Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Mapping function in the tree shrew visual system using functional ultrasound imaging.

This paper uses functional ultrasound imaging to create high-resolution functional maps of the tree shrew visual system, revealing retinotopic organization and stimulus-selective responses.

Slow change blindness from serial dependence

This study shows that observers experience slow change blindness when perceiving gradual hue changes in a cartoon object, due to serial dependence biasing perception towards recent visual information.

Feedforward and feedback population dynamics during binocular conflict in mouse visual cortex

The paper examines population dynamics in mouse visual cortex during binocular conflict, showing stochastic alternations in stimulus representation driven by both feedforward and feedback circuits.

Jumping spiders are not fooled by the peripheral drift illusion

This study tests whether jumping spiders are affected by the peripheral drift illusion, finding they do not perceive static sawtooth patterns as rotating.

The influence of temporal context on vision over multiple time scales

The paper examines how temporal context influences perception across micro, meso, and macro time scales using behavioral, pupillometry, and EEG data.

Neural oscillations and top-down connectivity are modulated by object-scene congruency

This study investigates how object-scene congruency affects neural oscillations and top-down connectivity using MEG, finding increased low-frequency activity and top-down connectivity during incongruent object processing.

Common Phenomenal and Neural Substrate Geometry in Visual Motion Perception.

This study compares the geometric structure of human visual motion dissimilarity ratings with neural population responses in mouse V1 to explore commonalities between subjective experience and neural substrates.

Early visual signatures and benefits of intra-saccadic motion streaks

This study investigates how intra-saccadic motion streaks affect secondary saccade latency and EEG decoding of post-saccadic target location, finding early visual signals linked to gaze correction.

Flexible gaze reinstatement during working memory for natural scenes

This study shows that gaze patterns during working memory for natural scenes reflect item-specific visual details and adapt to task demands, suggesting flexible WM representations.

Anesthesia Lowers Spatial Frequency Preference in the Primary Visual Cortex

This study shows that isoflurane anesthesia shifts neuron preferred spatial frequency to lower values in mouse V1, impairing fine visual detail encoding.

Metabolic organization of macaque visual cortex reflects retinotopic eccentricity and category selectivity

The paper examines how metabolic architecture in macaque visual cortex relates to retinotopic eccentricity and category selectivity, finding a correlation between CO intensity and eccentricity.

Investigating orientation adaptation following naturalistic film viewing

This study investigates orientation adaptation during naturalistic film viewing and finds stronger adaptation to cardinal orientations but weaker overall effects compared to standard tilt-aftereffect paradigms.

The functional organization of retrosplenial feedback to V1

This paper investigates the functional properties of feedback connections from retrosplenial cortex to primary visual cortex, finding retinotopically selective signals with specific spatial and temporal frequency tuning.

Distractor suppression operates exclusively in retinotopic coordinates

The paper investigates whether learned distractor suppression operates in retinotopic or spatiotopic coordinates after saccadic eye movements, finding it operates exclusively in retinotopic coordinates.

Effects of shock on perceptual learning in a virtual reality environment

This study examines how training and aversive stimuli affect perceptual learning in a virtual reality orientation averaging task, finding no significant impact of shock on performance but highlighting the role of visual feedback.

Encoding and combining naturalistic motion cues in the ferret higher visual cortex

This study investigates how the ferret higher visual cortex encodes and combines complex motion cues from natural scenes, revealing a structured and distributed neural code.

Complementary attentional mechanisms for the resolution of representational ambiguity in the human brain

This study uses multivariate EEG and EEG/MRI analysis to investigate how attention resolves representational ambiguity in the human brain, identifying mechanisms and timing of neural processes involved.

A neural model for V1 that incorporates dendritic nonlinearities and back-propagating action potentials

This paper proposes a neural model for V1 that incorporates dendritic nonlinearities and back-propagating action potentials to better explain neural responses and physiological phenomena.

Efficient Coding of Spatial Frequency in Natural Images: Cross-frequency Dependence

This study investigates interactions between high and low spatial frequencies in natural images, finding that phase alignment enhances perceptual efficiency and reduces error rates.

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.

Subfoveal scotomas trigger fine-scale fixation reorganization: insights from retinal imaging and retinal-contingent stimulation

This study investigates how subfoveal scotomas affect fixation behavior and reveals fine-scale plasticity in the human visuomotor system.

Drift-Diffusion Modeling Reveals Dissociable Components of Perceptual Learning

The paper uses drift-diffusion modeling to show that perceptual learning involves two dissociable components with different transferability, with sleep consolidation having no significant effect.

Neural dynamics in superior colliculus of freely moving mice

The paper records neural activity in the superior colliculus of freely moving mice during eye and head movements, finding distinct response patterns in superficial and deep layers.

Spatial predictive coding in visual cortical neurons

The paper tests whether mismatch responses in visual cortex are due to spatial or temporal predictive coding by manipulating visual stimuli in mice.

Distinct growth regimes govern crowding in foveal and extrafoveal vision

The paper investigates crowding in the foveola and finds that crowding increases linearly but at a slower rate than in the extrafovea, challenging the assumption of uniform processing in the central visual field.

Bayesian causal inference unifies perceptual and neuronal processing of center-surround motion in area MT

This paper shows that Bayesian causal inference explains both perceptual and neuronal center-surround motion effects in area MT by linking motion integration and contextual response modulation.

Spatiotemporal evidence accumulation through saccadic sampling for object recognition

This study shows that a simple evidence accumulation model can explain human object recognition with saccadic eye movements, without requiring complex interactions between visual and oculomotor systems.

Movie-trained transformer reveals novel response properties to dynamic stimuli in mouse visual cortex

ViV1T, a transformer model trained on natural movies, predicts neuronal responses in mouse V1 with high accuracy, revealing novel dynamic stimulus processing properties.

Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference

The paper identifies a sparse set of neurons in the mouse visual cortex that mediate illusory contour inference through recurrent pattern completion.

Encoding visual stimuli by striatal neurons

The paper identifies striatal modules that process basic visual features through electrophysiological recordings of spiny projection neurons.