Publications


Early Nutrition is Associated With Global Motion Perception and V5 Function in 7‐Year‐Old Children Born Very Preterm


Linda Nguyen, Andrew E. Silva, Tanya Poppe, Myra Leung, Jane M. Alsweiler, Joanna Black, Jane E. Harding, Anna C. Tottman, Benjamin Thompson

Human Brain Mapping, vol. 46, Wiley, 2025 Jul


Characterizing the circularly oriented macular pigment using spatiotemporal sensitivity to structured light entoptic phenomena


Dmitry A. Pushin, Davis V. Garrad, Connor Kapahi, Andrew E. Silva, Pinki Chahal, David G. Cory, Mukhit Kulmaganbetov, Iman Salehi, Melanie A. Mungalsingh, Taranjit Singh, Benjamin Thompson, Daniel Yu, Dusan Sarenac

Journal of Vision, vol. 25, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2025 May, p. 11


Neonatal Nutrition and Brain Structure at 7 Years in Children Born Very Preterm


Tanya Poppe, Anna C. Tottman, Greg D. Gamble, Yannan Jiang, Andrew E. Silva, Linda Nguyen, Jane E. Harding, Jane M. Alsweiler, Benjamin Thompson, Janene B Biggs, Coila Bevan, Joanna M Black, Frank H Bloomfield, Kelly Fredell, Sabine Huth, Christine Keven, Myra Leung, Geraint Phillips, Jennifer A Rogers, Heather Stewart, Kathryn A Williamson, Trecia A Wouldes

JAMA Network Open, vol. 8, American Medical Association (AMA), 2025 Jan, pp. e2456080


Visual cortex anodal transcranial direct current stimulation does not alter reading performance for Chinese presented character-by-character to normal peripheral vision in older adults


Anqi Lyu, Andrew E. Silva, Benjamin Thompson, Larry Abel, Allen M. Y. Cheong

Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 18, Frontiers Media SA, 2024 Apr


Measuring the visual angle of polarization-related entoptic phenomena using structured light


C. Kapahi, A. E. Silva, D. G. Cory, M. Kulmaganbetov, M. A. Mungalsingh, D. A. Pushin, T. Singh, B. Thompson, D. Sarenac

Biomedical Optics Express, vol. 15, Optica Publishing Group, 2024 Jan, p. 1278


Psychophysical discrimination of radially varying polarization-based entoptic phenomena


D.A. Pushin, C. Kapahi, A.E. Silva, D.G. Cory, M. Kulmaganbetov, M. Mungalsingh, T. Singh, B. Thompson, D. Sarenac

Physical Review Applied, vol. 21, American Physical Society (APS), 2024 Jan


The temporal dynamics of visual crowding in letter recognition: Modulating crowding with alternating flicker presentations


Andrew E. Silva, Rebecca Lehmann, Niki Perikleous, Benjamin Thompson

Journal of Vision, vol. 23, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2023 Sep, p. 18


Structured light enhanced entoptic stimuli for vision science applications


Dmitry A. Pushin, David G. Cory, Connor Kapahi, Mukhit Kulmaganbetov, Melanie Mungalsingh, Andrew E. Silva, Taranjit Singh, Benjamin Thompson, Dusan Sarenac

Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 17, Frontiers Media SA, 2023 Jul


Associations Between Autism Spectrum Quotient and Integration of Visual Stimuli in 9-year-old Children: Preliminary Evidence of Sex Differences


Andrew E. Silva, Jane E. Harding, Arijit Chakraborty, Darren W. Dai, Greg D. Gamble, Christopher J.D. McKinlay, Samson Nivins, Rajesh Shah, Benjamin Thompson

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, vol. 54, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023 Jun, pp. 2987–2997


Causality modulates perception of apparent motion stimuli


Abdul-Rahim Deeb, Andrew E. Silva, Zili Liu

Vision Research, vol. 201, Elsevier BV, 2022 Dec, p. 108120


Effects of visual span on Chinese reading performance in normal peripheral vision


A. Lyu, A.E. Silva, S.H. Cheung, B. Thompson, L. Abel, A.M.Y. Cheong

Vision Research, vol. 201, Elsevier BV, 2022 Dec, p. 108119


Motion opponency at the middle temporal cortex: Preserved motion information and the effect of perceptual learning


Alexander Yu, Ruizhe Zhang, Andrew E. Silva, Yang Xing, Benjamin Thompson, Zili Liu

European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 56, Wiley, 2022 Nov, pp. 6215–6226


A differential effect of visual cortex tDCS on reading of English and Chinese in patients with central vision loss


Andrew E. Silva, Anqi Lyu, Susan J. Leat, Shamrozé Khan, Tammy Labreche, Jonathan C.H. Chan, Qing Li, George C. Woo, Stanley Woo, Allen M.Y. Cheong, Benjamin Thompson

Brain Stimulation, vol. 15, Elsevier BV, 2022 Sep, pp. 1215–1217


Human psychophysical discrimination of spatially dependant Pancharatnam–Berry phases in optical spin-orbit states


D. Sarenac, A. E. Silva, C. Kapahi, D. G. Cory, B. Thompson, D. A. Pushin

Scientific Reports, vol. 12, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022 Feb


Continuous theta burst TMS of area MT+ impairs attentive motion tracking


Arijit Chakraborty, Tiffany T. Tran, Andrew E. Silva, Deborah Giaschi, Benjamin Thompson

European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 54, Wiley, 2021 Oct, pp. 7289–7300


Binocular Integration of Perceptually Suppressed Visual Information in Amblyopia


Amy Chow, Andrew E. Silva, Katelyn Tsang, Gabriel Ng, Cindy Ho, Benjamin Thompson

Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science, vol. 62, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2021 Sep, p. 11


Precise oculocentric mapping of transcranial magnetic stimulation-evoked phosphenes


Andrew E. Silva, Katelyn Tsang, Syeda Javeria Hasan, Benjamin Thompson

NeuroReport, vol. 32, Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2021 Jun, pp. 913–917


Repetitive visual cortex transcranial random noise stimulation in adults with amblyopia


Richard Donkor, Andrew E. Silva, Caroline Teske, Margaret Wallis-Duffy, Aaron P. Johnson, Benjamin Thompson

Scientific Reports, vol. 11, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021 Feb


Motion opponency examined throughout visual cortex with multivariate pattern analysis of fMRI data


Andrew E. Silva, Benjamin Thompson, Zili Liu

Human Brain Mapping, vol. 42, Wiley, 2020 Sep, pp. 5–13


Direct discrimination of structured light by humans


Dusan Sarenac, Connor Kapahi, Andrew E. Silva, David G. Cory, Ivar Taminiau, Benjamin Thompson, Dmitry A. Pushin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020 Jun, pp. 14682–14687


Spatial proximity modulates the strength of motion opponent suppression elicited by locally paired dot displays


Andrew E. Silva, Zili Liu

Vision Research, vol. 144, Elsevier BV, 2018 Mar, pp. 1–8


Multisensory Congruency Enhances Explicit Awareness in a Sequence Learning Task


Andrew E. Silva, Brandon K. Barakat, Luis O. Jimenez, Ladan Shams

Multisensory Research, vol. 30, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017, pp. 681–689


The 3-dimensional, 4-channel model of human visual sensitivity to grayscale scrambles


Andrew E. Silva, Charles Chubb

Vision Research, vol. 101, Elsevier BV, 2014 Aug, pp. 94–107


Bimodal distribution of performance in discriminating major/minor modes


Charles Chubb, Christopher A. Dickson, Tyler Dean, Christopher Fagan, Daniel S. Mann, Charles E. Wright, Maime Guan, Andrew E. Silva, Peter K. Gregersen, Elena Kowalsky

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 134, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2013 Oct, pp. 3067–3078