Visual perception, attention and brain disorders

High-resolution brain imaging techniques

2001-2007       Ph.D. in Biophysics, School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China.

1997–2001      B.S. in Biology, School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China.

Knudsen, L.*, Bailey, C. J., Blicher, J. U., Yang, Y., Zhang, P., & Lund, T. E. (2023). Improved sensitivity and microvascular weighting of 3T laminar fMRI with GE-BOLD using NORDIC and phase regression. NeuroImage, 120011. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120011

Wang, H., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, D., Yang, Y., Zhou, Y.*, Qiu, B.*, & Zhang, P.* (2023). White matter BOLD signals at 7 Tesla reveal visual field maps in optic radiation and vertical occipital fasciculus. NeuroImage, 269, 119916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119916 

Chen, Y., Gao, Y., He, Z., Sun, Z., Mao, Y., Hess, R. F.*, Zhang, P.*, & Zhou, J.* (2023). Internal neural states influence the short-term effect of monocular deprivation in human adults. ELife, 12, e83815. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83815 

Wen, W., Wang, Y., Zhou, J., He, S., Sun, X., Liu, H.*, Zhao, C.*, & Zhang, P.* (2021). Loss and enhancement of layer-selective signals in geniculostriate and corticotectal pathways of adult human amblyopia. Cell Reports, 37(11), 110117. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110117 

Zhang, J.*, Jiang, Y., Song, Y., Zhang, P., & He, S.* (2021). Spatial tuning of face part representations within face-selective areas revealed by high-field fMRI. ELife, 10, e70925. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.70925 

Cao, R., Qian, C., Ren, S., He, Z., He, S.*, & Zhang, P.* (2021). Visual adaptation and 7T fMRI reveal facial identity processing in the human brain under shallow interocular suppression. NeuroImage, 244(May), 118622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118622 

Shao, X., Guo, F., Shou, Q., Wang, K., Jann, K., Yan, L., Toga, A. W., Zhang, P., & Wang, D. J. J.* (2021). Laminar perfusion imaging with zoomed arterial spin labeling at 7 Tesla. NeuroImage, 245, 118724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118724 

de Hollander, G.*, van der Zwaag, W., Qian, C., Zhang, P.*, & Knapen, T.* (2020). Ultra-high field fMRI reveals origins of feedforward and feedback activity within laminae of human ocular dominance columns. NeuroImage, 117683. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117683 

Ge, Y., Zhou, H., Qian, C., Zhang, P., Wang, L.*, & He, S.* (2020). Adaptation to feedback representation of illusory orientation produced from flash grab effect. Nature Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17786-1 

Qian, Y., Zou, J., Zhang, Z., An, J., Zuo, Z., Zhuo, Y., Wang, D. J. J., & Zhang, P.* (2020). Robust functional mapping of layer-selective responses in human lateral geniculate nucleus with high-resolution 7T fMRI. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1925). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0245 

Liu, C., Guo, F., Qian, C., Zhang, Z., Sun, K., Wang, D. J. J., He, S., Zhang, P. * (2020). Layer-dependent multiplicative effects of spatial attention on contrast responses in human early visual cortex. Progress in Neurobiology, August, 101897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101897 

Fan, X., Wang, F., Shao, H., Zhang, P., & He, S.* (2020). The bottom-up and top-down processing of faces in the human occipitotemporal cortex. ELife, 9. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.48764 

Wen, W., Wu, S., Wang, S., Zou, L., Liu, Y., Liu, R., Zhang, P., He, S., & Liu, H.* (2018). A novel dichoptic optokinetic nystagmus paradigm to quantify interocular suppression in monocular amblyopia. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 59(12). https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.17-23661

Sun, K., Xue, R.*, Zhang, P., Zuo, Z., Chen, Z., Wang, B., Chen, L.*, & He, S. (2017). Integrated SSFP for functional brain mapping at 7 T with reduced susceptibility artifact. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2016.12.012 

Chen, Z., Xue, R.*, Zhang, P., Sun, K., Zuo, Z., An, J., Chen, J., He, S., Chen, L.*, & Wang, D. J. (2017). Multi-phase passband balanced SSFP fMRI with 50ms sampling rate at 7Tesla enables high precision in resolving 100ms neuronal events. Magn Reson Imaging, 35, 20–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2016.08.013 

Yu, Q., Zhang, P., Qiu, J., & Fang, F.* (2016). Perceptual Learning of Contrast Detection in the Human Lateral Geniculate Nucleus. Current Biology, 26(23). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.09.034 

Zou, J., He, S.*, & Zhang, P. * (2016). Binocular rivalry from invisible patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(30). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1604816113 

Wen, W., Zhang, P., Liu, T., Zhang, T., Gao, J., Sun, X.*, & He, S. (2015). A novel motion-on-color paradigm for isolating magnocellular pathway function in preperimetric glaucoma. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 56(8). https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.15-16394 

Zhang, P. *, Wen, W., Sun, X., & He, S.* (2016). Selective reduction of fMRI responses to transient achromatic stimuli in the magnocellular layers of the LGN and the superficial layer of the SC of early glaucoma patients. Hum Brain Mapp, 37(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23049 

Zhang, P. *, Zhou, H., Wen, W., & He, S.* (2015). Layer-specific response properties of the human lateral geniculate nucleus and superior colliculus. NeuroImage, 111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.02.025 

Olman, C. A.*, Harel, N., Feinberg, D. A., He, S., Zhang, P., Ugurbil, K., & Yacoub, E. (2012). Layer-specific fMRI reflects different neuronal computations at different depths in human V1. PLoS One, 7(3), e32536. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032536 

Zhang, P. *, Jiang, Y., & He, S.* (2012). Voluntary attention modulates processing of eye-specific visual information. Psychol Sci, 23(3), 254–260. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611424289 

Zhang, P. *, Jamison, K., Engel, S., He, B., & He, S.* (2011). Binocular rivalry requires visual attention. Neuron, 71(2), 362–369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2011.05.035 

Zhang, P. , Bao, M., Kwon, M., He, S., & Engel, S. A*. (2009). Effects of orientation-specific visual deprivation induced with altered reality. Curr Biol, 19(22), 1956–1960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2009.10.018 

Zhang, P. , Chen, X., Yuan, P., Zhang, D.*, & He, S. (2006). The effect of visuospatial attentional load on the processing of irrelevant acoustic distractors. Neuroimage, 33(2), 715–724. https://doi.org/S1053-8119(06)00790-7 

Human visual perception, attention and consciousness; visual plasticity; subcortical visual processing; high-resolution neuroimaging (7T fMRI and MEG)