Davide Zoccolan

This paper shows that visually naive chicks prefer specific multipoint correlation patterns, similar to humans and rats, and that early visual experience can alter these preferences.

This study shows that task-irrelevant sounds compress rat visual perceptual space based on sound intensity, not temporal modulation frequency.

The paper shows that perirhinal cortex (PER) in mice encodes tactile stimuli in an invariant format, unlike earlier somatosensory areas that retain feature-specific information.

This study uses a deep CNN to analyze rat object vision performance and finds that rats exhibit more invariant perceptual strategies than CNNs, suggesting advanced visual processing capabilities.

This study shows that pattern cells in rat visual cortex use nonlinear integration of motion signals, similar to primate models, suggesting shared cortical mechanisms.

This study shows that rats' sensitivity to image statistics decreases from 2- to 4-point correlations, mirroring human findings and supporting efficient coding principles.

This study investigates whether rats can perceive global motion direction of drifting plaids by comparing their responses to gratings and plaids as prime stimuli.

The paper shows that visual representations become more stable along rodent visual processing hierarchies, with intrinsic dynamics contributing to this stability.

The paper shows that a general-purpose visual learning mechanism underlies both reading and non-orthographic visual stimuli recognition.

The paper introduces an automated template-matching algorithm to determine the laminar location and depth of cortical recording sites from evoked response potentials, achieving 79 µm depth accuracy and 76% laminar accuracy.

This study shows that passive exposure to temporally continuous visual inputs during early postnatal life is essential for normal development of complex cells in rat V1.

This paper introduces a passive head-tracking system for rodents using 3D-printed patterns, enabling precise 3D head position and orientation estimation without implants or power requirements.

The paper investigates how shape information is processed in rat lateral extrastriate cortex, finding nonlinear computations similar to primate ventral stream mechanisms.