Jonathan D. Victor

Eye movements enhance stereoscopic 3D vision

This study shows that eye movements are essential for stereopsis, as suppressing their induced disparity changes impairs depth perception.

What one sees depends on how far the eye has moved

The paper shows that saccade amplitude filters visual information by spatial frequency, affecting post-saccadic visual sensitivity.

Residual Foveal Motion Facilitates Processing of Visually Tracked Objects

This study shows that residual retinal motion during pursuit eye movements helps compress visual information and influences perceptual judgments.

Electrophysiological responses to appetitive and consummatory behavior in the rostral nucleus tractus solitarius in awake, unrestrained rats

This study records single-cell electrophysiological responses in the rostral nucleus tractus solitarius (rNTS) of awake rats during food exploration and licking, showing distinct activity patterns during appetitive and consummatory phases of eating.

Inhibitory control of locomotor statistics in walking Drosophila

This study investigates how inhibitory neural circuits regulate locomotor statistics in Drosophila, identifying specific neurons that control search behavior and movement parameters.

The geometry of low- and high-level perceptual spaces

The paper examines perceptual spaces across domains with varying semantic and low-level feature dominance, finding similar global geometry but distinct tree-like structures in semantic domains.

Geometry of spiking patterns in early visual cortex: a Topological Data Analytic approach

The paper applies topological data analysis to spiking patterns in macaque visual cortex, revealing a low-dimensional geometric structure similar to Euclidean or hyperbolic spaces.

Fine oculomotor knowledge enhances high-acuity vision

This study demonstrates that humans use high-resolution extra-retinal knowledge of fixational eye motion to infer spatial relations, challenging the assumption that visual perception relies solely on retinal input.

Enhancing GABAergic Tone in the Rostral Nucleus of the Solitary Tract Reconfigures Sensorimotor Neural Activity

This study enhances GABAergic tone in the rNTS of rats to show it reconfigures neural activity related to taste and licking behavior, improving discrimination of palatable vs. unpalatable tastants.

Efficient coding of natural scene statistics predicts discrimination thresholds for grayscale textures

The paper tests the 'variance is salience' hypothesis by showing it accurately predicts visual sensitivity to second-order grayscale image statistics in texture-segregation tasks.

Contrast sensitivity reveals an oculomotor strategy for temporally encoding space

This study shows that eye movements transform visual scenes into spatiotemporal flows on the retina, reconciling contrast sensitivity functions with retinal ganglion cell responses.

Elementary sensory-motor transformations underlying olfactory navigation in walking fruit-flies

This study identifies two elementary sensory-motor transformations in Drosophila olfactory navigation: an upwind run during odor and a search behavior at odor offset.

Systematic differences between visually-relevant global and local image statistics of brain MRI and natural scenes

The paper compares global and local image statistics between brain MRI images and natural scenes, finding significant differences that may affect human visual processing and machine analysis of MRI.

Neural computations combine low- and high-order motion cues similarly, in dragonfly and monkey

This study shows that neuronal computations for motion detection in dragonflies and macaques similarly combine low- and high-order motion cues, suggesting a shared computational strategy.