Selected Publications

• Vanni S, Hokkanen H, Werner F, Angelucci A: Anatomy and physiology of macaque visual cortical areas V1, V2 and V5/MT: bases for biologically realistic models. Cerebral Cortex (2020) Advance early online.
• Hokkanen H, Andalibi V, Vanni S: Controlling complexity of cerebral cortex simulations: II Streamlined microcircuits. Neural Computation 31 (2019) 1066-1084
• Andalibi V, Hokkanen H, Vanni S: Controlling complexity of cerebral cortex simulations: I CxSystem, a flexible cortical simulation framework. Neural Computation 31 (2019) 1048-1065
• Sharifian F, Heikkinen H, Vigario R, Vanni S: Contextual Modulation Is Related to Efficiency in a Spiking Network Model of Visual Cortex. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 9:155 (2016). doi: 10.3389/fncom.2015.00155
• Salmela V, Henriksson L, Vanni S: Radial frequency analysis of contour shapes in the visual cortex. PLoS Computational Biology, 12 (2016) e1004719. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004719
• Vanni S, Sharifian F, Heikkinen H, Vigário R: Modeling fMRI signals can provide insights into neural processing in the cerebral cortex. J Neurophysiology 114 (2015) 768-780. e-pub 2015, doi: 10.1152/jn.00332.2014
• Heikkinen H, Sharifian F, Vigario R and Vanni S: Feedback to distal dendrites links fMRI signals to neural receptive fields in a spiking network model of the visual cortex.J Neurophysiology 114 (2015) 57-69. e-pub 2015, doi: 10.1152/jn.00169.2015.
• Sharifian F, Nurminen L, Vanni S: Visual interactions conform to pattern decorrelation in multiple cortical areas. PloS ONE, 8(7) (2013) e68046
• Shushruth S, Nurminen L, Bijanzadeh M, Ichida JM,Vanni S, Angelucci A: Different Orientation Tuning of Near- and Far-Surround Suppression in Macaque Primary Visual Cortex Mirrors Their Tuning in Human Perception, Journal of Neuroscience, 33 (2013) 106-119.
• Vanni S: Local model for contextual modulation in the cerebral cortex. Neural Networks 25 (2012) 30-40.
• Henriksson L, Karvonen J, Salminen-Vaparanta N, Railo H, Vanni S: Retinotopic Maps, Spatial Tuning, and Locations of Human Visual Areas in Surface Coordinates Characterized with Multifocal and Blocked fMRI Designs, PLoS ONE, 7(5) (2012) e36859