Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Neural sensitivity to radial frequency patterns in the visual cortex of developing macaques

The paper investigates neural sensitivity to radial frequency patterns in developing macaques, finding that V4 neurons encode global form early, while V1 does not, and that extrastriate areas mature early, suggesting perceptual limits arise from other brain developments.

Eccentricity-Dependent Saccadic Reaction Time: The Roles of Foveal Magnification and Attentional Orienting

This study shows that saccadic reaction time increases with target eccentricity, but scaling targets by foveal magnification eliminates this effect in some tasks, suggesting a role for attentional orienting.

Features fade, pointers persist: dissociable parietal mechanisms in visual working memory formation and maintenance

This study uses MEG to show that inferior IPS tracks pointer load across visual working memory formation and maintenance, while superior IPS shows transient feature sensitivity during formation.

Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children

This study shows 3-year-old children can rapidly recognize objects under challenging visual conditions, outperforming computational models unless those models are trained on vast amounts of data.

Attraction of population receptive fields towards the attended locus is invariant to contrast

The paper investigates whether attention-driven attraction of population receptive fields towards the attended locus is affected by stimulus contrast, finding no such effect.

Multiplexed BOLD oscillations reveal the interplay of normalization and attention

This study uses frequency-tagged fMRI to show that visual cortical responses are suppressed during inattention and enhanced during attention, supporting the normalization model of attention.

Intrinsic geometry of trial-to-trial variability in primary visual cortex is optimal for robust representation of visual similarity

The paper shows that trial-to-trial variability in mouse primary visual cortex follows a log-log slope of 1, enabling robust and continuous representations of visual stimuli.

Direction of motion decoding in mouse V1: Neuron predictive power relates to functional connectivity organization

The paper decodes motion direction in mouse V1 by analyzing neuronal responses and functional connectivity, finding that high predictive power neurons form dense networks during stimulation but differ in resting state.

Switches in Orientation Coding by Mouse Primary Visual Cortex Neurons Depend on Stimulus Predictability.

This study shows that mouse V1 neurons switch orientation preference between standard and deviant visual stimuli, revealing context-dependent flexibility in predictive coding.

Locomotion optimizes sensory representations through a computational principle shared by rodents and primates

The paper shows that locomotion optimizes sensory representations by aligning neural coding with changes in stimulus statistics across rodents and primates.

Representational geometry reveals how neuronal diversity supports perceptual performance

The paper shows how diversity in neuronal tuning amplitude and bandwidth improves perceptual performance through changes in representational geometry.

The timecourse of inter-object contextual facilitation

This paper uses EEG to show that object constellations are processed differently than single objects, with real-world size information emerging around 200 ms after stimulus onset.

Binocular integration of prey stimuli in the zebrafish visual system

The paper identifies binocular prey-responsive neurons in zebrafish and shows their role in encoding prey position through visual and motor inputs during hunting.

Sensory population activity reveals confidence computations in the primate visual system

This study shows that decision confidence in monkeys correlates with sensory population activity structure, distinct from decision content, revealing neural computations for perceptual reliability.

Phantom Forms in Amblyopic Vision and what they reveal about the Generative Brain

The paper investigates phantom forms in amblyopia, showing that cortical receptive fields in the amblyopic eye generate complex percepts not present in the viewed stimulus.

Distinct neural bases of subcomponents of the attentional blink

The paper investigates the attentional blink by separating its subcomponents and identifies distinct neural correlates for detection and discrimination deficits.

Gradual sensory maturation promotes abstract representation learning

This paper shows that gradual sensory maturation in humans supports the development of abstract, bias-resistant visual representations, enabling generalization and compositional reconstruction.

Biological point-light displays scanning by the principal eyes of a jumping spider

This study shows jumping spiders use their shape-detecting eyes to process both motion type and implied structure from dot clouds, revealing complex integration of motion and form processing.

Saccadic omission revisited: What saccade-induced smear looks like

The paper investigates saccadic omission by studying saccade-induced motion smear using tachistoscopic displays and computational models.

Oddball evoked deviant responses reflect complex context dependent expectations in mouse V1

This study investigates how deviant responses in mouse V1 are influenced by temporal context and expectation, showing they reflect complex, experience-dependent mechanisms rather than simple adaptation.

Signaling of trans-saccadic prediction error by foveal neurons of the monkey superior colliculus

The paper shows that foveal superior colliculus neurons signal trans-saccadic prediction errors when post-saccadic visual input mismatches pre-saccadic expectations.

The Pulfrich Effect in Virtual Reality

The paper investigates the Pulfrich effect in virtual reality, finding that low-reflectance stimuli and specific visual parameters influence depth perception and motion illusions.

Healthy human eyes misaligned optical components: Binocular Listings law

This paper formulates a binocular version of Listings law that accounts for misaligned optical components in the human eye, incorporating empirical horopter data and geometric simulations.

Cell-type specific binocular interactions in mouse visual thalamus

The paper investigates binocular interactions in mouse visual thalamus using optogenetics, finding that interneurons receive binocular input and mediate inhibition of relay cells.

A Geometrical Optics Model of Individual Ommatidia in Compound Eyes and a Hypothesis for Monocular Stereopsis

This paper proposes a geometrical optics model of insect compound eyes suggesting individual ommatidia can enable monocular stereopsis through adjustable focal length and focused plane distance.

A causal role of the NMDA receptor in recurrent processing during perceptual inference: NMDA receptor antagonist memantine selectively improves EEG decoding of the Kanizsa illusion

Comparing Brain-Score and ImageNet performance with responses to the scintillating grid illusion

The paper measures illusion strength in deep neural networks using the scintillating grid illusion and finds no strong correlation between illusion strength, Brain-Score, or ImageNet performance.

Stimulus effects dwarf task effects in human visual cortex

The paper shows that stimulus effects dominate representational variance in visual cortex, while task effects dominate in prefrontal and parietal cortex, suggesting distinct optimization goals for sensory vs. higher-order brain regions.

Shared and distinct neural signatures of feature and spatial attention

This study uses machine learning to analyze neural signatures of feature and spatial attention, finding shared and distinct brain networks involved in each process.

The magnitude and time course of pre-saccadic foveal prediction depend on the conspicuity of the saccade target

This study shows that the magnitude and timing of pre-saccadic foveal prediction depend on the visibility of the saccade target, with higher signal-to-noise ratios enhancing congruency effects.