potentials to task rules. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 74(6), 1343–1354. [pdf]

Nasr, S., Liu, N., Devaney, K. J., Yue, X., Rajimehr, R., Ungerleider, L. G., & Tootell, R. B. H. (2011). Scene-Selective Cortical Regions in Human and Nonhuman Primates. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(39), 13771-13785. [pdf]

Nasr, S. (2010). Differential impact of attention on the early and late categorization related human brain potentials. Journal of Vision, 10(11), 1–18. [pdf]

Nasr, S., & Esteky, H. (2009). A study of N250 event-related brain potential during face and non-face detection tasks. Journal of Vision, 9(5), 5–5. [pdf]

Nasr, S., Moeeny, A., & Esteky, H. (2008). Neural Correlate of Filtering of Irrelevant Information from Visual Working Memory. PLoS ONE, 3(9), e3282. [pd

Book Chapters

Tootell, R. B. H., & Nasr, S. (2015). Primate Color Vision. In Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedia Reference, 489–506.

Rajimehr, R., Nasr, S., & Tootell, R. B. (2014). Deconstructing Scene Selectivity in Visual Cortex. SceneVision: Making Sense of What We See, 73-90.