Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Regulation of eye movements and pupil size in natural scenes

This study analyzes eye movement and pupil size in natural indoor and outdoor scenes, finding increased saccade metrics and pupil size in indoor environments initially, and different correlations between indoor and outdoor conditions.

Subunit-specific behavioral modulation of sensory tuning in the visual cortex

The paper shows that locomotion modulates sensory neuron tuning in the mouse visual cortex, enabling multiplexed representation of sensory and movement signals.

Visual detection of cryptic displays in jumping spiders

This study investigates how jumping spiders detect moving targets through their secondary eyes and finds that they respond to spatiotemporal luminance changes without requiring full motion segmentation.

Conflicting binocular input triggers inhibition followed by rebound, explaining paradoxically fast reaction times

The paper investigates how conflicting binocular visual signals affect perceptual detectability and reaction times, finding a two-phase process of suppression followed by rebound.

The influence of similarity, sensitivity and bias on letter identification

This study investigates how bias, sensitivity, and similarity between letters affect letter identification, finding that bias is the main factor influencing response patterns.

An image-computable spatio-chromatic receptive field model of the midget retinal ganglion mosaic across the retina

The paper develops a computational model of midget retinal ganglion cell receptive fields that simulates physiological experiments and explores how their organization affects visual performance.

From Coarse to Rich: Successive Waves of Visual Perception in Prefrontal Cortex

The paper investigates how vlPFC encodes visual information in two stages during natural vision, showing an early coarse estimate followed by a rich representation.

Boosting the signal: Expectation-driven gain modulation of preparatory spatial attention

This study shows that expectations about search difficulty modulate attention through gain-based signal enhancement rather than changes in spatial scope.

Learning new perceptual skills: Individual differences in the computations that integrate novel sensory cues into depth perception

The paper investigates individual differences in how people integrate novel sensory cues into depth perception after training, finding reliable inter-individual variations in cue combination.

Defining a functional hierarchy of millisecond time: from visual stimulus processing to duration perception

This study uses fMRI to show how different brain regions process visual duration, finding hierarchical tuning patterns linked to perception.

The amblyopic acuity deficit: impact on the identification of letters distorted by spatial scrambling algorithms

This study investigates how amblyopia affects letter identification in different spatial scrambling conditions, finding distinct patterns in the amblyopic eye compared to the fellow eye.

Vividness of mental imagery reflects a broad range of internally generated visual experiences

The paper investigates vividness of mental imagery as a measure of subjective visual experiences and finds it correlates with various internal visual phenomena and can replace lengthy questionnaires.

For MSTd, Autoencoding is all you need

This study compares supervised and unsupervised neural network models to replicate MSTd's optic flow tuning, finding that autoencoders with MT-like inputs achieve better alignment than accuracy-optimized models.

Impaired perception of isoluminant contrast modulation stimuli: Evidence for a magnocellular pathway mechanism

The paper investigates contrast modulation perception and finds that chromatic stimuli are more affected by luminance masking noise, suggesting magnocellular pathway involvement.

Origin and functional impact of early nonlinearities in primate retina

The paper identifies two nonlinear mechanisms in primate retina that shape neural responses and improve modeling of visual function.

Sequential experience reshapes population representations in visual cortex

The paper shows that visual experience reshapes population activity in V4 by altering the geometry of neural responses to reflect temporal structure.

Much higher covariation with foveation timing by superior colliculus than primary visual cortical neuronal activity

The paper compares covariation between superior colliculus and primary visual cortical activity with eye movement timing, finding stronger covariation in the superior colliculus.

How attention saves energy in vision

The paper demonstrates that attentional control improves energy efficiency in a primate visual processing model by dynamically allocating energy to task-relevant features and locations.

Spatial Adaptation of Primate Retinal Ganglion Cells between Artificial and Natural Stimuli

This study examines how primate retinal ganglion cells adapt their spatial processing to natural versus artificial stimuli, finding that some cell types adjust receptive fields and surrounds, but efficient coding only partially explains these changes.

Motion-Dependent Object Perception Reveals Limits of Current Video Neural Networks

The paper evaluates how motion affects object perception in artificial vision systems and finds that video-based models can replicate human motion-dependent improvements, aligning with primate visual representations.

The Temporal Stability of Visual Cortical Processing in Humans Depends on Early Experience

This study examines how early visual experience affects the temporal stability of visual cortical processing in humans using EEG data from individuals who regained sight after congenital cataracts.

Visual crowding in albinism: Evidence for a cortical sensory deficit with oculomotor influences

This study investigates foveal crowding in albinism, finding elevated crowding with nystagmus-related spatial anisotropy and lack of featural selectivity, suggesting both retinal motion and sensory deficits.

Characterizing Surround Suppression with Dynamic Natural Scenes

This study investigates surround suppression in dynamic natural scenes, finding that suppression increases with decreasing categorical similarity between center and surround, and is stronger when motion directions are congruent.

Determinants of visual ambiguity resolution

The paper investigates how visual ambiguity is resolved by analyzing a dataset of ambiguous images and human ratings, showing that higher-level visual features drive subjective identification.

The distinct role of human PIT in attention control

This study identifies the human posterior inferotemporal cortex (hPIT) as an attentional priority map, showing stronger attentional modulation than classical regions across various tasks.

A generalized life-motion mechanism supports invariant directional coding of local biological kinematics in humans

The paper investigates how the human visual system encodes directional information from biological motion across species and actions, finding a generalized, direction-sensitive neural mechanism.

Self-association enhances early attentional selection through automatic prioritization of socially salient signals

The paper shows self-association enhances early attentional selection of socially salient signals through automatic prioritization, with benefits additive to perceptual salience.

Vision guides directed orienting movements during obstacle avoidance in mice

This study shows that mice use vision to guide obstacle avoidance, making directed movements towards clear paths and achieving more efficient trajectories.

Semantic Information Orthogonal to Visual Features Peaks in LateralOccipitotemporal Cortex

The paper shows that semantic information in the lateral occipitotemporal cortex is more visually independent than in ventral stream regions, using fMRI and language model embeddings.

High-fidelity but hypometric spatial localization of afterimages across saccades

The paper tracks afterimage movement during saccades and finds it is hypometric and driven by feedforward predictions of visual consequences.