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Anthony Norcia

PROFESSOR (RESEARCH) OF PSYCHOLOGY

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Good, W. V., Wong, R. J., Norcia, A. M., Stevenson, D. K., Slagel, T., Hou, C., & Bhutani, V. K.. (2022). Bilirubin-induced neurotoxicity and visuocortical dysfunction. Journal Of Perinatology, 1–2. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-022-01417-2

Chandna, A., Nichiporuk, N., Nicholas, S. C., Kumar, R., & Norcia, A. M.. (2021). Motion processing deficits in children with Cerebral Visual Impairment and good visual acuity. presented at the 09/2021.

Chen, S. I., Chandna, A., Nicholas, S. C., & Norcia, A. M.. (2019). Differential Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Form and Motion Mechanisms in Anisometropic Amblyopia. Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science, 60, 4109. http://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.19-27005

Hou, C., Good, W. V., & Norcia, A. M.. (2018). Detection of amblyopia using sweep VEP Vernier and grating acuity. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 59(1;59(3), 1435–1442.

Hou, C., Pettet, M. W., & Norcia, A. M.. (2014). Acuity-independent effects of visual deprivation on human visual cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 111(30), E3120-8.

Hou, C., Norcia, A. M., Madan, A., & Good, W. V.. (2014). Visuocortical function in infants with a history of neonatal jaundice. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 55(10), 6443-9.

Madan, A., Norcia, A. M., Hou, C., Pettet, M. W., & Good, W. V.. (2012). Effect of Grade I and II intraventricular hemorrhage on visuocortical function in very low birth weight infants. Seeing Perceiving, 25(2), 143-54.

Farzin, F., Hou, C., & Norcia, A. M.. (2012). Piecing together: infants' neural responses to face and object structure. J Vis, 12(13), 1-14.

Good, W. V., Hou, C., & Norcia, A. M.. (2012). Spatial Contrast Sensitivity Loss In Children With Cortical Visual Impairment. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 53(12), 7730-4.

Hou, C., Norcia, A. M., Madan, A., Tith, S., Agarwal, R., & Good, W. V.. (2011). Visual Cortical Function in Very Low Birth Weight Infants without Retinal or Cerebral Pathology. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 52(12), 9091-8.

Palomares, M., Pettet, M. W., Vildavski, V., Hou, C., & Norcia, A. M.. (2010). Connecting the dots: how local structure affects global integration in infants. J Cogn Neurosci, 22(7), 1557-69.

Glass, H. C., Berman, J. I., Norcia, A. M., Rogers, E. E., Henry, R. G., Hou, C., et al.. (2010). Quantitative fiber tracking of the optic radiation is correlated with visual-evoked potential amplitude in preterm infants. Ajnr Am J Neuroradiol, 31(8), 1424-9.

Good, W. V., Hou, C., Frieden, I. J., & Norcia, A. M.. (2009). Evidence for visual compromise in preverbal children with orbital vascular birthmarks. Am J Ophthalmol, 147(4), 679-682.

Hou, C., Gilmore, R. O., Pettet, M. W., & Norcia, A. M.. (2009). Spatio-temporal tuning of coherent motion evoked responses in 4-6 month old infants and adults. Vision Research, 49(20), 2509-17.

Hou, C., Pettet, M. W., & Norcia, A. M.. (2008). Abnormalities of coherent motion processing in strabismic amblyopia: Visual-evoked potential measurements. Journal Of Vision, 8(4), 1-12.

Gilmore, R. O., Hou, C., Pettet, M. W., & Norcia, A. M.. (2007). Development of cortical responses to optic flow. Vis Neurosci, 24(6), 845-56.

Hou, C., Good, W. V., & Norcia, A. M.. (2007). Validation study of VEP vernier acuity in normal-vision and amblyopic adults. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 48(9), 4070-8.

Chen, S. I., Chandna, A., Norcia, A. M., Pettet, M. W., & Stone, D.. (2006). The repeatability of best corrected acuity in normal and amblyopic children 4 to 12 years of age. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sciinvest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 47, 614-9.

Hou, C., Pettet, M. W., Vildavski, V., & Norcia, A. M.. (2006). Neural correlates of shape-from-shading. Vision Research, 46(6-7), 1080-90.

Chen, S. I., Norcia, A. M., Pettet, M. W., & Chandna, A.. (2005). Measurement of position acuity in strabismus and amblyopia: specificity of the vernier VEP paradigm. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sciinvest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 46, 4563-70.

Ing, M. R., Norcia, A. M., Sr, D. Stager, Black, B., Hoffman, R., Mazow, M., et al.. (2005). A prospective study of alternating occlusion prior to surgical alignment for infantile esotropia: one-year postoperative motor results. Transactions Of The American Ophthalmological Society, 103, 31.

Norcia, A. M., Pei, F., Bonneh, Y., Hou, C., V. V., S., & Pettet, M. W.. (2005). Development of sensitivity to texture and contour information in the human infant. J Cogn Neurosci, 17(4), 569-79.

Norcia, A. M., Sampath, V., Hou, C., & Pettet, M. W.. (2005). Experience-expectant development of contour integration mechanisms in human visual cortex. J Vis, 5(2), 116-30.

Chandna, A., Gonzalez-Martin, J. A., & Norcia, A. M.. (2004). Recovery of contour integration in relation to LogMAR visual acuity during treatment of amblyopia in children. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sciinvest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 45, 4016-22.

Hou, C., Pettet, M. W., V. V., S., Candy, T. R., & Norcia, A. M.. (2003). Development of the spatial organization and dynamics of lateral interactions in the human visual system. Journal Of Neuroscience, 23(25), 8630-40.

Chandna, A., Pennefather, P. M., Kovacs, I., & Norcia, A. M.. (2001). Contour Integration Deficits in Anisometropic Amblyopia. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sciinvest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 42, 875-878.

Kovacs, I., Polat, U., Pennefather, P. M., Chandna, A., & Norcia, A. M.. (2000). A new test of contour integration deficits in patients with a history of disrupted binocular experience during visual development. Vision Resvision Res, 40, 1775-1783.

Pennefather, P. M., Chandna, A., Kovacs, I., Polat, U., & Norcia, A. M.. (1999). Contour detection threshold: repeatability and learning with ‘contour cards’. Spatial Visionspatial Vision, 12, 257-266.

Norcia, A. M., Hamer, R. D., Jampolsky, A., & Orel-Bixler, D.. (1995). Plasticity of human motion processing mechanisms following surgery for infantile esotropia. Vision Research, 35, 3279–3296.

Jampolsky, A., Norcia, A. M., & Hamer, R. D.. (1994). Preoperative alternate occlusion decreases motion processing abnormalities in infantile esotropia. Journal Of Pediatric Ophthalmology And Strabismus, 31(1). http://doi.org/10.3928/0191-3913-19940101-04

Ohashi, T., Norcia, A. M., Kasamatsu, T., & Jampolsky, A.. (1991). Cortical recovery from effects of monocular deprivation caused by diffusion and occlusion. Brain Research, 548, 63–73.

Other Publications

Norcia, A. M., & Tyler, C. W.. (1985). Spatial frequency sweep VEP: Visual acuity during the first year of life. presented at the 01/1985. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(85)90217-2

Mentors

Christopher Tyler

My research program centers around spatial vision and involves the use of behavioral, oculomotor, electrophysiological and functional MRI techniques in humans. My research has focused for many years on normal visual development as well as abnormal visual development in patients with strabismus, autism and cortical visual impairment. To inform this work, I also work with normal adults and animal models. I have published over 30 papers on the normal developmental process, the first in 1977. In addition, I have published over 30 papers on abnormal visual development over the last 20 years and am an expert in the diagnostic classification and pathophysiology of disorders of binocular vision and developmental disorders. I am thus in a position to translate basic science results into clinical applications. My laboratory has established numerous paradigms in which Visual Evoked Potentials have been used as objective measures of sensory and cognitive function. My group has published many papers in which we have related perceptual judgments to human brain activity. We have developed multiple generations of sophisticated and flexible instrumentation that we have shared with many other laboratories. Central to our research program is our unique integration of functional MRI and high-density EEG source imaging that allows us to relate brain electrical activity to identified visual areas with 1-2 cm accuracy in individual participants. The development of this technique involved the creation and management of a diverse team of experts in functional MRI, physics, biomedical engineering and visual physiology. I have completed training of 18 post-doctoral fellows, 14 of whom have gone on to faculty positions or full-time research positions. I am currently training three post-docs and three graduate students. I have served on 12 Ph.D. thesis committees at Stanford. As a Research Professor, I am able to devote most of my time to direct mentoring of my trainees.