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Selected Publications
- Zaksas D, Pasternak T (2006) Directional Signals in the Prefrontal Cortex and in Area MT during a Working Memory for Visual Motion Task. J Neuroscience 26:11726-11742.
- Zaksas D, Pasternak T (2005) Area MT neurons respond to visual motion distant from their receptive fields. Journal of Neurophysiology. 94:4156-4167.
- Pasternak T, Greenlee M (2005) Working Memory in Primate Sensory Systems. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 6, 97-107.
- Huxlin KR, Pasternak T (2004) Training-induced Recovery of Visual Motion Perception after Extrastriate Cortical Damage in the Adult Cat. Cereb Cortex 14:81-90.
- Bisley JW, Zaksas D, Droll J, Pasternak T (2004) Activity of Neurons in Cortical Area MT During a Memory for Motion Task. J Neurophysiol 91:286-300.
- Pasternak T, Zaksas D (2003) Stimulus specificity and temporal dynamics of working memory for visual motion. J Neurophysiology 90:2752-2757.
- Zaksas D, Bisley JW, Pasternak T (2001) Motion information is spatially localized in a visual working-memory task. J Neurophysiol 86:912-921.
- Huxlin KR, Pasternak T (2001) Long-term neurochemical changes after visual cortical lesions in the adult cat. J Comp Neurol 429:221-241.
- Bisley JW, Zaksas D, Pasternak T (2001) Microstimulation of Cortical Area MT Affects Performance on a Visual Working Memory Task. J Neurophysiol 85:187-196.
- Bisley JW, Pasternak T (2000) The multiple roles of visual cortical areas MT/MST in remembering the direction of visual motion. Cereb Cortex 10:1053-1065.
- Reynolds JH, Pasternak T, Desimone R (2000) Attention increases sensitivity of V4 neurons. Neuron 26:703-714.
- Rudolph K, Pasternak T (1999) Transient and permanent deficits in motion perception after lesions of cortical areas MT and MST in the macaque monkey. Cereb Cortex 9:90-100.
- Pasternak, T., Thompkins, J., Olson, C. (1995), The role of striate cortex in visual function of the cat. J. Neurosci., 15: 1940-1950.
Recent Abstracts
Hussar CR, Zaksas D, Pasternak T (2007) Dynamic modulation of direction selectivity by task demands in prefrontal cortex. Journal of Vision Abstracts.
Lui LL, Hussar CR, Pasternak T (2007) Neurons in the prefrontal cortex are tuned for speed during speed discrimination task. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.
Hussar CR, Lui LL, Pasternak T (2007) Memory-related activity in prefrontal cortex during retention of stimulus speed. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.
Hussar CR, Zaksas D, Pasternak T (2006) Task demands modulate response selectivity of prefrontal neurons during a working memory for visual motion task. . In: Society for Neuroscience. Annual Meeting, Atlanta. (the abstract is attached)
Zaksas D, LaMendola N, Pasternak T (2006) Remembered direction modulates responses to visual motion in MT and prefrontal neurons. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.
Book Chapters & Reviews
Postle B & Pasternak T (in press) Short-Term and Working Memory. In: The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Squire L, Albright T, Bloom F, Gage F, Spitzer N, eds): Elsevier.
Merigan, W.H., & Pasternak, T. (2003). Lesions in Primate Visual Cortex Leading to Deficits of Perception.. "Neuropsychology of Vision". In M. Fahle & M. Greenlee (Eds.), Neuropsychology of Vision. Oxford Univ. Press.
Pasternak, T., Bisley, J.W., & Calkins, D. (2003). Visual Information Processing in the Primate Brain. In M.Gallagher & R. J. Nelson (Eds.), Biological Psychology (Vol. 3). New York: John Wiley& Sons, Inc.
Ungerleider L, Pasternak T (2004) Ventral and Dorsal Cortical Processing Streams. In: Visual Neurosciences (Chalupa LM, Werner JS, eds), pp 541-563. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.