Publications

RESEARCH PAPERS

Alvarez I, Mancari A, Ip B, Parker AJ, Bridge H (under review). Characterising human disparity tuning properties using population receptive field mapping.

Parker AJ, Alvarez I, Mancari A, Ip B, Krug K, Bridge H (under review). Visual receptive fields from single neuron recording and magnetic resonance imaging reveal similar information coding for binocular depth.

Matuszewski J, Alvarez I, Clarke W, Parker AJ, Bridge H, Ip B (under review). Correlated and anticorrelated binocular disparity modulate GABA+ and glutamate/glutamine concentrations in the human visual cortex.

Ip B, Alvarez I, Tacon M, Parker AJ, Bridge H (2022). MRI stereoscope: a miniature stereoscope for human neuroimaging. eNeuro, 9(1), ENEURO.0382-21.2021. [Pubmed]

Alvarez 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, 2819-2838. [Pubmed]

Alvarez I, Finlayson NJ, Ei S, de Haas B, Greenwood JA, Schwarzkopf DS (2021). Heritable functional architecture in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 239, 118286. [Pubmed]

Jolly JK, Sheldon AA, Alvarez I, Gallagher C, MacLaren RE, Bridge H (2021). A low-cost telescope for enhanced stimulus visual field coverage in functional MRI. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 350, 109023. [Pubmed]

Alvarez I, Smittenaar R, Handley SE, Liasis A, Sereno MI, Schwarzkopf DS, Clark CA (2020). Altered visual population receptive fields in human albinism. Cortex, 128, 107-123. [Pubmed]

Alvarez I, Parker AJ, Bridge H (2019). Normative cerebral cortical thickness for human visual areas. NeuroImage, 201, 116057. [Pubmed]

Huber E, Chang K, Alvarez I, Hundle A, Bridge H, Fine I (2019). Early blindness shapes cortical representations of auditory frequency within auditory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 39, 5143–5152. [Pubmed]

Voets NL, Alvarez I, Qiu D, Leatherday C, Willie JT, Sotiropoulos S, Gleichgerrcht E, Bonilha L, Pedersen N, Kadom N, Saindane A, Gross RE, Drane DL (2019). Mechanisms and risk factors contributing to visual field deficits following stereotactic laser amygdalohippocampotomy. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, 97, 255-265. [Pubmed]

de Haas B, Schwarzkopf DS, Alvarez I, Lawson RP, Henriksson L, Kriegeskorte N & Rees G (2016). Perception and processing of faces in the human brain is tuned to typical feature locations. Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 9289-9302. [Pubmed]

Alvarez I, De Haas B, Clark CA, Rees G & Schwarzkopf DS (2015). Comparing different stimulus configurations for population receptive field mapping in human fMRI. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 96. [Pubmed]

Alvarez I, Schwarzkopf DS & Clark CA (2014). Extrastriate projections in human optic radiation revealed by fMRI-informed tractography. Brain Structure and Function. 220, 2519-2532. [Pubmed]

Lyness CR, Alvarez I, Sereno MI & MacSweeney M (2014). Microstructural differences in the thalamus and thalamic radiations in the congenitally deaf. NeuroImage, 100, 347-357. [Pubmed]

Gouws A, Alvarez I, Watson D, Uesaki M, Rogers J & Morland AB (2014). On the role of suppression in spatial attention: Evidence from negative BOLD in human subcortical and cortical structures. Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 10347-10360. [Pubmed]

Slocombe KE, Alvarez I, Branigan H, Jellema T, Burnett HG, Fischer A, Li YH, Garrod S & Levita L (2013). Linguistic alignment in adults with and without Asperger’s Syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43, 1423-1436. [Pubmed]

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Alvarez I, Piscopo A, Mercer-Moss F, McGovern A (2022) Building editorial values into scalable algorithmic recommendation systems. European Broadcasting Union Meeting, Virtual Conference.

Alvarez I, Hurley SA, Parker AJ, Bridge H (2018) Binocular population receptive fields in human visual cortex. Wellcome Trust Early Career Researcher Day, London, UK.

Alvarez I, Ip IB, Finnegan S, Graedel NN, Emir UE, Parker AJ, Bridge H (2017) High-resolution MRI of the human visual system - challenges and opportunities at ultra-high field. British Neuroscience Association, Birmingham, UK.

Alvarez I (2016) Understanding biological vision – An anti-reductionist perspective. Junior Researchers Workshop: What have vision scientists learned in the past five years?, Cambridge, UK.

Alvarez I, Parker AJ, Bridge H (2016) Characterising binocular population receptive fields in human visual cortex. Rank Prize Funds Symposium: Seeing the world from more than one perspective, Grasmere, UK.

Alvarez I, Lyness CR, Handley S, Liasis A, Schwarzkopf DS, Sereno MI & Clark CA (2015) Chiasmal misrouting and visual space representations: Modelling population receptive fields in human albinism. Computational Vision Summer School, Freudenstadt, Germany.

Alvarez I, Lyness CR, Handley S, Liasis A, Schwarzkopf DS, Sereno MI & Clark CA (2015) Characterising visual population receptive fields in human albinism. Human Brain Mapping, Honolulu (HI), USA.

Alvarez I, Schwarzkopf DS & Clark CA (2014). Extrastriate projections in human visual system: Evidence from fMRI-informed tractography. Applied Vision Association, York, UK.

Alvarez I, Schwarzkopf DS & Clark CA (2013). Segmenting the optic radiation using fMRI-informed tractography: Extrastriate projections in human thalamocortical visual system. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego (CA), USA.

Alvarez I, De Haas B, Clark CA, Rees G & Schwarzkopf DS (2013). Optimal stimulation for population receptive field mapping in human fMRI. Vision Sciences Society, Naples (FL), USA.

Alvarez I & Clark CA (2012). Human optic radiation revealed through fMRI-informed white matter tractography. UCL Neuroscience Symposium, London, UK.

Alvarez I, Gouws A, Hymers M, Aslet M, Bird J, Dearden R, Maslanka S, Uesaki M & Morland AB (2011). Negative BOLD in the lateral geniculate nucleus: Evidence for cortico-thalamic feedback. British Neuroscience Association, Harrogate, UK.