Visual perception and processing mechanisms

The interplay between detection and localization in human vision

This paper investigates the relationship between detection and localization in human vision, showing that localization is optimized by specific eye movement scales while detection remains robust.

Congenital aphantasia reveals frontotemporal and cingulate structural alterations underlying conscious access to imagery

This study identifies structural brain differences in frontotemporal and cingulate regions in individuals with congenital aphantasia, suggesting altered higher-order systems may underlie the absence of conscious imagery.

The post-hoc montage of perception: deep layers of primary visual cortex encode postdictive percepts

The paper investigates how postdictive percepts are encoded in the deep layers of primary visual cortex using fMRI and postdictive illusions.

A model of the locust visual system under diverse stimuli highlights functionality of various mechanisms and suggests a parsimonious structure

The paper develops a model of the locust visual system to examine how different mechanisms interact with various stimuli, showing that inhibition plays key roles in shaping responses.

Behaviorally prioritized entity-relation structure captures human visual cortical representations of natural scenes

The paper uses triplet-based semantic representations to capture structured relational information in human visual cortex during natural scene perception, showing better alignment with human high-level visual areas than macaque inferotemporal cortex.

Behavioral demands organize a decision process into distinct yet coordinated neural representations in parietal cortex

The paper investigates how behavioral demands shape distinct yet coordinated neural representations in parietal cortex during decision-making.

Interocular suppression weakens binocular disparity integration in the dorsal visual stream

The paper investigates how interocular suppression affects binocular disparity integration in human visual pathways, finding weakened integration in dorsal regions but not ventral regions.

Functional organization and natural scene responses across mouse visual cortical areas revealed with encoding manifolds

The paper uses encoding manifolds to analyze how mouse visual cortical areas represent natural scenes and static gratings, revealing layer-specific and cell-type-specific response patterns.

Searching across working memory and perception

The paper investigates parallel search mechanisms in perceptual and working-memory domains, finding similar search speeds but distinct neural and oculomotor patterns.

No benefit of subsampling in ensemble coding

The paper evaluates whether subsampling improves ensemble coding and finds that full integration with limited resources performs equally well.

Cortical Origins of the Flash-Lag Effect distortions: The Influence of Retinotopic Map Architecture

The paper investigates how retinotopic map architecture influences the flash-lag effect, showing that FLE distortions depend on motion direction and retinotopic features like meridians and the fovea.

Animate-inanimate object categorization from minimal visual information in the human brain, human behavior, and deep neural networks

The paper shows that animacy categorization persists in humans and DNNs even with severely impoverished visual stimuli, indicating early and robust neural representation of animacy.

Divergent specializations for motion-driven representations in higher lateral and dorsal visual areas

The paper investigates how artificial neural networks trained on motion-related tasks develop representations that align with brain activity and support object categorization using motion cues.

Local recurrence accounts for extended processing during occluded-object recognition

The paper investigates how local recurrence contributes to occluded-object recognition by analyzing neural dynamics and computational models.

Eye-specific drive and binocular suppression in mouse visual cortex during critical period development

This study investigates how ipsilateral and binocular visual responses develop in mouse visual cortex during the critical period, finding reciprocal interactions between ipsi inputs and binocular responses.

Spontaneous Perceptual Reversals reflect in Internal Rhythms, Not Metabolic Shifts or Evoked Responses

The paper examines how physiological and neural signals change around spontaneous perceptual reversals in the Necker cube and finds differences in pupil size, respiration phase, and EEG activity between perceptual states.

Selective binocular integration in mouse visual cortex: binocular but not monocular neurons respond distinctly to congruent stimuli

The paper investigates how mouse visual cortex neurons respond to binocular stimuli and finds that only binocular cells show specific integration of congruent stimuli.

Intrinsic Organization of Contrast Sensitivity in Human Vision

The paper investigates how human contrast sensitivity changes with luminance and proposes a circuit-based mechanism explaining the shift in preferred spatial frequency.

Compression of redundant visual information improves feature discrimination in human vision

The paper shows that redundancy masking in peripheral vision reduces perceived item count but improves feature discrimination, suggesting efficient compression of redundant visual information.

Precise Functional Localization of the Foveolar Representation in Anesthetized Macaque Visual Cortex

This paper localizes the foveolar representation in anesthetized macaque visual cortex using a hierarchical fMRI strategy and identifies its anatomical boundaries.

The 2-feature Simultaneous Type/ Serial Token Model of temporal feature conjunctions: Successes are merely fortunate conjunctions.

The paper introduces the 2f-ST2 model to explain temporal feature conjunctions and distractor intrusion errors in perception, showing it can simulate behavioral and electrophysiological results without parameter changes.

During natural vision, semantic novelty modulates fixation-related processing in primate cortex

The paper shows semantic novelty during visual fixations modulates neural activity in primate cortex, using EEG and intracranial recordings.

High-dimensional population codes reveal interpretable and diverse features underlying visual perception

The paper identifies interpretable and diverse visual features from neural population codes in macaque datasets and shows their causal role in behavior.

Predictive coding yields a brain-like code for shape from motion

The paper shows predictive coding models replicate human perception and neuronal responses to motion-defined shapes in videos.

Two dominant axes structure high-dimensional object representations in the human ventral temporal cortex

The paper identifies two dominant axes organizing high-dimensional object representations in the human ventral temporal cortex using fMRI and factor analysis.

Neural subpopulations in marmoset area MT/MTC detect and discount saccade-related retinal motion

The paper investigates saccadic suppression in marmoset MT/MTC neurons, finding diverse responses including suppression, excitation, and bi-phasic patterns, with some neurons discounting saccade-related motion.

Long-timescale dynamics shape visual conscious awareness

The paper examines the temporal dynamics of conscious awareness using subjective and objective measures across multiple datasets, finding long timescales in subjective reports and a shared underlying fluctuation pattern.

Temporal prediction captures retinal spiking responses across animal species

This study develops a spiking retinal model trained to predict future visual stimuli, showing it captures retinal responses and processes across species.

Biologically grounded locality priors close the data gap for vision transformers in neural prediction

The paper introduces CiRF-ViT, a vision transformer with per-neuron locality priors, achieving high performance in small-scale neural prediction tasks.

The role of extra-striate areas in conscious motor behavior: a registered report with Fast-Optical Imaging

This study investigates the neural dynamics of conscious vision by manipulating awareness and motor responses using EROS, aiming to isolate brain activity related to consciousness from response mechanisms.