title: fMRI of the rod scotoma elucidates cortical rod pathways and implications for lesion measurements.
abstract: Are silencing, ectopic shifts, and receptive field (RF) scaling in cortical scotoma projection zones (SPZs) the result of long-term reorganization (plasticity) or short-term adaptation? Electrophysiological studies of SPZs after retinal lesions in animal models remain controversial, because they are unable to conclusively answer this question because of limitations of the methodology. Here, we used functional MRI (fMRI) visual field mapping through population RF (pRF) modeling with moving bar stimuli under photopic and scotopic conditions to measure the effects of the rod scotoma in human early visual cortex. As a naturally occurring central scotoma, it has a large cortical representation, is free of traumatic lesion complications, is completely reversible, and has not reorganized under normal conditions (but can as seen in rod monochromats). We found that the pRFs overlapping the SPZ in V1, V2, V3, hV4, and VO-1 generally (i) reduced their blood oxygen level-dependent signal coherence and (ii) shifted their pRFs more eccentric but (iii) scaled their pRF sizes in variable ways. Thus, silencing, ectopic shifts, and pRF scaling in SPZs are not unique identifiers of cortical reorganization; rather, they can be the expected result of short-term adaptation. However, are there differences between rod and cone signals in V1, V2, V3, hV4, and VO-1? We did not find differences for all five maps in more peripheral eccentricities outside of rod scotoma influence in coherence, eccentricity representation, or pRF size. Thus, rod and cone signals seem to be processed similarly in cortex.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 bbarton@uci.edu.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Barton
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.
authors.forename: Alyssa A
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8820-1525
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Brewer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D055253:Color Vision / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D017948:Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells / Q000473:pathology*; D012607:Scotoma / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: adaptation; functional MRI; plasticity; population receptive fields; scotopic
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