Schira, Mark

Top Publications

Year	Title
2009	The foveal confluence in human visual cortex Published in The Journal of Neuroscience
2012	Brain mapping: The (un)folding of striate cortex Published in Current Biology
2013	A novel in vivo atlas of human hippocampal subfields using high-resolution 3T magnetic resonance imaging Published in NeuroImage
2014	A functional polymorphism of the MAOA gene is associated with neural responses to induced anger control Published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
2012	Don't look back in anger: Neural correlates of reappraisal, analytical rumination, and angry rumination during recall of an anger-inducing autobiographical memory Published in NeuroImage
2011	Differential effect of contrast polarity reversals in closed squares and open L-junctions Published in Frontiers in Psychology
2014	Derivation of high-resolution MRI atlases of the human cerebellum at 3 T and segmentation using multiple automatically generated templates Published in NeuroImage
2015	High-resolution In Vivo manual segmentation protocol for human hippocampal subfields using 3T magnetic resonance imaging Published in Journal of Visualized Experiments
2010	Modeling magnification and anisotropy in the primate foveal confluence Published in PLoS Computational Biology
2007	Two-dimensional mapping of the central and parafoveal visual field to human visual cortex Published in Journal of Neurophysiology

Research Areas

Research Overview

Mark Schira is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong and a Senior Research Officer at the Neuroscience Research Australia in Sydney. He received a Dr. rer. nat. (Doctorate in Natural Sciences) in Human Neurobiology from the University of Bremen and Charité; University Hostpital in Berlin, under the supervision of Prof. Manfred Fahle and Prof. Stephan Brandt. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Christopher Tyler at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco and with Michael Breakspear and Branka Spehar at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Since 2013 he is supervising his own research group in systems neuroscience focusing on the function, organisation and imaging of human visual cortex.

Available as Research Supervisor

Member Of

Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Member 2008 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2022	Nature in motion: The tuning of the visual system to the spatiotemporal properties of natural scenes Published In Journal of Vision
2021	Correcting susceptibility artifacts of MRI sensors in brain scanning: A 3D anatomy-guided deep learning approach Published In Sensors
2021	Nice and slow: Measuring sensitivity and visual preference toward naturalistic stimuli varying in their amplitude spectra in space and time Published In Vision Research
2021	P.0626 Habit formation and striatal volumes in cannabis use disorder Published In European Neuropsychopharmacology
2020	An unsupervised deep learning technique for susceptibility artifact correction in reversed phase-encoding EPI images Published In Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2020	An unsupervised deep learning technique for susceptibility artifact correction in reversed phase-encoding EPI images Published In Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2020	Manipulating the structure of natural scenes using wavelets to study the functional architecture of perceptual hierarchies in the brain Published In NeuroImage
2020	Nature in motion—the psychophysical tuning of the visual system to the fractal properties of natural scenes in both space and time Published In Journal of Vision
2020	Susceptibility artifact correction for sub-millimeter fMRI using inverse phase encoding registration and T1 weighted regularization Published In Journal of Neuroscience Methods
2020	Susceptibility artifact correction for sub-millimeter fMRI using inverse phase encoding registration and T1 weighted regularization Published In Journal of Neuroscience Methods
2020	The impact of self-control training on neural responses following anger provocation Published In Social Neuroscience
2019	Feasibility of functional magnetic resonance imaging of ocular dominance and orientation preference in primary visual cortex Published In PLoS Computational Biology
2019	Fine-grained mapping of cortical somatotopies in chronic complex regional pain syndrome Published In The Journal of Neuroscience
2019	The critical reliance of early visual cortex on the fractal structure of natural scenes Published In Journal of Vision
2019	Vascular effects on the BOLD response and the retinotopic mapping of hV4 Published In PLoS One
2018	Any double representation of the fovea? If there are ipsilateral connection from the eye to the LGN, why is there no cortical representation? Published In Journal of Vision
2018	BOLD tuning of human visual cortex to natural statistical properties in space and time Published In Journal of Vision
2018	Biophysically based method to deconvolve spatiotemporal neurovascular signals from fMRI data Published In Journal of Neuroscience Methods
2018	Manual segmentation of the fornix, fimbria, and alveus on high-resolution 3T MRI: Application via fully-automated mapping of the human memory circuit white and grey matter in healthy and pathological aging Published In NeuroImage
2018	Prolonged Cannabidiol Treatment Effects on Hippocampal Subfield Volumes in Current Cannabis Users Published In Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
2018	The neural correlates of alcohol-related aggression Published In Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience
2018	Why are hV4 maps incomplete in the left visual cortex but complete in the right hemisphere? Published In Journal of Vision
2017	The tuning of human visual cortex to variations in the 1/fα amplitude spectra and fractal properties of synthetic noise images Published In NeuroImage
2016	Shock-like haemodynamic responses induced in the primary visual cortex by moving visual stimuli Published In Journal of the Royal Society Interface
2016	The spatiotemporal hemodynamic response function for depth-dependent functional imaging of human cortex Published In NeuroImage
2015	Future challenges for vection research: definitions, functional significance, measures, and neural bases Published In Frontiers in Psychology
2015	High-resolution In Vivo manual segmentation protocol for human hippocampal subfields using 3T magnetic resonance imaging Published In Journal of Visualized Experiments
2015	Towards a complete forward prediction from visual stimulus to BOLD. Published In Journal of Vision
2014	A functional polymorphism of the MAOA gene is associated with neural responses to induced anger control Published In Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
2014	Deconvolution of neural dynamics from fMRI data using a spatiotemporal hemodynamic response function Published In NeuroImage
2014	Derivation of high-resolution MRI atlases of the human cerebellum at 3 T and segmentation using multiple automatically generated templates Published In NeuroImage
2014	Modelling the human visual cortex, a complete model from visual stimulus to BOLD measurement Published In i-Perception
2014	The BOLD and the Beautiful: Neural responses to natural scene statistics in early visual cortex Published In i-Perception
2013	A novel in vivo atlas of human hippocampal subfields using high-resolution 3T magnetic resonance imaging Published In NeuroImage
2013	Endogenous testosterone and cortisol modulate neural responses during induced anger control Published In Social Neuroscience
2012	Brain mapping: The (un)folding of striate cortex Published In Current Biology
2012	Don't look back in anger: Neural correlates of reappraisal, analytical rumination, and angry rumination during recall of an anger-inducing autobiographical memory Published In NeuroImage
2012	Hemodynamic traveling waves in human visual cortex Published In PLoS Computational Biology
2012	The human foveal confluence and high resolution fMRI Published In Journal of Vision
2011	Differential effect of contrast polarity reversals in closed squares and open L-junctions Published In Frontiers in Psychology
2010	Modeling magnification and anisotropy in the primate foveal confluence Published In PLoS Computational Biology
2009	Orientation-specific contextual modulation of the fMRI BOLD response to luminance and chromatic gratings in human visual cortex Published In Vision Research
2009	The foveal confluence in human visual cortex Published In The Journal of Neuroscience
2007	Two-dimensional mapping of the central and parafoveal visual field to human visual cortex Published In Journal of Neurophysiology
2005	Geometric and metric properties of visual areas V1 and V2 in humans Published In Journal of Vision
2005	Metric reconstruction of human striate cortex: An average Published In Journal of Vision
2004	Differential Contribution of Early Visual Areas to the Perceptual Process of Contour Processing Published In Journal of Neurophysiology
2002	Coherent motion pops out during smooth pursuit Published In NeuroReport
2002	Event-related fMRI responses in the human frontal eye fields in a randomized pro- and antisaccade task Published In Experimental Brain Research
2001	Relationship between saccadic eye movements and cortical activity as measured by fMRI: Quantitative and qualitative aspects Published In Experimental Brain Research

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2022	An Improved Deep Learning Framework for MR-to-CT Image Synthesis with a New Hybrid Objective Function Published In Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
2020	Real-time pedestrian lane detection for assistive navigation using neural architecture search Published In Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2018	Anatomy-Guided Inverse-Gradient Susceptibility Artifact Correction Method for High-Resolution FMRI Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2018	Human Brain Tissue Segmentation in fMRI using Deep Long-Term Recurrent Convolutional Network Published In 2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2018
2015	Mapping human V4: Correcting artefact reveals hemifield organisation Published In Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference 2015
2013	A physiologically plausible spatiotemporal model of bold allows deconvolution of hemodynamic and neuron response components Published In 33rd Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society: Program, Abstracts & List of Registrants
2013	Measuring the spatiotemporal profiles of neuronal activity and bold in early visual cortex using high resolution fMRI Published In 33rd Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society: Program, Abstracts & List of Registrants
2013	Spatiotemporal neural dynamics from fMRI: Deconvolution with a spatiotemporal HRF Published In OHBM 2013

Investigator On

Year	Title
2018 - 2020	Caress the Detail: A Comprehensive MRI Atlas of the in Vivo Human Brain Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Project Grant
2018	DELL PowerEdge R440 Server Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Equipment Grant
2014 - 2018	A 3D Cross-Modality Atlas of the Human Brainstem for Scientists and Clinicians Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Project Grant
2013 - 2015	Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2012 - 2014	Application of High Resolution Brain Imaging to the Topographic Organisation of Object Perception Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2013	Package to enable advanced 3D brain imaging visualisation, manipulation and measurement, comprising software license: Analyze 11.0 and maintenance agreement; 3D brain atlas; and dedicated laptop to enable processing at remote locations Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Equipment Grant
	Functional magnetic resonance imaging: decoding the palimpsest Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Other Research Activities

A 3D Cross-Modality Atlas of the Human Brainstem for Scientists and Clinicians

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Retinotopic organization of early visual cortex; foveal vision; reading and letter identification; contour perception; high-resolution fMRI; laminar BOLD responses; fMRI methodology; modeling of visual cortex organization.

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology)	The Effect of Prolonged Cannabidiol Treatment upon Brain Structure and Function in Cannabis Users	Beale, Camilla
Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Learning Algorithms for Image Segmentation and Generation	Ang, Paul
Doctor of Philosophy	Interaction of High-resolution Anatomy and Function in Early Visual Cortex	Koo, Wei Shi
Doctor of Philosophy	Cannabidiol as a Novel Compound for Treating Early Stage Dementia	Dortants, Lon
Doctor of Philosophy	Joining the hemifields, a characterisation of transcallosal connections in human early visual cortex.	Neaves, William

Scopus Id

6506120271

Top Publications

Year	Title
2009	The foveal confluence in human visual cortex Published in The Journal of Neuroscience
2012	Brain mapping: The (un)folding of striate cortex Published in Current Biology
2013	A novel in vivo atlas of human hippocampal subfields using high-resolution 3T magnetic resonance imaging Published in NeuroImage
2014	A functional polymorphism of the MAOA gene is associated with neural responses to induced anger control Published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
2012	Don't look back in anger: Neural correlates of reappraisal, analytical rumination, and angry rumination during recall of an anger-inducing autobiographical memory Published in NeuroImage
2011	Differential effect of contrast polarity reversals in closed squares and open L-junctions Published in Frontiers in Psychology
2014	Derivation of high-resolution MRI atlases of the human cerebellum at 3 T and segmentation using multiple automatically generated templates Published in NeuroImage
2015	High-resolution In Vivo manual segmentation protocol for human hippocampal subfields using 3T magnetic resonance imaging Published in Journal of Visualized Experiments
2010	Modeling magnification and anisotropy in the primate foveal confluence Published in PLoS Computational Biology
2007	Two-dimensional mapping of the central and parafoveal visual field to human visual cortex Published in Journal of Neurophysiology

Research Areas

Research Overview

Mark Schira is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong and a Senior Research Officer at the Neuroscience Research Australia in Sydney. He received a Dr. rer. nat. (Doctorate in Natural Sciences) in Human Neurobiology from the University of Bremen and Charité; University Hostpital in Berlin, under the supervision of Prof. Manfred Fahle and Prof. Stephan Brandt. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Christopher Tyler at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco and with Michael Breakspear and Branka Spehar at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Since 2013 he is supervising his own research group in systems neuroscience focusing on the function, organisation and imaging of human visual cortex.

Member Of

Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Member 2008 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2022	Nature in motion: The tuning of the visual system to the spatiotemporal properties of natural scenes Published In Journal of Vision
2021	Correcting susceptibility artifacts of MRI sensors in brain scanning: A 3D anatomy-guided deep learning approach Published In Sensors
2021	Nice and slow: Measuring sensitivity and visual preference toward naturalistic stimuli varying in their amplitude spectra in space and time Published In Vision Research
2021	P.0626 Habit formation and striatal volumes in cannabis use disorder Published In European Neuropsychopharmacology
2020	An unsupervised deep learning technique for susceptibility artifact correction in reversed phase-encoding EPI images Published In Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2020	An unsupervised deep learning technique for susceptibility artifact correction in reversed phase-encoding EPI images Published In Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2020	Manipulating the structure of natural scenes using wavelets to study the functional architecture of perceptual hierarchies in the brain Published In NeuroImage
2020	Nature in motion—the psychophysical tuning of the visual system to the fractal properties of natural scenes in both space and time Published In Journal of Vision
2020	Susceptibility artifact correction for sub-millimeter fMRI using inverse phase encoding registration and T1 weighted regularization Published In Journal of Neuroscience Methods
2020	Susceptibility artifact correction for sub-millimeter fMRI using inverse phase encoding registration and T1 weighted regularization Published In Journal of Neuroscience Methods
2020	The impact of self-control training on neural responses following anger provocation Published In Social Neuroscience
2019	Feasibility of functional magnetic resonance imaging of ocular dominance and orientation preference in primary visual cortex Published In PLoS Computational Biology
2019	Fine-grained mapping of cortical somatotopies in chronic complex regional pain syndrome Published In The Journal of Neuroscience
2019	The critical reliance of early visual cortex on the fractal structure of natural scenes Published In Journal of Vision
2019	Vascular effects on the BOLD response and the retinotopic mapping of hV4 Published In PLoS One
2018	Any double representation of the fovea? If there are ipsilateral connection from the eye to the LGN, why is there no cortical representation? Published In Journal of Vision
2018	BOLD tuning of human visual cortex to natural statistical properties in space and time Published In Journal of Vision
2018	Biophysically based method to deconvolve spatiotemporal neurovascular signals from fMRI data Published In Journal of Neuroscience Methods
2018	Manual segmentation of the fornix, fimbria, and alveus on high-resolution 3T MRI: Application via fully-automated mapping of the human memory circuit white and grey matter in healthy and pathological aging Published In NeuroImage
2018	Prolonged Cannabidiol Treatment Effects on Hippocampal Subfield Volumes in Current Cannabis Users Published In Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
2018	The neural correlates of alcohol-related aggression Published In Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience
2018	Why are hV4 maps incomplete in the left visual cortex but complete in the right hemisphere? Published In Journal of Vision
2017	The tuning of human visual cortex to variations in the 1/fα amplitude spectra and fractal properties of synthetic noise images Published In NeuroImage
2016	Shock-like haemodynamic responses induced in the primary visual cortex by moving visual stimuli Published In Journal of the Royal Society Interface
2016	The spatiotemporal hemodynamic response function for depth-dependent functional imaging of human cortex Published In NeuroImage
2015	Future challenges for vection research: definitions, functional significance, measures, and neural bases Published In Frontiers in Psychology
2015	High-resolution In Vivo manual segmentation protocol for human hippocampal subfields using 3T magnetic resonance imaging Published In Journal of Visualized Experiments
2015	Towards a complete forward prediction from visual stimulus to BOLD. Published In Journal of Vision
2014	A functional polymorphism of the MAOA gene is associated with neural responses to induced anger control Published In Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
2014	Deconvolution of neural dynamics from fMRI data using a spatiotemporal hemodynamic response function Published In NeuroImage
2014	Derivation of high-resolution MRI atlases of the human cerebellum at 3 T and segmentation using multiple automatically generated templates Published In NeuroImage
2014	Modelling the human visual cortex, a complete model from visual stimulus to BOLD measurement Published In i-Perception
2014	The BOLD and the Beautiful: Neural responses to natural scene statistics in early visual cortex Published In i-Perception
2013	A novel in vivo atlas of human hippocampal subfields using high-resolution 3T magnetic resonance imaging Published In NeuroImage
2013	Endogenous testosterone and cortisol modulate neural responses during induced anger control Published In Social Neuroscience
2012	Brain mapping: The (un)folding of striate cortex Published In Current Biology
2012	Don't look back in anger: Neural correlates of reappraisal, analytical rumination, and angry rumination during recall of an anger-inducing autobiographical memory Published In NeuroImage
2012	Hemodynamic traveling waves in human visual cortex Published In PLoS Computational Biology
2012	The human foveal confluence and high resolution fMRI Published In Journal of Vision
2011	Differential effect of contrast polarity reversals in closed squares and open L-junctions Published In Frontiers in Psychology
2010	Modeling magnification and anisotropy in the primate foveal confluence Published In PLoS Computational Biology
2009	Orientation-specific contextual modulation of the fMRI BOLD response to luminance and chromatic gratings in human visual cortex Published In Vision Research
2009	The foveal confluence in human visual cortex Published In The Journal of Neuroscience
2007	Two-dimensional mapping of the central and parafoveal visual field to human visual cortex Published In Journal of Neurophysiology
2005	Geometric and metric properties of visual areas V1 and V2 in humans Published In Journal of Vision
2005	Metric reconstruction of human striate cortex: An average Published In Journal of Vision
2004	Differential Contribution of Early Visual Areas to the Perceptual Process of Contour Processing Published In Journal of Neurophysiology
2002	Coherent motion pops out during smooth pursuit Published In NeuroReport
2002	Event-related fMRI responses in the human frontal eye fields in a randomized pro- and antisaccade task Published In Experimental Brain Research
2001	Relationship between saccadic eye movements and cortical activity as measured by fMRI: Quantitative and qualitative aspects Published In Experimental Brain Research

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2022	An Improved Deep Learning Framework for MR-to-CT Image Synthesis with a New Hybrid Objective Function Published In Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
2020	Real-time pedestrian lane detection for assistive navigation using neural architecture search Published In Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2018	Anatomy-Guided Inverse-Gradient Susceptibility Artifact Correction Method for High-Resolution FMRI Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Proceedings
2018	Human Brain Tissue Segmentation in fMRI using Deep Long-Term Recurrent Convolutional Network Published In 2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2018
2015	Mapping human V4: Correcting artefact reveals hemifield organisation Published In Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference 2015
2013	A physiologically plausible spatiotemporal model of bold allows deconvolution of hemodynamic and neuron response components Published In 33rd Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society: Program, Abstracts & List of Registrants
2013	Measuring the spatiotemporal profiles of neuronal activity and bold in early visual cortex using high resolution fMRI Published In 33rd Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society: Program, Abstracts & List of Registrants
2013	Spatiotemporal neural dynamics from fMRI: Deconvolution with a spatiotemporal HRF Published In OHBM 2013

Investigator On

Year	Title
2018 - 2020	Caress the Detail: A Comprehensive MRI Atlas of the in Vivo Human Brain Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Project Grant
2018	DELL PowerEdge R440 Server Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Equipment Grant
2014 - 2018	A 3D Cross-Modality Atlas of the Human Brainstem for Scientists and Clinicians Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Project Grant
2013 - 2015	Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2012 - 2014	Application of High Resolution Brain Imaging to the Topographic Organisation of Object Perception Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2013	Package to enable advanced 3D brain imaging visualisation, manipulation and measurement, comprising software license: Analyze 11.0 and maintenance agreement; 3D brain atlas; and dedicated laptop to enable processing at remote locations Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Equipment Grant
	Functional magnetic resonance imaging: decoding the palimpsest Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Other Research Activities

A 3D Cross-Modality Atlas of the Human Brainstem for Scientists and Clinicians

Potential Supervision Topics

Retinotopic organization of early visual cortex; foveal vision; reading and letter identification; contour perception; high-resolution fMRI; laminar BOLD responses; fMRI methodology; modeling of visual cortex organization.

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology)	The Effect of Prolonged Cannabidiol Treatment upon Brain Structure and Function in Cannabis Users	Beale, Camilla
Doctor of Philosophy	Deep Learning Algorithms for Image Segmentation and Generation	Ang, Paul
Doctor of Philosophy	Interaction of High-resolution Anatomy and Function in Early Visual Cortex	Koo, Wei Shi
Doctor of Philosophy	Cannabidiol as a Novel Compound for Treating Early Stage Dementia	Dortants, Lon
Doctor of Philosophy	Joining the hemifields, a characterisation of transcallosal connections in human early visual cortex.	Neaves, William

Scopus Id

6506120271

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Available as Research Supervisor

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Conference Paper

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Identity

Scopus Id

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Conference Paper

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Identity

Scopus Id

Visualisations

Research Areas