LIN Staff
Prof. Dr. Andrew Parker
Guest
Heisenberg Research Group Sensory Physiology
Leibniz Institute for NeurobiologyBrenneckestr. 6
39118 Magdeburg
Germany
Phone: +49 391 6755064
Email: Andrew.Parker@lin-magdeburg.de
ORCID: 0000-0001-5800-0407
- Publications
Publications
Parker AJ, Alvarez I, Mancari A, Betina Ip I, Krug K, Bridge H. 2025. Receptive fields from single-neuron recording and MRI reveal similar information coding for binocular depth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 122(45):Article e2409893122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409893122Alvarez I, Mancari A, Ip IB, Parker AJ, Bridge H. 2025. Characterizing Human Disparity Tuning Properties Using Population Receptive Field Mapping. Journal of Neuroscience. 45(12):Article e0795242025. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0795-24.2025Matuszewski J, Alvarez I, Clarke WT, Parker AJ, Bridge H, Betina Ip I. 2025. Correlated and Anticorrelated Binocular Disparity Modulate GABA+ and Glutamate/Glutamine Concentrations in the Human Visual Cortex. eNeuro. 12(3):Article ENEURO.0355-24.2025. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0355-24.2025Rangotis R, Nowakowska S, Dayan P, Parker AJ, Kakaei E, Akande A, Krug K. 2024. Distinct decision processes for 3D and motion stimuli in both humans and monkeys revealed by computational modelling. bioRxiv. (bioRxiv). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.25.625189Ip IB, Clarke WT, Wyllie A, Tracey K, Matuszewski J, Jbabdi S, Starling L, Templer S, Willis H, Breach L, et al. 2024. The relationship between visual acuity loss and GABAergic inhibition in amblyopia. Imaging Neuroscience. 2:1-18. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00256Bridge H, Ip IB, Parker AJ. 2023. Investigating the human binocular visual system using multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging. Perception. 52(7):441-458. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066231178664Christou C, Parker A. 2023. Visual realism and virtual reality: A psychological perspective. In Simulated And Virtual Realities: Elements Of Perception. CRC Press. pp. 53-84.Tang-Wright K, Smith JET, Bridge H, Miller KL, Dyrby TB, Ahmed B, Reislev NL, Sallet J, Parker AJ, Krug K. 2022. Intra-Areal Visual Topography in Primate Brains Mapped with Probabilistic Tractography of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging. Cerebral Cortex. 32(12):2555-2574. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab364Betina Ip I, Alvarez I, Tacon M, Parker AJ, Bridge H. 2022. MRI Stereoscope: A Miniature Stereoscope for Human Neuroimaging. eNeuro. 9(1):Article ENEURO.0382-21.2021. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0382-21.2021Alvarez I, Hurley SA, Parker AJ, Bridge H. 2021. Human primary visual cortex shows larger population receptive fields for binocular disparity-defined stimuli. Brain Structure and Function. 226(9):2819-2838. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-021-02351-3Ip IB, Emir UE, Lunghi C, Parker AJ, Bridge H. 2021. GABAergic inhibition in the human visual cortex relates to eye dominance. Scientific Reports. 11(1):Article 17022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95685-1Smith JET, Parker AJ. 2021. Correlated structure of neuronal firing in macaque visual cortex limits information for binocular depth discrimination. Journal of Neurophysiology. 126(1):275-303. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00667.2020Krug K, Parker AJ. 2021. Die neuronalen Signale, die Wahrnehmung verändern. Neuroforum. 24(1):39-48. https://doi.org/10.1515/nf-2017-0036Parker AJ, Krug K. 2020. Editorial overview: The growing research networks of the physiology of vision. Current Opinion in Physiology. 16:iii-v. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cophys.2020.09.008Parker AJ. 2020. Intermediate level cortical areas and the multiple roles of area V4. Current Opinion in Physiology. 16:61-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cophys.2020.07.003Parker AJ. 2020. The ethical cost of doing nothing. National Science Review. 7(7):1260-1262. https://doi.org/10.1093/NSR/NWAA095Parker AJ. 2019. Recognition for vision. Vision (Switzerland). 3(4):Article 69. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision3040069Alvarez I, Parker AJ, Bridge H. 2019. Normative cerebral cortical thickness for human visual areas. NeuroImage. 201:Article 116057. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116057Betina Ip I, Emir UE, Parker AJ, Campbell J, Bridge H. 2019. Comparison of neurochemical and BOLD signal contrast response functions in the human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(40):7968-7975. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3021-18.2019Krug K, Parker AJ. 2017. The neural events that change perception. Neuroforum. 24(1):A31-A39. https://doi.org/10.1515/nf-2017-A036Betina Ip I, Berrington A, Hess AT, Parker AJ, Emir UE, Bridge H. 2017. Combined fMRI-MRS acquires simultaneous glutamate and BOLD-fMRI signals in the human brain. NeuroImage. 155:113-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.04.030Large I, Bridge H, Ahmed B, Clare S, Kolasinski J, Lam WW, Miller KL, Dyrby TB, Parker AJ, Smith JET, et al. 2016. Individual Differences in the Alignment of Structural and Functional Markers of the V5/MT Complex in Primates. Cerebral Cortex. 26(10):3928-3944. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw180Krug K, Curnow TL, Parker AJ. 2016. Defining the V5/MT neuronal pool for perceptual decisions in a visual stereo-motion task. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 371(1697):Article 20150260. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0260Parker AJ, Smith JET, Krug K. 2016. Neural architectures for stereo vision. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 371(1697):Article 20150261. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0261Parker AJ. 2016. Vision in our three-dimensional world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 371(1697):Article 20150251. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0251Cicmil N, Cumming BG, Parker AJ, Krug K. 2015. Reward modulates the effect of visual cortical microstimulation on perceptual decisions. eLife. 4:Article e07832. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07832Ip IB, Bridge H, Parker AJ. 2014. Effects of spatial and feature attention on disparity-rendered structure-from-motion stimuli in the human visual cortex. PLOS ONE. 9(6):Article e100074. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100074Ip IB, Minini L, Dow J, Parker AJ, Bridge H. 2014. Responses to interocular disparity correlation in the human cerebral cortex. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics. 34(2):186-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/opo.12121Cicmil N, Bridge H, Parker AJ, Woolrich MW, Krug K. 2014. Localization of MEG human brain responses to retinotopic visual stimuli with contrasting source reconstruction approaches. Frontiers in Neuroscience. (8 MAY):Article 127. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00127Parker AJ. 2014. Revealing Rembrandt. Frontiers in Neuroscience. (8 APR):Article 76. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00076Krug K, Cicmil N, Parker AJ, Cumming BG. 2013. A causal role for V5/MT neurons coding motion-disparity conjunctions in resolving perceptual ambiguity. Current Biology. 23(15):1454-1459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.06.023Parker AJ. 2013. A micro-pool model for decision-related signals in visual cortical areas. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. (JUL):1-10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2013.00115Bridge H, Thomas OM, Minini L, Cavina-Pratesi C, Milner AD, Parker AJ. 2013. Structural and functional changes across the visual cortex of a patient with visual form agnosia. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(31):12779-12791. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4853-12.2013Prescott MJ, Brown VJ, Flecknell PA, Garrod K, Lemon RN, Parker AJ, Ryder K, Schultz W, Scott L, Watson J, et al. 2012. Response to Westlund's commentary: 'Can conditioned reinforcers and variable-Ratio Schedules make food- and fluid control redundant?'. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 204(1):206-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.08.038Ip B, Dow J, Minini L, Parker A, Bridge H. 2012. Human cortical responses to variations of the interocular correlation of binocular signals. In 2012 International Conference on 3D Imaging, IC3D 2012 - Proceedings. IEEE Computer Society. Article 6615118. (2012 International Conference on 3D Imaging, IC3D 2012 - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1109/IC3D.2012.6615118Krug K, Parker AJ. 2011. Neurons in dorsal visual area V5/MT signal relative disparity. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(49):17892-17904. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2658-11.2011Huang M, Bridge H, Kemp MJ, Parker AJ. 2011. Human cortical activity evoked by the assignment of authenticity when viewing works of art. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. (NOVEMBER). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00134Prescott MJ, Brown VJ, Flecknell PA, Gaffan D, Garrod K, Lemon RN, Parker AJ, Ryder K, Schultz W, Scott L, et al. 2010. Refinement of the use of food and fluid control as motivational tools for macaques used in behavioural neuroscience research: Report of a Working Group of the NC3Rs. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 193(2):167-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.09.003Minini L, Parker AJ, Bridge H. 2010. Neural modulation by binocular disparity greatest in human dorsal visual stream. Journal of Neurophysiology. 104(1):169-178. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00790.2009Read JCA, Phillipson GP, Serrano-Pedraza I, David Milner A, Parker AJ. 2010. Stereoscopic vision in the absence of the lateral occipital cortex. PLOS ONE. 5(9):1-14. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012608Parker AJ. 2009. From maverick to mainstream. Perception. 38(6):799. https://doi.org/10.1068/ldmk-barParker AJ. 2009. Stereoscopic Vision. In Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier Ltd. pp. 411-417. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00236-9Krug K, Brunskill E, Scarna A, Goodwin GM, Parker AJ. 2008. Perceptual switch rates with ambiguous structure-from-motion figures in bipolar disorder. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 275(1645):1839-1848. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0043Roe AW, Parker AJ, Born RT, DeAngelis GC. 2007. Disparity channels in early vision (Journal of Neuroscience (2007) (11820-11831)): Erratum for Roe et al.Journal of Neuroscience. 27(52):14525.Bridge H, Parker AJ. 2007. Topographical representation of binocular depth in the human visual cortex using fMRI. Journal of Vision. 7(14):Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1167/7.14.15Roe AW, Parker AJ, Born RT, DeAngelis GC. 2007. Disparity channels in early vision. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(44):11820-11831. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4164-07.2007Parker AJ. 2007. Binocular depth perception and the cerebral cortex. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 8(5):379-391. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2131Glennerster A, Tcheang L, Gilson SJ, Fitzgibbon AW, Parker AJ. 2006. Humans ignore motion and stereo cues in favor of a fictional stable world. Current Biology. 16(4):428-432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2006.01.019Nienborg H, Bridge H, Parker AJ, Cumming BG. 2005. Neuronal computation of disparity in V1 limits temporal resolution for detecting disparity modulation. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(44):10207-10219. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2342-05.2005Bridge H, Clare S, Jenkinson M, Jezzard P, Parker AJ, Matthews PM. 2005. Independent anatomical and functional measures of the V1/V2 boundary in human visual cortex. Journal of Vision. 5(2):93-102. https://doi.org/10.1167/5.2.1Krug K, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 2004. Comparing perceptual signals of single V5/MT neurons in two binocular depth tasks. Journal of Neurophysiology. 92(3):1586-1596. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00851.2003Nienborg H, Bridge H, Parker AJ, Cumming BG. 2004. Receptive Feild Size in V1 Neurons Limits Acuity for Perceiving Disparity Modulation. Journal of Neuroscience. 24(9):2065-2076. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3887-03.2004Parker AJ, Krug K. 2003. Neuronal mechanisms for the perception of ambiguous stimuli. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 13(4):433-439. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0959-4388(03)00099-0Bridge H, Clare S, Jezzard P, Parker AJ, Matthews PM. 2003. A comparison of structurally and functionally defined human primary visual cortex. Journal of Vision. 3(9):374a. https://doi.org/10.1167/3.9.374Glennerster A, Gilson SJ, Tcheang L, Parker AJ. 2003. Perception of size in a 'dynamic Ames room'. Journal of Vision. 3(9):490a. https://doi.org/10.1167/3.9.490Curnow TL, Krug K, Parker AJ. 2003. Similar temporal specificity of perceptual choice signals across a large pool of V5/MT neurons. Journal of Vision. 3(9):405a. https://doi.org/10.1167/3.9.405Tcheang L, Glennerster A, Gilson SJ, Parker AJ. 2003. Systematic distortions of perceptual stability investigated using virtual reality. Journal of Vision. 3(9):497a. https://doi.org/10.1167/3.9.497Read JCA, Parker AJ, Cumming BG. 2002. A simple model accounts for the response of disparity-tuned V1 neurons to anticorrelated images. Visual Neuroscience. 19(6):735-753. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952523802196052Parker AJ, Krug K, Cumming BG. 2002. Neuronal activity and its links with the perception of multi-stable figures. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 357(1424):1053-1062. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2002.1112Parker A, Derrington A, Blakemore C. 2002. The physiology of cognitive processes: Introduction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 357(1424):959-961. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2002.1115Thomas OM, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 2002. A specialization for relative disparity in v2. Nature Neuroscience. 5(5):472-478. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn837Prince SJD, Pointon AD, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 2002. Quantitative analysis of the responses of V1 neurons to horizontal disparity in dynamic random-dot stereograms. Journal of Neurophysiology. 87(1):191-208. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00465.2000Prince SJD, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 2002. Range and mechanism of encoding of horizontal disparity in macaque V1. Journal of Neurophysiology. 87(1):209-221. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00466.2000Read JCA, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 2002. Simple cells can show non-linear binocular combination. Journal of Vision. 2(7):286a. https://doi.org/10.1167/2.7.286Dodd JV, Krug K, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 2001. Perceptually bistable three-dimensional figures evoke high choice probabilities in cortical area MT. Journal of Neuroscience. 21(13):4809-4821. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.21-13-04809.2001Parker AJ, Cumming BG. 2001. Cortical mechanisms of binocular stereoscopic vision. Progress in Brain Research. 134:205-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-6123(01)34015-3Krug K, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 2001. High choice probabilities are associated with high interneuronal correlations in MT (V5) of the awake behaving macaque. Journal of Vision. 1(3):399a. https://doi.org/10.1167/1.3.399Backus BT, Fleet DJ, Parker AJ, Heeger DJ. 2001. Human cortical activity correlates with stereoscopic depth perception. Journal of Neurophysiology. 86(4):2054-2068. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.2001.86.4.2054Bridge H, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 2001. Modeling V1 neuronal responses to orientation disparity. Visual Neuroscience. 18(6):879-891. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0952523801186049Thomas OM, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 2001. Modelling the relative disparity selectivity of V2 neurons. Journal of Vision. 1(3):167a. https://doi.org/10.1167/1.3.167Bridge H, Cumming B, Parker A. 2001. Psychophysical evidence against the use of orientation disparity in the perception of slant. Journal of Vision. 1(3):172a. https://doi.org/10.1167/1.3.172Andrews TJ, Glennerster A, Parker AJ. 2001. Stereoacuity thresholds in the presence of a reference surface. Vision Research. 41(23):3051-3061. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0042-6989(01)00192-4Cumming BG, Prince SJD, Parker AJ. 2001. The range of disparities encoded in primate V1. Journal of Vision. 1(3):271a. https://doi.org/10.1167/1.3.271Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 2000. Local disparity not perceived depth is signaled by binocular neurons in cortical area V1 of the macaque. Journal of Neuroscience. 20(12):4758-4767. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.20-12-04758.2000Prince SJD, Pointon AD, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 2000. The precision of single neuron responses in cortical area V1 during stereoscopic depth judgments. Journal of Neuroscience. 20(9):3387-3400. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.20-09-03387.2000Nerl P, Parker AJ, Blakemore C. 1999. Probing the human stereoscopic system with reverse correlation. Nature. 401(6754):695-698. https://doi.org/10.1038/44409Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 1999. Binocular neurons in V1 of awake monkeys are selective for absolute, not relative, disparity. Journal of Neuroscience. 19(13):5602-5618. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.19-13-05602.1999Cumming BG, Shapiro SE, Parker AJ. 1998. Disparity detection in anticorrelated stereograms. Perception. 27(11):1367-1377. https://doi.org/10.1068/p271367Parker AJ, Newsome WT. 1998. Sense and the single neuron: Probing the physiology of perception. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 21:227-277. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.neuro.21.1.227Glennerster A, Parker AJ. 1997. Computing stereo channels from masking data. Vision Research. 37(15):2143-2152. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00036-9Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 1997. Responses of primary visual cortical neurons to binocular disparity without depth perception. Nature. 389(6648):280-283. https://doi.org/10.1038/38487Parker AJ, Cumming BG. 1996. Local vs global stereoscopic matching in neurons of cortical area V1. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 37(3):S424.Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 1996. Responses to relative vs absolute binocular disparities in neurons of cortical area V1. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 37(3):S485.Parker AJ, Harris JM, Cumming BG, Sumnall JH. 1996. Binocular correspondence in stereoscopic vision. Eye. 10(2):177-181. https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1996.44Harris JM, Parker AJ. 1995. Independent neural mechanisms for bright and dark information in binocular stereopsis. Nature. 374(6525):808-811. https://doi.org/10.1038/374808a0Harris JM, Parker AJ. 1994. Constraints on human stereo dot matching. Vision Research. 34(20):2761-2772. https://doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(94)90231-3Harris JM, Parker AJ. 1994. Objective evaluation of human and computational stereoscopic visual systems. Vision Research. 34(20):2773-2785. https://doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(94)90232-1Gumming BG, Parker AJ. 1994. Binocular mechanisms for detecting motion-in-depth. Vision Research. 34(4):483-495. https://doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(94)90162-7Mansfield JS, Parker AJ. 1993. An orientation-tuned component in the contrast masking of stereopsis. Vision Research. 33(11):1535-1544. https://doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(93)90146-NParker A. 1993. Solid shape and the natural world. Current Biology. 3(6):401-403. https://doi.org/10.1016/0960-9822(93)90213-8Gumming BG, Johnston EB, Parker AJ. 1993. Effects of different texture cues on curved surfaces viewed stereoscopically. Vision Research. 33(5-6):827-838. https://doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(93)90201-7Johnston EB, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. 1993. Integration of depth modules: Stereopsis and texture. Vision Research. 33(5-6):813-826. https://doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(93)90200-GHarris JM, Parker AJ. 1992. Efficiency of stereopsis in random-dot stereograms. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision. 9(1):14-24. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.9.000014Cumming BG, Johnston EB, Parker AJ. 1991. Vertical disparities and perception of three-dimensional shape. Nature. 349(6308):411-413. https://doi.org/10.1038/349411a0Parker AJ, Yang Y. 1989. Spatial properties of disparity pooling in human stereo vision. Vision Research. 29(11):1525-1538. https://doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(89)90136-3Lund JS, Hawken MJ, Parker AJ. 1988. Local circuit neurons of macaque monkey striate cortex: II. Neurons of laminae 5B and 6. Journal of Comparative Neurology. 276(1):1-29. https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.902760102Parker AJ, Hawken MJ. 1988. Two-dimensional spatial structure of receptive fields in monkey striate cortex. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision. 5(4):598-605. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.5.000598Hawken MJ, Parker AJ, Lund JS. 1988. Laminar organization and contrast sensitivity of direction-selective cells in the striate cortex of the Old World monkey. Journal of Neuroscience. 8(10):3541-3548. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.08-10-03541.1988Barlow HB, Kaushal TP, Hawken M, Parker AJ. 1987. Human contrast discrimination and the threshold of cortical neurons. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision. 4(12):2366-2370. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.4.002366Parker AJ, Hawken MJ. 1987. Hyperacuity and the visual cortex. Nature. 326(6108):105-106. https://doi.org/10.1038/326105b0Hawken MJ, Parker AJ. 1987. Spatial properties of neurons in the monkey striate cortex. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Biological Sciences. 231(1263):251-288. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1987.0044Parker A, Hawken M. 1985. Capabilities of monkey cortical cells in spatial-resolution tasks. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision. 2(7):1101-1114. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.2.001101Hawken MJ, Parker AJ. 1984. Contrast sensitivity and orientation selectivity in lamina IV of the striate cortex of Old World monkeys. Experimental Brain Research. 54(2):367-372. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00236238Parker A. 1983. The effects of temporal modulation on the perceived spatial structure of sine-wave gratings.Perception. 12(6):663-682. https://doi.org/10.1068/p120663Parker A. 1981. Shifts in perceived periodicity induced by temporal modulation and their influence on the spatial frequency tuning of two aftereffects. Vision Research. 21(12):1739-1747. https://doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(81)90206-6

