Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Synaptic dynamics govern spatial integration in mouse visual cortex

The paper shows that synaptic network dynamics in mouse visual cortex regulate spatial and temporal integration by accelerating response decay through delayed interneuron activation.

Lawful kinematics link eye movements to the limits of high-speed perception

The paper investigates how saccadic eye movements constrain high-speed visual perception by linking stimulus visibility to retinal motion patterns during fixation.

The neural time course of size constancy in natural scenes

The paper investigates the neural time course of size constancy in natural scenes using EEG and MVPA, finding that retinal size decoding begins at 80 ms and distance modulation occurs later.

Retinal image motion distracts visual motion memory even when generated by eye movement

The paper shows that retinal image motion during visual short-term memory (VSTM) maintenance can distract memory even when the motion is perceptually suppressed by eye movement.

Triple-N Dataset: Non-human Primate Neural Responses to Natural Scenes

The paper introduces the Triple-N dataset, which combines single-neuron recordings and fMRI from non-human primates to study visual processing, enabling cross-species comparisons with human data.

The Missing Memory Imprint

The paper demonstrates that the brain efficiently detects targets but does not form strong memory traces of distractors, supporting theories of late attentional selection and tokenized percept theory.

Exploring For Gloss: Active Exploration in Visual Material Perception

This study investigates how perceptual tasks influence exploration behaviors during visual material perception, finding that gloss judgments lead to more extensive exploration than lightness judgments.

Filter-based models of suppression in retinal ganglion cells: comparison and generalization across species and stimuli

The paper compares filter-based models of suppression in retinal ganglion cells across species and stimuli, finding divisive models generalize better across temporal frequencies and contrasts, while subtractive models capture slow dynamics.

Limited evidence for probabilistic cueing effects on grating-evoked event-related potentials and orientation decoding performance

The paper tests probabilistic cueing effects on EEG responses and orientation decoding, finding limited evidence for prediction error modulation by expectations.

Selective Effects of Ongoing Alpha-Band Activity on Magno- and Parvo-Mediated Detection

This study investigates how pre-stimulus alpha-band activity affects detection of stimuli processed by magnocellular and parvocellular pathways, finding a selective criterion shift in the magnocellular condition.

Anticipated action goals structure spatial organisation in visual working memory following self-movement

This study shows that anticipated action goals influence the spatial frame used to organize visual working memory after self-movement.

Stimulus repetition induces a two-stage learning process in primary visual cortex

This study investigates how repeated stimulus exposure affects neural responses in the primary visual cortex, revealing a two-stage learning process involving fatigue and sharpening mechanisms.

Perceptual versus attentional impairments of conscious access: Distinct neural mechanisms despite equal task performance

This study compares neural mechanisms of perceptual and attentional impairments on conscious access using EEG, showing distinct effects on complex feature processing despite equal task performance.

Human shape perception spontaneously discovers the biological origin of novel, but natural, stimuli

The paper shows humans can categorize novel natural shapes based on their biological origins without explicit knowledge of the underlying processes.

The Optimal Retinal Locus for High-Resolution Vision in Space and Time

The paper identifies an optimal retinal location for high-resolution vision, showing it provides better acuity than the anatomical fovea and is stabilized by eye movements timed before stimulus presentation.

Early visual experience elicits cellular and functional plasticity in the retina and alters behaviour

The paper shows that early visual experience induces structural and functional changes in zebrafish retinas, affecting orientation detection and behavior.

Attention to a point in time causes a suppressive wake for subsequent time points

The paper investigates whether temporal attention suppresses processing of nearby time points, finding that attention to an expected time frame improves accuracy while a suppressive wake reduces accuracy after the expected frame.

Violated predictions enhance the representational fidelity of visual features in perception

The paper shows that unexpected visual stimuli lead to faster and more accurate responses, with physiological evidence of surprise, indicating prioritization of unexpected events in visual processing.

More running causes more ocular dominance plasticity in mouse primary visual cortex: new gated running wheel setup allows to quantify individual running behaviour of group-housed mice.

Brain Feature Maps Reveal Progressive Animal-Feature Representations in the Ventral Stream.

The paper uses heatmaps to show that neurons in the primate ventral visual stream encode animal features more than general objects, with this trend increasing through the visual hierarchy.

Spatiotemporal biases in localization and interception: common underlying mechanisms?

The paper investigates spatiotemporal biases in human perception by correlating errors in two tasks: remembering location and intercepting motion, finding a shared underlying mechanism.

Intrinsic rewards guide visual resource allocation via reinforcement learning

The paper shows how intrinsic rewards influence visual processing by guiding resource allocation through reinforcement learning, affecting both performance and accuracy.

The representational geometry of out-of-distribution generalization in primary visual cortex and artificial neural networks

The paper investigates out-of-distribution generalization in mouse visual cortex and deep neural networks, finding that geometric properties of neural representations correlate with generalization ability.

The tilt illusion arises from an efficient reallocation of neural coding resources at the contextual boundary

The paper shows that the tilt illusion results from increased neural coding precision for stimuli similar to an oriented surround, using psychophysical and fMRI data from humans.

hMT+ Activity Predicts the Effect Of Spatial Attention On Surround Suppression

The paper investigates how spatial attention affects surround suppression in motion perception using psychophysics and fMRI, finding that wider attention increases suppression strength and that hMT+ activity predicts these effects.

Evidence for a push-pull interaction between superior colliculi in monocular dynamic vision mode

The paper investigates push-pull interactions between superior colliculi in dynamic vision mode using rat functional MRI and lesions, finding frequency-dependent modulations in tectotectal pathways.

Stereotyped spatiotemporal dynamics of spontaneous activity in visual cortex prior to eye-opening

The paper analyzes spatiotemporal dynamics of spontaneous activity in developing ferret visual cortex, finding repeated, stereotyped patterns and predictive spatial activity motifs.

Degraded mapping of disparity tuning in visual cortex explains deficits in binocular depth perception

The paper shows that monocular deprivation in juvenile mice disrupts cortical maps of binocular disparity tuning and impairs depth perception by reducing response reliability in neurons tuned to near disparities.

The Confidence-Noise Confidence-Boost (CNCB) model of confidence rating data

The paper introduces the CNCB model to estimate confidence efficiency in perceptual decisions, offering a theory-driven alternative to existing measures.

Illuminating the Unconscious: Physical and Perceived Brightness in Cognitive Processing

This study examines how physical and perceived brightness influence breakthrough time under continuous flash suppression, finding that unconscious processing of brightness illusions occurs without expediting awareness.