Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Cognitive Color Coding: Chromatic Tuning Underlying Numerosity Adaptation - Experimental and Factor-Analytic Evidence from Individual Differences

The paper investigates chromatic tuning in numerosity adaptation, finding that individual chromatic sensitivity correlates with the presence of multiple narrow chromatic channels.

Refinement and maintenance of receptive field size in primary visual cortex occurs without visual experience in mice

This study shows that visual experience is not required for receptive field refinement in mice, suggesting they may not be the best model for human visual development studies.

Orientation-tuned surround suppression exhibits a unique laminar signature in human primary visual cortex

The paper uses high-resolution fMRI to analyze how different types of contextual modulation affect BOLD signals in human V1 across cortical layers.

Behavioral and causal evidence for object-based scene recognition in visual cortex

The paper shows that objects improve scene recognition, especially in poor visibility, and that this effect depends on object placement and is mediated by the lateral occipital cortex.

Tracking Satb2-positive retinal ganglion cells in zebrafish unveils developmental functional reorganization

The paper tracks Satb2-positive retinal ganglion cells in zebrafish to show developmental reorganization of their functional properties.

Map of spiking activity underlying change detection in the mouse visual system

The paper presents a database of spiking activity in the mouse visual system during an image change detection task, revealing task-specific coding patterns across brain regions.

Continuous Flash Suppression responses in mouse visual cortex: stimulus laterality and anesthesia effects

This study examines how binocular conflict affects visual cortex responses in mice, finding that stimulus laterality influences suppression and recovery under anesthesia.

A novel texture backward masking method to locate critical recurrent processes in human vision

The paper introduces a texture backward masking method to identify critical recurrent processes in human vision by targeting different stages of the visual system.

Pupil Constriction Causes Activity in the Human Retina and Visual System

The paper shows pupil constriction triggers retinal and visual cortex activity independent of visual stimuli, revealing a new mechanism in visual processing.

How are different contrast effects on binocular luster spatially integrated?

This study investigates how different contrast effects on binocular luster are spatially integrated by the visual system through psychophysical experiments.

Representational structure of perceived food attributes in human occipitotemporal cortex

The paper uses fMRI and RSA to show that food-related neural representations in occipitotemporal cortex reflect perceived calorie, health, and category structure, but not isolated calorie coding.

Recent history attracts and repels perceptual decisions depending on surprise

The paper shows that perceptual decisions are attracted or repelled by recent sensory experience based on the level of surprise from discrepancies between past and present sensory states.

Effects of aging on multiple object tracking under normal and altered viewing conditions

This study examines how aging affects multiple object tracking under normal and altered visual conditions, finding a continuous decline in performance and shifts in oculomotor strategies with age.

Visual uncertainty and task demands shape active sensing strategies in mice

This study shows mice use active sensing strategies to resolve visual uncertainty in a virtual reality task, selecting informative views based on visual information availability.

Dorsal visual stream development improves symmetry of receptive field coverage and spatial attention

This study maps the dorsal visual stream in adults and children, finding protracted development and hemispheric asymmetry in receptive field coverage and spatial attention.

Spatial sampling of deep neural network features improves encoding models of foveal and peripheral visual processing in humans

This study improves DNN encoding models of human visual processing by aligning their spatial sampling with human retinal ganglion cell density, revealing distinct temporal profiles for central and peripheral visual information.

Much stronger coarse-to-fine visual processing in primate superior colliculus than primary visual cortex neurons

This study compares coarse-to-fine visual processing dynamics in primate superior colliculus and primary visual cortex, finding stronger dynamics in the SC.

PLFest: A Multi-Site Validation of an Open Platform for Visual and Cognitive Assessment

PLFest is validated as a reliable, scalable platform for visual and cognitive assessment across multiple sites using consumer-grade devices.

Coherent scene context accelerates and reshapes neural object representations

The paper shows that coherent scenes accelerate object recognition by shaping neural representations through anticipatory context, as demonstrated by EEG and multivariate pattern analysis.

Distinct neural geometries for target position and velocity in the primate superior colliculus

The paper investigates how the primate superior colliculus represents target velocity and position, finding distinct neural geometries for each.

In pursuit of saccade awareness: Limited control and minimal conscious access to catch-up saccades during smooth pursuit eye movements.

This study investigates awareness and control of catch-up saccades during smooth pursuit eye movements, finding limited conscious control and low awareness despite visual feedback.

Object Speed Perception during Self-Motion in Depth

This study investigates how self-motion affects perception of object speed in depth, finding overestimation of speed and direction errors when self-motion and object motion are in opposite or same directions.

Mostly-monocular responses and other visual functions in a multiscale network model of Macaque V1

This study uses a multiscale model of Macaque V1 to investigate binocular response integration in layer 4C, finding narrow binocular strips and monocular feedback from layer 6.

Behavioral alignment as an organizing principle in sensory coding

The paper shows that visual encoding in zebrafish brains aligns with optomotor behavior, indicating sensory codes explicitly represent information needed for behavioral responses.

Curvature tuning in areas V2 and V4 of the developing macaque

This study shows that curvature tuning in V2 and V4 of macaque monkeys is adult-like by 30 weeks of age, with position-invariant tuning emerging in V4.

Effects of color-enhancing filters on color salience in normal trichromats

This study examines how color-enhancing filters affect color salience in normal trichromats using a visual search task with naturalistic backgrounds.

A population readout of extrastriate activity reveals biased and smoothed temporal representations across saccades

The paper investigates how extrastriate cortex encodes and reads out perisaccadic temporal information, finding that neuronal responses bias and smooth temporal representations of presaccadic stimuli.

An ecological origin of the asymmetry of human color discrimination: evidence from psychophysics, MEG, and deep neural networks

The paper shows human color discrimination asymmetry arises from ecological color statistics, supported by psychophysics, MEG, and deep neural networks.

Early Vision Shapes Recurrent Processing in the Human Visual Cortex

The paper investigates how early visual experience affects feedback processing in the human visual cortex using an occlusion paradigm and decoding methods.

Limits of V4 perisaccadic firing rate modulations in explaining perceptual mislocalization

The paper investigates whether V4 neuron firing rate changes during saccades can explain perceptual mislocalization, finding they do not systematically correlate with the magnitude of mislocalization.